Senate Sponsors: GEO-KARIS-HAWKINSON-CULLERTON-WALSH,T. House Sponsors: BRADY-GASH-FRITCHEY-ACEVEDO-BRADLEY Short description: CRIM CD & CD CORR-RESIDL ARSON Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of residential arson. Defines the offense as knowingly damaging, partially or totally, any building or structure that is the dwelling place of another. Penalty is a Class 1 felony. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person convicted of residential arson is ineligible for probation, periodic imprisonment, or conditional discharge. Effective immediately. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Adds reference to: 720 ILCS 5/12-11 from Ch. 38, par. 12-11 Further amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that for purposes of the home invasion statute, "dwelling place of another" includes a dwelling place where the defendant maintains a tenancy interest but from which the defendant has been barred by court order. FISCAL NOTE (Dpt. of Corrections) Impact: population, 69 inmates; fiscal, $13,561,600. CORRECTIONAL NOTE No change from DOC fiscal note. STATE MANDATES ACT FISCAL NOTE SB 1506 fails to create a State mandate. FISCAL NOTE (Administrative Office of Ill. Courts) No fiscal impact on the Judicial branch. JUDICIAL NOTE No decrease or increase in need for the number of judges. CORRECTIONAL NOTE, H-AM 1 Impact: prison pop., 2,115 inmates; fiscal, $276,708,200. FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (Admin. Office of Ill. Courts) No change from previous note. JUDICIAL NOTE, H-AM 1 No change from previous judicial note. FISCAL NOTE, H-AMS 1 & 4 (Dpt. of Corrections) Minimal fiscal and prison population impact. CORRECTIONAL NOTE, H-AMS 1 & 4 No change from previous correctional note. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. (House recedes May 22, 1998) Adds reference to: 725 ILCS 5/106B-5 725 ILCS 5/112-5 from Ch. 38, par. 112-5 725 ILCS 5/115-9 from Ch. 38, par. 115-9 730 ILCS 5/5-8-7 from Ch. 38, par. 1005-8-7 Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that in counties with a population less than 1,000,000, the State's Attorney may appoint any number of sworn police officers as temporary grand jury investigators. Eliminates provision that permits the court, in a prosecution for theft, retail theft, deceptive practice, robbery, armed robbery, burglary, or residential burglary, upon a motion by the defendant, to order a law enforcement agency to hold property over which the defendant has been accused of exerting unauthorized control or to have obtained unlawfully until completion of the trial even though the property has been photographed if the photograph demon- states the nature of the property and is otherwise admissible into evidence. Provides that when a child victim of certain sexual offenses textifies by closed circuit television, the court reporter shall be in the room with the child. Also permits the court to allow a Children's Advocacy Center representative to be in the room with the child when the child testifies. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that an offender who is in custody simultaneously for more than one offense and is sentenced to consecutive terms of imprisonment for those offenses shall be given credit for time spent in custody on only one of the sentences imposed. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2. (House recedes May 22, 1998) Adds reference to: 55 ILCS 5/4-2001 from Ch. 34, par. 4-2001 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a State's Attorney in a county between 10,000 and 30,000 inhabitants or in a county containing 30,000 or more inhabitants that reached that population between 1970 and December 31, 1981, who filed a written declaration of intent to engage in the private practice of law with the county clerk may revoke his or her declaration from the effective date of this amendatory Act until February 1, 1999 by filing of the revocation with the county clerk during this time period. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 3. Adds reference to: 725 ILCS 5/115-4.1 Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that a defendant charged with a misdemeanor who wilfully fails to appear for trial may be tried in the absence of the defendant. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 4. (House recedes May 22, 1998) Provides that, if an offender is in custody simultaneously for more than one offense and is sentenced to consecutive terms, the offender shall be given credit for time spent in custody "prior to sentencing on the aggregate sentences imposed" (rather than "on only one of the sentences imposed"). Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 90-0787 Last action date: 98-08-14 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 4 SENATE - 1 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status