Bill Text: IL SB1933 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with this change: changes "concealment" to "conceal". Also changes definition of "conceal", for the purposes of the provision that prohibits the knowing destruction, alteration, concealment, or disguising physical evidence, planting false evidence, or furnishing false information, to hiding evidence in a manner that makes its discovery or recovery materially more difficult or impossible. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1933 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB1933-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB1933 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Steve McClure SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/31-4 from Ch. 38, par. 31-4
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Defines "concealment" for purposes of the obstructing justice statute. Defines "concealment" as hiding evidence in a manner that makes its recovery substantially more difficult or impossible. Effective immediately.
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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 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.
(c) For purposes of this Section, "concealment" means
hiding evidence in a manner that makes its recovery
substantially more difficult or impossible.
(Source: P.A. 97-1079, eff. 1-1-13.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.