Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB4127

LRB104 14619 RLC 27761 b

104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB4127

Introduced 10/15/2025, by Rep. Tom Weber

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/49-7 new

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits failure to assist a person suffering a life-threatening injury or great bodily harm when he or she: (1) reasonably believes that another person residing in the same dwelling or whom the person personally visits in the dwelling is suffering a life-threatening injury or great bodily harm; and (2) knowingly fails to notify, as soon as possible after discovering the other person in that condition, a law enforcement agency or other public or private entity providing emergency medical technician services located within the municipality or unincorporated area where the person suffering the life-threatening injury or great bodily harm is found. Provides that if there is no law enforcement agency or other public or private entity providing emergency medical technician services located in the municipality or unincorporated area, then the notification shall be made to the agency or entity located within the same or nearest county to the discovery of the person suffering a life-threatening injury or great bodily harm. Provides that a violation is a Class 4 felony. Provides that if the violation results in the death, the person is guilty of a Class X felony.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by adding Section 49-7 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/49-7 new)

Sec. 49-7. Failure to assist a person suffering a life-threatening injury or great bodily harm.

(a) A person commits failure to assist a person suffering a life-threatening injury or great bodily harm when he or she:

(1) reasonably believes that another person residing in the same dwelling or whom the person personally visits in the dwelling is suffering a life-threatening injury or great bodily harm; and

(2) knowingly fails to notify, as soon as possible after discovering the other person in that condition, a law enforcement agency or other public or private entity providing emergency medical technician services located within the municipality or unincorporated area where the person suffering the life-threatening injury or great bodily harm is found.

If there is no law enforcement agency or other public or private entity providing emergency medical technician services located in the municipality or unincorporated area, then the notification shall be made to the agency or entity located within the same or nearest county to the discovery of the person suffering a life-threatening injury or great bodily harm.

(b) Sentence. Failure to assist a person suffering a life-threatening injury or great bodily harm is a Class 4 felony. If the violation results in death, the person is guilty of a Class X felony.