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| Bill | CRIM CD-CHILD SEX OFFENDER | Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is Class 4 felony for a child sex offender to participate in a holiday event involving children under 18 years of age, such as distributing candy or other items to children on Halloween, wearing a Santa Claus costume on or preceding Christmas, being employed as a department store Santa Claus, or wearing an Easter Bunny costume on or preceding Easter. Exempts from a violation where (1) the sex offense conviction which brought the person into the child sex offender category was criminal sexual abuse in which the victim was at least 13 years of age but under 17 years of age and the offender was less than 5 years older than the victim; or (2) the child sex offender is a parent or guardian of children under 18 years of age that are present in the home and no non-familial minors are present. | us/states/il | Illinois General Assembly | 97th | SB 3579 | Illinois SB 3579 (97th) |
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enacted | 3 | 28 | 2 | 2012-02-10 | 2012-06-22 | openstates | ocd-bill/c19789bc-b0c3-41a6-9b5a-1e4bb0368d89 | http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3579&GAID=11&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=65419&SessionID=84&GA=97 | ab732089dc16bcc09616da891ad80ba3336613c99dcce2713f44903b8aeaedd1 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Illinois SB 3579 (97th) — CRIM CD-CHILD SEX OFFENDER
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is Class 4 felony for a child sex offender to participate in a holiday event involving children under 18 years of age, such as distributing candy or other items to children on Halloween, wearing a Santa Claus costume on or preceding Christmas, being employed as a department store Santa Claus, or wearing an Easter Bunny costume on or preceding Easter. Exempts from a violation where (1) the sex offense conviction which brought the person into the child sex offender category was criminal sexual abuse in which the victim was at least 13 years of age but under 17 years of age and the offender was less than 5 years older than the victim; or (2) the child sex offender is a parent or guardian of children under 18 years of age that are present in the home and no non-familial minors are present.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Third Reading — 53–0 (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — 111–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Kirk W. Dillard — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2012-02-10 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Kirk W. Dillard
filing - 2012-02-10 First Reading
reading-1 - 2012-02-10 Referred to Assignments
referral-committee - 2012-02-22 Assigned to Criminal Law
referral-committee - 2012-02-29 Postponed - Criminal Law
- 2012-03-07 Do Pass Criminal Law; 007-000-000
committee-passage - 2012-03-07 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 8, 2012
- 2012-03-08 Second Reading
reading-2 - 2012-03-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 21, 2012
- 2012-03-22 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez
- 2012-03-22 Third Reading - Passed; 053-000-000
reading-3, passage - 2012-03-22 Arrived in House
introduction - 2012-03-23 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Sandra M. Pihos
- 2012-03-23 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading
reading-1 - 2012-03-23 First Reading
reading-1 - 2012-03-23 Referred to Rules Committee
referral-committee - 2012-04-10 Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
referral-committee - 2012-04-19 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 007-000-000
committee-passage - 2012-04-19 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- 2012-04-24 Second Reading - Short Debate
reading-2 - 2012-04-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- 2012-05-01 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 111-000-002
reading-3, passage - 2012-05-01 Passed Both Houses
- 2012-05-30 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2012-05-31 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Martin A. Sandoval
- 2012-06-22 Governor Approved
executive-signature - 2012-06-22 Effective Date January 1, 2013
- 2012-06-22 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0699
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c19789bc-b0c3-41a6-9b5a-1e4bb0368d89. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).