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Full Text of HB1979 95th General Assembly

HB1979sam003 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Sen. Matt Murphy
Filed: 5/31/2007

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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1979
2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1979 on page 1, by
3 replacing lines 4 and 5 with the following:
4     "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
5 changing Section 32-5 and by adding Section 10-5.1 as
6 follows:"; and

7 on page 5, by inserting immediately below line 17 the
8 following:

9     "(720 ILCS 5/32-5)  (from Ch. 38, par. 32-5)
10     Sec. 32-5. False personation of attorney, judicial, or
11 governmental officials.
12     (a) A person who falsely represents himself or herself to
13 be an attorney authorized to practice law for purposes of
14 compensation or consideration commits a Class 4 felony. This
15 subsection (a) does not apply to a person who unintentionally
16 fails to pay attorney registration fees established by Supreme

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1 Court Rule.
2     (b) A person who falsely represents himself or herself to
3 be a public officer or a public employee or an official or
4 employee of the federal government commits a Class B
5 misdemeanor.
6     (c) A person who falsely represents himself or herself to
7 be a public officer or a public employee commits a Class 4
8 felony if that false representation was for the purpose of
9 effectuating identity theft as defined in Section 16G-15 of
10 this Code.
11 (Source: P.A. 94-985, eff. 1-1-07.)".

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