103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2934

 

Introduced 1/31/2024, by Sen. Steve Stadelman

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/12C-50

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is not a defense to a prosecution for hazing that the person against whom the hazing was directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing.


LRB103 36888 RLC 67000 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

SB2934LRB103 36888 RLC 67000 b

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
5changing Section 12C-50 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/12C-50)
7    Sec. 12C-50. Hazing.
8    (a) A person commits hazing when he or she knowingly
9requires the performance of any act by a student or other
10person in a school, college, university, or other educational
11institution of this State, for the purpose of induction or
12admission into any group, organization, or society associated
13or connected with that institution, if:
14        (1) the act is not sanctioned or authorized by that
15    educational institution; and
16        (2) the act results in bodily harm to any person.
17    (a-1) It is not a defense to a prosecution under
18subsection (a) that the person against whom the hazing was
19directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing.
20    (b) Sentence. Hazing is a Class A misdemeanor, except that
21hazing that results in death or great bodily harm is a Class 4
22felony.
23(Source: P.A. 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)