Full Text of SB1491 94th General Assembly
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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 | 5 |
| Section 17-6 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/17-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 17-6)
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| Sec. 17-6. State Benefits Fraud. (a) Any person who obtains | 8 |
| or attempts
to obtain money or benefits from the State of | 9 |
| Illinois, from any political
subdivision thereof, or from any | 10 |
| program funded or administered in whole
or in part by the State | 11 |
| of Illinois or any political subdivision thereof
through the | 12 |
| knowing use of false identification documents or through the
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| knowing misrepresentation of his age, place of residence, | 14 |
| number of dependents,
marital or family status, employment | 15 |
| status, financial status, or any other
material fact upon which | 16 |
| his eligibility for or degree of participation
in any benefit | 17 |
| program might be based, is guilty of State benefits fraud.
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| (b) Notwithstanding any provision of State law to the | 19 |
| contrary, every
application or other document submitted to an | 20 |
| agency or department of the
State of Illinois or any political | 21 |
| subdivision thereof to establish or determine
eligibility for | 22 |
| money or benefits from the State of Illinois or from any
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| political subdivision thereof, or from any program funded or | 24 |
| administered
in whole or in part by the State of Illinois or | 25 |
| any political subdivision
thereof, shall be made available upon | 26 |
| request to any law enforcement agency
for use in the | 27 |
| investigation or prosecution of State benefits fraud or for
use | 28 |
| in the investigation or prosecution of any other crime arising | 29 |
| out of
the same transaction or occurrence. Except as otherwise | 30 |
| permitted by law,
information disclosed pursuant to this | 31 |
| subsection shall be used and disclosed
only for the purposes | 32 |
| provided herein. The provisions of this Section shall
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| operative only to the extent that they do not conflict with any | 2 |
| federal
law or regulation governing federal grants to this | 3 |
| State.
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| (c) Any employee of the State of Illinois or any agency or | 5 |
| political subdivision
thereof may seize as evidence any false | 6 |
| or fraudulent document presented
to him in connection with an | 7 |
| application for or receipt of money or benefits
from the State | 8 |
| of Illinois, from any political subdivision thereof, or from
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| any program funded or administered in whole or in part by the | 10 |
| State of Illinois
or any political subdivision thereof.
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| (d) (1) State benefits fraud is a Class 4 felony except | 12 |
| when more than $300
is obtained, in which case State benefits | 13 |
| fraud is a Class 3 felony. | 14 |
| (2) State benefits fraud is a Class 3 felony when $300 or | 15 |
| less is obtained and a Class 2 felony when more than $300 is | 16 |
| obtained if a person knowingly misrepresents oneself as a | 17 |
| veteran or as a dependent of a veteran with the intent of | 18 |
| obtaining benefits or privileges provided by the State or its | 19 |
| political subdivisions to veterans or their dependents. For the | 20 |
| purposes of this paragraph (2), benefits and privileges | 21 |
| include, but are not limited to, those benefits and privileges | 22 |
| available under the Veterans' Employment Act, the Viet Nam | 23 |
| Veterans Compensation Act, the Prisoner of War Bonus Act, the | 24 |
| War Bonus Extension Act, the Military Veterans Assistance Act, | 25 |
| the Veterans' Employment Representative Act, the Veterans | 26 |
| Preference Act, the Service Member's Employment Tenure Act, the | 27 |
| Disabled Veterans Housing Act, the Under Age Veterans Benefits | 28 |
| Act, the Survivors Compensation Act, the Children of Deceased | 29 |
| Veterans Act, the Veterans Burial Places Act, the Higher | 30 |
| Education Student Assistance Act, or any other loans, | 31 |
| assistance in employment, monetary payments, or tax exemptions | 32 |
| offered by the State or its political subdivisions for veterans | 33 |
| or their dependents.
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| (Source: P.A. 82-999.)
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