Bill Text: IL HB4624 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that forgery is a Class 2 felony when a document purporting to be an invoice or receipt issued by any unit of government is forged. Defines "unit of government".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB4624 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB4624-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 17-3 as follows:
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6 | (720 ILCS 5/17-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 17-3)
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7 | Sec. 17-3. Forgery.
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8 | (a) A person commits forgery when, with intent to defraud, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | he or she knowingly:
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10 | (1) makes a false document or alters any document to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | make it false and that document is apparently capable of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | defrauding
another; or
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13 | (2) issues or delivers such document knowing it to have | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | been thus
made or altered; or
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15 | (3) possesses, with intent to issue or deliver, any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | such document
knowing it to have been thus made or altered; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | or
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18 | (4) unlawfully uses the digital signature, as defined | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | in the Financial
Institutions Electronic Documents and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Digital Signature Act, of another; or
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21 | (5) unlawfully uses the signature device of another to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | create
an electronic signature of that other person, as | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | those terms are defined in the
Electronic Commerce Security |
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1 | Act.
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2 | (b) (Blank).
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3 | (c) A document apparently capable of defrauding another | ||||||
4 | includes, but is
not limited to, one by which any right, | ||||||
5 | obligation or power with reference
to any person or property | ||||||
6 | may be created, transferred, altered or
terminated. A document | ||||||
7 | includes any record or electronic record as those
terms are | ||||||
8 | defined in the Electronic Commerce Security Act. For purposes | ||||||
9 | of this Section, a document also includes a Universal Price | ||||||
10 | Code Label or coin.
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11 | (c-5) For purposes of this Section, "false document" or | ||||||
12 | "document that is false" includes, but is not limited to, a | ||||||
13 | document whose contents are false in some material way, or that | ||||||
14 | purports to have been made by another or at another time, or | ||||||
15 | with different provisions, or by authority of one who did not | ||||||
16 | give such authority. | ||||||
17 | (d) Sentence.
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18 | (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) , and (3), and | ||||||
19 | (4), forgery is a Class 3 felony. | ||||||
20 | (2) Forgery is a Class 4 felony when only one Universal | ||||||
21 | Price Code Label is forged. | ||||||
22 | (3) Forgery is a Class A misdemeanor when an academic | ||||||
23 | degree or coin is forged.
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24 | (4) Forgery is a Class 2 felony when a document | ||||||
25 | purporting to be an invoice or receipt issued by any unit | ||||||
26 | of government is forged. For the purposes of this paragraph |
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1 | (4) only, the term "unit of government" means the federal | ||||||
2 | government, the State, a unit of local government, a school | ||||||
3 | district, or any agency or instrumentality, office, | ||||||
4 | officer, department, division, bureau, commission, | ||||||
5 | college, or university thereof. | ||||||
6 | (e) It is not a violation of this Section if a false | ||||||
7 | academic degree explicitly states "for novelty purposes only". | ||||||
8 | (Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-231, eff. 1-1-12; | ||||||
9 | 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)
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