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".


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by adding 
5Section 31-10 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/31-10 new)
7    Sec. 31-10. Approaching a first responder after a warning 
8with intent to impede, threaten, or harass.
9    (a) In this Section:
10        "First responder" includes a law enforcement officer, 
11    as defined in Section 2 of the Line of Duty Compensation 
12    Act, a fire fighter, as defined in Section 2 of the 
13    Illinois Fire Protection Training Act, a peace officer, as 
14    defined in Section 2-13 of this Code, emergency medical 
15    services personnel, as defined in Section 3.5 of the 
16    Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act, or a 
17    probation officer, as defined in paragraph (3) of Section 
18    9b of the Probation and Probation Officers Act.
19        "Harass" means to engage in a course of conduct 
20    directed at a first responder that causes substantial 
21    emotional distress in that first responder.
22    (b) A first responder who reasonably believes that a 
23person's presence within 14 feet of the first responder will 
 
 
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1interfere with the performance of the first responder's legal 
2duty may warn the person not to approach or to remain within 14 
3feet of the first responder. 
4    (c) It is unlawful for a person, after receiving a warning 
5not to approach from a first responder who is engaged in the 
6lawful performance of a legal duty, to knowingly or 
7intentionally violate the warning and approach or remain 
8within 14 feet of the first responder with the intent to:
9        (1) interrupt, disrupt, hinder, impede, or interfere 
10    with the first responder's ability to perform the first 
11    responder's legal duty;
12        (2) threaten the first responder with physical harm; 
13    or
14        (3) harass the first responder by interfering with the 
15    first responder performing the first responder's legal 
16    duty. 
17    (d) Sentence. A person who violates this Section commits a 
18Class A misdemeanor.