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Summary: Crimes by gangs. Expands the definitionof "predicate criminal act" to include all felonies and a carryinga concealed weapon violation. The bill also increases various penaltiesfor gang crimes.

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Summary: Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes the crime of organized retail theft that makes it a Class 3 felony for any person to (i) conspire or act in concert with another person to commit simple larceny of retail property from one or more retail mercantile establishments, with a value exceeding $1,000 aggregated over a 90-day period, with the intent to sell such retail property for monetary or other gain, and to take or cause such retail property to be placed in the control of a retail property fence or other person; (ii) receive or possess any retail property that has been obtained by simple larceny from one or more retail mercantile establishments in violation of clause (i) while knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe the property was unlawfully obtained; or (iii) conspire or act in concert with two or more other persons as an organizer, supervisor, financier, leader, or manager to engage for profit in a scheme or course of conduct to effectuate the transfer or sale of property obtained by simple larceny from one or more retail mercantile establishments in violation of either of clause (i) or clause (ii). The bill defines the terms retail mercantile establishment, retail property, and retail property fence. The bill makes it a Class 5 felony for any person to injure property during an act or attempted act of organized retail theft when the value of or damage to the property, memorial, or monument is $1,000 or more. The bill provides that any person convicted of a second larceny offense shall be confined in jail not less than 30 days nor more than 12 months and that for a third or any subsequent offense, he is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill also establishes the Organized Retail Crime Fund to be administered by the Attorney General solely for the purposes of awarding grants to attorneys for the Commonwealth and law-enforcement agencies to investigate, indict, and prosecute violations of organized retail theft and associated fraud and property crimes.

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Summary: Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimumsentences; penalty. Increases from three to five years for afirst offense and from five to 10 years for a second or subsequentoffense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearmduring the commission of certain felonies. The bill also increasesthe punishment from a Class 6 felony to a Class 5 felony and increasesfrom five to 10 years the mandatory minimum sentence for knowinglypossessing any firearm within the building of a child day centeror public, private, or religious preschool, elementary, middle, orhigh school and intending to use, or attempting to use, such firearm,or displaying such weapon in a threatening manner. The bill alsoincreases the punishment from a Class 6 felony to a Class 5 felonyand increases from five to 10 years for a person previously convictedof a violent felony and from two to five years for a person previouslyconvicted of any other felony within the prior 10 years the mandatoryminimum sentences for knowingly and intentionally possessing or transportingany firearm.

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Summary: Attorney fees; emergency custody and voluntaryand involuntary civil admissions. Increases the fee that a court-appointed attorney receives for representation during emergency custody andvoluntary and involuntary civil admissions from $75 to $120 for eachhearing and from $43.25 to $70 for each certification hearing.

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