HB6221 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 19436 RLC 34828 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB6221

Introduced 2/11/2010, by Rep. LaShawn K. Ford

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/17-30 new

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of paternity fraud. Provides that a person commits the offense by knowingly alleging that a person is the biological father of a child when that person knows that the allegation is false and may result in the person alleged to be the biological father of the child being erroneously adjudicated as the father of the child. Provides that the penalty is a Class A misdemeanor.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT in relation to 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 adding Section 17-30 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/17-30 new)

Sec. 17-30. Paternity fraud.

(a) A person commits the offense of paternity fraud when:

(1) he or she knowingly alleges that a person is the biological father of a child; and

(2) he or she knows, at the time that he or she makes the allegation, that the allegation: (A) is false and (B) may result in the person alleged to be the biological father of a child being erroneously adjudicated as the father of the child.

(b) Sentence. Paternity fraud is a Class A misdemeanor.