95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB4780

 

Introduced , by Rep. Dennis M. Reboletti

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/11-6.6 new

    Amend the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of traveling to meet a minor. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she travels any distance either within this State, to this State, or from this State by any means, or attempts to do so, or causes another to do so or to attempt to do so, for the purpose of engaging in any illegal sexual act or certain other illegal conduct or to otherwise engage in other unlawful sexual conduct with a child under 18 years of age or with another person believed by the person to be a child after using a computer on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage or transmission to: (1) seduce, solicit, lure, or entice or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child or another person believed by the person to be a child, to engage in any such illegal act or (2) solicit, lure, or entice or attempt to solicit, lure, or entice a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child or a person believed to be a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child to consent to the participation of such child in any such illegal act. Provides that a violation is a Class 4 felony.


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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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding
5 Section 11-6.6 as follows:
 
6     (720 ILCS 5/11-6.6 new)
7     Sec. 11-6.6. Traveling to meet a minor.
8     (a) A person commits the offense of traveling to meet a
9 minor when he or she travels any distance either within this
10 State, to this State, or from this State by any means, or
11 attempts to do so, or causes another to do so or to attempt to
12 do so, for the purpose of engaging in any illegal act described
13 in Article 11 or Section 12-4.3, 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1, 12-15,
14 12-16, 12-16.2, 12-33, or 33D-1 of this Code or to otherwise
15 engage in other unlawful sexual conduct with a child or with
16 another person believed by the person to be a child after using
17 a computer on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin
18 board service, or any other device capable of electronic data
19 storage or transmission to:
20         (1) seduce, solicit, lure, or entice or attempt to
21     seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child or another person
22     believed by the person to be a child, to engage in any
23     illegal act described in Article 11 or Section 12-4.3,

 

 

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1     12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1, 12-15, 12-16, 12-16.2, 12-33, or
2     33D-1 of this Code, or to otherwise engage in other
3     unlawful sexual conduct with a child; or
4         (2) solicit, lure, or entice or attempt to solicit,
5     lure, or entice a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a
6     child or a person believed to be a parent, legal guardian,
7     or custodian of a child to consent to the participation of
8     such child in any act described in Article 11 or Section
9     12-4.3, 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1, 12-15, 12-16, 12-16.2,
10     12-33, or 33D-1 of this Code, or to otherwise engage in any
11     sexual conduct.
12     (b) Sentence. Traveling to meet a child is a Class 4
13 felony.
14     (c) In this Section:
15         "Child" means a person under 18 years of age.
16         "Computer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
17     16D-2 of this Code.
18         "Internet" means the global information system that is
19     logically linked together by a globally unique address
20     space based on the Internet Protocol (IP), or its
21     subsequent extensions, and that is able to support
22     communications using the Transmission Control
23     Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its
24     subsequent extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols,
25     and that provides, uses, or makes accessible, either
26     publicly or privately, high level services layered on the

 

 

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1     communications and related infrastructure.