102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1043

 

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
740 ILCS 82/5

    Amends the Gender Violence Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "gender-related violence".


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Gender Violence Act is amended by changing
5Section 5 as follows:
 
6    (740 ILCS 82/5)
7    Sec. 5. Definition. In this Act, "gender-related
8violence", which is a form of sex discrimination, means the
9the following:
10        (1) One or more acts of violence or physical
11    aggression satisfying the elements of battery under the
12    laws of Illinois that are committed, at least in part, on
13    the basis of a person's sex, whether or not those acts have
14    resulted in criminal charges, prosecution, or conviction.
15        (2) A physical intrusion or physical invasion of a
16    sexual nature under coercive conditions satisfying the
17    elements of battery under the laws of Illinois, whether or
18    not the act or acts resulted in criminal charges,
19    prosecution, or conviction.
20        (3) A threat of an act described in item (1) or (2)
21    causing a realistic apprehension that the originator of
22    the threat will commit the act.
23(Source: P.A. 93-416, eff. 1-1-04.)