FIRST AND SECOND DEGREE MURDER

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Eliminates the felony murder provisions from the first degree murder statute. Provides that a person commits second degree murder when he or she, acting alone or with one or more participants, commits or attempts to commit a forcible felony, other than first degree murder, and in the course of or in furtherance of the crime or flight from the crime, he or she or another participant causes the death of a person, other than one of the participants.

Every action

10 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 6, 2025SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Robert Peters
2. Feb 6, 2025SenateFirst Reading
3. Feb 6, 2025CommitteeReferred to Assignments · Senate Assignments
4. Feb 20, 2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
5. Feb 27, 2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mark L. Walker
6. Mar 5, 2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine
7. Mar 5, 2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
8. Mar 27, 2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
9. Apr 10, 2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Graciela Guzmán
10. Apr 11, 2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Javier L. Cervantes

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 7 cosponsors: 7 Democrats.

• Robert PetersD Primary sponsor · District 13