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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB3395 Introduced 2/18/2025, by Rep. Bradley Fritts SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that grooming includes engaging in inappropriate in-person intimate behavior with a child under 17 years of age, which may include isolating interactions, gift giving, or crossing physical boundaries. |
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| | HB3395 | | LRB104 11027 RLC 21109 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 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 |
| 9 | | uses a computer on-line service, Internet service, local |
| 10 | | bulletin board service, or any other device capable of |
| 11 | | electronic data storage or transmission, performs an act in |
| 12 | | person or by conduct through a third party, or uses written |
| 13 | | communication to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or attempt |
| 14 | | to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child, a child's |
| 15 | | guardian, or another person believed by the person to be a |
| 16 | | child or a child's guardian, to commit any sex offense as |
| 17 | | defined in Section 2 of the Sex Offender Registration Act, to |
| 18 | | distribute photographs depicting the sex organs of the child, |
| 19 | | or to otherwise engage in any unlawful sexual conduct with a |
| 20 | | child or with another person believed by the person to be a |
| 21 | | child or engages in inappropriate in-person intimate behavior |
| 22 | | with a child, which may include isolating interactions, gift |
| 23 | | giving, or crossing physical boundaries. As used in this |