Bill Text: IL HB4269 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In the statute creating the offense of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds, defines "school grounds" to mean the property, including buildings and grounds, of a public or private elementary, secondary, or post-secondary school, or a public or private 2-year or 4-year institution of higher education; public property or property open to public use within 1,000 feet of school property; a school bus; a designated school bus stop; and public property or property open to public use which is within 1,000 feet of the school bus stop, during the time when school children are waiting to be picked up and transported to or are being dropped off from school or a school-sponsored activity. Expands the offense to include the commission of the crime in a public park or recreational facility. Defines "public park or recreational facility".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-25 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sam Yingling [HB4269 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB4269-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB4269 Introduced , by Rep. Jack D. Franks SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/12-6.4
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In the statute creating the offense of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds, defines "school grounds" to mean the property, including buildings and grounds, of a public or private elementary, secondary, or post-secondary school, or a public or private 2-year or 4-year institution of higher education; public property or property open to public use within 1,000 feet of school property; a school bus; a designated school bus stop; and public property or property open to public use which is within 1,000 feet of the school bus stop, during the time when school children are waiting to be picked up and transported to or are being dropped off from school or a school-sponsored activity. Expands the offense to include the commission of the crime in a public park or recreational facility. Defines "public park or recreational facility".
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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 12-6.4 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/12-6.4)
Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school
grounds, or public property adjacent to school grounds, or in a
public park or recreational facility and criminal street gang
recruitment of a minor.
(a) A person commits criminal street gang recruitment on
school grounds, or public property adjacent to school grounds,
or in a public park or recreational facility when on school
grounds, or public property adjacent to school grounds, or in a
public park or recreational facility he or she knowingly
threatens the use of physical force to coerce, solicit,
recruit, or induce another person to join or remain a member of
a criminal street gang, or conspires to do so.
(a-5) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang
recruitment of a minor when he or she threatens the use of
physical force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or induce another
person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or
conspires to do so, whether or not such threat is communicated

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in person, by means of the Internet, or by means of a
telecommunications device.
(b) Sentence.
Criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds, or
public property adjacent to school grounds, or in a public
park or recreational facility is a Class 1 felony and
criminal street gang recruitment of a minor is a Class 1
felony.
(c) In this Section:
"Public park or recreational facility" includes a
park, forest preserve, bikeway, trail, community center,
gymnasium, or conservation area under the jurisdiction of
the State or a unit of local government.
"School bus" has the meaning ascribed to the term in
Section 1-182 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
"School grounds" means the property, including
buildings and grounds, of a public or private elementary,
secondary, or post-secondary school, or a public or private
2-year or 4-year institution of higher education; public
property or property open to public use within 1,000 feet
of school property; a school bus; a designated school bus
stop; and public property or property open to public use
which is within 1,000 feet of the school bus stop, during
the time when school children are waiting to be picked up
and transported to or are being dropped off from school or
a school-sponsored activity the building or buildings or

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real property comprising a public or private elementary or
secondary school, community college, college, or
university and includes a school yard, school playing
field, or school playground.
"Minor" means any person under 18 years of age.
"Internet" means an interactive computer service or
system or an information service, system, or access
software provider that provides or enables computer access
by multiple users to a computer server, and includes, but
is not limited to, an information service, system, or
access software provider that provides access to a network
system commonly known as the Internet, or any comparable
system or service and also includes, but is not limited to,
a World Wide Web page, newsgroup, message board, mailing
list, or chat area on any interactive computer service or
system or other online service.
"Telecommunications device" means a device that is
capable of receiving or transmitting speech, data,
signals, text, images, sounds, codes, or other information
including, but not limited to, paging devices, telephones,
and cellular and mobile telephones.
(Source: P.A. 96-199, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)