Bill Text: IL HB3151 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits intimidation when, with intent to cause another to perform or to omit the performance of any act, he or she communicates to another, directly or indirectly by any means, a threat to perform without lawful authority publish sexually explicit images of another person without consent.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-3)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3151 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB3151-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 2012 is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 12-6 as follows:
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| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/12-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-6)
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| 7 | Sec. 12-6. Intimidation.
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| 8 | (a) A person commits intimidation when, with intent to | ||||||
| 9 | cause another to
perform or to omit the performance of any act, | ||||||
| 10 | he or she communicates to
another, directly or indirectly by | ||||||
| 11 | any means, a
threat to perform without lawful authority any of | ||||||
| 12 | the following acts:
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| 13 | (1) Inflict physical harm on the person threatened or | ||||||
| 14 | any other
person or on property; or
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| 15 | (2) Subject any person to physical confinement or | ||||||
| 16 | restraint; or
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| 17 | (3) Commit a felony or Class A misdemeanor; or
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| 18 | (4) Accuse any person of an offense; or
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| 19 | (5) Expose any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule; | ||||||
| 20 | or
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| 21 | (6) Take action as a public official against anyone or | ||||||
| 22 | anything, or
withhold official action, or cause such action | ||||||
| 23 | or withholding; or
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| 1 | (7) Bring about or continue a strike, boycott or other | ||||||
| 2 | collective
action; or .
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| 3 | (8) Publish sexually explicit images of another person | ||||||
| 4 | without consent. | ||||||
| 5 | (b) Sentence.
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| 6 | Intimidation is a Class 3 felony for which an offender may | ||||||
| 7 | be sentenced to
a term of imprisonment of not less than 2 years | ||||||
| 8 | and not more than 10 years.
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| 9 | (Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)
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