Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 5/29/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1914

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1914 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
5changing Section 1-2 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/1-2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1-2)
7    Sec. 1-2. General purposes. The The provisions of this Code
8shall be construed in accordance with the general purposes
9hereof, to:
10    (a) Forbid and prevent the commission of offenses;
11    (b) Define adequately the act and mental state which
12constitute each offense, and limit the condemnation of conduct
13as criminal when it is without fault;
14    (c) Prescribe penalties which are proportionate to the
15seriousness of offenses and which permit recognition of
16differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual

 

 

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1offenders;
2    (d) Prevent arbitrary or oppressive treatment of persons
3accused or convicted of offenses.
4(Source: Laws 1961, p. 1983.)".