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| | 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB4418 Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Wheeler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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720 ILCS 5/12-3.5 |
was 720 ILCS 5/12-6.3 |
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the sentence for the offense of interfering with the report of domestic violence is a Class 4 felony (rather than a Class A misdemeanor). |
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| | HB4418 | | LRB100 18457 SLF 33672 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 12-3.5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (720 ILCS 5/12-3.5)
(was 720 ILCS 5/12-6.3)
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| 7 | | Sec. 12-3.5. Interfering with the reporting of domestic |
| 8 | | violence.
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| 9 | | (a) A person commits interfering with the reporting of
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| 10 | | domestic violence when, after having committed an act of |
| 11 | | domestic violence, he
or she knowingly prevents or attempts to |
| 12 | | prevent the victim of or a witness to the act of
domestic |
| 13 | | violence from calling a 9-1-1 emergency telephone system, |
| 14 | | obtaining
medical assistance, or making a report to any law |
| 15 | | enforcement official.
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| 16 | | (b) In For the purposes of this Section:
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| 17 | | "Domestic violence" shall have the meaning ascribed to it |
| 18 | | in Section
112A-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963.
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| 19 | | (c) Sentence. Interfering with the reporting of domestic |
| 20 | | violence is a
Class 4 felony A misdemeanor.
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| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)
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