Bill Text: IL HB3799 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of failure to report the disappearance of a child to a law enforcement agency. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she, as a parent, guardian, or other person having physical custody or control of a child under 13 years of age, willfully or by culpable negligence fails to make contact with or otherwise verify the whereabouts and safety of that child for a period of 24 hours and to immediately report the child as missing to a law enforcement agency after this 24-hour period expires without contact. Provides that a violation is a Class 4 felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3799 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB3799-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB3799 Introduced , by Rep. Karen May SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/10-10 new
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of failure to report the disappearance of a child to a law enforcement agency. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she, as a parent, guardian, or other person having physical custody or control of a child under 13 years of age, willfully or by culpable negligence fails to make contact with or otherwise verify the whereabouts and safety of that child for a period of 24 hours and to immediately report the child as missing to a law enforcement agency after this 24-hour period expires without contact. Provides that a violation is a Class 4 felony.
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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 1961 is amended by adding
Section 10-10 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/10-10 new)
Sec. 10-10. Failure to report the disappearance of a child
to a law enforcement agency.
(a) A person commits the offense of failure to report the
disappearance of a child to a law enforcement agency when he or
she, as a parent, guardian, or other person having physical
custody or control of a child under 13 years of age, willfully
or by culpable negligence fails to make contact with or
otherwise verify the whereabouts and safety of that child for a
period of 24 hours and to immediately report the child as
missing to a law enforcement agency after this 24-hour period
expires without contact.
(b) Sentence. Failure to report the disappearance of a
child to a law enforcement agency is a Class 4 felony.