HB2641eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB2641 Engrossed LRB096 10526 RLC 20698 b

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

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

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing Section 11-26 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/11-26)

Sec. 11-26. Traveling to meet a minor.

(a) A person commits the offense of traveling to meet a minor when he or she travels any distance either within this State, to this State, or from this State by any means, attempts to do so, or causes another to do so or attempt to do so for the purpose of engaging in any sex offense as defined in Section 2 of the Sex Offender Registration Act, or for the purpose of engaging in any illegal act described in Section 12-4.3, 12-16.2, or 33D-1 of this Code or to otherwise engage in other unlawful sexual conduct with a child 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 seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or to attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child guardian, or another person believed by the person to be a child or a child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child to consent to the participation of such child in any sex offense or other illegal act specified in this subsection (a) or a child's guardian, for such purpose.

(b) Sentence. Traveling to meet a minor is a Class 3 felony.

(c) In this Section:

"Child" means a person under 18 years of age.

"Computer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 16D-2 of this Code.

"Internet" means the global information system that is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP), or its subsequent extensions, and that is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its subsequent extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols, and that provides, uses, or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure.

(Source: P.A. 95-901, eff. 1-1-09.)