102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3866

 

Introduced 2/22/2021, by Rep. Joyce Mason

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
725 ILCS 5/112A-3  from Ch. 38, par. 112A-3
750 ILCS 60/103  from Ch. 40, par. 2311-3
750 ILCS 60/Art. V heading new
750 ILCS 60/501 new

    Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 and the Protective Orders Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Includes economic or financial abuse in the definition of "abuse". Defines "economic or financial abuse" as controlling a person's access to economic or financial resources in a way that forces him or her to depend on the person controlling the economic or financial resources. Provides that if a victim of domestic abuse provides documentation to a debt collector that the debt or any portion of the debt is the result of economic abuse, the debt collector shall cease collection of the debt or any disputed portion of the debt owed by the consumer subjected to economic abuse.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning domestic violence.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5amended by changing Section 112A-3 as follows:
 
6    (725 ILCS 5/112A-3)  (from Ch. 38, par. 112A-3)
7    Sec. 112A-3. Definitions.
8    (a) In this Article:
9    "Advocate" means a person whose communications with the
10victim are privileged under Section 8-802.1 or 8-802.2 of the
11Code of Civil Procedure or Section 227 of the Illinois
12Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
13    "Named victim" means the person named as the victim in the
14delinquency petition or criminal prosecution.
15    "Protective order" means a domestic violence order of
16protection, a civil no contact order, or a stalking no contact
17order.
18    (b) For the purposes of domestic violence cases, the
19following terms shall have the following meanings in this
20Article:
21        (1) "Abuse" means physical abuse, economic or
22    financial abuse, harassment, intimidation of a dependent,
23    interference with personal liberty or willful deprivation

 

 

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1    but does not include reasonable direction of a minor child
2    by a parent or person in loco parentis.
3        (2) "Domestic violence" means abuse as described in
4    paragraph (1) of this subsection (b).
5    (2.5) "Economic or financial abuse" has the meaning
6provided in Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act
7of 1986.
8        (3) "Family or household members" include spouses,
9    former spouses, parents, children, stepchildren, and other
10    persons related by blood or by present or prior marriage,
11    persons who share or formerly shared a common dwelling,
12    persons who have or allegedly have a child in common,
13    persons who share or allegedly share a blood relationship
14    through a child, persons who have or have had a dating or
15    engagement relationship, persons with disabilities and
16    their personal assistants, and caregivers as defined in
17    subsection (e) of Section 12-4.4a of the Criminal Code of
18    2012. For purposes of this paragraph (3), neither a casual
19    acquaintanceship nor ordinary fraternization between 2
20    individuals in business or social contexts shall be deemed
21    to constitute a dating relationship.
22        (4) "Harassment" means knowing conduct which is not
23    necessary to accomplish a purpose which is reasonable
24    under the circumstances; would cause a reasonable person
25    emotional distress; and does cause emotional distress to
26    the petitioner. Unless the presumption is rebutted by a

 

 

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1    preponderance of the evidence, the following types of
2    conduct shall be presumed to cause emotional distress:
3            (i) creating a disturbance at petitioner's place
4        of employment or school;
5            (ii) repeatedly telephoning petitioner's place of
6        employment, home or residence;
7            (iii) repeatedly following petitioner about in a
8        public place or places;
9            (iv) repeatedly keeping petitioner under
10        surveillance by remaining present outside his or her
11        home, school, place of employment, vehicle or other
12        place occupied by petitioner or by peering in
13        petitioner's windows;
14            (v) improperly concealing a minor child from
15        petitioner, repeatedly threatening to improperly
16        remove a minor child of petitioner's from the
17        jurisdiction or from the physical care of petitioner,
18        repeatedly threatening to conceal a minor child from
19        petitioner, or making a single such threat following
20        an actual or attempted improper removal or
21        concealment, unless respondent was fleeing from an
22        incident or pattern of domestic violence; or
23            (vi) threatening physical force, confinement or
24        restraint on one or more occasions.
25        (5) "Interference with personal liberty" means
26    committing or threatening physical abuse, harassment,

 

 

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1    intimidation or willful deprivation so as to compel
2    another to engage in conduct from which she or he has a
3    right to abstain or to refrain from conduct in which she or
4    he has a right to engage.
5        (6) "Intimidation of a dependent" means subjecting a
6    person who is dependent because of age, health, or
7    disability to participation in or the witnessing of:
8    physical force against another or physical confinement or
9    restraint of another which constitutes physical abuse as
10    defined in this Article, regardless of whether the abused
11    person is a family or household member.
12        (7) "Order of protection" or "domestic violence order
13    of protection" means an ex parte or final order, granted
14    pursuant to this Article, which includes any or all of the
15    remedies authorized by Section 112A-14 of this Code.
16        (8) "Petitioner" may mean not only any named
17    petitioner for the domestic violence order of protection
18    and any named victim of abuse on whose behalf the petition
19    is brought, but also any other person protected by this
20    Article.
21        (9) "Physical abuse" includes sexual abuse and means
22    any of the following:
23            (i) knowing or reckless use of physical force,
24        confinement or restraint;
25            (ii) knowing, repeated and unnecessary sleep
26        deprivation; or

 

 

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1            (iii) knowing or reckless conduct which creates an
2        immediate risk of physical harm.
3        (9.3) "Respondent" in a petition for a domestic
4    violence order of protection means the defendant.
5        (9.5) "Stay away" means for the respondent to refrain
6    from both physical presence and nonphysical contact with
7    the petitioner whether direct, indirect (including, but
8    not limited to, telephone calls, mail, email, faxes, and
9    written notes), or through third parties who may or may
10    not know about the domestic violence order of protection.
11        (10) "Willful deprivation" means wilfully denying a
12    person who because of age, health or disability requires
13    medication, medical care, shelter, accessible shelter or
14    services, food, therapeutic device, or other physical
15    assistance, and thereby exposing that person to the risk
16    of physical, mental or emotional harm, except with regard
17    to medical care and treatment when such dependent person
18    has expressed the intent to forgo such medical care or
19    treatment. This paragraph (10) does not create any new
20    affirmative duty to provide support to dependent persons.
21    (c) For the purposes of cases involving sexual offenses,
22the following terms shall have the following meanings in this
23Article:
24        (1) "Civil no contact order" means an ex parte or
25    final order granted under this Article, which includes a
26    remedy authorized by Section 112A-14.5 of this Code.

 

 

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1        (2) "Family or household members" include spouses,
2    parents, children, stepchildren, and persons who share a
3    common dwelling.
4        (3) "Non-consensual" means a lack of freely given
5    agreement.
6        (4) "Petitioner" means not only any named petitioner
7    for the civil no contact order and any named victim of
8    non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual
9    penetration on whose behalf the petition is brought, but
10    includes any other person sought to be protected under
11    this Article.
12        (5) "Respondent" in a petition for a civil no contact
13    order means the defendant.
14        (6) "Sexual conduct" means any intentional or knowing
15    touching or fondling by the petitioner or the respondent,
16    either directly or through clothing, of the sex organs,
17    anus, or breast of the petitioner or the respondent, or
18    any part of the body of a child under 13 years of age, or
19    any transfer or transmission of semen by the respondent
20    upon any part of the clothed or unclothed body of the
21    petitioner, for the purpose of sexual gratification or
22    arousal of the petitioner or the respondent.
23        (7) "Sexual penetration" means any contact, however
24    slight, between the sex organ or anus of one person by an
25    object, the sex organ, mouth or anus of another person, or
26    any intrusion, however slight, of any part of the body of

 

 

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1    one person or of any animal or object into the sex organ or
2    anus of another person, including, but not limited to,
3    cunnilingus, fellatio, or anal penetration. Evidence of
4    emission of semen is not required to prove sexual
5    penetration.
6        (8) "Stay away" means to refrain from both physical
7    presence and nonphysical contact with the petitioner
8    directly, indirectly, or through third parties who may or
9    may not know of the order. "Nonphysical contact" includes,
10    but is not limited to, telephone calls, mail, e-mail, fax,
11    and written notes.
12    (d) For the purposes of cases involving stalking offenses,
13the following terms shall have the following meanings in this
14Article:
15        (1) "Course of conduct" means 2 or more acts,
16    including, but not limited to, acts in which a respondent
17    directly, indirectly, or through third parties, by any
18    action, method, device, or means follows, monitors,
19    observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or
20    about, a person, engages in other contact, or interferes
21    with or damages a person's property or pet. A course of
22    conduct may include contact via electronic communications.
23    The incarceration of a person in a penal institution who
24    commits the course of conduct is not a bar to prosecution.
25        (2) "Emotional distress" means significant mental
26    suffering, anxiety, or alarm.

 

 

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1        (3) "Contact" includes any contact with the victim,
2    that is initiated or continued without the victim's
3    consent, or that is in disregard of the victim's expressed
4    desire that the contact be avoided or discontinued,
5    including, but not limited to, being in the physical
6    presence of the victim; appearing within the sight of the
7    victim; approaching or confronting the victim in a public
8    place or on private property; appearing at the workplace
9    or residence of the victim; entering onto or remaining on
10    property owned, leased, or occupied by the victim; or
11    placing an object on, or delivering an object to, property
12    owned, leased, or occupied by the victim.
13        (4) "Petitioner" means any named petitioner for the
14    stalking no contact order or any named victim of stalking
15    on whose behalf the petition is brought.
16        (5) "Reasonable person" means a person in the
17    petitioner's circumstances with the petitioner's knowledge
18    of the respondent and the respondent's prior acts.
19        (6) "Respondent" in a petition for a civil no contact
20    order means the defendant.
21        (7) "Stalking" means engaging in a course of conduct
22    directed at a specific person, and he or she knows or
23    should know that this course of conduct would cause a
24    reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the
25    safety of a third person or suffer emotional distress.
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1    free speech or assembly that is otherwise lawful or
2    picketing occurring at the workplace that is otherwise
3    lawful and arises out of a bona fide labor dispute,
4    including any controversy concerning wages, salaries,
5    hours, working conditions or benefits, including health
6    and welfare, sick leave, insurance, and pension or
7    retirement provisions, the making or maintaining of
8    collective bargaining agreements, and the terms to be
9    included in those agreements.
10        (8) "Stalking no contact order" means an ex parte or
11    final order granted under this Article, which includes a
12    remedy authorized by Section 112A-14.7 of this Code.
13(Source: P.A. 100-199, eff. 1-1-18; 100-597, eff. 6-29-18.)
 
14    Section 10. The Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 is
15amended by changing Section 103 and by adding Article V as
16follows:
 
17    (750 ILCS 60/103)  (from Ch. 40, par. 2311-3)
18    Sec. 103. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act, the
19following terms shall have the following meanings:
20    (1) "Abuse" means physical abuse, economic or financial
21abuse, harassment, intimidation of a dependent, interference
22with personal liberty or willful deprivation but does not
23include reasonable direction of a minor child by a parent or
24person in loco parentis.

 

 

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1    (2) "Adult with disabilities" means an elder adult with
2disabilities or a high-risk adult with disabilities. A person
3may be an adult with disabilities for purposes of this Act even
4though he or she has never been adjudicated an incompetent
5adult. However, no court proceeding may be initiated or
6continued on behalf of an adult with disabilities over that
7adult's objection, unless such proceeding is approved by his
8or her legal guardian, if any.
9    (3) "Domestic violence" means abuse as defined in
10paragraph (1).
11    (3.5) "Economic or financial abuse" means controlling a
12person's access to economic or financial resources in a way
13that forces him or her to depend on the person controlling the
14economic or financial resources. "Economic or financial abuse"
15includes, but is not limited to: forbidding a person to work;
16sabotaging work or employment opportunities, including
17stalking a person at his or her work place or causing the
18person to lose his or her job by physically abusing him or her
19prior to important meetings or interviews; forbidding the
20person from attending job training or advancement
21opportunities; controlling how all money is spent; not
22including the person in investment or banking decisions; not
23allowing the person access to bank accounts; withholding money
24or giving an allowance to the person; forcing the person to
25write bad checks or file fraudulent tax returns; running up
26large amounts of debt on joint accounts; refusing to work or

 

 

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1contribute to shared income; withholding funds for the person
2or children to obtain basic needs, including food and
3medicine; hiding assets; stealing the person's identity,
4property, or inheritance; forcing the person to work in a
5family or shared business without pay; refusing to pay bills;
6ruining the person's credit score; forcing the person to turn
7over public benefits or threatening to accuse the person of
8misusing benefits; filing false insurance claims; refusing to
9pay or evading child support, and manipulating dissolution of
10marriage proceedings by hiding or not disclosing assets.
11    (4) "Elder adult with disabilities" means an adult
12prevented by advanced age from taking appropriate action to
13protect himself or herself from abuse by a family or household
14member.
15    (5) "Exploitation" means the illegal, including tortious,
16use of a high-risk adult with disabilities or of the assets or
17resources of a high-risk adult with disabilities. Exploitation
18includes, but is not limited to, the misappropriation of
19assets or resources of a high-risk adult with disabilities by
20undue influence, by breach of a fiduciary relationship, by
21fraud, deception, or extortion, or the use of such assets or
22resources in a manner contrary to law.
23    (6) "Family or household members" include spouses, former
24spouses, parents, children, stepchildren and other persons
25related by blood or by present or prior marriage, persons who
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1or allegedly have a child in common, persons who share or
2allegedly share a blood relationship through a child, persons
3who have or have had a dating or engagement relationship,
4persons with disabilities and their personal assistants, and
5caregivers as defined in Section 12-4.4a of the Criminal Code
6of 2012. For purposes of this paragraph, neither a casual
7acquaintanceship nor ordinary fraternization between 2
8individuals in business or social contexts shall be deemed to
9constitute a dating relationship. In the case of a high-risk
10adult with disabilities, "family or household members"
11includes any person who has the responsibility for a high-risk
12adult as a result of a family relationship or who has assumed
13responsibility for all or a portion of the care of a high-risk
14adult with disabilities voluntarily, or by express or implied
15contract, or by court order.
16    (7) "Harassment" means knowing conduct which is not
17necessary to accomplish a purpose that is reasonable under the
18circumstances; would cause a reasonable person emotional
19distress; and does cause emotional distress to the petitioner.
20Unless the presumption is rebutted by a preponderance of the
21evidence, the following types of conduct shall be presumed to
22cause emotional distress:
23        (i) creating a disturbance at petitioner's place of
24    employment or school;
25        (ii) repeatedly telephoning petitioner's place of
26    employment, home or residence;

 

 

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1        (iii) repeatedly following petitioner about in a
2    public place or places;
3        (iv) repeatedly keeping petitioner under surveillance
4    by remaining present outside his or her home, school,
5    place of employment, vehicle or other place occupied by
6    petitioner or by peering in petitioner's windows;
7        (v) improperly concealing a minor child from
8    petitioner, repeatedly threatening to improperly remove a
9    minor child of petitioner's from the jurisdiction or from
10    the physical care of petitioner, repeatedly threatening to
11    conceal a minor child from petitioner, or making a single
12    such threat following an actual or attempted improper
13    removal or concealment, unless respondent was fleeing an
14    incident or pattern of domestic violence; or
15        (vi) threatening physical force, confinement or
16    restraint on one or more occasions.
17    (8) "High-risk adult with disabilities" means a person
18aged 18 or over whose physical or mental disability impairs
19his or her ability to seek or obtain protection from abuse,
20neglect, or exploitation.
21    (9) "Interference with personal liberty" means committing
22or threatening physical abuse, harassment, intimidation or
23willful deprivation so as to compel another to engage in
24conduct from which she or he has a right to abstain or to
25refrain from conduct in which she or he has a right to engage.
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1person who is dependent because of age, health or disability
2to participation in or the witnessing of: physical force
3against another or physical confinement or restraint of
4another which constitutes physical abuse as defined in this
5Act, regardless of whether the abused person is a family or
6household member.
7    (11) (A) "Neglect" means the failure to exercise that
8degree of care toward a high-risk adult with disabilities
9which a reasonable person would exercise under the
10circumstances and includes but is not limited to:
11        (i) the failure to take reasonable steps to protect a
12    high-risk adult with disabilities from acts of abuse;
13        (ii) the repeated, careless imposition of unreasonable
14    confinement;
15        (iii) the failure to provide food, shelter, clothing,
16    and personal hygiene to a high-risk adult with
17    disabilities who requires such assistance;
18        (iv) the failure to provide medical and rehabilitative
19    care for the physical and mental health needs of a
20    high-risk adult with disabilities; or
21        (v) the failure to protect a high-risk adult with
22    disabilities from health and safety hazards.
23    (B) Nothing in this subsection (10) shall be construed to
24impose a requirement that assistance be provided to a
25high-risk adult with disabilities over his or her objection in
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1duty to provide support to a high-risk adult with
2disabilities.
3    (12) "Order of protection" means an emergency order,
4interim order or plenary order, granted pursuant to this Act,
5which includes any or all of the remedies authorized by
6Section 214 of this Act.
7    (13) "Petitioner" may mean not only any named petitioner
8for the order of protection and any named victim of abuse on
9whose behalf the petition is brought, but also any other
10person protected by this Act.
11    (14) "Physical abuse" includes sexual abuse and means any
12of the following:
13        (i) knowing or reckless use of physical force,
14    confinement or restraint;
15        (ii) knowing, repeated and unnecessary sleep
16    deprivation; or
17        (iii) knowing or reckless conduct which creates an
18    immediate risk of physical harm.
19    (14.5) "Stay away" means for the respondent to refrain
20from both physical presence and nonphysical contact with the
21petitioner whether direct, indirect (including, but not
22limited to, telephone calls, mail, email, faxes, and written
23notes), or through third parties who may or may not know about
24the order of protection.
25    (15) "Willful deprivation" means wilfully denying a person
26who because of age, health or disability requires medication,

 

 

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1medical care, shelter, accessible shelter or services, food,
2therapeutic device, or other physical assistance, and thereby
3exposing that person to the risk of physical, mental or
4emotional harm, except with regard to medical care or
5treatment when the dependent person has expressed an intent to
6forgo such medical care or treatment. This paragraph does not
7create any new affirmative duty to provide support to
8dependent persons.
9(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
 
10    (750 ILCS 60/Art. V heading new)
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ARTICLE V
12
MISCELLANEOUS

 
13    (750 ILCS 60/501 new)
14    Sec. 501. Economic abuse - debt collection. If a victim of
15domestic abuse provides documentation to a debt collector that
16the debt or any portion of the debt is the result of economic
17abuse, as defined in Section 103, the debt collector shall
18cease collection of the debt or any disputed portion of the
19debt owed by the consumer subjected to economic abuse. A
20victim of domestic violence shall provide to the debt
21collector documentation of the alleged conduct by the
22perpetrator, including the perpetrator's name. Acceptable
23documentation includes, but is not limited to:
24        (1) a statement signed by a health care provider,

 

 

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1    mental health care provider, or law enforcement officer,
2    including the license number of the health care provider,
3    mental health care provider, or law enforcement officer if
4    licensed;
5        (2) a copy of a temporary order or final order of
6    protection;
7        (3) a copy of a police report prepared in response to
8    an investigation of an incident of domestic violence,
9    sexual assault, or stalking; and
10        (4) a copy of a criminal complaint, indictment, or
11    conviction for a charge of domestic violence, sexual
12    assault, or stalking.