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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1223

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1223, by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:

 4        "AN  ACT  to  amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
 5    Section 12-4.3."; and

 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:

 8        "Section  5.  The  Criminal  Code  of  1961 is amended by
 9    changing Section 12-4.3 as follows:

10        (720 ILCS 5/12-4.3) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4.3)
11        Sec. 12-4.3.  Aggravated battery of a child.
12        (a)  Any person of the  age  18  years  and  upwards  who
13    intentionally  or  knowingly, and without legal justification
14    and by any means,  causes  great  bodily  harm  or  permanent
15    disability or disfigurement to any child under the age of 18
16    13  years  or to any institutionalized severely or profoundly
17    mentally retarded person, commits the offense  of  aggravated
18    battery of a child.
19        (b)  Sentence.
20             (1)  Except  as  otherwise provided in paragraph (2)
21        of this subsection (b), aggravated battery of a child  is
 
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 1        a Class X felony.
 2             (2)  If the victim was a child under 18 years of age
 3        at  the  time  of  the  commission of the offense and the
 4        offender was a person having care of the  child,  whether
 5        assumed  voluntarily  or  because  of a legal obligation,
 6        including when the child has been placed by  his  or  her
 7        parents,  caretaker,  or  by  a  licensed child placement
 8        agency for care or treatment,  aggravated  battery  of  a
 9        child  is a Class X felony for which the offender must be
10        sentenced to a minimum term of imprisonment of 10  years.
11        A second or subsequent violation of this paragraph (2) is
12        a Class X felony for which the offender must be sentenced
13        to a minimum term of imprisonment of 20 years.
14    (Source: P.A. 89-313, eff. 1-1-96.)".

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