100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB4199

 

Introduced , by Rep. Thomas M. Bennett

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
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    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Includes in the definition of "item of contraband", a recording device and broadcast equipment. Defines "recording device" and "broadcast equipment". Provides that possessing contraband that is a recording device, broadcast equipment, or electronic contraband in a penal institution, on penal institution property, or within the proximity of penal institution property with the intent to disrupt safety, security, or operations of the penal institution, is a Class 2 felony. Provides that a person commits unauthorized possession of contraband in a penal institution by an employee when a person who is an employee knowingly and without authority of any person designated or authorized to grant this authority delivers, possesses, conspires to deliver or solicits delivery, causes or permits delivery, or permits another to attempt to deliver, any item of contraband within the proximity of penal institution property with the intent to disrupt safety, security, or operations of the penal institution. Provides that placing or causing to be placed, or allowing another to place or cause to place a recording device, broadcast equipment, or electronic contraband on penal institution property or within the proximity of penal institution property with the intent to disrupt safety, security, or operations of the penal institution is a Class 2 felony. Provides that if the intent is to deliver the contraband to an inmate, it is a Class 4 felony.


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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
5Sections 31A-0.1, 31A-1.1, and 31A-1.2 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/31A-0.1)
7    Sec. 31A-0.1. Definitions. For the purposes of this
8Article:
9    "Deliver" or "delivery" means the actual, constructive or
10attempted transfer of possession of an item of contraband, with
11or without consideration, whether or not there is an agency
12relationship.
13    "Employee" means any elected or appointed officer, trustee
14or employee of a penal institution or of the governing
15authority of the penal institution, or any person who performs
16services for the penal institution pursuant to contract with
17the penal institution or its governing authority.
18    "Item of contraband" means any of the following:
19        (i) "Alcoholic liquor" as that term is defined in
20    Section 1-3.05 of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.
21        (i-a) "Broadcast equipment" means, but is not limited
22    to, any hardware, instrument, apparatus, software, or item
23    that contains a camera or recording device of any type, or

 

 

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1    is capable of capturing, transmitting, intercepting, or
2    projecting any sound, image, pulse wave, radio signal,
3    television signal, or radio signal and television signal.
4        (ii) "Cannabis" as that term is defined in subsection
5    (a) of Section 3 of the Cannabis Control Act.
6        (iii) "Controlled substance" as that term is defined in
7    the Illinois Controlled Substances Act.
8        (iii-a) "Methamphetamine" as that term is defined in
9    the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or the
10    Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act.
11        (iv) "Hypodermic syringe" or hypodermic needle, or any
12    instrument adapted for use of controlled substances or
13    cannabis by subcutaneous injection.
14        (v) "Weapon" means any knife, dagger, dirk, billy,
15    razor, stiletto, broken bottle, or other piece of glass
16    which could be used as a dangerous weapon. This term
17    includes any of the devices or implements designated in
18    subsections (a)(1), (a)(3) and (a)(6) of Section 24-1 of
19    this Code, or any other dangerous weapon or instrument of
20    like character.
21        (vi) "Firearm" means any device, by whatever name
22    known, which is designed to expel a projectile or
23    projectiles by the action of an explosion, expansion of gas
24    or escape of gas, including but not limited to:
25            (A) any pneumatic gun, spring gun, or B-B gun which
26        expels a single globular projectile not exceeding .18

 

 

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1        inch in diameter; or
2            (B) any device used exclusively for signaling or
3        safety and required as recommended by the United States
4        Coast Guard or the Interstate Commerce Commission; or
5            (C) any device used exclusively for the firing of
6        stud cartridges, explosive rivets or industrial
7        ammunition; or
8            (D) any device which is powered by electrical
9        charging units, such as batteries, and which fires one
10        or several barbs attached to a length of wire and
11        which, upon hitting a human, can send out current
12        capable of disrupting the person's nervous system in
13        such a manner as to render him or her incapable of
14        normal functioning, commonly referred to as a stun gun
15        or taser.
16        (vii) "Firearm ammunition" means any self-contained
17    cartridge or shotgun shell, by whatever name known, which
18    is designed to be used or adaptable to use in a firearm,
19    including but not limited to:
20            (A) any ammunition exclusively designed for use
21        with a device used exclusively for signaling or safety
22        and required or recommended by the United States Coast
23        Guard or the Interstate Commerce Commission; or
24            (B) any ammunition designed exclusively for use
25        with a stud or rivet driver or other similar industrial
26        ammunition.

 

 

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1        (viii) "Explosive" means, but is not limited to, bomb,
2    bombshell, grenade, bottle or other container containing
3    an explosive substance of over one-quarter ounce for like
4    purposes such as black powder bombs and Molotov cocktails
5    or artillery projectiles.
6        (ix) "Tool to defeat security mechanisms" means, but is
7    not limited to, handcuff or security restraint key, tool
8    designed to pick locks, popper, or any device or instrument
9    used to or capable of unlocking or preventing from locking
10    any handcuff or security restraints, doors to cells, rooms,
11    gates or other areas of the penal institution.
12        (x) "Cutting tool" means, but is not limited to,
13    hacksaw blade, wirecutter, or device, instrument or file
14    capable of cutting through metal.
15        (xi) "Electronic contraband" for the purposes of
16    Section 31A-1.1 of this Article means, but is not limited
17    to, any electronic, software operated device, video
18    recording device, computer, radio or radio-operated
19    device, or cellular communications equipment, including,
20    but not limited to, cellular telephones, cellular
21    telephone batteries, videotape recorders, pagers,
22    computers, and computer peripheral equipment brought into
23    or possessed in a penal institution without the written
24    authorization of the Chief Administrative Officer.
25    "Electronic contraband" for the purposes of Section
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1    electronic, software operated device, video recording
2    device, computer, radio or radio-operated device, or
3    cellular communications equipment, including, but not
4    limited to, cellular telephones, cellular telephone
5    batteries, videotape recorders, pagers, computers, and
6    computer peripheral equipment.
7        (xii) "Recording device" means, but is not limited to,
8    any instrument, apparatus, method, or device that is
9    capable of receiving, recording, intercepting, or
10    capturing any sounds or images, including, but not limited
11    to, magnetic, digital, chemical, thermodynamic,
12    photochemical, mechanical, magnetic, optical, electrical,
13    or emulsion.
14    "Penal institution" means any penitentiary, State farm,
15reformatory, prison, jail, house of correction, police
16detention area, half-way house or other institution or place
17for the incarceration or custody of persons under sentence for
18offenses awaiting trial or sentence for offenses, under arrest
19for an offense, a violation of probation, a violation of
20parole, a violation of aftercare release, or a violation of
21mandatory supervised release, or awaiting a bail setting
22hearing or preliminary hearing; provided that where the place
23for incarceration or custody is housed within another public
24building this Article shall not apply to that part of the
25building unrelated to the incarceration or custody of persons.
26(Source: P.A. 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13; 98-558, eff. 1-1-14.)
 

 

 

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1    (720 ILCS 5/31A-1.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 31A-1.1)
2    Sec. 31A-1.1. Bringing Contraband into a Penal
3Institution; Possessing Contraband in a Penal Institution.
4    (a) A person commits bringing contraband into a penal
5institution when he or she knowingly and without authority of
6any person designated or authorized to grant this authority
7        (1) brings an item of contraband into a penal
8    institution; or
9        (2) causes another to bring an item of contraband into
10    a penal institution; or
11        (3) places an item of contraband in such proximity to a
12    penal institution as to give an inmate access to the
13    contraband; or .
14        (4) places or causes to be placed a recording device,
15    broadcast equipment, or electronic contraband on penal
16    institution property, or within the proximity of penal
17    institution property with the intent to disrupt safety,
18    security, or operations of the penal institution.
19    (b) A person commits possessing contraband in a penal
20institution when he or she knowingly and without authority
21possesses contraband in a penal institution, regardless of the
22intent with which he or she possesses it.
23    (c) (Blank).
24    (d) Sentence.
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1    penal institution is a Class 4 felony.
2        (2) Bringing into or possessing cannabis in a penal
3    institution is a Class 3 felony.
4        (3) Bringing into or possessing any amount of a
5    controlled substance classified in Schedules III, IV or V
6    of Article II of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act in
7    a penal institution is a Class 2 felony.
8        (4) Bringing into or possessing any amount of a
9    controlled substance classified in Schedules I or II of
10    Article II of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act in a
11    penal institution is a Class 1 felony.
12        (5) Bringing into or possessing a hypodermic syringe in
13    a penal institution is a Class 1 felony.
14        (6) Bringing into or possessing a weapon, tool to
15    defeat security mechanisms, cutting tool, or electronic
16    contraband, recording device, broadcast equipment, or
17    electronic contraband in a penal institution, on penal
18    institution property, or within the proximity of penal
19    institution property with the intent to disrupt safety,
20    security, or operations of the penal institution in a penal
21    institution is a Class 1 felony.
22        (7) Bringing into or possessing a firearm, firearm
23    ammunition, or explosive in a penal institution is a Class
24    X felony.
25    (e) It shall be an affirmative defense to subsection (b),
26that the possession was specifically authorized by rule,

 

 

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1regulation, or directive of the governing authority of the
2penal institution or order issued under it.
3    (f) It shall be an affirmative defense to subsection (a)(1)
4and subsection (b) that the person bringing into or possessing
5contraband in a penal institution had been arrested, and that
6person possessed the contraband at the time of his or her
7arrest, and that the contraband was brought into or possessed
8in the penal institution by that person as a direct and
9immediate result of his or her arrest.
10    (g) Items confiscated may be retained for use by the
11Department of Corrections or disposed of as deemed appropriate
12by the Chief Administrative Officer in accordance with
13Department rules or disposed of as required by law.
14(Source: P.A. 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)
 
15    (720 ILCS 5/31A-1.2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 31A-1.2)
16    Sec. 31A-1.2. Unauthorized bringing of contraband into a
17penal institution by an employee; unauthorized possessing of
18contraband in a penal institution by an employee; unauthorized
19delivery of contraband in a penal institution by an employee.
20    (a) A person commits unauthorized bringing of contraband
21into a penal institution by an employee when a person who is an
22employee knowingly and without authority of any person
23designated or authorized to grant this authority:
24        (1) brings or attempts to bring an item of contraband
25    into a penal institution; , or

 

 

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1        (2) causes or permits another to bring an item of
2    contraband into a penal institution; or .
3        (3) places or causes to be placed, or permits another
4    to place or cause to be placed, any item of contraband on
5    penal institution property, or within the proximity of
6    penal institution property, with the intent to disrupt
7    safety, security, or operations of the penal institution.
8    (b) A person commits unauthorized possession of contraband
9in a penal institution by an employee when a person who is an
10employee knowingly and without authority of any person
11designated or authorized to grant this authority possesses an
12item of contraband in a penal institution, regardless of the
13intent with which he or she possesses it.
14    (c) A person commits unauthorized delivery of contraband in
15a penal institution by an employee when a person who is an
16employee knowingly and without authority of any person
17designated or authorized to grant this authority:
18        (1) delivers or possesses with intent to deliver an
19    item of contraband to any inmate of a penal institution; ,
20    or
21        (2) conspires to deliver or solicits the delivery of an
22    item of contraband to any inmate of a penal institution; ,
23    or
24        (3) causes or permits the delivery of an item of
25    contraband to any inmate of a penal institution; , or
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1    item of contraband to any inmate of a penal institution;
2    or .
3        (5) delivers, possesses, conspires to deliver or
4    solicits delivery, causes or permits delivery, or permits
5    another to attempt to deliver, any item of contraband
6    within the proximity of penal institution property with the
7    intent to disrupt safety, security, or operations of the
8    penal institution.
9    (d) For a violation of subsection (a) or (b) involving a
10cellular telephone or cellular telephone battery, the
11defendant must intend to provide the cellular telephone or
12cellular telephone battery to any inmate in a penal
13institution, or to use the cellular telephone or cellular
14telephone battery at the direction of an inmate or for the
15benefit of any inmate of a penal institution.
16    (e) Sentence.
17        (1) A violation of paragraphs (a) or (b) of this
18    Section involving alcohol is a Class 4 felony. A violation
19    of paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section involving cannabis
20    is a Class 2 felony. A violation of paragraph (a) or (b)
21    involving any amount of a controlled substance classified
22    in Schedules III, IV or V of Article II of the Illinois
23    Controlled Substances Act is a Class 1 felony. A violation
24    of paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section involving any
25    amount of a controlled substance classified in Schedules I
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1    Act is a Class X felony. A violation of paragraph (a) or
2    (b) involving a hypodermic syringe is a Class X felony. A
3    violation of paragraph (a) or (b) involving placing or
4    causing to be placed, or allowing another to place or cause
5    to place a recording device, broadcast equipment, or
6    electronic contraband on penal institution property or
7    within the proximity of penal institution property with the
8    intent to disrupt safety, security, or operations of the
9    penal institution is a Class 2 felony. A violation of
10    paragraph (a) or (b) involving a weapon, tool to defeat
11    security mechanisms, cutting tool, or electronic
12    contraband is a Class 1 felony. A violation of paragraph
13    (a) or (b) involving a firearm, firearm ammunition, or
14    explosive is a Class X felony.
15        (2) A violation of paragraph (c) of this Section
16    involving alcoholic liquor is a Class 3 felony. A violation
17    of paragraph (c) involving cannabis is a Class 1 felony. A
18    violation of paragraph (c) involving any amount of a
19    controlled substance classified in Schedules III, IV or V
20    of Article II of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act is
21    a Class X felony. A violation of paragraph (c) involving
22    any amount of a controlled substance classified in
23    Schedules I or II of Article II of the Illinois Controlled
24    Substances Act is a Class X felony for which the minimum
25    term of imprisonment shall be 8 years. A violation of
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1    felony for which the minimum term of imprisonment shall be
2    8 years. A violation of paragraph (c) involving a weapon,
3    tool to defeat security mechanisms, cutting tool, or
4    electronic contraband is a Class X felony for which the
5    minimum term of imprisonment shall be 10 years. A violation
6    of paragraph (c) involving placing or causing to be placed,
7    or allowing another to place or cause to place a recording
8    device, broadcast equipment, or electronic contraband on
9    penal institution property or within the proximity of penal
10    institution property with the intent to disrupt safety,
11    security, or operations of the penal institution is a Class
12    4 felony. A violation of paragraph (c) involving a firearm,
13    firearm ammunition, or explosive is a Class X felony for
14    which the minimum term of imprisonment shall be 12 years.
15    (f) Items confiscated may be retained for use by the
16Department of Corrections or disposed of as deemed appropriate
17by the Chief Administrative Officer in accordance with
18Department rules or disposed of as required by law.
19    (g) For a violation of subsection (a) or (b) involving
20alcoholic liquor, a weapon, firearm, firearm ammunition, tool
21to defeat security mechanisms, cutting tool, or electronic
22contraband, the items shall not be considered to be in a penal
23institution when they are secured in an employee's locked,
24private motor vehicle parked on the grounds of a penal
25institution.
26(Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-1112, eff. 1-1-11;

 

 

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196-1325, eff. 7-27-10; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 97-1108, eff.
21-1-13.)

 

 

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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance
3    720 ILCS 5/31A-0.1
4    720 ILCS 5/31A-1.1from Ch. 38, par. 31A-1.1
5    720 ILCS 5/31A-1.2from Ch. 38, par. 31A-1.2