Bill Text: IL SB3569 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning intimidation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3569 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3569-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3569 Introduced 2/13/2020, by Sen. John F. Curran SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/12-6 from Ch. 38, par. 12-6
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning intimidation.
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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 12-6 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/12-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-6)
Sec. 12-6. Intimidation.
(a) A person commits commits intimidation when, with intent
to cause another to perform or to omit the performance of any
act, he or she communicates to another, directly or indirectly
by any means, a threat to perform without lawful authority any
of the following acts:
(1) Inflict physical harm on the person threatened or
any other person or on property; or
(2) Subject any person to physical confinement or
restraint; or
(3) Commit a felony or Class A misdemeanor; or
(4) Accuse any person of an offense; or
(5) Expose any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule;
or
(6) Take action as a public official against anyone or
anything, or withhold official action, or cause such action
or withholding; or

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(7) Bring about or continue a strike, boycott or other
collective action.
(b) Sentence.
Intimidation is a Class 3 felony for which an offender may
be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 2 years
and not more than 10 years.
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)