95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB2608

 

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Daniel J. Burke

 

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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Gender Violence Act is amended by changing
5 Section 5 as follows:
 
6     (740 ILCS 82/5)
7     Sec. 5. Definition. In this Act, "gender-related
8 violence", which is a form of sex discrimination, means the the
9 following:
10         (1) One or more acts of violence or physical aggression
11     satisfying the elements of battery under the laws of
12     Illinois that are committed, at least in part, on the basis
13     of a person's sex, whether or not those acts have resulted
14     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 the
22     threat will commit the act.
23 (Source: P.A. 93-416, eff. 1-1-04.)