Bill Text: IL HB5466 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Deletes an affirmative defense to the charge of patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution that the accused reasonably believed that the person was of the age of 18 years or over or was not a person with a severe or profound intellectual disability at the time of the act giving rise to the charge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5466 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5466-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5466 Introduced , by Rep. Nicole La Ha SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/11-18.1 from Ch. 38, par. 11-18.1
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Deletes an affirmative defense to the charge of patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution that the accused reasonably believed that the person was of the age of 18 years or over or was not a person with a severe or profound intellectual disability at the time of the act giving rise to the charge.
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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 11-18.1 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/11-18.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 11-18.1)
Sec. 11-18.1. Patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution.
(a) Any person who engages in an act of sexual penetration
as defined in Section 11-0.1 of this Code with a person engaged
in prostitution who is under 18 years of age or is a person
with a severe or profound intellectual disability commits
patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution.
(a-5) Any person who engages in any touching or fondling,
with a person engaged in prostitution who either is under 18
years of age or is a person with a severe or profound
intellectual disability, of the sex organs of one person by
the other person, with the intent to achieve sexual arousal or
gratification, commits patronizing a minor engaged in
prostitution.
(b) (Blank). It is an affirmative defense to the charge of
patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution that the accused
reasonably believed that the person was of the age of 18 years
or over or was not a person with a severe or profound

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