Bill Text: IL SB0840 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of extortion. Provides that a person commits extortion when he or she knowingly obtains, or causes to be obtained, property, services, something of value, advantage or immunity, from another person, with that person's consent, when the consent is induced by wrongful use of the threat of fear or actual or threatened force, violence, or under color of official right. Provides that a violation is a Class 3 felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0840 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0840-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB0840 Introduced 2/7/2017, by Sen. Kwame Raoul SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/12-6.2-5 new
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of extortion. Provides that a person commits extortion when he or she knowingly obtains, or causes to be obtained, property, services, something of value, advantage or immunity, from another person, with that person's consent, when the consent is induced by wrongful use of the threat of fear or actual or threatened force, violence, or under color of official right. Provides that a violation is a Class 3 felony.
LRB100 06173 SLF 16207 b
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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 adding
Section 12-6.2-5 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/12-6.2-5 new)
Sec. 12-6.2-5. Extortion.
(a) A person commits extortion when he or she knowingly
obtains, or causes to be obtained, property, services,
something of value, advantage or immunity, from another person,
with that person's consent, when the consent is induced by
wrongful use of the threat of fear or actual or threatened
force, violence, or under color of official right.
(b) Sentence. Extortion is a Class 3 felony.