Bill Text: IL HB2641 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Expands the offense of traveling to meet a minor to include traveling to meet a minor for the purpose of also engaging in the offense of aggravated battery of a child, criminal transmission of HIV, or contributing to the criminal delinquency of a juvenile. Adds definitions of "child", "computer", and "Internet".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-08 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [HB2641 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HB2641-Engrossed.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 1961 is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Section 11-26 as follows:
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6 | (720 ILCS 5/11-26) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 11-26. Traveling to meet a minor. | ||||||
8 | (a) A person commits the offense of traveling to meet a | ||||||
9 | minor when he or she travels any distance either within this | ||||||
10 | State, to this State, or from this State by any means, attempts | ||||||
11 | to do so, or causes another to do so or attempt to do so for the | ||||||
12 | purpose of engaging in any sex offense as defined in Section 2 | ||||||
13 | of the Sex Offender Registration Act, or for the purpose of | ||||||
14 | engaging in any illegal act described in Section 12-4.3, | ||||||
15 | 12-16.2, or 33D-1 of this Code or to otherwise engage in other | ||||||
16 | unlawful sexual conduct with a child or with another person | ||||||
17 | believed by the person to be a child after using a computer | ||||||
18 | on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board | ||||||
19 | service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage | ||||||
20 | or transmission to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or to | ||||||
21 | attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a | ||||||
22 | child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child | ||||||
23 | guardian, or another person believed by the person to be a |
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1 | child or a child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a | ||||||
2 | child to consent to the participation of such child in any sex | ||||||
3 | offense or other illegal act specified in this subsection (a) or | ||||||
4 | a child's guardian, for such purpose . | ||||||
5 | (b) Sentence. Traveling to meet a minor is a Class 3 | ||||||
6 | felony. | ||||||
7 | (c) In this Section: | ||||||
8 | "Child" means a person under 18 years of age. | ||||||
9 | "Computer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section | ||||||
10 | 16D-2 of this Code. | ||||||
11 | "Internet" means the global information system that is
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12 | logically linked together by a globally unique address | ||||||
13 | space based on
the Internet Protocol (IP), or its | ||||||
14 | subsequent extensions, and that
is able to support | ||||||
15 | communications using the Transmission Control
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16 | Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its | ||||||
17 | subsequent
extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols, | ||||||
18 | and that provides,
uses, or makes accessible, either | ||||||
19 | publicly or privately, high level
services layered on the | ||||||
20 | communications and related infrastructure.
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21 | (Source: P.A. 95-901, eff. 1-1-09.)
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