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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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Section 11-26 as follows:
 
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    (720 ILCS 5/11-26)
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    Sec. 11-26. Traveling to meet a minor.
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    (a) A person commits the offense of traveling to meet a 
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minor when he or she travels any distance either within this 
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State, to this State, or from this State by any means, attempts 
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to do so, or causes another to do so or attempt to do so for the 
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purpose of engaging in any sex offense as defined in Section 2 
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of the Sex Offender Registration Act, or for the purpose of 
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engaging in any illegal act described in Section 12-4.3, 
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12-16.2,  or 33D-1 of this Code or to otherwise engage in other 
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unlawful sexual conduct with a child or with another person 
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believed by the person to be a child after using a computer 
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on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board 
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service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage 
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or transmission to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or to 
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attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a 
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child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child 
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guardian, or another person believed by the person to be a 
 


 






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child or a child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a 
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child to consent to the participation of such child in any sex 
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offense or other illegal act specified in this subsection (a) or 
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a child's guardian, for such purpose. 
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    (b) Sentence. Traveling to meet a minor is a Class 3 
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felony.
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    (c)  In this Section:
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        "Child" means a person under 18 years of age.
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        "Computer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 
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    16D-2 of this Code.
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        "Internet" means the global information system that is

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    logically linked together by a globally unique address 
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    space based on
the Internet Protocol (IP), or its 
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    subsequent extensions, and that
is able to support 
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    communications using the Transmission Control

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    Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its 
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    subsequent
extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols, 
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    and that provides,
uses, or makes accessible, either 
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    publicly or privately, high level
services layered on the 
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    communications and related infrastructure. 

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(Source: P.A. 95-901, eff. 1-1-09.)