Bill Text: IL HB0971 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Civil No Contact Order Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning definitions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0971 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB0971-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB0971 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
740 ILCS 22/103
Amends the Civil No Contact Order Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning definitions.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Civil No Contact Order Act is amended by
changing Section 103 as follows:
(740 ILCS 22/103)
Sec. 103. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Civil no contact order" means an emergency order or
plenary order granted under this Act, which includes a remedy
authorized by Section 213 of this Act.
"Family or household members" include spouses, parents,
children, stepchildren, and and persons who share a common
dwelling.
"Non-consensual" means a lack of freely given agreement.
"Petitioner" may mean not only any named petitioner for the
civil no contact order and any named victim of non-consensual
sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration on whose
behalf the petition is brought, but also any other person
sought to be protected by this Act.
"Respondent" in a petition for a civil no contact order may
mean not only the person alleged to have committed an act of
non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual
penetration against the petitioner, but also any other named

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person alleged to have aided and abetted such an act of
non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual
penetration.
"Sexual conduct" means any intentional or knowing touching
or fondling by the petitioner or the respondent, either
directly or through clothing, of the sex organs, anus, or
breast of the petitioner or the respondent, or any part of the
body of a child under 13 years of age, or any transfer or
transmission of semen by the respondent upon any part of the
clothed or unclothed body of the petitioner, for the purpose of
sexual gratification or arousal of the petitioner or the
respondent.
"Sexual penetration" means any contact, however slight,
between the sex organ or anus of one person by an object, the
sex organ, mouth or anus of another person, or any intrusion,
however slight, of any part of the body of one person or of any
animal or object into the sex organ or anus of another person,
including but not limited to cunnilingus, fellatio or anal
penetration. Evidence of emission of semen is not required to
prove sexual penetration.
"Stay away" means to refrain from both physical presence
and nonphysical contact with the petitioner directly,
indirectly, or through third parties who may or may not know of
the order. "Nonphysical contact" includes, but is not limited
to, telephone calls, mail, e-mail, fax, and written notes.
(Source: P.A. 96-311, eff. 1-1-10.)