Bill Text: IL SB0796 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-05 - Referred to Assignments [SB0796 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB0796-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB0796 Introduced 2/5/2015, by Sen. William E. Brady SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/31-4 from Ch. 38, par. 31-4
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning obstructing justice.
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A BILL FOR
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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 31-4 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/31-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 31-4)
Sec. 31-4. Obstructing justice.
(a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent
the the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of
any person, he or she knowingly commits any of the following
acts:
(1) Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises physical
evidence, plants false evidence, furnishes false
information; or
(2) Induces a witness having knowledge material to the
subject at issue to leave the State or conceal himself or
herself; or
(3) Possessing knowledge material to the subject at
issue, he or she leaves the State or conceals himself; or
(4) If a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a
child under 13 years of age reports materially false
information to a law enforcement agency, medical examiner,
coroner, State's Attorney, or other governmental agency

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during an investigation of the disappearance or death of a
child under circumstances described in subsection (a) or
(b) of Section 10-10 of this Code.
(b) Sentence.
(1) Obstructing justice is a Class 4 felony, except as
provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection (b).
(2) Obstructing justice in furtherance of streetgang
related or gang-related activity, as defined in Section 10
of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention
Act, is a Class 3 felony.
(Source: P.A. 97-1079, eff. 1-1-13.)