Illinois House Bill 3531 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 19 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-22 - Referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Violent Video Games Law in the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes provisions that restricts the sale or rental of violent video games to minors to prohibit the sale of all violent video games. Modifies the definition of "violent video game" to mean a video game that allows a user or player to control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal. Modifies the definition of "serious physical harm" to include psychological harm and child abuse, sexual abuse, animal abuse, domestic violence, violence against women, or motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present inside the vehicle when the theft begins. Makes conforming changes, including repealing a Section concerning the labeling of violent video games by video game retailers.

CRIM CD-VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES

Rep. Marcus Evans [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-22	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2021-02-22	House	First Reading
2021-02-19	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
720	5	12A-10	Amended Code	Citation Text
720	5	12A-15	Amended Code	Citation Text
720	5	12A-20	Amended Code	Citation Text
720	5	12A-25	Repealed Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3531&GAID=16&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=110&GA=102
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/102/HB/10200HB3531.htm