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90_HB1029eng

      725 ILCS 5/115-20 new
          Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963  to  permit
      the  admissibility  of  evidence  of  prior  convictions of a
      defendant for domestic battery, aggravated battery  committed
      against  a  family  or household member, stalking, aggravated
      stalking, or a violation of  an  order  of  protection  in  a
      related  criminal  prosecution for any of these offenses when
      the victim is the same person  who  was  the  victim  of  the
      previous   offense   that   resulted  in  conviction  of  the
      defendant.
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HB1029 Engrossed                               LRB9004245RCmg
 1        AN ACT to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 by
 2    adding Section 115-20.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The  Code  of  Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
 6    amended by adding Section 115-20 as follows:
 7        (725 ILCS 5/115-20 new)
 8        Sec. 115-20.  Evidence of prior conviction.  Evidence  of
 9    a  prior  conviction  of  a  defendant  for domestic battery,
10    aggravated battery committed against a  family  or  household
11    member  as  defined  in  Section 112A-3, stalking, aggravated
12    stalking,  or  violation  of  an  order  of   protection   is
13    admissible  in  a later criminal prosecution for any of these
14    types of offenses when the victim is the same person who  was
15    the   victim   of  the  previous  offense  that  resulted  in
16    conviction of the defendant.

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