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90_HB2025 720 ILCS 5/12-3.3 new Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of aggravated domestic battery. Requires a person sentenced to a first or subsequent offense for aggravated domestic battery to serve at least a mandatory 48 consecutive hours of imprisonment. Penalty for the offense is a Class 3 felony. LRB9004696RCks LRB9004696RCks 1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by adding 2 Section 12-3.3. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by 6 adding Section 12-3.3 as follows: 7 (720 ILCS 5/12-3.3 new) 8 Sec. 12-3.3. Aggravated domestic battery. 9 (a) A person commits aggravated domestic battery when in 10 committing domestic battery he or she: 11 (1) uses a firearm; or 12 (2) knows the person who is the victim of the 13 domestic battery to be pregnant; or 14 (3) knows the person who is the victim of the 15 domestic battery to be physically handicapped; or 16 (4) causes great bodily harm. 17 (b) Sentence. Aggravated domestic battery is a Class 3 18 felony. In addition to any other sentence imposed by the 19 court, a person convicted of a first or subsequent offense of 20 aggravated domestic battery shall be mandatorily sentenced to 21 a minimum of 48 consecutive hours of imprisonment. The 22 imprisonment shall not be subject to suspension, nor shall 23 the person be eligible for probation in order to reduce the 24 sentence to less than the 48 consecutive hours of 25 imprisonment.