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| | HB0755 Engrossed | | LRB100 07355 RLC 17419 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,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 11-25 as follows:
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| 6 | | (720 ILCS 5/11-25) |
| 7 | | Sec. 11-25. Grooming. |
| 8 | | (a) A person commits grooming when he or she knowingly in |
| 9 | | person or by use of uses a computer on-line service, Internet |
| 10 | | service, local bulletin board service, or any other device |
| 11 | | capable of electronic data storage or transmission, seduces, |
| 12 | | solicits, lures, or entices, or attempts to seduce, solicit, |
| 13 | | lure, or entice, or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or |
| 14 | | entice, a child, a child's guardian, or another person believed |
| 15 | | by the person to be a child or a child's guardian, to commit |
| 16 | | any sex offense as defined in Section 2 of the Sex Offender |
| 17 | | Registration Act, to distribute photographs depicting the sex |
| 18 | | organs of the child, or to otherwise engage in any unlawful |
| 19 | | sexual conduct with a child or with another person believed by |
| 20 | | the person to be a child. |
| 21 | | (b) Sentence. Grooming is a Class 4 felony.
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| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 98-919, eff. 1-1-15.)
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