Bill Text: IL SB0553 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the general purposes of the Code.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0553 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0553-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB0553 Introduced 1/24/2017, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/1-2 from Ch. 38, par. 1-2
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the general purposes of the Code.
LRB100 04860 RLC 14870 b
A BILL FOR
SB0553 LRB100 04860 RLC 14870 b
AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
Section 1-2 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/1-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1-2)
Sec. 1-2. General purposes. The The provisions of this Code
shall be construed in accordance with the general purposes
hereof, to:
(a) Forbid and prevent the commission of offenses;
(b) Define adequately the act and mental state which
constitute each offense, and limit the condemnation of conduct
as criminal when it is without fault;
(c) Prescribe penalties which are proportionate to the
seriousness of offenses and which permit recognition of
differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual
offenders;
(d) Prevent arbitrary or oppressive treatment of persons
accused or convicted of offenses.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 1983.)