Full Text of HB2769 95th General Assembly
HB2769 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB2769
Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Robert S. Molaro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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730 ILCS 150/10 |
from Ch. 38, par. 230 |
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Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning penalties.
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A BILL FOR
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LRB095 07991 RLC 28153 b |
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Sex Offender Registration Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 10 as follows:
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| (730 ILCS 150/10) (from Ch. 38, par. 230)
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| Sec. 10. Penalty.
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| (a) Any person who is required to register under this
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| Article who violates any of the
the provisions of this Article | 10 |
| and any person
who is required to register under this Article | 11 |
| who seeks to change his or her
name under Article 21 of the | 12 |
| Code of Civil Procedure is guilty of a Class 3
felony.
Any | 13 |
| person who is convicted for a violation of this Act for a | 14 |
| second or subsequent time is guilty of a Class 2 felony. Any | 15 |
| person who is required to register under this Article who
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| knowingly or wilfully gives material information required by | 17 |
| this Article that
is false is guilty of a Class 3 felony.
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| person convicted of a violation of any provision of this | 19 |
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shall, in addition to any other penalty required by | 20 |
| law, be required to serve a
minimum period of 7 days | 21 |
| confinement in the local county jail. The court shall
impose a | 22 |
| mandatory minimum fine of $500 for failure to comply with any
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| provision of this Article. These fines shall be deposited in |
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| the Sex Offender
Registration Fund. Any sex offender, as | 2 |
| defined in Section 2 of this Act,
or sexual predator who | 3 |
| violates any
provision of this Article may be arrested and
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| tried in any Illinois county where the sex
offender can be | 5 |
| located. The local police department or sheriff's office is not | 6 |
| required to determine whether the person is living within its | 7 |
| jurisdiction.
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| (b) Any person, not covered by privilege under Part 8 of | 9 |
| Article VIII of the Code of Civil Procedure or the Illinois | 10 |
| Supreme Court's Rules of Professional Conduct, who has reason | 11 |
| to believe that a sexual predator is not complying, or has not | 12 |
| complied, with the requirements of this Article and who, with | 13 |
| the intent to assist the sexual predator in eluding a law | 14 |
| enforcement agency that is seeking to find the sexual predator | 15 |
| to question the sexual predator about, or to arrest the sexual | 16 |
| predator for, his or her noncompliance with the requirements of | 17 |
| this Article is guilty of a Class 3 felony if he or she: | 18 |
| (1) provides false information to the law enforcement | 19 |
| agency having jurisdiction about the sexual predator's | 20 |
| noncompliance with the requirements of this Article, and, | 21 |
| if known, the whereabouts of the sexual predator; | 22 |
| (2) harbors, or attempts to harbor, or assists another | 23 |
| person in harboring or attempting to harbor, the sexual | 24 |
| predator; or | 25 |
| (3) conceals or attempts to conceal, or assists another | 26 |
| person in concealing or attempting to conceal, the sexual |
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| predator. | 2 |
| (c) Subsection (b) does not apply if the sexual predator is | 3 |
| incarcerated in or is in the custody of a State correctional | 4 |
| facility, a private correctional facility, a county or | 5 |
| municipal jail, a State mental health facility or a State | 6 |
| treatment and detention facility, or a federal correctional | 7 |
| facility.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-979, eff. 8-20-04; 94-168, eff. 1-1-06; | 9 |
| 94-988, eff. 1-1-07.)
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