Bill Text: IL HB2997 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits grooming when he or she knowingly in person or by use of a computer on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage or transmission, seduces, solicits, lures, or entices, or attempts to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child, a child's guardian, or another person believed by the person to be a child or a child's guardian, to commit any sex offense as defined in the Sex Offender Registration Act, to distribute photographs depicting the sex organs of the child, or to otherwise engage in any unlawful sexual conduct with a child or with another person believed by the person to be a child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2997 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2997-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2997 Introduced , by Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/11-25
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits grooming when he or she knowingly in person or by use of a computer on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage or transmission, seduces, solicits, lures, or entices, or attempts to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child, a child's guardian, or another person believed by the person to be a child or a child's guardian, to commit any sex offense as defined in the Sex Offender Registration Act, to distribute photographs depicting the sex organs of the child, or to otherwise engage in any unlawful sexual conduct with a child or with another person believed by the person to be a child.
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
Section 11-25 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/11-25)
Sec. 11-25. Grooming.
(a) A person commits grooming when he or she knowingly in
person or by use of uses a computer on-line service, Internet
service, local bulletin board service, or any other device
capable of electronic data storage or transmission, seduces,
solicits, lures, or entices, or attempts to seduce, solicit,
lure, or entice, or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or
entice, a child, a child's guardian, or another person believed
by the person to be a child or a child's guardian, to commit
any sex offense as defined in Section 2 of the Sex Offender
Registration Act, to distribute photographs depicting the sex
organs of the child, or to otherwise engage in any unlawful
sexual conduct with a child or with another person believed by
the person to be a child. As used in this Section, "child"
means a person under 17 years of age.
(b) Sentence. Grooming is a Class 4 felony.
(Source: P.A. 100-428, eff. 1-1-18.)