SILVERSTEIN AND HALVORSON. (SCHOENBERG-FRANKS-OSTERMAN-MAY) 720 ILCS 5/12-7.5 new Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of cyberstalking. Provides that it is unlawful to knowingly and without legal justification on at least 2 separate occasions harass another person through the use of electronic communication and transmit a threat of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint to the person or the person's family member or place a person or the person's family member in reasonable apprehension of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint. Provides that the penalty for a first offense is a Class 4 felony and for a second or subsequent offense is a Class 3 felony. Effective immediately. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Further amends the Criminal Code of 1961 concerning the offense of cyberstalking. Provides that the term "harass" means to engage in a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that alarms, torments, or terrorizes (instead of alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes) that person. FEB-20-2001 S FIRST READING FEB-20-2001 S REFERRED TO SENATE RULES COMMITTEE RULES FEB-21-2001 S ASSIGNED TO COMMITTEE JUDICIARY FEB-28-2001 S TO SUBCOMMITTEE MAR-21-2001 S TO SUBCOMMITTEE MAR-21-2001 S COMMITTEE JUDICIARY MAR-30-2001 S DO PASS 011-000-000 SJUD MAR-30-2001 S PLACED ON CALENDAR ORDER OF 2ND READING 01-04-02 APR-02-2001 S FILED WITH SECRETARY APR-02-2001 S AMENDMENT NO. 01-SILVERSTEIN APR-02-2001 S AMENDMENT REFERRED TO SRUL APR-02-2001 S AMENDMENT NO. 01-SILVERSTEIN APR-02-2001 S RULES REFERS TO SJUD APR-03-2001 S AMENDMENT NO. 01-SILVERSTEIN APR-03-2001 S BE APPROVED FOR CONSIDERATION SJUD/009-000-000 APR-03-2001 S SECOND READING APR-03-2001 S AMENDMENT NO. 01-SILVERSTEIN APR-03-2001 S ADOPTED APR-03-2001 S PLACED ON CALENDAR ORDER OF 3RD READING 01-04-04 APR-04-2001 S THIRD READING - PASSED 055-000-000 APR-04-2001 H ARRIVE IN HOUSE APR-04-2001 H HOUSE SPONSOR FRANKS APR-04-2001 H ALTERNATE PRIMARY SPONSOR CHANGED TO SCHOENBERG APR-04-2001 H ADDED AS A JOINT SPONSOR FRANKS APR-04-2001 H PLACED CALENDAR ORDER OF FIRST READING APR-05-2001 H FIRST READING APR-05-2001 H REFERRED TO HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE RULES APR-06-2001 H ASSIGNED TO COMMITTEE JUD-CRIMINAL APR-24-2001 H ADDED AS A JOINT SPONSOR OSTERMAN APR-24-2001 H ADDED AS AN ALTERNATE CO-SPONSOR MAY APR-25-2001 H ADDED AS A JOINT SPONSOR MAY APR-26-2001 H DO PASS/SHORT DEBATE 011-000-000 HJUB APR-26-2001 H PLACED CALENDAR 2ND READING-SHORT DEBATE MAY-02-2001 H SECOND READING-SHORT DEBATE MAY-02-2001 H PLCD CAL ORDER 3RD READING-SHORT DEBATE MAY-08-2001 H THIRD READING/SHORT DEBATE/PASSED 111-000-000 MAY-08-2001 S PASSED BOTH HOUSES JUN-06-2001 S SENT TO THE GOVERNOR AUG-01-2001 S GOVERNOR APPROVED AUG-01-2001 S EFFECTIVE DATE 01-08-01 AUG-01-2001 S PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0199 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Summary