093_HB1350
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1 AN ACT in relation to criminal law.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
5 changing Section 12-6.1 as follows:
6 (720 ILCS 5/12-6.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-6.1)
7 Sec. 12-6.1. Compelling organization membership of
8 persons.
9 (a) A person who expressly or impliedly threatens to do
10 bodily harm or does bodily harm to an individual or to that
11 individual's family or uses any other criminally unlawful
12 means to solicit or cause any person to join, or deter any
13 person from leaving, any organization or association
14 regardless of the nature of such organization or association,
15 is guilty of a Class 2 felony.
16 Any person of the age of 18 years or older who expressly
17 or impliedly threatens to do bodily harm or does bodily harm
18 to a person under 18 years of age or uses any other
19 criminally unlawful means to solicit or cause any person
20 under 18 years of age to join, or deter any person under 18
21 years of age from leaving, any organization or association
22 regardless of the nature of such organization or association
23 is guilty of a Class 1 felony.
24 (b) Compelling organization membership of persons within
25 a school, on the real property comprising a school, or in a
26 conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a school to
27 transport students to or from school or a school related
28 activity is a Class 1 felony if the defendant is under 18
29 years of age at the time of the offense and a Class X felony
30 if the defendant is 18 years of age or older at the time of
31 the commission of the offense.
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1 (c) A person convicted of an offense under this Section
2 shall not be eligible to receive a sentence of probation,
3 conditional discharge, or periodic imprisonment.
4 (d) In this Section, "school" means a public or private
5 elementary or secondary school, community college, college,
6 or university.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-696, eff. 4-13-00.)