CD CORR-FIRST DEGREE MURDER House SponsorsRep. Dan Brady 1/8/2013HouseSession Sine Die 730 ILCS 5/5-8-1from Ch. 38, par. 1005-8-1 Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the court shall (rather than may) sentence the defendant to a term of natural life imprisonment if the defendant is a person who, at the time of the commission of the murder, has reached the age of 18 or more and is found guilty of first degree murder and the murder was accompanied by exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty. 2/9/2012HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Dan Brady 2/15/2012HouseFirst Reading 2/15/2012HouseReferred to Rules Committee 1/8/2013HouseSession Sine Die