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HB 2555 Crimes against person or property by computer, penalty.

Introduced by: James K. (Jay) O'Brien, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Facilitating, encouraging, or inviting crimes against person or property by computer; penalty. Provides that using a computer or computer network to communicate another person's contact information, including but not limited to identifying information, phone number, street address, and electronic mail address (i) to facilitate, encourage, or invite a third party to contact the other person to make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature or threaten any illegal or immoral act, or (ii) to facilitate, encourage, or invite a third party to cause harm to the other person's property or person, and the third party attempts to cause harm to the other person's property or person is a Class 1 misdemeanor. If the victim of such crime is a minor, and the person committing the crime knew or should have known that the victim was a minor, the person is guilty of a Class 6 felony. This bill was incorporated into HB 2593.


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