95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1076


 
Introduced 2/8/2007, by Rep. Sara Feigenholtz - Robert S. Molaro
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		


















720 ILCS 5/11-15.1
  from Ch. 38, par. 11-15.1


720 ILCS 5/11-17.1
  from Ch. 38, par. 11-17.1


720 ILCS 5/11-19.1
  from Ch. 38, par. 11-19.1







    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961.  Provides that in the offenses of soliciting for a juvenile prostitute, keeping a place of juvenile prostitution, and juvenile pimping the prostitute must be under 17 years of age (rather than under 16 years of age).
















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    AN ACT concerning criminal law.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended  by changing 
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Sections 11-15.1, 11-17.1, and 11-19.1 as follows:
 



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    (720 ILCS 5/11-15.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 11-15.1)



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    Sec. 11-15.1. Soliciting for a Juvenile Prostitute. 

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    (a) Any person who
violates any of the provisions of 
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Section 11-15(a) of this Act commits
soliciting for a juvenile 
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prostitute where the prostitute for whom such
person is 
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soliciting is under 17
16 years of age or is a
severely or 
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profoundly mentally retarded person.

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    (b) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of soliciting 
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for a
juvenile prostitute that the accused reasonably believed 
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the person was of
the age of 17
16 years or over or was not a 
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severely
or
profoundly mentally retarded person at the time of 
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the act giving rise to the
charge.

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    (c) Sentence.

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    Soliciting for a juvenile prostitute is a Class 1 felony.

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(Source: P.A. 92-434, eff. 1-1-02.)

 



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    (720 ILCS 5/11-17.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 11-17.1)



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    Sec. 11-17.1. Keeping a Place of Juvenile Prostitution. 

 


 






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    (a) Any
person who knowingly violates any of the provisions 
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of Section 11-17 of
this Act commits keeping a place of 
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juvenile prostitution when any
prostitute in the place of 
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prostitution is under 17
16 years of age.

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    (b) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of keeping a 
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place of juvenile
prostitution that the accused reasonably 
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believed the person was of the age
of 17
16 years or over at the 
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time of the act giving rise to the charge.

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    (c) Sentence.  Keeping a place of juvenile prostitution is a 
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Class 1
felony.  A person convicted of a second or subsequent 
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violation of this
Section is guilty of a Class X felony.

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    (d) Forfeiture.  Any person convicted under this Section is 
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subject to
the forfeiture provisions of Section 11-20.1A of 
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this Act.

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(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

 



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    (720 ILCS 5/11-19.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 11-19.1)



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    Sec. 11-19.1. Juvenile Pimping and aggravated juvenile 
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pimping. 

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    (a) A person commits the offense of juvenile pimping if the 
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person knowingly receives any form of consideration derived 
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from the practice of prostitution, in whole or in part, and
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        (1) the prostitute was under the age of 17
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    time the act of prostitution occurred; or
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        (2) the prostitute was a severely or profoundly 
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    mentally retarded person at the time the act of 
 


 






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    prostitution occurred.

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    (b) A person commits the offense of aggravated juvenile 
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pimping if the person knowingly receives any form of 
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consideration derived from the practice of prostitution, in 
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whole or in part, and the prostitute was under the age of 13 at 
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the time the act of prostitution occurred.

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    (c) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of juvenile 
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pimping that
the accused reasonably believed the person was of 
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the age of 17
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years or over or was not a severely or 
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profoundly
mentally retarded person at the time of the act 
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giving rise to the charge.

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    (d) Sentence.

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    A person who commits a violation of subsection (a) is 
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guilty of a Class 1 felony. A person who commits a violation of 
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subsection (b) is guilty of a Class X felony.


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(Source: P.A. 92-434, eff. 1-1-02; 93-696, eff. 1-1-05.)