Senate Sponsors: SILVERSTEIN AND HALVORSON. House Sponsors: SCHOENBERG-FRANKS-OSTERMAN-MAY Short description: CRIM CD-STLKNG-ELECTRNC MEANS Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of cyberstalking. Provides that it is unlawful to knowingly and without legal justification on at least 2 separate occasions harass another person through the use of electronic communication and transmit a threat of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint to the person or the person's family member or place a person or the person's family member in reasonable apprehension of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint. Provides that the penalty for a first offense is a Class 4 felony and for a second or subsequent offense is a Class 3 felony. Effective immediately. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Further amends the Criminal Code of 1961 concerning the offense of cyberstalking. Provides that the term "harass" means to engage in a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that alarms, torments, or terrorizes (instead of alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes) that person. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0199 Last action date: AUG-01-2001 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 0 SENATE - 1 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status