Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB5004

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB5004

Introduced 2/10/2026, by Rep. Patrick Sheehan

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/31-10 new

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a first responder who reasonably believes that a person's presence within 14 feet of the first responder will interfere with the performance of the first responder's legal duty may warn the person not to approach or to remain within 14 feet of the first responder. Provides that it is unlawful for a person, after receiving a warning not to approach from a first responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty, to knowingly or intentionally violate the warning and approach or remain within 14 feet of the first responder with the intent to: (1) interrupt, disrupt, hinder, impede, or interfere with the first responder's ability to perform the first responder's legal duty; (2) threaten the first responder with physical harm; or (3) harass the first responder by interfering with the first responder performing the first responder's legal duty. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor. Defines "harass" and "first responder".

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by adding Section 31-10 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/31-10 new)

Sec. 31-10. Approaching a first responder after a warning with intent to impede, threaten, or harass.

(a) In this Section:

"First responder" includes a law enforcement officer, as defined in Section 2 of the Line of Duty Compensation Act, a fire fighter, as defined in Section 2 of the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act, a peace officer, as defined in Section 2-13 of this Code, emergency medical services personnel, as defined in Section 3.5 of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act, or a probation officer, as defined in paragraph (3) of Section 9b of the Probation and Probation Officers Act.

"Harass" means to engage in a course of conduct directed at a first responder that causes substantial emotional distress in that first responder.

(b) A first responder who reasonably believes that a person's presence within 14 feet of the first responder will interfere with the performance of the first responder's legal duty may warn the person not to approach or to remain within 14 feet of the first responder.

(c) It is unlawful for a person, after receiving a warning not to approach from a first responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty, to knowingly or intentionally violate the warning and approach or remain within 14 feet of the first responder with the intent to:

(1) interrupt, disrupt, hinder, impede, or interfere with the first responder's ability to perform the first responder's legal duty;

(2) threaten the first responder with physical harm; or

(3) harass the first responder by interfering with the first responder performing the first responder's legal duty.

(d) Sentence. A person who violates this Section commits a Class A misdemeanor.