Bill Text: IL HB3195 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a defendant convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child for a first offense shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 20 (rather than 6) years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB3195 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB3195-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 11-1.40 as follows:
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| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/11-1.40)
(was 720 ILCS 5/12-14.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 11-1.40. Predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.
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| 8 | (a) A person commits predatory criminal sexual assault of a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | child if that person commits an act of sexual penetration, is | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | 17 years of age or older, and: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | (1) the victim is under 13 years of age; or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | (2) the victim is under 13 years of age and that | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | person: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | (A) is armed with a firearm; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | (B) personally discharges a firearm during the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | commission of the offense; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | (C) causes great bodily harm to the victim that: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | (i) results in permanent disability; or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | (ii) is life threatening; or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | (D) delivers (by injection, inhalation, ingestion, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | transfer of possession, or any other means) any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | controlled substance to the victim without the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | victim's consent or by threat or deception, for other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | than medical purposes.
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| 2 | (b) Sentence.
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| 3 | (1) A person convicted of a violation of subsection | ||||||
| 4 | (a)(1)
commits a Class X felony, for which the person shall | ||||||
| 5 | be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 20 | ||||||
| 6 | 6 years and not more than 60 years.
A person convicted of a | ||||||
| 7 | violation of subsection (a)(2)(A) commits a Class X
felony | ||||||
| 8 | for which 15 years shall be added to the term of | ||||||
| 9 | imprisonment imposed by
the court. A person convicted of a | ||||||
| 10 | violation of subsection (a)(2)(B) commits a
Class X felony | ||||||
| 11 | for which 20 years shall be added to the term of | ||||||
| 12 | imprisonment
imposed by the court. A person convicted of a | ||||||
| 13 | violation of subsection (a)(2)(C)
commits a Class X felony | ||||||
| 14 | for which the person shall be sentenced to a term of
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| 15 | imprisonment of not less than 50 years or up to a term of | ||||||
| 16 | natural life
imprisonment.
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| 17 | (1.1) A person convicted of a violation of subsection | ||||||
| 18 | (a)(2)(D) commits a
Class X felony for which the person
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| 19 | shall be
sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of not less | ||||||
| 20 | than 50 years and not more than 60 years.
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| 21 | (1.2) A person convicted of predatory criminal sexual | ||||||
| 22 | assault of a child
committed
against 2 or more persons | ||||||
| 23 | regardless of whether the offenses occurred as the
result | ||||||
| 24 | of the same act or of several related or unrelated acts | ||||||
| 25 | shall be
sentenced to a term of natural life imprisonment.
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| 26 | (2) A person who is convicted of a second or subsequent | ||||||
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| 1 | offense of
predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, or | ||||||
| 2 | who is convicted of the
offense of
predatory criminal | ||||||
| 3 | sexual assault of a child after having previously been
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| 4 | convicted of the offense of criminal sexual assault or the | ||||||
| 5 | offense of
aggravated criminal sexual assault, or who is | ||||||
| 6 | convicted of the offense of
predatory criminal sexual | ||||||
| 7 | assault of a child after having previously been
convicted | ||||||
| 8 | under the laws of this State
or any other state of an | ||||||
| 9 | offense that is substantially equivalent to the
offense
of | ||||||
| 10 | predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, the offense | ||||||
| 11 | of aggravated
criminal sexual assault or the offense of | ||||||
| 12 | criminal sexual assault, shall be
sentenced to a term of | ||||||
| 13 | natural life imprisonment.
The commission of the second or | ||||||
| 14 | subsequent offense is required to have been
after the | ||||||
| 15 | initial conviction for this paragraph (2) to apply.
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| 16 | (Source: P.A. 95-640, eff. 6-1-08; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)
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