HB4253ham001 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Kam Buckner

Filed: 3/5/2024

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4253

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4253 by replacing line 17 on page 4 through line 16 on page 5 with the following:

"Section 90. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing Section 12C-50 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/12C-50)

Sec. 12C-50. Hazing.

(a) A person commits hazing when he or she knowingly requires the performance of any act by a student or other person in a school, college, university, or other educational institution of this State, for the purpose of conferring, gaining, or maintaining acceptance, membership, office, or other status in induction or admission into any group, organization, or society associated or connected with that institution, regardless of the student or other person's willingness to perform the act, if:

(1) the act is neither not sanctioned or authorized by that educational institution nor is a customary athletic event; and

(2) the act either (i) subjects any person to a substantial risk of physical harm, mental harm, or degradation or (ii) causes any person to suffer physical harm, mental harm, or degradation results in bodily harm to any person.

(b) Sentence. Hazing is a Class A misdemeanor, except that hazing that results in death or great bodily harm is a Class 4 felony.

(Source: P.A. 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)".