102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1742

 

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Maura Hirschauer - Deb Conroy

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
740 ILCS 22/201

    Amends the Civil No Contact Order Act. Provides that any family or household member of a victim of non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration may file a petition for a civil no contact order.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Civil No Contact Order Act is amended by
5changing Section 201 as follows:
 
6    (740 ILCS 22/201)
7    Sec. 201. Persons protected by this Act.
8    (a) The following persons are protected by this Act:
9        (1) any victim of non-consensual sexual conduct or
10    non-consensual sexual penetration on whose behalf the
11    petition is brought;
12        (2) any family or household member of the named
13    victim; and
14        (3) any employee of or volunteer at a rape crisis
15    center that is providing services to the petitioner or the
16    petitioner's family or household member.
17    (b) A petition for a civil no contact order may be filed:
18        (1) by any person who is a victim of non-consensual
19    sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration,
20    including a single incident of non-consensual sexual
21    conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration; or
22        (2) by a person on behalf of a minor child or an adult
23    who is a victim of non-consensual sexual conduct or

 

 

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1    non-consensual sexual penetration but, because of age,
2    disability, health, or inaccessibility, cannot file the
3    petition; or
4        (3) by any family or household member of a victim of
5    non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual
6    penetration.
7(Source: P.A. 96-311, eff. 1-1-10.)