102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3292

 

Introduced 2/19/2021, by Rep. Joyce Mason

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/1-8  from Ch. 38, par. 1-8
720 ILCS 5/12-39 new
725 ILCS 5/112A-3  from Ch. 38, par. 112A-3
750 ILCS 60/103  from Ch. 40, par. 2311-3

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for a person to knowingly coercively control another person without the other person's consent. Defines "coercive control". Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor and provides for enhancements for multiple violations of the Section and for convictions of previous crimes. Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 and Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Adds a definition of "coercive control" and adds coercive control to the definition of "abuse".


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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
5changing Section 1-8 and by adding Section 12-39 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/1-8)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1-8)
7    Sec. 1-8. Order of protection; status. Whenever relief
8sought under this Code is based on allegations of domestic
9violence, as defined in the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of
101986, or coercive control, as defined in Section 12-39, the
11court, before granting relief, shall determine whether any
12order of protection has previously been entered in the instant
13proceeding or any other proceeding in which any party, or a
14child of any party, or both, if relevant, has been designated
15as either a respondent or a protected person.
16(Source: P.A. 87-743.)
 
17    (720 ILCS 5/12-39 new)
18    Sec. 12-39. Coercive control.
19    (a) As used in this Section, "coercive control" means a
20pattern of threatening, humiliating, or intimidating actions,
21which may include assaults or other abuse, that is used to
22harm, punish, or frighten an individual. "Coercive control"

 

 

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1includes a pattern of behavior that seeks to take away the
2individual's liberty or freedom and strip away the
3individual's sense of self, including bodily integrity and
4human rights, and is designed to make an individual dependent
5through isolation from support, exploitation, deprivation of
6independence, and regulation of everyday behavior, including:
7        (1) Isolating the individual from friends and family.
8        (2) Controlling how much money is accessible to the
9    individual and how it is spent.
10        (3) Monitoring the individual's activities,
11    communications, and movements.
12        (4) Name-calling, degradation, and demeaning the
13    individual frequently.
14        (5) Threatening to harm or kill the individual or a
15    child or relative of the individual.
16        (6) Threatening to publish information or make reports
17    to the police or the authorities.
18        (7) Damaging property or household goods.
19        (8) Forcing the individual to take part in criminal
20    activity or child abuse.
21    "Coercive control" does not include reasonable direction
22of a minor child by a parent or person in loco parentis.
23    (b) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly coercively
24control another person without the other person's consent.
25    (c) A violation of subsection (b) is a Class A
26misdemeanor. A violation of subsection (b) is a Class 4 felony

 

 

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1if the defendant has any prior conviction under this Code for
2violation of an order of protection (Section 12-3.4) or any
3prior conviction under the law of another jurisdiction for an
4offense that is substantially similar. A violation of
5subsection (b) is a Class 4 felony if the defendant has any
6prior conviction under this Code for first degree murder
7(Section 9-1), attempt to commit first degree murder (Section
88-4), aggravated domestic battery (Section 12-3.3), aggravated
9battery (Section 12-3.05), heinous battery (subdivision (a)(2)
10of Section 12-3.05), aggravated battery with a firearm
11(subdivision (e)(1), (e)(2), (e)(3), or (e)(4) of Section
1212-3.05), aggravated battery with a machine gun or a firearm
13equipped with a silencer (subdivision (e)(5), (e)(6), (e)(7),
14or (e)(8) of Section 12-3.05), aggravated battery of a child
15(subdivision (b)(1) of Section 12-3.05), aggravated battery of
16an unborn child (subsection (a-5) of Section 12-3.1),
17aggravated battery of a senior citizen (subdivision (a)(4) of
18Section 12-3.05), stalking (Section 12-7.3), aggravated
19stalking (Section 12-7.4), criminal sexual assault (Section
2011-1.20), aggravated criminal sexual assault (Section
2111-1.30), kidnapping (Section 10-1), aggravated kidnapping
22(Section 10-2), predatory criminal sexual assault of a child
23(Section 11-1.40), aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Section
2411-1.60), unlawful restraint (Section 10-3), aggravated
25unlawful restraint (Section 10-3.1), aggravated arson (Section
2620-1.1), or aggravated discharge of a firearm (Section

 

 

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124-1.2), or any prior conviction under the law of another
2jurisdiction for any offense that is substantially similar to
3the offenses listed in this Section, when any of these
4offenses have been committed against a family or household
5member. A violation of subsection (b) is a Class 4 felony if
6the defendant has one or 2 prior convictions under this Code
7for a violation of subsection (b), or one or 2 prior
8convictions under the law of another jurisdiction for any
9offense which is substantially similar. A violation of
10subsection (b) is a Class 3 felony if the defendant had 3 prior
11convictions under this Code for coercively controlling another
12person under subsection (b), or 3 prior convictions under the
13law of another jurisdiction for any offense which is
14substantially similar. A violation of subsection (b) is a
15Class 2 felony if the defendant had 4 or more prior convictions
16under this Code for coercively controlling another person
17under subsection (b), or 4 or more prior convictions under the
18law of another jurisdiction for any offense that is
19substantially similar. In addition to any other sentencing
20alternatives, for any second or subsequent conviction of
21violating this Section, the offender shall be mandatorily
22sentenced to a minimum of 72 consecutive hours of
23imprisonment. The imprisonment shall not be subject to
24suspension, nor shall the person be eligible for probation in
25order to reduce the sentence.
 

 

 

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1    Section 10. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
2amended by changing Section 112A-3 as follows:
 
3    (725 ILCS 5/112A-3)  (from Ch. 38, par. 112A-3)
4    Sec. 112A-3. Definitions.
5    (a) In this Article:
6    "Advocate" means a person whose communications with the
7victim are privileged under Section 8-802.1 or 8-802.2 of the
8Code of Civil Procedure or Section 227 of the Illinois
9Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
10    "Named victim" means the person named as the victim in the
11delinquency petition or criminal prosecution.
12    "Protective order" means a domestic violence order of
13protection, a civil no contact order, or a stalking no contact
14order.
15    (b) For the purposes of domestic violence cases, the
16following terms shall have the following meanings in this
17Article:
18        (1) "Abuse" means physical abuse, harassment,
19    intimidation of a dependent, interference with personal
20    liberty or willful deprivation, or coercive control, but
21    does not include reasonable direction of a minor child by
22    a parent or person in loco parentis.
23        (2) "Domestic violence" means abuse as described in
24    paragraph (1) of this subsection (b).
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1    former spouses, parents, children, stepchildren, and other
2    persons related by blood or by present or prior marriage,
3    persons who share or formerly shared a common dwelling,
4    persons who have or allegedly have a child in common,
5    persons who share or allegedly share a blood relationship
6    through a child, persons who have or have had a dating or
7    engagement relationship, persons with disabilities and
8    their personal assistants, and caregivers as defined in
9    subsection (e) of Section 12-4.4a of the Criminal Code of
10    2012. For purposes of this paragraph (3), neither a casual
11    acquaintanceship nor ordinary fraternization between 2
12    individuals in business or social contexts shall be deemed
13    to constitute a dating relationship.
14        (4) "Harassment" means knowing conduct which is not
15    necessary to accomplish a purpose which is reasonable
16    under the circumstances; would cause a reasonable person
17    emotional distress; and does cause emotional distress to
18    the petitioner. Unless the presumption is rebutted by a
19    preponderance of the evidence, the following types of
20    conduct shall be presumed to cause emotional distress:
21            (i) creating a disturbance at petitioner's place
22        of employment or school;
23            (ii) repeatedly telephoning petitioner's place of
24        employment, home or residence;
25            (iii) repeatedly following petitioner about in a
26        public place or places;

 

 

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1            (iv) repeatedly keeping petitioner under
2        surveillance by remaining present outside his or her
3        home, school, place of employment, vehicle or other
4        place occupied by petitioner or by peering in
5        petitioner's windows;
6            (v) improperly concealing a minor child from
7        petitioner, repeatedly threatening to improperly
8        remove a minor child of petitioner's from the
9        jurisdiction or from the physical care of petitioner,
10        repeatedly threatening to conceal a minor child from
11        petitioner, or making a single such threat following
12        an actual or attempted improper removal or
13        concealment, unless respondent was fleeing from an
14        incident or pattern of domestic violence; or
15            (vi) threatening physical force, confinement or
16        restraint on one or more occasions.
17        (5) "Interference with personal liberty" means
18    committing or threatening physical abuse, harassment,
19    intimidation or willful deprivation so as to compel
20    another to engage in conduct from which she or he has a
21    right to abstain or to refrain from conduct in which she or
22    he has a right to engage.
23        (6) "Intimidation of a dependent" means subjecting a
24    person who is dependent because of age, health, or
25    disability to participation in or the witnessing of:
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1    restraint of another which constitutes physical abuse as
2    defined in this Article, regardless of whether the abused
3    person is a family or household member.
4        (7) "Order of protection" or "domestic violence order
5    of protection" means an ex parte or final order, granted
6    pursuant to this Article, which includes any or all of the
7    remedies authorized by Section 112A-14 of this Code.
8        (8) "Petitioner" may mean not only any named
9    petitioner for the domestic violence order of protection
10    and any named victim of abuse on whose behalf the petition
11    is brought, but also any other person protected by this
12    Article.
13        (9) "Physical abuse" includes sexual abuse and means
14    any of the following:
15            (i) knowing or reckless use of physical force,
16        confinement or restraint;
17            (ii) knowing, repeated and unnecessary sleep
18        deprivation; or
19            (iii) knowing or reckless conduct which creates an
20        immediate risk of physical harm.
21        (9.3) "Respondent" in a petition for a domestic
22    violence order of protection means the defendant.
23        (9.5) "Stay away" means for the respondent to refrain
24    from both physical presence and nonphysical contact with
25    the petitioner whether direct, indirect (including, but
26    not limited to, telephone calls, mail, email, faxes, and

 

 

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1    written notes), or through third parties who may or may
2    not know about the domestic violence order of protection.
3        (10) "Willful deprivation" means wilfully denying a
4    person who because of age, health or disability requires
5    medication, medical care, shelter, accessible shelter or
6    services, food, therapeutic device, or other physical
7    assistance, and thereby exposing that person to the risk
8    of physical, mental or emotional harm, except with regard
9    to medical care and treatment when such dependent person
10    has expressed the intent to forgo such medical care or
11    treatment. This paragraph (10) does not create any new
12    affirmative duty to provide support to dependent persons.
13        (11) "Coercive control" has the meaning given to that
14    term in Section 12-39 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
15    (c) For the purposes of cases involving sexual offenses,
16the following terms shall have the following meanings in this
17Article:
18        (1) "Civil no contact order" means an ex parte or
19    final order granted under this Article, which includes a
20    remedy authorized by Section 112A-14.5 of this Code.
21        (2) "Family or household members" include spouses,
22    parents, children, stepchildren, and persons who share a
23    common dwelling.
24        (3) "Non-consensual" means a lack of freely given
25    agreement.
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1    for the civil no contact order and any named victim of
2    non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual
3    penetration on whose behalf the petition is brought, but
4    includes any other person sought to be protected under
5    this Article.
6        (5) "Respondent" in a petition for a civil no contact
7    order means the defendant.
8        (6) "Sexual conduct" means any intentional or knowing
9    touching or fondling by the petitioner or the respondent,
10    either directly or through clothing, of the sex organs,
11    anus, or breast of the petitioner or the respondent, or
12    any part of the body of a child under 13 years of age, or
13    any transfer or transmission of semen by the respondent
14    upon any part of the clothed or unclothed body of the
15    petitioner, for the purpose of sexual gratification or
16    arousal of the petitioner or the respondent.
17        (7) "Sexual penetration" means any contact, however
18    slight, between the sex organ or anus of one person by an
19    object, the sex organ, mouth or anus of another person, or
20    any intrusion, however slight, of any part of the body of
21    one person or of any animal or object into the sex organ or
22    anus of another person, including, but not limited to,
23    cunnilingus, fellatio, or anal penetration. Evidence of
24    emission of semen is not required to prove sexual
25    penetration.
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1    presence and nonphysical contact with the petitioner
2    directly, indirectly, or through third parties who may or
3    may not know of the order. "Nonphysical contact" includes,
4    but is not limited to, telephone calls, mail, e-mail, fax,
5    and written notes.
6    (d) For the purposes of cases involving stalking offenses,
7the following terms shall have the following meanings in this
8Article:
9        (1) "Course of conduct" means 2 or more acts,
10    including, but not limited to, acts in which a respondent
11    directly, indirectly, or through third parties, by any
12    action, method, device, or means follows, monitors,
13    observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or
14    about, a person, engages in other contact, or interferes
15    with or damages a person's property or pet. A course of
16    conduct may include contact via electronic communications.
17    The incarceration of a person in a penal institution who
18    commits the course of conduct is not a bar to prosecution.
19        (2) "Emotional distress" means significant mental
20    suffering, anxiety, or alarm.
21        (3) "Contact" includes any contact with the victim,
22    that is initiated or continued without the victim's
23    consent, or that is in disregard of the victim's expressed
24    desire that the contact be avoided or discontinued,
25    including, but not limited to, being in the physical
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1    victim; approaching or confronting the victim in a public
2    place or on private property; appearing at the workplace
3    or residence of the victim; entering onto or remaining on
4    property owned, leased, or occupied by the victim; or
5    placing an object on, or delivering an object to, property
6    owned, leased, or occupied by the victim.
7        (4) "Petitioner" means any named petitioner for the
8    stalking no contact order or any named victim of stalking
9    on whose behalf the petition is brought.
10        (5) "Reasonable person" means a person in the
11    petitioner's circumstances with the petitioner's knowledge
12    of the respondent and the respondent's prior acts.
13        (6) "Respondent" in a petition for a civil no contact
14    order means the defendant.
15        (7) "Stalking" means engaging in a course of conduct
16    directed at a specific person, and he or she knows or
17    should know that this course of conduct would cause a
18    reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the
19    safety of a third person or suffer emotional distress.
20    "Stalking" does not include an exercise of the right to
21    free speech or assembly that is otherwise lawful or
22    picketing occurring at the workplace that is otherwise
23    lawful and arises out of a bona fide labor dispute,
24    including any controversy concerning wages, salaries,
25    hours, working conditions or benefits, including health
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1    retirement provisions, the making or maintaining of
2    collective bargaining agreements, and the terms to be
3    included in those agreements.
4        (8) "Stalking no contact order" means an ex parte or
5    final order granted under this Article, which includes a
6    remedy authorized by Section 112A-14.7 of this Code.
7(Source: P.A. 100-199, eff. 1-1-18; 100-597, eff. 6-29-18.)
 
8    Section 15. The Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 is
9amended by changing Section 103 as follows:
 
10    (750 ILCS 60/103)  (from Ch. 40, par. 2311-3)
11    Sec. 103. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act, the
12following terms shall have the following meanings:
13    (1) "Abuse" means physical abuse, harassment, intimidation
14of a dependent, interference with personal liberty or willful
15deprivation, or coercive control, but does not include
16reasonable direction of a minor child by a parent or person in
17loco parentis.
18    (2) "Adult with disabilities" means an elder adult with
19disabilities or a high-risk adult with disabilities. A person
20may be an adult with disabilities for purposes of this Act even
21though he or she has never been adjudicated an incompetent
22adult. However, no court proceeding may be initiated or
23continued on behalf of an adult with disabilities over that
24adult's objection, unless such proceeding is approved by his

 

 

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1or her legal guardian, if any.
2    (3) "Domestic violence" means abuse as defined in
3paragraph (1).
4    (4) "Elder adult with disabilities" means an adult
5prevented by advanced age from taking appropriate action to
6protect himself or herself from abuse by a family or household
7member.
8    (5) "Exploitation" means the illegal, including tortious,
9use of a high-risk adult with disabilities or of the assets or
10resources of a high-risk adult with disabilities. Exploitation
11includes, but is not limited to, the misappropriation of
12assets or resources of a high-risk adult with disabilities by
13undue influence, by breach of a fiduciary relationship, by
14fraud, deception, or extortion, or the use of such assets or
15resources in a manner contrary to law.
16    (6) "Family or household members" include spouses, former
17spouses, parents, children, stepchildren and other persons
18related by blood or by present or prior marriage, persons who
19share or formerly shared a common dwelling, persons who have
20or allegedly have a child in common, persons who share or
21allegedly share a blood relationship through a child, persons
22who have or have had a dating or engagement relationship,
23persons with disabilities and their personal assistants, and
24caregivers as defined in Section 12-4.4a of the Criminal Code
25of 2012. For purposes of this paragraph, neither a casual
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1individuals in business or social contexts shall be deemed to
2constitute a dating relationship. In the case of a high-risk
3adult with disabilities, "family or household members"
4includes any person who has the responsibility for a high-risk
5adult as a result of a family relationship or who has assumed
6responsibility for all or a portion of the care of a high-risk
7adult with disabilities voluntarily, or by express or implied
8contract, or by court order.
9    (7) "Harassment" means knowing conduct which is not
10necessary to accomplish a purpose that is reasonable under the
11circumstances; would cause a reasonable person emotional
12distress; and does cause emotional distress to the petitioner.
13Unless the presumption is rebutted by a preponderance of the
14evidence, the following types of conduct shall be presumed to
15cause emotional distress:
16        (i) creating a disturbance at petitioner's place of
17    employment or school;
18        (ii) repeatedly telephoning petitioner's place of
19    employment, home or residence;
20        (iii) repeatedly following petitioner about in a
21    public place or places;
22        (iv) repeatedly keeping petitioner under surveillance
23    by remaining present outside his or her home, school,
24    place of employment, vehicle or other place occupied by
25    petitioner or by peering in petitioner's windows;
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1    petitioner, repeatedly threatening to improperly remove a
2    minor child of petitioner's from the jurisdiction or from
3    the physical care of petitioner, repeatedly threatening to
4    conceal a minor child from petitioner, or making a single
5    such threat following an actual or attempted improper
6    removal or concealment, unless respondent was fleeing an
7    incident or pattern of domestic violence; or
8        (vi) threatening physical force, confinement or
9    restraint on one or more occasions.
10    (8) "High-risk adult with disabilities" means a person
11aged 18 or over whose physical or mental disability impairs
12his or her ability to seek or obtain protection from abuse,
13neglect, or exploitation.
14    (9) "Interference with personal liberty" means committing
15or threatening physical abuse, harassment, intimidation or
16willful deprivation so as to compel another to engage in
17conduct from which she or he has a right to abstain or to
18refrain from conduct in which she or he has a right to engage.
19    (10) "Intimidation of a dependent" means subjecting a
20person who is dependent because of age, health or disability
21to participation in or the witnessing of: physical force
22against another or physical confinement or restraint of
23another which constitutes physical abuse as defined in this
24Act, regardless of whether the abused person is a family or
25household member.
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1degree of care toward a high-risk adult with disabilities
2which a reasonable person would exercise under the
3circumstances and includes but is not limited to:
4        (i) the failure to take reasonable steps to protect a
5    high-risk adult with disabilities from acts of abuse;
6        (ii) the repeated, careless imposition of unreasonable
7    confinement;
8        (iii) the failure to provide food, shelter, clothing,
9    and personal hygiene to a high-risk adult with
10    disabilities who requires such assistance;
11        (iv) the failure to provide medical and rehabilitative
12    care for the physical and mental health needs of a
13    high-risk adult with disabilities; or
14        (v) the failure to protect a high-risk adult with
15    disabilities from health and safety hazards.
16    (B) Nothing in this subsection (10) shall be construed to
17impose a requirement that assistance be provided to a
18high-risk adult with disabilities over his or her objection in
19the absence of a court order, nor to create any new affirmative
20duty to provide support to a high-risk adult with
21disabilities.
22    (12) "Order of protection" means an emergency order,
23interim order or plenary order, granted pursuant to this Act,
24which includes any or all of the remedies authorized by
25Section 214 of this Act.
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1for the order of protection and any named victim of abuse on
2whose behalf the petition is brought, but also any other
3person protected by this Act.
4    (14) "Physical abuse" includes sexual abuse and means any
5of the following:
6        (i) knowing or reckless use of physical force,
7    confinement or restraint;
8        (ii) knowing, repeated and unnecessary sleep
9    deprivation; or
10        (iii) knowing or reckless conduct which creates an
11    immediate risk of physical harm.
12    (14.5) "Stay away" means for the respondent to refrain
13from both physical presence and nonphysical contact with the
14petitioner whether direct, indirect (including, but not
15limited to, telephone calls, mail, email, faxes, and written
16notes), or through third parties who may or may not know about
17the order of protection.
18    (15) "Willful deprivation" means wilfully denying a person
19who because of age, health or disability requires medication,
20medical care, shelter, accessible shelter or services, food,
21therapeutic device, or other physical assistance, and thereby
22exposing that person to the risk of physical, mental or
23emotional harm, except with regard to medical care or
24treatment when the dependent person has expressed an intent to
25forgo such medical care or treatment. This paragraph does not
26create any new affirmative duty to provide support to

 

 

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1dependent persons.
2    (16) "Coercive control" has the meaning given to that term
3in Section 12-39 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
4(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)