Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Deletes the amendatory changes to the hate crime statute. Restores the crime of harassment through electronic communications. In the crime of harassment by telephone, provides that a person commits the crime when he or she uses telephone communication for: (1) making any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal which is known or intended to cause another person significant emotional distress and would cause a reasonable person to experience significant emotional distress; or (2) making a telephone call, whether or not conversation ensues, with intent to threaten injury to, or the property of, any person at the called number or to any of his or her family or household members. In the harassment through electronic communications statute, provides that a person commits the crime when he or she uses electronic communication for: (1) making any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal which is known or intended to cause another person significant emotional distress and would cause a reasonable person to experience significant emotional distress; and (2) making repeated electronic communications, during which conversation or text or email messages ensue, solely to harass the person to whom the electronic communication is directed.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2026-06-30 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen [SB2741 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

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