House Sponsors: CROSS-TURNER,ART-DURKIN-SANTIAGO-LYONS,EILEEN, ERWIN, RONEN AND WOOD. Senate Sponsors: CULLERTON Short description: CIV PRO-FORCIBLE ENTRY-CRIME Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that, if a tenant uses or permits the use of leased premises for certain criminal acts, the lease shall be void at the lessor's option, and that the lessor (or the State's Attorney, if the State's Attorney agrees to do so) may bring a forcible entry action for the eviction of the lessee and all occupants in accordance with specified requirements concerning notice, procedure, costs, and deposits. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Adds reference to: 735 ILCS 5/9-106 from Ch. 110, par. 9-106 Limits to 7 days the time a court can stay an order for possession of the premises entered pursuant to a termination of a lease under the provisions of the bill unless all parties agree to a longer period, and provides that the sheriff shall execute an order entered based on a suit brought pursuant to a termination of a lease under the provisions of the bill within 7 days of the entry of the order or the expiration of a stay. Provides that the standard of proof in a forcible entry and detainer action under the provisions of the bill is a preponderance of the evidence. Provides that a security deposit may be used to pay the fee charged by the sheriff for carrying out an eviction. Makes other changes. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. (Tabled May 16, 1997) Adds reference to: 65 ILCS 5/3.1-10-5 725 ILCS 5/115-4.1 Amends the Municipal Code. Provides that a person is not eligible for an elective municipal office if that person has been convicted of any infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or other felony unless the conviction and, if punishment included incarceration, release from that incarceration occurred more than 10 years before that person files a petition of candidacy (now has been convicted of any infamous crime, bribery, perjury or other felony). Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that when a defendant after arrest and an initial court appearance for a non-capital felony or a misdemeanor (now a non-capital felony) fails to appear at trial, at the request of the State and after the State has affirmatively proven through substantial evidence that the defendant is wilfully avoiding trial, the court may commence trial in the absence of the defendant. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 90-0360 Last action date: 97-08-10 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status