Bill Sponsors: IL SB0140 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly

Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the Gang-related Crimes Law. Creates the offense of active participation in a criminal street gang. Provides that a person commits the offense who actively participates in any criminal street gang with knowledge that its members engage in or have engaged in a course or pattern of criminal gang activity, and who willfully promotes, furthers, assists, or benefits from any felonious criminal conduct by members of that criminal street gang. Provides that a person who commits active participation in a criminal street gang is guilty of conspiracy to commit the felonious conduct of the criminal street gang. Creates the offense of disorderly promotion of a criminal street gang. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly speaks a gang-related name or flashes a gang-related sign or symbol in such an unreasonable manner so as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace. Provides that a violation is a Class C misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0140 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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