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90_SB0796enr

      720 ILCS 5/11-9.2 new
          Amends the Criminal Code of 1961.  Creates the offense of
      custodial sexual misconduct.   Prohibits  an  employee  of  a
      penal  system  from  engaging  in sexual misconduct or sexual
      penetration with a person who is in the custody of that penal
      system.  Also prohibits probation  and  supervising  officers
      from  engaging  in  that conduct with parolees and releasees.
      Penalty is  a  Class  3  felony.    Provides  that  a  person
      convicted  of  custodial  sexual misconduct immediately shall
      forfeit  his  or  her  employment  with  the  penal   system.
      Provides   that  the  consent  of  the  inmate,  probationer,
      parolee,  or  releasee  is  not  a  defense  to  prosecution.
      Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the  Criminal  Code  of  1961  by  adding
 2    Section 11-9.2.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Criminal  Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
 6    adding Section 11-9.2 as follows:
 7        (720 ILCS 5/11-9.2 new)
 8        Sec. 11-9.2.  Custodial sexual misconduct.
 9        (a)  A  person  commits  the  offense of custodial sexual
10    misconduct when he or she is an employee of  a  penal  system
11    and  engages  in  sexual conduct or sexual penetration with a
12    person who is in the custody of that penal system.
13        (b)  A  probation  or  supervising  officer  commits  the
14    offense of custodial sexual misconduct when the probation  or
15    supervising  officer  engages  in  sexual  conduct  or sexual
16    penetration with a probationer, parolee, or releasee  who  is
17    under  the  supervisory, disciplinary, or custodial authority
18    of the officer so engaging in the sexual  conduct  or  sexual
19    penetration.
20        (c)  Custodial sexual misconduct is a Class 3 felony.
21        (d)  Any  person  convicted  of  violating  this  Section
22    immediately  shall forfeit his or her employment with a penal
23    system.
24        (e)  For purposes of this Section,  the  consent  of  the
25    probationer,  parolee,  releasee, or inmate in custody of the
26    penal system shall not be a defense to  a  prosecution  under
27    this  Section.   A person is deemed incapable of consent, for
28    purposes of this Section, when he or she  is  a  probationer,
29    parolee, releasee, or inmate in custody of a penal system.
30        (f)  This Section does not apply to:
31             (1)  Any employee, probation, or supervising officer
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 1        who  is  lawfully  married  to a person in custody if the
 2        marriage occurred before the date of custody.
 3             (2)  Any employee, probation, or supervising officer
 4        who has  no  knowledge,  and  would  have  no  reason  to
 5        believe,  that  the person with whom he or she engaged in
 6        custodial sexual misconduct was a person in custody.
 7        (g)  In this Section:
 8             (1)  "Custody" means:
 9                  (i)  pretrial incarceration or detention;
10                  (ii)  incarceration  or   detention   under   a
11             sentence  or  commitment  to  a State or local penal
12             institution;
13                  (iii)  parole or mandatory supervised release;
14                  (iv)  electronic home detention;
15                  (v)  probation.
16             (2)  "Penal system" means any system which  includes
17        institutions as defined in Section 2-14 of this Code or a
18        county  shelter  care or detention home established under
19        Section 1 of the County Shelter Care and  Detention  Home
20        Act.
21             (3)  "Employee" means:
22                  (i)  an  employee of any governmental agency of
23             this State or any county  or  municipal  corporation
24             that  has  by statute, ordinance, or court order the
25             responsibility for the care, control, or supervision
26             of pretrial or sentenced persons in a penal system;
27                  (ii)  a contractual employee of a penal  system
28             as  defined  in paragraph (g)(2) of this Section who
29             works in a penal institution as defined  in  Section
30             2-14 of this Code;
31             (4)  "Sexual  conduct" or "sexual penetration" means
32        any act  of  sexual  conduct  or  sexual  penetration  as
33        defined in Section 12-12 of this Code.
34             (5)  "Probation  officer"  means any person employed
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 1        in a probation or court services department as defined in
 2        Section 9b of the Probation and Probation Officers Act.
 3             (6)  "Supervising officer" means any person employed
 4        to  supervise  persons  placed  on  parole  or  mandatory
 5        supervised release with the duties described  in  Section
 6        3-14-2 of the Unified Code of Corrections.
 7        Section  99.  Effective  date. This Act takes effect upon
 8    becoming law.

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