Bill Text: IL HB4624 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that forgery is a Class 2 felony when a document purporting to be an invoice or receipt issued by any unit of government is forged. Defines "unit of government".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB4624 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB4624-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB4624 Introduced , by Rep. Tom Demmer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/17-3 from Ch. 38, par. 17-3
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that forgery is a Class 2 felony when a document purporting to be an invoice or receipt issued by any unit of government is forged. Defines "unit of government".
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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 17-3 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/17-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 17-3)
Sec. 17-3. Forgery.
(a) A person commits forgery when, with intent to defraud,
he or she knowingly:
(1) makes a false document or alters any document to
make it false and that document is apparently capable of
defrauding another; or
(2) issues or delivers such document knowing it to have
been thus made or altered; or
(3) possesses, with intent to issue or deliver, any
such document knowing it to have been thus made or altered;
or
(4) unlawfully uses the digital signature, as defined
in the Financial Institutions Electronic Documents and
Digital Signature Act, of another; or
(5) unlawfully uses the signature device of another to
create an electronic signature of that other person, as
those terms are defined in the Electronic Commerce Security

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Act.
(b) (Blank).
(c) A document apparently capable of defrauding another
includes, but is not limited to, one by which any right,
obligation or power with reference to any person or property
may be created, transferred, altered or terminated. A document
includes any record or electronic record as those terms are
defined in the Electronic Commerce Security Act. For purposes
of this Section, a document also includes a Universal Price
Code Label or coin.
(c-5) For purposes of this Section, "false document" or
"document that is false" includes, but is not limited to, a
document whose contents are false in some material way, or that
purports to have been made by another or at another time, or
with different provisions, or by authority of one who did not
give such authority.
(d) Sentence.
(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2), and (3), and
(4), forgery is a Class 3 felony.
(2) Forgery is a Class 4 felony when only one Universal
Price Code Label is forged.
(3) Forgery is a Class A misdemeanor when an academic
degree or coin is forged.
(4) Forgery is a Class 2 felony when a document
purporting to be an invoice or receipt issued by any unit
of government is forged. For the purposes of this paragraph

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(4) only, the term "unit of government" means the federal
government, the State, a unit of local government, a school
district, or any agency or instrumentality, office,
officer, department, division, bureau, commission,
college, or university thereof.
(e) It is not a violation of this Section if a false
academic degree explicitly states "for novelty purposes only".
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-231, eff. 1-1-12;
97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)