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91_HB0832
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1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
2 Section 11-6.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
6 changing Section 11-6 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 5/11-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 11-6)
8 Sec. 11-6. Indecent solicitation of a child.
9 (a) A person of the age of 17 years and upwards who
10 solicits a child under the age of 16 or a person he or she
11 believes to be a child under the age of 16 13 to do any act,
12 or solicits a person to arrange an act with a child under the
13 age of 16 or a person he or she believes to be a child under
14 the age of 16 13, which if done would be aggravated criminal
15 sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child,
16 criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, or
17 criminal sexual abuse, commits indecent solicitation of a
18 child.
19 (b) It is not shall not be a defense to indecent
20 solicitation of a child that the accused reasonably believed
21 the child was to be of the age of 16 13 years and upwards.
22 It is not a defense to indecent solicitation of a child that
23 the accused reasonably believed the child was of the age of
24 16 years and upwards.
25 (c) Sentence.
26 Indecent solicitation of a child is a Class 4 felony.:
27 (1) a Class A misdemeanor when the act, if done,
28 would be criminal sexual abuse;
29 (2) a Class 4 felony when the act, if done, would
30 be criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual
31 assault, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
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1 (d) For the purposes of this Section, "solicits"
2 includes but is not limited to oral or written communication
3 and communication by telephone, computer, or other electronic
4 means. "Computer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
5 16D-2 of this Code.
6 (Source: P.A. 89-8, eff. 3-21-95; 89-203, eff. 7-21-95;
7 89-428, eff. 12-13-95; 89-462, eff. 5-29-96.)
8 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9 becoming law.