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                                     LRB093 05565 RLC 15837 a

 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 569

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  569  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section   5.   The  Criminal  Code of 1961 is amended by
 5    changing Section 31-1a as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 5/31-1a) (from Ch. 38, par. 31-1a)
 7        Sec. 31-1a.  Disarming a peace  officer  or  correctional
 8    institution employee.  A person who, without the consent of a
 9    peace officer or correctional institution employee as defined
10    in  subsection (b) of Section 31-1, takes or attempts to take
11    a weapon from knowingly disarms a person known to him or  her
12    to  be  a peace officer or correctional institution employee,
13    while the peace officer or correctional institution  employee
14    is  engaged  in the performance of his or her official duties
15    by taking a firearm from the person of the peace  officer  or
16    from  an  area  within  the  peace  officer's or correctional
17    institution employee's  immediate  presence  is  without  the
18    peace officer's consent shall be guilty of a Class 2 felony.
19    (Source: P.A. 84-181.)

20        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
21    becoming law.".