Bill Text: IL HB2601 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning contributing to the dependency and neglect of a minor.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB2601 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB2601-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB2601 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel J. Burke SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/12C-25
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning contributing to the dependency and neglect of a minor.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
Section 12C-25 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/12C-25)
Sec. 12C-25. Contributing to the dependency and neglect of
a minor.
(a) Any Any parent, legal guardian or person having the
custody of a child under the age of 18 years commits
contributing to the dependency and neglect of a minor when he
or she knowingly: (1) causes, aids, or encourages such minor to
be or to become a dependent and neglected minor; (2) does acts
which directly tend to render any such minor so dependent and
neglected; or (3) fails to do that which will directly tend to
prevent such state of dependency and neglect. It is not a
violation of this Section for a person to relinquish a child in
accordance with the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act.
(b) "Dependent and neglected minor" means any child who,
while under the age of 18 years, for any reason is destitute,
homeless or abandoned; or dependent upon the public for
support; or has not proper parental care or guardianship; or
habitually begs or receives alms; or is found living in any

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house of ill fame or with any vicious or disreputable person;
or has a home which by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity
on the part of its parents, guardian or any other person in
whose care it may be is an unfit place for such child; and any
child who while under the age of 10 years is found begging,
peddling or selling any articles or singing or playing any
musical instrument for gain upon the street or giving any
public entertainments or accompanies or is used in aid of any
person so doing.
(c) Sentence. A violation of this Section is a Class A
misdemeanor.
(d) The husband or wife of the defendant shall be a
competent witness to testify in any case under this Section and
to all matters relevant thereto.
(Source: P.A. 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)