Bill Text: IL HB5162 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle with unlawfully tinted windows. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly: (1) possesses or carries in any vehicle a firearm and firearm ammunition which are both immediately accessible at the time of the offense while on any street, road, alley, or any other lands, except when inside his or her own abode or garage, and has not been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card; and (2) the vehicle in which the person is present is fitted with window treatments or tinting of the windshield or windows, or both, immediately adjacent to each side of the driver, in violation of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a violation is a Class 2 felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5162 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5162-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5162 Introduced , by Rep. Natalie A. Manley SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/24-1.9 new
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle with unlawfully tinted windows. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly: (1) possesses or carries in any vehicle a firearm and firearm ammunition which are both immediately accessible at the time of the offense while on any street, road, alley, or any other lands, except when inside his or her own abode or garage, and has not been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card; and (2) the vehicle in which the person is present is fitted with window treatments or tinting of the windshield or windows, or both, immediately adjacent to each side of the driver, in violation of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a violation is a Class 2 felony.
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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 Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by adding
Section 24-1.9 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/24-1.9 new)
Sec. 24-1.9. Unlawful possession of a firearm in a motor
vehicle with unlawfully tinted windows.
(a) A person commits unlawful possession of a firearm in a
motor vehicle with unlawfully tinted windows when he or she
knowingly:
(1) possesses or carries in any vehicle a firearm and
firearm ammunition which are both immediately accessible
at the time of the offense while on any street, road,
alley, or any other lands, except when inside his or her
own abode or garage, and has not been issued a currently
valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card; and
(2) the vehicle in which the person is present is
fitted with window treatments or tinting of the windshield
or windows, or both, immediately adjacent to each side of
the driver, in violation of subsection (a) or (a-5) of
Section 12-503 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(b) Sentence. Unlawful possession of a firearm in a motor

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vehicle with unlawfully tinted windows is a Class 2 felony.