Bill Text: IL SB0908 | 2025-2026 | 104th 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 (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-11 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0908 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB0908-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0908 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. John F. Curran 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.
LRB104 05213 RLC 15242 b
A BILL FOR
SB0908 LRB104 05213 RLC 15242 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.)