Full Text of HB0277 97th General Assembly
HB0277eng 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning sex offenders.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Sex Offender Registration Act is amended by | 5 | | adding Section 10.1 as follows: | 6 | | (730 ILCS 150/10.1 new) | 7 | | Sec. 10.1. Harassment of victims. | 8 | | (a) Any person who is required to register or who has been | 9 | | previously required to register under this
Act who harasses a | 10 | | victim or family member of the victim of the offense for which | 11 | | the sex offender is required to register under this Act is | 12 | | guilty of a Class 3
felony. | 13 | | (b) For the purposes of this Section: | 14 | | "Harass" means to engage in a knowing and willful | 15 | | course of conduct directed at the victim
that alarms, | 16 | | torments, or terrorizes that victim. | 17 | | "Course of conduct" means 2 or more acts, including but | 18 | | not limited to acts in which the sex offender directly, | 19 | | indirectly, or through third parties, by any action, | 20 | | method, device, or means follows, monitors, observes, | 21 | | surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about, the | 22 | | victim, engages in other non-consensual contact, or | 23 | | interferes with or damages the victim's property or pet. |
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| 1 | | "Family member" means a spouse, parent,
grandparent, | 2 | | brother, sister, or child, whether by whole blood, | 3 | | half-blood, or
adoption and includes a step-grandparent, | 4 | | step-parent, step-brother,
step-sister or step-child. | 5 | | "Family member" also means any other person who
regularly | 6 | | resides in the household, or who, within the prior 6 | 7 | | months,
regularly resided in the household.
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