101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB1484

 

Introduced , by Rep. Tony McCombie

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/31A-0.1
720 ILCS 5/31A-1.3 new

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of violation of a parole host agreement. Provides that a person commits violation of a parole host agreement when he or she hosts a releasee and he or she knowingly stores or leaves, within premises under his or her control, a firearm if the person knows or has reason to believe that the releasee is likely to gain access to the firearm and the releasee gains access to the firearm. Includes a person who hosts a person serving aftercare release and who has entered into an agreement with the Department of Juvenile Justice to host a person serving aftercare release. Provides exceptions. Provides that violation of a parole host agreement is a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that if the releasee gains access to the host's firearm, the violation is a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that if the releasee uses the firearm in the commission of an offense that does not result in death or great bodily harm to another person, the host is guilty of a Class 4 felony and a Class 3 felony if the releasee's use of the firearm proximately causes death or great bodily harm to another person.


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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
5Section 31A-0.1 and by adding Section 31A-1.3 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    "Hosts" means to provide a residence in his or her dwelling
19to a person serving a parole, aftercare, or mandatory
20supervised release term under a parole or release plan adopted
21by the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile
22Justice that identifies the host as the person in whose
23household the releasee will reside or is residing.

 

 

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1    "Item of contraband" means any of the following:
2        (i) "Alcoholic liquor" as that term is defined in
3    Section 1-3.05 of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.
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) For purposes of this Section and Sections 31A-1.1
22    and 31A-1.2 only, "firearm" "Firearm" means any device, by
23    whatever name known, which is designed to expel a
24    projectile or projectiles by the action of an explosion,
25    expansion of gas or escape of gas, including but not
26    limited to:

 

 

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

 

 

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1        with a stud or rivet driver or other similar industrial
2        ammunition.
3        (viii) "Explosive" means, but is not limited to, bomb,
4    bombshell, grenade, bottle or other container containing
5    an explosive substance of over one-quarter ounce for like
6    purposes such as black powder bombs and Molotov cocktails
7    or artillery projectiles.
8        (ix) "Tool to defeat security mechanisms" means, but is
9    not limited to, handcuff or security restraint key, tool
10    designed to pick locks, popper, or any device or instrument
11    used to or capable of unlocking or preventing from locking
12    any handcuff or security restraints, doors to cells, rooms,
13    gates or other areas of the penal institution.
14        (x) "Cutting tool" means, but is not limited to,
15    hacksaw blade, wirecutter, or device, instrument or file
16    capable of cutting through metal.
17        (xi) "Electronic contraband" for the purposes of
18    Section 31A-1.1 of this Article means, but is not limited
19    to, any electronic, video recording device, computer, or
20    cellular communications equipment, including, but not
21    limited to, cellular telephones, cellular telephone
22    batteries, videotape recorders, pagers, computers, and
23    computer peripheral equipment brought into or possessed in
24    a penal institution without the written authorization of
25    the Chief Administrative Officer. "Electronic contraband"
26    for the purposes of Section 31A-1.2 of this Article, means,

 

 

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1    but is not limited to, any electronic, video recording
2    device, computer, or cellular communications equipment,
3    including, but not limited to, cellular telephones,
4    cellular telephone batteries, videotape recorders, pagers,
5    computers, and computer peripheral equipment.
6    "Host site agreement" means an agreement between a person
7who hosts a person serving aftercare release and the Department
8of Juvenile Justice.
9    "Parole host agreement" means a host site agreement,
10electronic detention host agreement, or similar written
11agreement between a person who hosts a releasee and the
12Department of Corrections.
13    "Penal institution" means any penitentiary, State farm,
14reformatory, prison, jail, house of correction, police
15detention area, half-way house or other institution or place
16for the incarceration or custody of persons under sentence for
17offenses awaiting trial or sentence for offenses, under arrest
18for an offense, a violation of probation, a violation of
19parole, a violation of aftercare release, or a violation of
20mandatory supervised release, or awaiting a bail setting
21hearing or preliminary hearing; provided that where the place
22for incarceration or custody is housed within another public
23building this Article shall not apply to that part of the
24building unrelated to the incarceration or custody of persons.
25    "Releasee" means a person serving a term of parole,
26mandatory supervised release, or aftercare release.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13; 98-558, eff. 1-1-14.)
 
2    (720 ILCS 5/31A-1.3 new)
3    Sec. 31A-1.3. Violation of a parole host agreement or host
4site agreement.
5    (a) A person commits violation of a parole host agreement
6or host site agreement when he or she hosts a releasee and he
7or she knowingly stores or leaves, within premises under his or
8her control, a firearm if the person knows or has reason to
9believe that the releasee is likely to gain access to the
10firearm and the releasee gains access to the firearm unless the
11firearm is:
12        (1) secured by a device or mechanism, other than the
13    firearm safety, designed to render a firearm temporarily
14    inoperable;
15        (2) placed in a securely locked box or container; or
16        (3) placed in some other location that a reasonable
17    person would believe to be secure from the releasee.
18    (b) Subsection (a) does not apply:
19        (1) if the releasee gains access to a firearm and uses
20    it in a lawful act of self-defense or defense of another;
21    or
22        (2) to any firearm obtained by the releasee because of
23    an unlawful entry of the premises by the releasee or
24    another person.
25    (c) Sentence. A person who violates subsection (a) is

 

 

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1guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, except that it is a Class 4
2felony if the releasee uses the firearm in the commission of an
3offense that does not result in death or great bodily harm to
4another person; or a Class 3 felony if the releasee uses the
5firearm in the commission of an offense that proximately causes
6death or great bodily harm to another person.