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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB1605 Introduced 2/1/2023, by Rep. Maura Hirschauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Gender Violence Act. Provides that "gender-related violence" means, among other meanings, contact between a sexual organ from which a condom has been removed and the intimate part of another who did not verbally consent to the condom being removed and contact between an intimate part of the person and a sexual organ of another from which the person removed a condom without verbal consent.
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| | HB1605 | | LRB103 27227 LNS 53597 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil 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 Gender Violence Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (740 ILCS 82/5)
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| 7 | | Sec. 5. Definition. In this Act,
"gender-related |
| 8 | | violence", which is a form of sex
discrimination, means the |
| 9 | | following:
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| 10 | | (1) One or more acts of violence or physical
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| 11 | | aggression satisfying the elements of battery under the
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| 12 | | laws of Illinois that are committed, at least in part, on
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| 13 | | the basis of a person's sex,
whether or not those acts have |
| 14 | | resulted in
criminal
charges, prosecution, or conviction.
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| 15 | | (2) A physical intrusion or physical invasion of a
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| 16 | | sexual nature under coercive conditions satisfying the
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| 17 | | elements of battery under the laws of Illinois, whether
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| 18 | | not the act or acts resulted in criminal charges,
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| 19 | | prosecution, or conviction. |
| 20 | | (2.1) Contact between a sexual organ from which a |
| 21 | | condom has been removed and the intimate part of another |
| 22 | | who did not verbally consent to the condom being removed. |
| 23 | | (2.2) Contact between an intimate part of the person |