Bill Text: IL HB4512 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning penalties.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4512 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4512-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB4512 Introduced , by Rep. Elaine Nekritz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 150/10 from Ch. 38, par. 230
Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning penalties.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning corrections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Sex Offender Registration Act is amended by
changing Section 10 as follows:
(730 ILCS 150/10) (from Ch. 38, par. 230)
Sec. 10. Penalty.
(a) Any person who is required to register under this
Article who violates any of the the provisions of this Article
and any person who is required to register under this Article
who seeks to change his or her name under Article 21 of the
Code of Civil Procedure is guilty of a Class 3 felony. Any
person who is convicted for a violation of this Act for a
second or subsequent time is guilty of a Class 2 felony. Any
person who is required to register under this Article who
knowingly or wilfully gives material information required by
this Article that is false is guilty of a Class 3 felony. Any
person convicted of a violation of any provision of this
Article shall, in addition to any other penalty required by
law, be required to serve a minimum period of 7 days
confinement in the local county jail. The court shall impose a
mandatory minimum fine of $500 for failure to comply with any
provision of this Article. These fines shall be deposited in

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the Sex Offender Registration Fund. Any sex offender, as
defined in Section 2 of this Act, or sexual predator who
violates any provision of this Article may be arrested and
tried in any Illinois county where the sex offender can be
located. The local police department or sheriff's office is not
required to determine whether the person is living within its
jurisdiction.
(b) Any person, not covered by privilege under Part 8 of
Article VIII of the Code of Civil Procedure or the Illinois
Supreme Court's Rules of Professional Conduct, who has reason
to believe that a sexual predator is not complying, or has not
complied, with the requirements of this Article and who, with
the intent to assist the sexual predator in eluding a law
enforcement agency that is seeking to find the sexual predator
to question the sexual predator about, or to arrest the sexual
predator for, his or her noncompliance with the requirements of
this Article is guilty of a Class 3 felony if he or she:
(1) provides false information to the law enforcement
agency having jurisdiction about the sexual predator's
noncompliance with the requirements of this Article, and,
if known, the whereabouts of the sexual predator;
(2) harbors, or attempts to harbor, or assists another
person in harboring or attempting to harbor, the sexual
predator; or
(3) conceals or attempts to conceal, or assists another
person in concealing or attempting to conceal, the sexual

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predator.
(c) Subsection (b) does not apply if the sexual predator is
incarcerated in or is in the custody of a State correctional
facility, a private correctional facility, a county or
municipal jail, a State mental health facility or a State
treatment and detention facility, or a federal correctional
facility.
(d) Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply if the sex
offender accurately registered his or her Internet protocol
address under this Act, and the address subsequently changed
without his or her knowledge or intent.
(Source: P.A. 94-168, eff. 1-1-06; 94-988, eff. 1-1-07; 95-579,
eff. 6-1-08.)