Bill Text: IL SB3445 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that obstructing justice in furtherance of, or to avoid the consequences arising from, a: (1) Class X felony or first degree murder is a Class 1 felony; (2) Class 1 felony is a Class 2 felony; and (3) Class 2 felony is a Class 3 felony.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3445 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB3445-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB3445 Introduced 2/14/2014, by Sen. Darin M. LaHood SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/31-4 from Ch. 38, par. 31-4
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that obstructing justice in furtherance of, or to avoid the consequences arising from, a: (1) Class X felony or first degree murder is a Class 1 felony; (2) Class 1 felony is a Class 2 felony; and (3) Class 2 felony is a Class 3 felony.
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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
during an investigation of the disappearance or death of a

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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) or (3) 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.
(3) Obstructing justice in furtherance of, or to avoid
the consequences arising from, a:
(A) Class X felony or first degree murder is a
Class 1 felony.
(B) Class 1 felony is a Class 2 felony.
(C) Class 2 felony is a Class 3 felony.
(Source: P.A. 97-1079, eff. 1-1-13.)