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2011 SESSION

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HB 1781 Street gang; punishment for predicate act.

Introduced by: C. Todd Gilbert | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Street gang; punishment for predicate act.  Provides that any person who actively participates in or is a member of a criminal street gang and who knowingly and willfully participates in any predicate criminal act is guilty of a Class 5 felony (or a Class 4 felony if the perpetrator is an adult and the gang has a juvenile member). Current law requires that, for punishment of the crime of committing a predicate act, the act be committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with any criminal street gang.


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