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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
 2    Section 11-6.

 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section  5.   The  Criminal  Code  of  1961 is amended by
 6    changing Section 11-6 as follows:

 7        (720 ILCS 5/11-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 11-6)
 8        Sec. 11-6.  Indecent solicitation of a child.
 9        (a)  A person of the age of  17  years  and  upwards  who
10    solicits  a  child  under the age of 16 or a person he or she
11    believes to be a child under the age of 16 13 to do any  act,
12    or solicits a person to arrange an act with a child under the
13    age  of 16 or a person he or she believes to be a child under
14    the age of 16 13, which if done would be aggravated  criminal
15    sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child,
16    criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, or
17    criminal  sexual  abuse,  commits  indecent solicitation of a
18    child.
19        (b)  It is  not  shall  not  be  a  defense  to  indecent
20    solicitation  of a child that the accused reasonably believed
21    the child was to be of the age of 16 13  years  and  upwards.
22    It  is not a defense to indecent solicitation of a child that
23    the accused reasonably believed the child was of the  age  of
24    16 years and upwards.
25        (c)  Sentence.
26        Indecent solicitation of a child is a Class 4 felony.:
27             (1)  a  Class  A  misdemeanor when the act, if done,
28        would be criminal sexual abuse;
29             (2)  a Class 4 felony when the act, if  done,  would
30        be  criminal  sexual  assault, aggravated criminal sexual
31        assault, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
 
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 1        (d)  For  the  purposes  of  this   Section,   "solicits"
 2    includes  but is not limited to oral or written communication
 3    and communication by telephone, computer, or other electronic
 4    means.  "Computer" has the meaning ascribed to it in  Section
 5    16D-2 of this Code.
 6    (Source:  P.A.  89-8,  eff.  3-21-95;  89-203,  eff. 7-21-95;
 7    89-428, eff. 12-13-95; 89-462, eff. 5-29-96.)

 8        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 9    becoming law.

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