98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB1443

 

Introduced , by Rep. Martin J Moylan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/12C-50

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person employed by a school, college, university, or other educational institution of the State whose duties include reporting criminal conduct committed in the school, college, university, or other educational institution of the State or on school or educational institution grounds commits hazing when he or she fails to report to law enforcement authorities any hazing reported to school or educational institution authorities by others or of which school or educational institution authorities otherwise have knowledge. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
5Section 12C-50 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/12C-50)
7    Sec. 12C-50. Hazing.
8    (a) A person commits hazing when he or she knowingly
9requires the performance of any act by a student or other
10person in a school, college, university, or other educational
11institution of this State, for the purpose of induction or
12admission into any group, organization, or society associated
13or connected with that institution, if:
14        (1) the act is not sanctioned or authorized by that
15    educational institution; and
16        (2) the act results in bodily harm to any person.
17    (a-5) A person employed by a school, college, university,
18or other educational institution of this State whose duties
19include reporting criminal conduct committed in the school,
20college, university, or other educational institution of this
21State or on school or educational institution grounds commits
22hazing when he or she fails to report to law enforcement
23authorities any hazing reported to school or educational

 

 

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1institution authorities by others or of which school or
2educational institution authorities otherwise have knowledge.
3    (b) Sentence. Hazing under subsection (a) of this Section
4is a Class A misdemeanor, except that hazing that results in
5death or great bodily harm is a Class 4 felony. Hazing under
6subsection (a-5) of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor.
7(Source: P.A. 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)
 
8    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9becoming law.