101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5635

 

Introduced , by Rep. Joyce Mason

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/11-1.20     was 720 ILCS 5/12-13

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that, in addition to other elements defining the offense, a person commits criminal sexual assault if that person commits an act of sexual penetration and is a physician licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its branches or licensed as a chiropractic physician under that Act and the victim is a patient under the physician or chiropractic physicians's care or to whom the physician or chiropractic physician has access due to his or her practice as a physician or chiropractic physician. Effective January 1, 2021.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
5Section 11-1.20 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/11-1.20)   (was 720 ILCS 5/12-13)
7    Sec. 11-1.20. Criminal sexual assault.
8    (a) A person commits criminal sexual assault if that person
9commits an act of sexual penetration and:
10        (1) uses force or threat of force;
11        (2) knows that the victim is unable to understand the
12    nature of the act or is unable to give knowing consent;
13        (3) is a family member of the victim, and the victim is
14    under 18 years of age; or
15        (4) is 17 years of age or over and holds a position of
16    trust, authority, or supervision in relation to the victim,
17    and the victim is at least 13 years of age but under 18
18    years of age; or
19        (5) is a physician licensed under the Medical Practice
20    Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its branches or
21    licensed as a chiropractic physician under that Act and the
22    victim is a patient under the physician or chiropractic
23    physicians's care or to whom the physician or chiropractic

 

 

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1    physician has access due to his or her practice as a
2    physician or chiropractic physician.
3    (b) Sentence.
4        (1) Criminal sexual assault is a Class 1 felony, except
5    that:
6            (A) A person who is convicted of the offense of
7        criminal sexual assault as defined in paragraph (a)(1)
8        or (a)(2) after having previously been convicted of the
9        offense of criminal sexual assault or the offense of
10        exploitation of a child, or who is convicted of the
11        offense of criminal sexual assault as defined in
12        paragraph (a)(1) or (a)(2) after having previously
13        been convicted under the laws of this State or any
14        other state of an offense that is substantially
15        equivalent to the offense of criminal sexual assault or
16        to the offense of exploitation of a child, commits a
17        Class X felony for which the person shall be sentenced
18        to a term of imprisonment of not less than 30 years and
19        not more than 60 years, except that if the person is
20        under the age of 18 years at the time of the offense,
21        he or she shall be sentenced under Section 5-4.5-105 of
22        the Unified Code of Corrections. The commission of the
23        second or subsequent offense is required to have been
24        after the initial conviction for this paragraph (A) to
25        apply.
26            (B) A person who has attained the age of 18 years

 

 

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1        at the time of the commission of the offense and who is
2        convicted of the offense of criminal sexual assault as
3        defined in paragraph (a)(1) or (a)(2) after having
4        previously been convicted of the offense of aggravated
5        criminal sexual assault or the offense of predatory
6        criminal sexual assault of a child, or who is convicted
7        of the offense of criminal sexual assault as defined in
8        paragraph (a)(1) or (a)(2) after having previously
9        been convicted under the laws of this State or any
10        other state of an offense that is substantially
11        equivalent to the offense of aggravated criminal
12        sexual assault or the offense of predatory criminal
13        sexual assault of a child shall be sentenced to a term
14        of natural life imprisonment. The commission of the
15        second or subsequent offense is required to have been
16        after the initial conviction for this paragraph (B) to
17        apply. An offender under the age of 18 years at the
18        time of the commission of the offense covered by this
19        subparagraph (B) shall be sentenced under Section
20        5-4.5-105 of the Unified Code of Corrections.
21            (C) A second or subsequent conviction for a
22        violation of paragraph (a)(3), or (a)(4), or (a)(5) or
23        under any similar statute of this State or any other
24        state for any offense involving criminal sexual
25        assault that is substantially equivalent to or more
26        serious than the sexual assault prohibited under

 

 

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1        paragraph (a)(3), or (a)(4), or (a)(5) is a Class X
2        felony.
3(Source: P.A. 99-69, eff. 1-1-16.)
 
4    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
51, 2021.