093_HB3385

 
                                     LRB093 06677 RLC 06811 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to criminal law.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The Criminal Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 31-1a as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 5/31-1a) (from Ch. 38, par. 31-1a)
 7        Sec.  31-1a.   Disarming  a peace officer or correctional
 8    institution employee.  A person who, without the consent of a
 9    peace officer or correctional institution employee as defined
10    in subsection (b) of Section 31-1, takes or attempts to  take
11    a  weapon from knowingly disarms a person known to him or her
12    to be a peace officer or correctional  institution  employee,
13    while  the peace officer or correctional institution employee
14    is engaged in the performance of his or her  official  duties
15    by  taking  a firearm from the person of the peace officer or
16    from an area  within  the  peace  officer's  or  correctional
17    institution  employee's  immediate  presence  is  without the
18    peace officer's consent shall  be  guilty  of  a  Class  1  2
19    felony.
20    (Source: P.A. 84-181.)

21        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
22    becoming law.