101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB1482

 

Introduced , by Rep. Tony McCombie

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/12-3.05  was 720 ILCS 5/12-4

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person also commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by the discharge of a firearm, he or she knowingly causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement to an individual whom the person knows to be a person working under the Adult Protective Services Program or an Ombudsman under the State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program of the Department on Aging, Department of Children and Family Services employee: (1) performing his or her official duties; (2) battered to prevent performance of his or her official duties; or (3) battered in retaliation for performing his or her official duties. Provides that a violation is a Class 1 felony. Provides that a person also commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered to be a person working under the Adult Protective Services Program or an Ombudsman under the State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program of the Department on Aging, Department of Children and Family Services employee: (1) performing his or her official duties; (2) battered to prevent performance of his or her official duties; or (3) battered in retaliation for performing his or her official duties. Provides that a violation is a Class 2 felony. Defines "Department of Children and Family Services employee".


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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
5Section 12-3.05 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/12-3.05)  (was 720 ILCS 5/12-4)
7    Sec. 12-3.05. Aggravated battery.
8    (a) Offense based on injury. A person commits aggravated
9battery when, in committing a battery, other than by the
10discharge of a firearm, he or she knowingly does any of the
11following:
12        (1) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
13    disfigurement.
14        (2) Causes severe and permanent disability, great
15    bodily harm, or disfigurement by means of a caustic or
16    flammable substance, a poisonous gas, a deadly biological
17    or chemical contaminant or agent, a radioactive substance,
18    or a bomb or explosive compound.
19        (3) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
20    disfigurement to an individual whom the person knows to be
21    a peace officer, community policing volunteer, fireman,
22    private security officer, correctional institution
23    employee, a person working under the Adult Protective

 

 

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1    Services Program or an Ombudsman under the State Long Term
2    Care Ombudsman Program of the Department on Aging,
3    Department of Children and Family Services employee, or
4    Department of Human Services employee supervising or
5    controlling sexually dangerous persons or sexually violent
6    persons:
7            (i) performing his or her official duties;
8            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
9        official duties; or
10            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
11        or her official duties.
12        (4) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
13    disfigurement to an individual 60 years of age or older.
14        (5) Strangles another individual.
15    (b) Offense based on injury to a child or person with an
16intellectual disability. A person who is at least 18 years of
17age commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery,
18he or she knowingly and without legal justification by any
19means:
20        (1) causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
21    disfigurement to any child under the age of 13 years, or to
22    any person with a severe or profound intellectual
23    disability; or
24        (2) causes bodily harm or disability or disfigurement
25    to any child under the age of 13 years or to any person
26    with a severe or profound intellectual disability.

 

 

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1    (c) Offense based on location of conduct. A person commits
2aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
3the discharge of a firearm, he or she is or the person battered
4is on or about a public way, public property, a public place of
5accommodation or amusement, a sports venue, or a domestic
6violence shelter.
7    (d) Offense based on status of victim. A person commits
8aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
9discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered
10to be any of the following:
11        (1) A person 60 years of age or older.
12        (2) A person who is pregnant or has a physical
13    disability.
14        (3) A teacher or school employee upon school grounds or
15    grounds adjacent to a school or in any part of a building
16    used for school purposes.
17        (4) A peace officer, community policing volunteer,
18    fireman, private security officer, correctional
19    institution employee, a person working under the Adult
20    Protective Services Program or an Ombudsman under the State
21    Long Term Care Ombudsman Program of the Department on
22    Aging, Department of Children and Family Services
23    employee, or Department of Human Services employee
24    supervising or controlling sexually dangerous persons or
25    sexually violent persons:
26            (i) performing his or her official duties;

 

 

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1            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
2        official duties; or
3            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
4        or her official duties.
5        (5) A judge, emergency management worker, emergency
6    medical services personnel, or utility worker:
7            (i) performing his or her official duties;
8            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
9        official duties; or
10            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
11        or her official duties.
12        (6) An officer or employee of the State of Illinois, a
13    unit of local government, or a school district, while
14    performing his or her official duties.
15        (7) A transit employee performing his or her official
16    duties, or a transit passenger.
17        (8) A taxi driver on duty.
18        (9) A merchant who detains the person for an alleged
19    commission of retail theft under Section 16-26 of this Code
20    and the person without legal justification by any means
21    causes bodily harm to the merchant.
22        (10) A person authorized to serve process under Section
23    2-202 of the Code of Civil Procedure or a special process
24    server appointed by the circuit court while that individual
25    is in the performance of his or her duties as a process
26    server.

 

 

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1        (11) A nurse while in the performance of his or her
2    duties as a nurse.
3    (e) Offense based on use of a firearm. A person commits
4aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or she
5knowingly does any of the following:
6        (1) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
7    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
8    another person.
9        (2) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
10    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
11    a person he or she knows to be a peace officer, community
12    policing volunteer, person summoned by a police officer,
13    fireman, private security officer, correctional
14    institution employee, or emergency management worker:
15            (i) performing his or her official duties;
16            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
17        official duties; or
18            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
19        or her official duties.
20        (3) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
21    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
22    a person he or she knows to be emergency medical services
23    personnel:
24            (i) performing his or her official duties;
25            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
26        official duties; or

 

 

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1            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
2        or her official duties.
3        (4) Discharges a firearm and causes any injury to a
4    person he or she knows to be a teacher, a student in a
5    school, or a school employee, and the teacher, student, or
6    employee is upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a
7    school or in any part of a building used for school
8    purposes.
9        (5) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
10    a silencer, and causes any injury to another person.
11        (6) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
12    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
13    knows to be a peace officer, community policing volunteer,
14    person summoned by a police officer, fireman, private
15    security officer, correctional institution employee or
16    emergency management worker:
17            (i) performing his or her official duties;
18            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
19        official duties; or
20            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
21        or her official duties.
22        (7) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
23    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
24    knows to be emergency medical services personnel:
25            (i) performing his or her official duties;
26            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her

 

 

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1        official duties; or
2            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
3        or her official duties.
4        (8) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
5    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
6    knows to be a teacher, or a student in a school, or a
7    school employee, and the teacher, student, or employee is
8    upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a school or in
9    any part of a building used for school purposes.
10    (f) Offense based on use of a weapon or device. A person
11commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or
12she does any of the following:
13        (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by discharge of a
14    firearm, or uses an air rifle as defined in Section
15    24.8-0.1 of this Code.
16        (2) Wears a hood, robe, or mask to conceal his or her
17    identity.
18        (3) Knowingly and without lawful justification shines
19    or flashes a laser gunsight or other laser device attached
20    to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so that
21    the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of
22    another.
23        (4) Knowingly video or audio records the offense with
24    the intent to disseminate the recording.
25    (g) Offense based on certain conduct. A person commits
26aggravated battery when, other than by discharge of a firearm,

 

 

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1he or she does any of the following:
2        (1) Violates Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled
3    Substances Act by unlawfully delivering a controlled
4    substance to another and any user experiences great bodily
5    harm or permanent disability as a result of the injection,
6    inhalation, or ingestion of any amount of the controlled
7    substance.
8        (2) Knowingly administers to an individual or causes
9    him or her to take, without his or her consent or by threat
10    or deception, and for other than medical purposes, any
11    intoxicating, poisonous, stupefying, narcotic, anesthetic,
12    or controlled substance, or gives to another person any
13    food containing any substance or object intended to cause
14    physical injury if eaten.
15        (3) Knowingly causes or attempts to cause a
16    correctional institution employee or Department of Human
17    Services employee to come into contact with blood, seminal
18    fluid, urine, or feces by throwing, tossing, or expelling
19    the fluid or material, and the person is an inmate of a
20    penal institution or is a sexually dangerous person or
21    sexually violent person in the custody of the Department of
22    Human Services.
23    (h) Sentence. Unless otherwise provided, aggravated
24battery is a Class 3 felony.
25    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(4),
26(d)(4), or (g)(3) is a Class 2 felony.

 

 

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1    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(3) or
2(g)(1) is a Class 1 felony.
3    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(1) is a
4Class 1 felony when the aggravated battery was intentional and
5involved the infliction of torture, as defined in paragraph
6(14) of subsection (b) of Section 9-1 of this Code, as the
7infliction of or subjection to extreme physical pain, motivated
8by an intent to increase or prolong the pain, suffering, or
9agony of the victim.
10    Aggravated battery under subdivision (a)(5) is a Class 1
11felony if:
12        (A) the person used or attempted to use a dangerous
13    instrument while committing the offense; or
14        (B) the person caused great bodily harm or permanent
15    disability or disfigurement to the other person while
16    committing the offense; or
17        (C) the person has been previously convicted of a
18    violation of subdivision (a)(5) under the laws of this
19    State or laws similar to subdivision (a)(5) of any other
20    state.
21    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(1) is a
22Class X felony.
23    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(2) is a
24Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
25of imprisonment of a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of 45
26years.

 

 

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1    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(5) is a
2Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
3of imprisonment of a minimum of 12 years and a maximum of 45
4years.
5    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(2),
6(e)(3), or (e)(4) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
7be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 15 years
8and a maximum of 60 years.
9    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(6),
10(e)(7), or (e)(8) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
11be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 20 years
12and a maximum of 60 years.
13    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (b)(1) is a
14Class X felony, except that:
15        (1) if the person committed the offense while armed
16    with a firearm, 15 years shall be added to the term of
17    imprisonment imposed by the court;
18        (2) if, during the commission of the offense, the
19    person personally discharged a firearm, 20 years shall be
20    added to the term of imprisonment imposed by the court;
21        (3) if, during the commission of the offense, the
22    person personally discharged a firearm that proximately
23    caused great bodily harm, permanent disability, permanent
24    disfigurement, or death to another person, 25 years or up
25    to a term of natural life shall be added to the term of
26    imprisonment imposed by the court.

 

 

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1    (i) Definitions. For the purposes of this Section:
2    "Building or other structure used to provide shelter" has
3the meaning ascribed to "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic
4Violence Shelters Act.
5    "Department of Children and Family Services employee"
6includes a worker, case worker, or investigator employed by an
7agency or organization providing social work, case work, or
8investigative services under a contract with or a grant from
9the Department of Children and Family Services.
10    "Domestic violence" has the meaning ascribed to it in
11Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
12    "Domestic violence shelter" means any building or other
13structure used to provide shelter or other services to victims
14or to the dependent children of victims of domestic violence
15pursuant to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or the
16Domestic Violence Shelters Act, or any place within 500 feet of
17such a building or other structure in the case of a person who
18is going to or from such a building or other structure.
19    "Firearm" has the meaning provided under Section 1.1 of the
20Firearm Owners Identification Card Act, and does not include an
21air rifle as defined by Section 24.8-0.1 of this Code.
22    "Machine gun" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
2324-1 of this Code.
24    "Merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 16-0.1
25of this Code.
26    "Strangle" means intentionally impeding the normal

 

 

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1breathing or circulation of the blood of an individual by
2applying pressure on the throat or neck of that individual or
3by blocking the nose or mouth of that individual.
4(Source: P.A. 98-369, eff. 1-1-14; 98-385, eff. 1-1-14; 98-756,
5eff. 7-16-14; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-816, eff. 8-15-16.)