HB5664 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5664

Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Hernandez

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

430 ILCS 67/5

Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Provides that the defined term "petitioner" includes a respondent's employer, coworker, or an employee or teacher of a specified school that a respondent has attended in the previous 6 months.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning safety.

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

Section 5. The Firearms Restraining Order Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(430 ILCS 67/5)

Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"Family member of the respondent" means a spouse, parent, child, or step-child of the respondent, any other person related by blood or present marriage to the respondent, or a person who shares a common dwelling with the respondent.

"Firearms restraining order" means an order issued by the court, prohibiting and enjoining a named person from having in his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing, or receiving any firearms.

"Intimate partner" means a spouse, former spouse, a person with whom the respondent has or allegedly has a child in common, or a person with whom the respondent has or has had a dating or engagement relationship.

"Petitioner" means:

(1) a family member of the respondent as defined in this Act; or

(2) a law enforcement officer who files a petition alleging that the respondent poses a danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having in his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; .

(3) an employer of the respondent;

(4) a coworker of the respondent, if the coworker has had substantial and regular interactions with the respondent for at least one year and has obtained the approval of the employer; or

(5) an employee or teacher of a secondary or postsecondary school that the respondent has attended in the previous 6 months, if the employee or teacher has obtained the approval of a school administrator or a school administration staff member with a supervisory role.

"Respondent" means the person alleged in the petition to pose a danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having in his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm.

(Source: P.A. 100-607, eff. 1-1-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)