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 Bill Status of HB4946  101st General Assembly


Short Description:  CEMETERY PROTECTION-PENALTIES

House Sponsors
Rep. Nick Sauer

Last Action
DateChamber Action
  1/8/2019HouseSession Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
765 ILCS 835/1from Ch. 21, par. 15


Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Cemetery Protection Act. Provides that any person who acts without proper legal authority and who willfully and knowingly destroys or damages the remains of a deceased human being or who desecrates human remains is guilty of a Class 2 (instead of a Class 3) felony. Provides that any person who acts without proper legal authority and who willfully and knowingly removes any portion of the remains of a deceased human being from a burial ground where skeletal remains are buried or from a grave, crypt, vault, mausoleum, or other repository of human remains is guilty of a Class 2 (instead of Class 4) felony.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  2/14/2018HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Nick Sauer
  2/14/2018HouseFirst Reading
  2/14/2018HouseReferred to Rules Committee
  1/8/2019HouseSession Sine Die

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