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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.

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