HB1605 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB1605

Introduced 2/1/2023, by Rep. Maura Hirschauer

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

740 ILCS 82/5

Amends the Gender Violence Act. Provides that "gender-related violence" means, among other meanings, contact between a sexual organ from which a condom has been removed and the intimate part of another who did not verbally consent to the condom being removed and contact between an intimate part of the person and a sexual organ of another from which the person removed a condom without verbal consent.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Gender Violence Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(740 ILCS 82/5)

Sec. 5. Definition. In this Act, "gender-related violence", which is a form of sex discrimination, means the following:

(1) One or more acts of violence or physical aggression satisfying the elements of battery under the laws of Illinois that are committed, at least in part, on the basis of a person's sex, whether or not those acts have resulted in criminal charges, prosecution, or conviction.

(2) A physical intrusion or physical invasion of a sexual nature under coercive conditions satisfying the elements of battery under the laws of Illinois, whether or not the act or acts resulted in criminal charges, prosecution, or conviction.

(2.1) Contact between a sexual organ from which a condom has been removed and the intimate part of another who did not verbally consent to the condom being removed.

(2.2) Contact between an intimate part of the person and a sexual organ of another from which the person removed a condom without verbal consent.

(3) A threat of an act described in item (1), or (2), (2.1), or (2.2) causing a realistic apprehension that the originator of the threat will commit the act.

(Source: P.A. 93-416, eff. 1-1-04.)