SB0064sam002 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Ira I. Silverstein

Filed: 4/8/2011

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 64

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 64, AS AMENDED, by replacing all of subsection (a-7) of Sec. 17-2 of Section 5 with the following:

"(a-7) A person commits a false personation when he or she knowingly and falsely represents himself or herself to be:

(1) another actual person and does an act in such assumed character with intent to intimidate, threaten, injure, defraud, or to obtain a benefit from another; or

(2) a representative of an actual person or organization and does an act in such false capacity with intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another."; and

by inserting after the last line of subsection (d) of Sec. 17-2 of Section 5 the following:

"(e) A violation of this Section may be accomplished in person or by any means of communication, including but not limited to the use of an Internet website or any form of electronic communication."; and

by replacing all of subsection (b-5) of Sec. 32-5 of Section 5 with the following:

"(b-5) The trier of fact may infer that a person falsely represents himself or herself to be a public officer or a public employee or an official or employee of the federal government if the person:

(1) wears or displays without authority any uniform, badge, insignia, or facsimile thereof by which a public officer or public employee or official or employee of the federal government is lawfully distinguished; or

(2) falsely expresses by word or action that he or she is a public officer or public employee or official or employee of the federal government and is acting with approval or authority of a public agency or department.".