Full Text of HB2641 96th General Assembly
HB2641eng 96TH 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 11-26 as follows: | 6 |
| (720 ILCS 5/11-26) | 7 |
| Sec. 11-26. Traveling to meet a minor. | 8 |
| (a) A person commits the offense of traveling to meet a | 9 |
| minor when he or she travels any distance either within this | 10 |
| State, to this State, or from this State by any means, attempts | 11 |
| to do so, or causes another to do so or attempt to do so for the | 12 |
| purpose of engaging in any sex offense as defined in Section 2 | 13 |
| of the Sex Offender Registration Act, or for the purpose of | 14 |
| engaging in any illegal act described in Section 12-4.3, | 15 |
| 12-16.2, or 33D-1 of this Code or to otherwise engage in other | 16 |
| unlawful sexual conduct with a child or with another person | 17 |
| believed by the person to be a child after using a computer | 18 |
| on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board | 19 |
| service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage | 20 |
| or transmission to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or to | 21 |
| attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a | 22 |
| child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child | 23 |
| 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 | 2 |
| child to consent to the participation of such child in any sex | 3 |
| offense or other illegal act specified in this subsection (a) or | 4 |
| a child's guardian, for such purpose . | 5 |
| (b) Sentence. Traveling to meet a minor is a Class 3 | 6 |
| felony. | 7 |
| (c) In this Section: | 8 |
| "Child" means a person under 18 years of age. | 9 |
| "Computer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section | 10 |
| 16D-2 of this Code. | 11 |
| "Internet" means the global information system that is
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| logically linked together by a globally unique address | 13 |
| space based on
the Internet Protocol (IP), or its | 14 |
| subsequent extensions, and that
is able to support | 15 |
| communications using the Transmission Control
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| Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its | 17 |
| subsequent
extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols, | 18 |
| and that provides,
uses, or makes accessible, either | 19 |
| publicly or privately, high level
services layered on the | 20 |
| communications and related infrastructure.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-901, eff. 1-1-09.)
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