Bill Text: IL SB3527 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to store or leave a firearm outside of that person's immediate possession or control unless the firearm is unloaded and secured in a lock box or container in a manner that renders it inaccessible to anyone but the owner or another lawfully authorized user. Eliminates provisions that the offense only is applicable if the person knows or has reason to believe that a minor under the age of 14 years who does not have a Firearm Owner's Identification Card is likely to gain access to the firearm without the lawful permission of the minor's parent, guardian, or person having charge of the minor, and the minor causes death or great bodily harm with the firearm. Eliminates that the provisions concerning storage of firearms do not apply: (1) if the minor under 14 years of age gains access to a firearm and uses it in a lawful act of self-defense or defense of another; or (2) to any firearm obtained by a minor under the age of 14 because of an unlawful entry of the premises by the minor or another person. Defines "immediate possession or control". Effective January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-12 - Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 3, 2024 [SB3527 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3527-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3527 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Laura Ellman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/24-9
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to store or leave a firearm outside of that person's immediate possession or control unless the firearm is unloaded and secured in a lock box or container in a manner that renders it inaccessible to anyone but the owner or another lawfully authorized user. Eliminates provisions that the offense only is applicable if the person knows or has reason to believe that a minor under the age of 14 years who does not have a Firearm Owner's Identification Card is likely to gain access to the firearm without the lawful permission of the minor's parent, guardian, or person having charge of the minor, and the minor causes death or great bodily harm with the firearm. Eliminates that the provisions concerning storage of firearms do not apply: (1) if the minor under 14 years of age gains access to a firearm and uses it in a lawful act of self-defense or defense of another; or (2) to any firearm obtained by a minor under the age of 14 because of an unlawful entry of the premises by the minor or another person. Defines "immediate possession or control". Effective January 1, 2025.
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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
changing Section 24-9 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/24-9)
Sec. 24-9. Firearms; Child Protection.
(a) It Except as provided in subsection (c), it is
unlawful for any person to store or leave, within premises
under his or her control, a firearm outside of that person's
immediate possession or control if the person knows or has
reason to believe that a minor under the age of 14 years who
does not have a Firearm Owners Identification Card is likely
to gain access to the firearm without the lawful permission of
the minor's parent, guardian, or person having charge of the
minor, and the minor causes death or great bodily harm with the
firearm, unless the firearm is unloaded and secured in a lock
box or container in a manner that renders it inaccessible to
anyone but the owner or another lawfully authorized user. :
(1) secured by a device or mechanism, other than the
firearm safety, designed to render a firearm temporarily
inoperable; or
(2) placed in a securely locked box or container; or

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(3) placed in some other location that a reasonable
person would believe to be secure from a minor under the
age of 14 years.
(b) Sentence. A person who violates this Section is guilty
of a Class C misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than
$1,000. A second or subsequent violation of this Section is a
Class A misdemeanor.
(c) (Blank). Subsection (a) does not apply:
(1) if the minor under 14 years of age gains access to
a firearm and uses it in a lawful act of self-defense or
defense of another; or
(2) to any firearm obtained by a minor under the age of
14 because of an unlawful entry of the premises by the
minor or another person.
(d) For the purposes of this Section:
"Firearm" , "firearm" has the meaning ascribed to it in
Section 1.1 of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
"Immediate possession or control" means carried on the
person or within close enough proximity thereto that the
individual can readily retrieve and use the firearm as if
carried on the person.
(Source: P.A. 91-18, eff. 1-1-00.)