99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB5714

Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Zalewski

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/24-1.7

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person is also an armed habitual criminal if the person receives, sells, possesses, or transfers any firearm after having been convicted a total of 2 or more times of any combination of offenses that includes a felony violation of the Deadly Weapons Article of the Code (rather than unlawful use of a weapon by a felon; aggravated unlawful use of a weapon; aggravated discharge of a firearm; or gunrunning).
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A BILL FOR

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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 24-1.7 as follows:
6 (720 ILCS 5/24-1.7)
7 Sec. 24-1.7. Armed habitual criminal.
8 (a) A person commits the offense of being an armed habitual
9criminal if he or she receives, sells, possesses, or transfers
10any firearm after having been convicted a total of 2 or more
11times of any combination of the following offenses:
12 (1) a forcible felony as defined in Section 2-8 of this
13 Code;
14 (2) a felony violation of Article 24 of this Code;
15 unlawful use of a weapon by a felon; aggravated unlawful
16 use of a weapon; aggravated discharge of a firearm;
17 vehicular hijacking; aggravated vehicular hijacking;
18 aggravated battery of a child as described in Section
19 12-4.3 or subdivision (b)(1) of Section 12-3.05;
20 intimidation; aggravated intimidation; gunrunning; home
21 invasion; or aggravated battery with a firearm as described
22 in Section 12-4.2 or subdivision (e)(1), (e)(2), (e)(3), or
23 (e)(4) of Section 12-3.05; or

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1 (3) any violation of the Illinois Controlled
2 Substances Act or the Cannabis Control Act that is
3 punishable as a Class 3 felony or higher.
4 (b) Sentence. Being an armed habitual criminal is a Class X
5felony.
6(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)