HB 1560

Abstract

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the penalties for the offense of unauthorized recording and live video transmission are one class higher than the various penalties prescribed for the offense if the defendant's intent in committing the violation was to promote a prurient interest in sex. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to knowingly make a video record or transmit live video of another person in a residence or in an area where a person would have a reasonable expectation of privacy without that person's consent (rather than in that other person's residence). Provides that placing or causing to be placed a device that makes a video record or transmits a live video in a restroom, tanning bed, tanning salon, locker room, changing room, or hotel bedroom with the intent to make a video record or transmit live video of another person without that person's consent is a Class 4 felony (rather than a Class A misdemeanor) and a Class 3 felony if the defendant's intent was to promote a prurient interest in sex. Effective immediately.