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1999 SESSION

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HB 1744 Gang activity.

Introduced by: David B. Albo | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Gang activity. Creates the Street Gangs Act which defines, among other things, “street gang” and “pattern of criminal gang activity.” The bill also enhances penalties for any predicate (violent and other specified) crimes committed as part of street gang activity by raising the punishment for classified misdemeanors and felonies by one class, except when the maximum punishment is life imprisonment. In such cases the person shall be sentenced to a mandatory 15-year sentence. The bill also punishes recruitment into a street gang as a Class 1 misdemeanor, or a Class 6 felony for a second offense, and punishes enlistment of juveniles to trade in drugs or stolen property by a 10- to 50-year sentence with a $100,000 fine, five years of the imprisonment to be mandatory.

FULL TEXT

• 01/13/99  House: Presented & ordered printed 993584817  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/13/99  House: Presented & ordered printed 993584817
• 01/13/99  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/22/99  House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 1
• 02/12/99  House: No action taken by Courts of Justice by voice vote