Guardian Legislation - Illinois

CRIM CD-GROOMING&MEET MINOR Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of grooming. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly uses a computer on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage or transmission to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child, a child's guardian, or another person believed by the person to be a child or a child's guardian, to commit any sex offense as defined in the Sex Offender Registration Act or to otherwise engage in any unlawful sexual conduct with a child or with another person believed by the person to be a child. Provides that a violation is a Class 4 felony. Creates the offense of traveling to meet a minor. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she travels any distance either within this State, to this State, or from this State by any means, attempts to do so, or causes another [...]

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MIN WAGE-DAY CAMP COUNSELOR Amends the Minimum Wage Law. In language providing that a day camp counselor is not subject to the adult minimum wage if specified requirements are met, deletes a phrase that limited the scope of the language to day camps of organized not-for-profit corporations. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Restores the language that was stricken in the engrossed bill. Also adds language providing that a camp counselor under the age of 18 employed at a day camp is not subject to the adult minimum wage if the camp counselor is paid a stipend on a onetime or periodic basis and, if the camp counselor is a minor, the minor's parent, guardian, or other custodian has consented in writing to the terms of payment before the employment begins. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adds reference to: 820 [...]

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CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION Amends the School Code and the Communicable Disease Prevention Act. Provides that beginning August 1, 2009 a female student who is 11 or 12 years of age may not enter any grade of a public, private, or parochial school unless the child presents to the school proof of having received a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination or, after having received HPV information required to be provided by the Department of Public Health, the student's parent or legal guardian presents to the school a signed statement that the parent or legal guardian has elected for the student not to receive the vaccination. Requires a school to include the number of HPV-vaccinated children in its health exam and immunization report to the State Board of Education. Provides that beginning August 1, 2007, prior to entering a grade in a public or private school in this State, the Department of Public Health must provide all female students who are 11 or 12 years of age and their parents [...]

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VEH CD-TEENAGE DRIVERS Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Increases the requirements that must be met before a minor may be issued a graduated driver's license. Provides that a minor must hold an instruction permit for 12 consecutive (rather than for 3) months before he or she may be issued a graduated driver's license. Provides that the minor must have 150 (rather than 50) hours of driving experience, and the experience must be validated in writing by one of his or her parents, before he or she may be issued the graduated license. Provides that the new requirements do not invalidate a graduated license issued before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that a person must have reached the age of 15 years in order to apply for an instruction permit. Provides that the minor may not drive at night during the first 6 months that he or she holds an instruction permit. Provides that the minor holder of an instruction permit may practice driving only when one of his or [...]

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CHILD NEGLECT-NO RETURN HOME Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a "neglected child" includes a child who has been provided with interim crisis intervention services under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 and whose parent, guardian, or custodian refuses to permit the child to return home. Requires the DCFS Child Protective Service Unit to begin an investigation of a report concerning such a child within 24 hours after receiving the report and determine whether to take the child into temporary protective custody and whether to file a petition alleging neglect or abuse. Provides that no minor shall be sheltered in a temporary living arrangement for more than 48 hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and court-designated holidays, when the agency has reported the minor as neglected or abused because the parent, guardian, or custodian refuses to permit the child to return home, provided that in all other instances the [...]

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LQR CNTRL-INVITEES UNDER 21 Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. In a provision prohibiting a parent or guardian from knowingly authorizing or permitting any person under the age of 21 years from using alcoholic liquor by failing to control access to either the residence or the alcoholic liquor maintained in the residence, provides that where a violation of the provision directly or indirectly results in bodily harm to any person, the person violating this provision shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony. Provides that nothing in the provision shall be construed to prohibit the giving of alcoholic liquor to a person under the age of 21 years in observation of a religious holiday (now, only a person under the age of 21 years in the performance of a religious ceremony or service). Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that it is unlawful for any parent or guardian to knowingly permit his or her residence to be used by an invitee of the [...]

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VEH CD-GRADUATED LICENSE Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code, School Code, Child Passenger Protection Act, and Unified Code of Corrections. Makes various changes regarding: driver education requirements; graduated driver's licenses; instruction permits for minors; curfews for drivers under a specified age; the number of passengers under a specified age allowed in a vehicle driven by a newly licensed driver under a certain age; the use of seat safety belts; the use of wireless telephones by graduated driver's license holders; suspensions of driver's licenses of drivers under age 21 under specified circumstances; required appearances before the presiding judge with a parent or guardian under specified circumstances; vehicle impoundment for drivers arrested for street racing; and other matters. Repeals provisions creating the offense of drag racing. Creates the offenses of street racing and aggravated street racing, and makes conforming changes. Makes other changes. Effective January [...]

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SCH CD-SPECIAL ED-ADOPT CHILD Amends the School Code. In a Section concerning reimbursement for special education classes for children from orphanages, foster family homes, children's homes, or State housing units, provides that if a child who was eligible to receive services under that Section (i) is eligible for the subsidized adoption program available through the Department of Children and Family Services or is under subsidized guardianship and (ii) continues to receive support services from the Department of Children and Family Services, then the child shall continue to be eligible to receive services under the Section and the school district shall continue to be reimbursed under the Section. Provides that this provision applies only to children who are eligible for the subsidized adoption program or who are under subsidized guardianship on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides [...]

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CRIM CD-SEX OFFENSES-CHILD Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is unlawful for a child sex offender to knowingly communicate, using the Internet or any other digital media, with a person under 18 years of age or with a person whom he or she believes to be a person under 18 years of age, unless the offender is a parent or guardian of the person under 18 years of age. Provides that a person over the age of 18 who fails to exercise reasonable care in ascertaining the true age of a minor, knowingly distributes to, or sends, or causes to be sent, or exhibits to, or offers to distribute, or exhibits any harmful material to a person that he or she believes is a minor is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. If that person utilized a computer web camera, cellular telephone, or any other type of device to manufacture the harmful material, then each offense is a Class 4 felony. Provides that the offense of child photography by a sex offender applies even if the offender does [...]

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