93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6902

 

Introduced 02/09/04, by Chapin Rose

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/11-19.1   from Ch. 38, par. 11-19.1

    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that any person who receives any money, property, token, object, or article or anything of value, derived from whatever source (rather than earned in whole or in part from the practice of prostitution), from a prostitute under 16 years of age or from a prostitute who is a severely or profoundly mentally retarded person, not for lawful consideration, knowing that it was received from a prostitute under 16 years of age or from a prostitute who is a severely or profoundly mentally retarded person commits juvenile pimping. Provides that if the prostitute is under 13 years of age, the penalty for juvenile pimping is a Class X felony.


LRB093 18413 RLC 44121 b

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB6902 LRB093 18413 RLC 44121 b

1     AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
5 Section 11-19.1 as follows:
 
6     (720 ILCS 5/11-19.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 11-19.1)
7     Sec. 11-19.1. Juvenile Pimping.
8     (a) Any person who receives any money, property, token,
9 object, or article or anything of value, derived from whatever
10 source, from a prostitute under 16 years of age or from a
11 prostitute who is a severely or profoundly mentally retarded
12 person, not for a lawful consideration, knowing that the money,
13 property, token, object, or article or anything of value was
14 received from a prostitute under 16 years of age or from a
15 prostitute who is a severely or profoundly mentally retarded
16 person it was earned in whole or in part from the practice of
17 prostitution, commits juvenile pimping.
18     (b) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of juvenile
19 pimping that the accused reasonably believed the person was of
20 the age of 16 years or over or was not a severely or profoundly
21 mentally retarded person at the time of the act giving rise to
22 the charge.
23     (c) Sentence.
24     Juvenile pimping is a Class 1 felony. Juvenile pimping in
25 which the prostitute is under 13 years of age is a Class X
26 felony.
27 (Source: P.A. 91-696, eff. 4-13-00; 92-434, eff. 1-1-02.)