CRIM CD-GANG CRIME Senate SponsorsSen. Martin A. Sandoval 1/12/2011SenateSession Sine Die 720 ILCS 5/Art. 48 heading new720 ILCS 5/48-1 new720 ILCS 5/48-5 new720 ILCS 5/48-10 newAmends 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. 1/30/2009SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval 1/30/2009SenateFirst Reading 1/30/2009SenateReferred to Assignments 2/4/2009SenateAssigned to Criminal Law 2/11/2009SenateHeld in Criminal Law 2/19/2009SenateHeld in Criminal Law 2/26/2009SenatePostponed - Criminal Law 3/13/2009SenateRule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments 1/12/2011SenateSession Sine Die