101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB3991

 

Introduced 5/20/2020, by Sen. Ram Villivalam

 

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

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that battery of a merchant is aggravated battery: (i) when the merchant is performing his or her duties, including, but not limited to, relaying directions for healthcare or safety from his or her supervisor or employer or relaying health or safety guidelines, recommendations, regulations, or rules from a federal, State, or local public health agency; and (ii) during a disaster declared by the Governor, or a state of emergency declared by the mayor of the city in which the merchant is located, due to a public health emergency and for a period of 6 months after such declaration. Effective immediately.


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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, or Department of Human Services employee

 

 

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

 

 

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1accommodation or amusement, a sports venue, or a domestic
2violence shelter, or in a church, synagogue, mosque, or other
3building, structure, or place used for religious worship.
4    (d) Offense based on status of victim. A person commits
5aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
6discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered
7to be any of the following:
8        (1) A person 60 years of age or older.
9        (2) A person who is pregnant or has a physical
10    disability.
11        (3) A teacher or school employee upon school grounds or
12    grounds adjacent to a school or in any part of a building
13    used for school purposes.
14        (4) A peace officer, community policing volunteer,
15    fireman, private security officer, correctional
16    institution employee, or Department of Human Services
17    employee supervising or controlling sexually dangerous
18    persons or sexually violent persons:
19            (i) performing his or her official duties;
20            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
21        official duties; or
22            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
23        or her official duties.
24        (5) A judge, emergency management worker, emergency
25    medical services personnel, or utility worker:
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        (6) An officer or employee of the State of Illinois, a
6    unit of local government, or a school district, while
7    performing his or her official duties.
8        (7) A transit employee performing his or her official
9    duties, or a transit passenger.
10        (8) A taxi driver on duty.
11        (9) A merchant who detains the person for an alleged
12    commission of retail theft under Section 16-26 of this Code
13    and the person without legal justification by any means
14    causes bodily harm to the merchant.
15        (10) A person authorized to serve process under Section
16    2-202 of the Code of Civil Procedure or a special process
17    server appointed by the circuit court while that individual
18    is in the performance of his or her duties as a process
19    server.
20        (11) A nurse while in the performance of his or her
21    duties as a nurse.
22        (12) A merchant: (i) while performing his or her
23    duties, including, but not limited to, relaying directions
24    for healthcare or safety from his or her supervisor or
25    employer or relaying health or safety guidelines,
26    recommendations, regulations, or rules from a federal,

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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1battery is a Class 3 felony.
2    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(4),
3(d)(4), or (g)(3) is a Class 2 felony.
4    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(3) or
5(g)(1) is a Class 1 felony.
6    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(1) is a
7Class 1 felony when the aggravated battery was intentional and
8involved the infliction of torture, as defined in paragraph
9(14) of subsection (b) of Section 9-1 of this Code, as the
10infliction of or subjection to extreme physical pain, motivated
11by an intent to increase or prolong the pain, suffering, or
12agony of the victim.
13    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(1) is a
14Class 2 felony when the person causes great bodily harm or
15permanent disability to an individual whom the person knows to
16be a member of a congregation engaged in prayer or other
17religious activities at a church, synagogue, mosque, or other
18building, structure, or place used for religious worship.
19    Aggravated battery under subdivision (a)(5) is a Class 1
20felony if:
21        (A) the person used or attempted to use a dangerous
22    instrument while committing the offense; or
23        (B) the person caused great bodily harm or permanent
24    disability or disfigurement to the other person while
25    committing the offense; or
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1    violation of subdivision (a)(5) under the laws of this
2    State or laws similar to subdivision (a)(5) of any other
3    state.
4    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(1) is a
5Class X felony.
6    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(2) is a
7Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
8of imprisonment of a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of 45
9years.
10    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(5) is a
11Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
12of imprisonment of a minimum of 12 years and a maximum of 45
13years.
14    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(2),
15(e)(3), or (e)(4) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
16be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 15 years
17and a maximum of 60 years.
18    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(6),
19(e)(7), or (e)(8) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
20be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 20 years
21and a maximum of 60 years.
22    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (b)(1) is a
23Class X felony, except that:
24        (1) if the person committed the offense while armed
25    with a firearm, 15 years shall be added to the term of
26    imprisonment imposed by the court;

 

 

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1        (2) if, during the commission of the offense, the
2    person personally discharged a firearm, 20 years shall be
3    added to the term of imprisonment imposed by the court;
4        (3) if, during the commission of the offense, the
5    person personally discharged a firearm that proximately
6    caused great bodily harm, permanent disability, permanent
7    disfigurement, or death to another person, 25 years or up
8    to a term of natural life shall be added to the term of
9    imprisonment imposed by the court.
10    (i) Definitions. In this Section:
11    "Building or other structure used to provide shelter" has
12the meaning ascribed to "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic
13Violence Shelters Act.
14    "Domestic violence" has the meaning ascribed to it in
15Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
16    "Domestic violence shelter" means any building or other
17structure used to provide shelter or other services to victims
18or to the dependent children of victims of domestic violence
19pursuant to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or the
20Domestic Violence Shelters Act, or any place within 500 feet of
21such a building or other structure in the case of a person who
22is going to or from such a building or other structure.
23    "Firearm" has the meaning provided under Section 1.1 of the
24Firearm Owners Identification Card Act, and does not include an
25air rifle as defined by Section 24.8-0.1 of this Code.
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124-1 of this Code.
2    "Merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 16-0.1
3of this Code.
4    "Strangle" means intentionally impeding the normal
5breathing or circulation of the blood of an individual by
6applying pressure on the throat or neck of that individual or
7by blocking the nose or mouth of that individual.
8(Source: P.A. 101-223, eff. 1-1-20; revised 9-24-19.)
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10becoming law.