CORRECTIONS OFF-CARRY FIREARM House SponsorsRep. Jerry Costello, II 1/13/2021HouseSession Sine Die 720 ILCS 5/24-2 Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Exempts from a violation of the unlawful use of weapons statute and the aggravated unlawful use of a weapon statute, the carrying or possessing of firearms by wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of an offense, whether or not the firearms are carried while in the performance of their official duty or whether or not they are commuting between their homes and places of employment (currently, if the corrections officer is not a holder of a concealed carry license, he or she may carry a firearm outside his or her land or outside his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or outside the land or outside the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee with that person's permission, only while in the performance of his or her official duty, or while commuting between his or her home and place of employment). 2/15/2019HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Jerry Costello, II 2/15/2019HouseFirst Reading 2/15/2019HouseReferred to Rules Committee 3/5/2019HouseAssigned to Judiciary - Criminal Committee 3/29/2019HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee 1/13/2021HouseSession Sine Die