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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2934 Introduced 1/31/2024, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is not a defense to a prosecution for hazing that the person against whom the hazing was directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing. |
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| | SB2934 | | LRB103 36888 RLC 67000 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 12C-50 as follows:
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| 6 | | (720 ILCS 5/12C-50) |
| 7 | | Sec. 12C-50. Hazing. |
| 8 | | (a) A person commits hazing when he or she knowingly |
| 9 | | requires the performance of any act by a student or other |
| 10 | | person in a school, college, university, or other educational |
| 11 | | institution of this State, for the purpose of induction or |
| 12 | | admission into any group, organization, or society associated |
| 13 | | or connected with that institution, if: |
| 14 | | (1) the act is not sanctioned or authorized by that |
| 15 | | educational institution; and |
| 16 | | (2) the act results in bodily harm to any person. |
| 17 | | (a-1) It is not a defense to a prosecution under |
| 18 | | subsection (a) that the person against whom the hazing was |
| 19 | | directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing. |
| 20 | | (b) Sentence. Hazing is a Class A misdemeanor, except that |
| 21 | | hazing that results in death or great bodily harm is a Class 4 |
| 22 | | felony. |
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.) |