Bill Text: IL HB0036 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 concerning mob action. Provides that a student of a public, private, or parochial elementary or secondary school shall be exempt from prosecution for mob action if the event occurred on the grounds of that public, private, or parochial elementary or secondary school during regular school hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0036 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0036-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB0036 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/25-1 from Ch. 38, par. 25-1
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 concerning mob action. Provides that a student of a public, private, or parochial elementary or secondary school shall be exempt from prosecution for mob action if the event occurred on the grounds of that public, private, or parochial elementary or secondary school during regular school hours.
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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 25-1 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/25-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 25-1)
Sec. 25-1. Mob action.
(a) A person commits mob action when he or she engages in
any of the following:
(1) the knowing or reckless use of force or violence
disturbing the public peace by 2 or more persons acting
together and without authority of law;
(2) the knowing assembly of 2 or more persons with the
intent to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony
or misdemeanor; or
(3) the knowing assembly of 2 or more persons, without
authority of law, for the purpose of doing violence to the
person or property of anyone supposed to have been guilty
of a violation of the law, or for the purpose of exercising
correctional powers or regulative powers over any person by
violence.
(a-5) A student of a public, private, or parochial
elementary or secondary school shall be exempt from prosecution

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under this Section if the event occurred on the grounds of that
public, private, or parochial elementary or secondary school
during regular school hours.
(b) Sentence.
(1) Mob action in violation of paragraph (1) of
subsection (a) is a Class 4 felony.
(2) Mob action in violation of paragraphs (2) and (3)
of subsection (a) is a Class C misdemeanor.
(3) A participant in a mob action that by violence
inflicts injury to the person or property of another
commits a Class 4 felony.
(4) A participant in a mob action who does not withdraw
when commanded to do so by a peace officer commits a Class
A misdemeanor.
(5) In addition to any other sentence that may be
imposed, a court shall order any person convicted of mob
action to perform community service for not less than 30
and not more than 120 hours, if community service is
available in the jurisdiction and is funded and approved by
the county board of the county where the offense was
committed. In addition, whenever any person is placed on
supervision for an alleged offense under this Section, the
supervision shall be conditioned upon the performance of
the community service. This paragraph does not apply when
the court imposes a sentence of incarceration.
(Source: P.A. 96-710, eff. 1-1-10; 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13.)