Bill Text: IL SB0557 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Seizure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the examination of the complainant and witness.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0557 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0557-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB0557 Introduced 1/24/2017, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
725 ILCS 165/1 from Ch. 38, par. 161-1
Amends the Firearm Seizure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the examination of the complainant and witness.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Firearm Seizure Act is amended by changing
Section 1 as follows:
(725 ILCS 165/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 161-1)
Sec. 1. When a complaint is made to any circuit court that
that a person possessing a firearm or firearms has threatened
to use a firearm illegally, the court shall examine on oath
such complainant, and any witnesses which may be produced,
reduce the complaint to writing and have it subscribed and
sworn to by the complainant. If the court is satisfied that
there is any danger of such illegal use of firearms, it shall
issue a warrant requiring the apprehension of such person,
hereafter referred to as the defendant, for appearance before
the court. Such warrant shall also authorize the seizure of any
firearm in the possession of the defendant.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2693.)