Full Text of HB1588 94th General Assembly
HB1588sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. John J. Cullerton
Filed: 5/11/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1588
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1588 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 12-4 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
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| Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
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| (a) A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally or | 9 |
| knowingly
causes great bodily harm, or permanent disability or | 10 |
| disfigurement commits
aggravated battery.
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| (b) In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated | 12 |
| battery if he or
she:
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| (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by the discharge of | 14 |
| a firearm;
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| (2) Is hooded, robed or masked, in such manner as to | 16 |
| conceal his
identity;
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| (3) Knows the individual harmed to be a teacher or | 18 |
| other person
employed in any school and such teacher or | 19 |
| other employee is upon the
grounds of a school or grounds | 20 |
| adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a
building used for | 21 |
| school purposes;
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| (4) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be a | 23 |
| supervisor, director,
instructor or other person employed | 24 |
| in any park district and such
supervisor, director, |
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| instructor or other employee is upon the grounds
of the | 2 |
| park or grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a | 3 |
| building
used for park purposes ;
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| (5) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be a | 5 |
| caseworker, investigator, or
other person employed by the | 6 |
| State Department of Public Aid, a County
Department of | 7 |
| Public Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
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| successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under | 9 |
| the Department of
Human Services Act) and such caseworker, | 10 |
| investigator, or other
person is upon the grounds of a | 11 |
| public aid office or grounds adjacent
thereto, or is in any | 12 |
| part of a building used for public aid purposes,
or upon | 13 |
| the grounds of a home of a public aid applicant, recipient, | 14 |
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any other person being interviewed or investigated in | 15 |
| the employee's
discharge of his duties, or on grounds | 16 |
| adjacent thereto, or is in any
part of a building in which | 17 |
| the applicant, recipient, or other such
person resides or | 18 |
| is located ;
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| (6) Knows the individual harmed to be a peace officer,
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| a community
policing volunteer , a correctional institution | 21 |
| employee, an employee
of the Department of Human Services | 22 |
| supervising or controlling sexually
dangerous persons or | 23 |
| sexually violent persons, or a fireman while
such officer,
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| volunteer , employee or fireman is engaged in the execution | 25 |
| of
any official duties including arrest or attempted | 26 |
| arrest , or to prevent the
officer, volunteer , employee or | 27 |
| fireman from performing official duties, or in
retaliation | 28 |
| for the officer, volunteer , employee or fireman performing | 29 |
| official
duties, and the battery is committed other than by | 30 |
| the discharge of a firearm;
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| (7) Knows the individual harmed to be an emergency | 32 |
| medical technician -
ambulance, emergency medical | 33 |
| technician - intermediate, emergency medical
technician - | 34 |
| paramedic, ambulance driver, other medical assistance, |
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| first
aid personnel, or hospital personnel engaged in the
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| performance of any of his or her official duties,
or to | 3 |
| prevent the emergency medical technician - ambulance, | 4 |
| emergency medical
technician - intermediate, emergency | 5 |
| medical technician - paramedic, ambulance
driver, other | 6 |
| medical assistance, first aid personnel, or
hospital | 7 |
| personnel from performing
official duties, or in | 8 |
| retaliation for performing official duties;
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| (8) Is, or the person battered is, on or about a public | 10 |
| way, public
property or public place of accommodation or | 11 |
| amusement;
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| (9) Knows the individual harmed to be the driver, | 13 |
| operator, employee
or passenger of any transportation | 14 |
| facility or system engaged in the
business of | 15 |
| transportation of the public for hire and the individual
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| assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using | 17 |
| such public
transportation as a passenger or using any area | 18 |
| of any description
designated by the transportation | 19 |
| facility or system as a vehicle
boarding, departure, or | 20 |
| transfer location;
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| (10) Knowingly and without legal justification and by | 22 |
| any means
causes bodily harm to an individual of 60 years | 23 |
| of age or older;
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| (11) Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
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| (12) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be a judge | 26 |
| whom the
person intended to harm as a result of the judge's | 27 |
| performance of his or
her official duties as a judge ;
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| (13) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be an | 29 |
| employee of the Illinois
Department of Children and Family | 30 |
| Services engaged in the performance of
his authorized | 31 |
| duties as such employee ;
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| (14) Knows the individual harmed to be a person who is | 33 |
| physically
handicapped;
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| (15) Knowingly and without legal justification and by |
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| any means causes
bodily harm to a merchant who detains the | 2 |
| person for an alleged commission of
retail theft under | 3 |
| Section 16A-5 of this Code.
In this item (15), "merchant" | 4 |
| has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
16A-2.4 of this | 5 |
| Code;
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| (16) Is, or the person battered is, in any building or | 7 |
| other structure
used to provide shelter or other services | 8 |
| to victims or to the dependent
children of victims of | 9 |
| domestic violence pursuant to the Illinois Domestic
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| Violence Act of 1986 or the Domestic Violence Shelters Act, | 11 |
| or the person
battered is within 500 feet of such a | 12 |
| building or other structure while going
to or from such a | 13 |
| building or other structure. "Domestic violence" has the
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| meaning ascribed to it in Section 103 of the Illinois | 15 |
| Domestic Violence Act of
1986. "Building or other structure | 16 |
| used to provide shelter" has the meaning
ascribed to | 17 |
| "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic Violence Shelters | 18 |
| Act; or
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| (17) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be an | 20 |
| employee of a police or
sheriff's department engaged in the | 21 |
| performance of his or her official duties
as such employee ; | 22 |
| or . | 23 |
| (18) Knows the individual harmed to be an officer or | 24 |
| employee of the State of Illinois, a unit of local | 25 |
| government, or school district engaged in the performance | 26 |
| of his or her authorized duties as such officer or | 27 |
| employee.
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| For the purpose of paragraph (14) of subsection (b) of this | 29 |
| Section, a
physically handicapped person is a person who | 30 |
| suffers from a permanent and
disabling physical | 31 |
| characteristic, resulting from disease, injury,
functional | 32 |
| disorder or congenital condition.
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| (c) A person who administers to an individual or causes him | 34 |
| to take,
without his consent or by threat or deception, and for |
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| other than
medical purposes, any intoxicating, poisonous, | 2 |
| stupefying, narcotic,
anesthetic, or controlled substance | 3 |
| commits aggravated battery.
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| (d) A person who knowingly gives to another person any food | 5 |
| that
contains any substance or object that is intended to cause | 6 |
| physical
injury if eaten, commits aggravated battery.
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| (d-3) A person commits aggravated battery when he or she | 8 |
| knowingly and
without lawful justification shines or flashes a | 9 |
| laser gunsight or other laser
device that is attached or | 10 |
| affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a
firearm, so | 11 |
| that the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of | 12 |
| another.
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| (d-5) An inmate of a penal institution or a sexually | 14 |
| dangerous person or a
sexually violent person in the custody of | 15 |
| the Department of Human Services
who causes or attempts to | 16 |
| cause a
correctional employee of the penal institution or an | 17 |
| employee of the
Department of Human Services to come into | 18 |
| contact with blood,
seminal fluid, urine, or feces, by | 19 |
| throwing, tossing, or expelling that fluid
or material commits | 20 |
| aggravated battery. For purposes of this subsection (d-5),
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| "correctional employee" means a person who is employed by a | 22 |
| penal institution.
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| (e) Sentence.
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| Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony, except a violation | 25 |
| of subsection (a)
is a Class 2 felony when the person knows the | 26 |
| individual harmed to be a peace
officer engaged in the | 27 |
| execution of any of his or her official duties, or the
battery | 28 |
| is to prevent the officer from performing his or her official | 29 |
| duties,
or in retaliation for the officer performing his or her | 30 |
| official duties.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-516, eff. 1-1-02; 92-841, | 32 |
| eff.
8-22-02; 92-865, eff. 1-3-03; 93-83, eff. 7-2-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.".
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