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Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
Filed: 2/1/2006
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09400HB4438ham002 |
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LRB094 18374 RLC 55168 a |
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4438
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4438, AS AMENDED, by |
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| replacing everything after the enacting clause with the |
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| following:
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| "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by |
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| changing Sections 16G-21 and 16H-1 and by adding Section 16G-13 |
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| as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/16G-13 new) |
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| Sec. 16G-13. Facilitating identity theft. |
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| (a) A person commits the offense of facilitating identity |
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| theft when he or she is an employee of the State of Illinois |
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| who in the course of his or her official duties has access to |
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| personal identifying information of another person, whether |
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| written, recorded, or on computer disk and knowingly, with the |
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| intent of committing identity theft, aggravated identity |
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| theft, or any violation of the Illinois Financial Crime Law, |
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| disposes of that written, recorded, or computerized |
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| information in any receptacle, trash can, or other container |
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| that the public could gain access to, without shredding that |
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| information, destroying the recording, or wiping the computer |
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| disk so that the information is either unintelligible or |
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| destroyed. |
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| (b) Sentence. Facilitating identity theft is a Class A |
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| misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 4 felony for a |