Date	Chamber	Action
1/11/2011	House	Session Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

720 ILCS 5/12-7.6

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of using a hate symbol to intimidate or harass. Provides that a person commits the offense who without written authorization and with the intent to intimidate or harass any other person or group of persons based on religion, national origin, alienage, color, race, sex, sexual orientation, physical disability, or mental disability: (1) hangs or otherwise displays a hangman's noose or a simulation thereof on any public property or private property; (2) etches, paints, draws, or otherwise displays a Nazi swastika, commonly exhibited as the emblem of Nazi Germany or a simulation thereof; or (3) burns or desecrates a cross or other religious symbol knowing it to be a religious symbol on any public property or private property. Provides that a first offense is a Class 3 felony and a second or subsequent offense is a Class 2 felony.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
2/10/2010	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Esther Golar
2/10/2010	House	First Reading
2/10/2010	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2/22/2010	House	Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
3/12/2010	House	Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 007-000-000
3/12/2010	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
3/25/2010	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
3/25/2010	House	Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
3/26/2010	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
1/11/2011	House	Session Sine Die

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