99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB5748

 

Introduced , by Rep. Thomas Bennett

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/12-3  from Ch. 38, par. 12-3
720 ILCS 5/12-3.05  was 720 ILCS 5/12-4

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Requires the State's Attorney to file an information, complaint, or seek an indictment in the circuit court if an allegation is made by any correctional institution employee that the employee is the victim of a battery or aggravated battery committed by a person committed to the correctional institution where the employee is employed. Once filed the information, complaint, or indictment may not be dismissed on motion of the State without the consent of the victim of the alleged offense. Effective immediately.


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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 changing
5Sections 12-3 and 12-3.05 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/12-3)  (from Ch. 38, par. 12-3)
7    Sec. 12-3. Battery.
8    (a) A person commits battery if he or she knowingly without
9legal justification by any means (1) causes bodily harm to an
10individual or (2) makes physical contact of an insulting or
11provoking nature with an individual.
12    (a-5) If an allegation is made by a correctional
13institution employee that a battery was committed upon his or
14her person by a committed person in the correctional
15institution where the employee is employed, while the employee
16was performing his or her official duties, the State's Attorney
17of the county where the correctional institution is located
18must file a criminal information or complaint in the circuit
19court or obtain an indictment against the committed person
20alleged to have committed a battery upon the correctional
21institution employee. The information, complaint, or
22indictment may not be dismissed on the motion of the State
23without the consent of the victim of the alleged offense.

 

 

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1    (b) Sentence.
2    Battery is a Class A misdemeanor.
3(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)
 
4    (720 ILCS 5/12-3.05)  (was 720 ILCS 5/12-4)
5    Sec. 12-3.05. Aggravated battery.
6    (a) Offense based on injury. A person commits aggravated
7battery when, in committing a battery, other than by the
8discharge of a firearm, he or she knowingly does any of the
9following:
10        (1) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
11    disfigurement.
12        (2) Causes severe and permanent disability, great
13    bodily harm, or disfigurement by means of a caustic or
14    flammable substance, a poisonous gas, a deadly biological
15    or chemical contaminant or agent, a radioactive substance,
16    or a bomb or explosive compound.
17        (3) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
18    disfigurement to an individual whom the person knows to be
19    a peace officer, community policing volunteer, fireman,
20    private security officer, correctional institution
21    employee, or Department of Human Services employee
22    supervising or controlling sexually dangerous persons or
23    sexually violent persons:
24            (i) performing his or her official duties;
25            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her

 

 

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1        official duties; or
2            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
3        or her official duties.
4        (4) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
5    disfigurement to an individual 60 years of age or older.
6        (5) Strangles another individual.
7    (b) Offense based on injury to a child or person with an
8intellectual disability. A person who is at least 18 years of
9age commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery,
10he or she knowingly and without legal justification by any
11means:
12        (1) causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
13    disfigurement to any child under the age of 13 years, or to
14    any person with a severe or profound intellectual
15    disability; or
16        (2) causes bodily harm or disability or disfigurement
17    to any child under the age of 13 years or to any person
18    with a severe or profound intellectual disability.
19    (c) Offense based on location of conduct. A person commits
20aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
21the discharge of a firearm, he or she is or the person battered
22is on or about a public way, public property, a public place of
23accommodation or amusement, a sports venue, or a domestic
24violence shelter.
25    (d) Offense based on status of victim. A person commits
26aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by

 

 

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1discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered
2to be any of the following:
3        (1) A person 60 years of age or older.
4        (2) A person who is pregnant or has a physical
5    disability.
6        (3) A teacher or school employee upon school grounds or
7    grounds adjacent to a school or in any part of a building
8    used for school purposes.
9        (4) A peace officer, community policing volunteer,
10    fireman, private security officer, correctional
11    institution employee, or Department of Human Services
12    employee supervising or controlling sexually dangerous
13    persons or sexually violent persons:
14            (i) performing his or her official duties;
15            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
16        official duties; or
17            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
18        or her official duties.
19        (5) A judge, emergency management worker, emergency
20    medical technician, or utility worker:
21            (i) performing his or her official duties;
22            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
23        official duties; or
24            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
25        or her official duties.
26        (6) An officer or employee of the State of Illinois, a

 

 

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1    unit of local government, or a school district, while
2    performing his or her official duties.
3        (7) A transit employee performing his or her official
4    duties, or a transit passenger.
5        (8) A taxi driver on duty.
6        (9) A merchant who detains the person for an alleged
7    commission of retail theft under Section 16-26 of this Code
8    and the person without legal justification by any means
9    causes bodily harm to the merchant.
10        (10) A person authorized to serve process under Section
11    2-202 of the Code of Civil Procedure or a special process
12    server appointed by the circuit court while that individual
13    is in the performance of his or her duties as a process
14    server.
15        (11) A nurse while in the performance of his or her
16    duties as a nurse.
17    (e) Offense based on use of a firearm. A person commits
18aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or she
19knowingly does any of the following:
20        (1) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
21    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
22    another person.
23        (2) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
24    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
25    a person he or she knows to be a peace officer, community
26    policing volunteer, person summoned by a police officer,

 

 

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1    fireman, private security officer, correctional
2    institution employee, or emergency management worker:
3            (i) performing his or her official duties;
4            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
5        official duties; or
6            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
7        or her official duties.
8        (3) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
9    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
10    a person he or she knows to be an emergency medical
11    technician employed by a municipality or other
12    governmental unit:
13            (i) performing his or her official duties;
14            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
15        official duties; or
16            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
17        or her official duties.
18        (4) Discharges a firearm and causes any injury to a
19    person he or she knows to be a teacher, a student in a
20    school, or a school employee, and the teacher, student, or
21    employee is upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a
22    school or in any part of a building used for school
23    purposes.
24        (5) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
25    a silencer, and causes any injury to another person.
26        (6) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with

 

 

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1    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
2    knows to be a peace officer, community policing volunteer,
3    person summoned by a police officer, fireman, private
4    security officer, correctional institution employee or
5    emergency management worker:
6            (i) performing his or her official duties;
7            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
8        official duties; or
9            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
10        or her official duties.
11        (7) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
12    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
13    knows to be an emergency medical technician employed by a
14    municipality or other governmental unit:
15            (i) performing his or her official duties;
16            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
17        official duties; or
18            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
19        or her official duties.
20        (8) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
21    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
22    knows to be a teacher, or a student in a school, or a
23    school employee, and the teacher, student, or employee is
24    upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a school or in
25    any part of a building used for school purposes.
26    (f) Offense based on use of a weapon or device. A person

 

 

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1commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or
2she does any of the following:
3        (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by discharge of a
4    firearm, or uses an air rifle as defined in Section
5    24.8-0.1 of this Code.
6        (2) Wears a hood, robe, or mask to conceal his or her
7    identity.
8        (3) Knowingly and without lawful justification shines
9    or flashes a laser gunsight or other laser device attached
10    to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so that
11    the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of
12    another.
13        (4) Knowingly video or audio records the offense with
14    the intent to disseminate the recording.
15    (g) Offense based on certain conduct. A person commits
16aggravated battery when, other than by discharge of a firearm,
17he or she does any of the following:
18        (1) Violates Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled
19    Substances Act by unlawfully delivering a controlled
20    substance to another and any user experiences great bodily
21    harm or permanent disability as a result of the injection,
22    inhalation, or ingestion of any amount of the controlled
23    substance.
24        (2) Knowingly administers to an individual or causes
25    him or her to take, without his or her consent or by threat
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1    intoxicating, poisonous, stupefying, narcotic, anesthetic,
2    or controlled substance, or gives to another person any
3    food containing any substance or object intended to cause
4    physical injury if eaten.
5        (3) Knowingly causes or attempts to cause a
6    correctional institution employee or Department of Human
7    Services employee to come into contact with blood, seminal
8    fluid, urine, or feces by throwing, tossing, or expelling
9    the fluid or material, and the person is an inmate of a
10    penal institution or is a sexually dangerous person or
11    sexually violent person in the custody of the Department of
12    Human Services.
13    (g-5) If an allegation is made by a correctional
14institution employee that an aggravated battery was committed
15upon his or her person by a committed person in the
16correctional institution where the employee is employed, while
17the employee was performing his or her official duties, the
18State's Attorney of the county where the correctional
19institution is located must file a criminal information in the
20circuit court or obtain an indictment against the committed
21person alleged to have committed an aggravated battery upon the
22correctional institution employee. The information or
23indictment may not be dismissed on the motion of the State
24without the consent of the victim of the alleged offense.
25    (h) Sentence. Unless otherwise provided, aggravated
26battery is a Class 3 felony.

 

 

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1    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(4),
2(d)(4), or (g)(3) is a Class 2 felony.
3    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(3) or
4(g)(1) is a Class 1 felony.
5    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(1) is a
6Class 1 felony when the aggravated battery was intentional and
7involved the infliction of torture, as defined in paragraph
8(14) of subsection (b) of Section 9-1 of this Code, as the
9infliction of or subjection to extreme physical pain, motivated
10by an intent to increase or prolong the pain, suffering, or
11agony of the victim.
12    Aggravated battery under subdivision (a)(5) is a Class 1
13felony if:
14        (A) the person used or attempted to use a dangerous
15    instrument while committing the offense; or
16        (B) the person caused great bodily harm or permanent
17    disability or disfigurement to the other person while
18    committing the offense; or
19        (C) the person has been previously convicted of a
20    violation of subdivision (a)(5) under the laws of this
21    State or laws similar to subdivision (a)(5) of any other
22    state.
23    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(1) is a
24Class X felony.
25    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(2) is a
26Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term

 

 

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1of imprisonment of a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of 45
2years.
3    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(5) is a
4Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
5of imprisonment of a minimum of 12 years and a maximum of 45
6years.
7    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(2),
8(e)(3), or (e)(4) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
9be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 15 years
10and a maximum of 60 years.
11    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(6),
12(e)(7), or (e)(8) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
13be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 20 years
14and a maximum of 60 years.
15    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (b)(1) is a
16Class X felony, except that:
17        (1) if the person committed the offense while armed
18    with a firearm, 15 years shall be added to the term of
19    imprisonment imposed by the court;
20        (2) if, during the commission of the offense, the
21    person personally discharged a firearm, 20 years shall be
22    added to the term of imprisonment imposed by the court;
23        (3) if, during the commission of the offense, the
24    person personally discharged a firearm that proximately
25    caused great bodily harm, permanent disability, permanent
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1    to a term of natural life shall be added to the term of
2    imprisonment imposed by the court.
3    (i) Definitions. For the purposes of this Section:
4    "Building or other structure used to provide shelter" has
5the meaning ascribed to "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic
6Violence Shelters Act.
7    "Domestic violence" has the meaning ascribed to it in
8Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
9    "Domestic violence shelter" means any building or other
10structure used to provide shelter or other services to victims
11or to the dependent children of victims of domestic violence
12pursuant to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or the
13Domestic Violence Shelters Act, or any place within 500 feet of
14such a building or other structure in the case of a person who
15is going to or from such a building or other structure.
16    "Firearm" has the meaning provided under Section 1.1 of the
17Firearm Owners Identification Card Act, and does not include an
18air rifle as defined by Section 24.8-0.1 of this Code.
19    "Machine gun" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
2024-1 of this Code.
21    "Merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 16-0.1
22of this Code.
23    "Strangle" means intentionally impeding the normal
24breathing or circulation of the blood of an individual by
25applying pressure on the throat or neck of that individual or
26by blocking the nose or mouth of that individual.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 98-369, eff. 1-1-14; 98-385, eff. 1-1-14; 98-756,
2eff. 7-16-14; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.