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91_HB0022

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
 2    Sections 12-2 and 12-6.1 and adding Section 12-6.4.

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

 5        Section  5.   The  Criminal  Code  of  1961 is amended by
 6    changing Sections 12-2 and 12-6.1 and adding  Section  12-6.4
 7    as follows:

 8        (720 ILCS 5/12-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-2)
 9        Sec. 12-2.  Aggravated assault.
10        (a)  A  person  commits  an  aggravated assault, when, in
11    committing an assault, he:
12             (1)  Uses a deadly weapon or any device manufactured
13        and designed to be substantially similar in appearance to
14        a firearm, other than by discharging  a  firearm  in  the
15        direction  of  another  person, a peace officer, a person
16        summoned or directed by a peace officer,  a  correctional
17        officer  or  a  fireman  or in the direction of a vehicle
18        occupied by another person, a  peace  officer,  a  person
19        summoned  or  directed by a peace officer, a correctional
20        officer or a fireman while  the  officer  or  fireman  is
21        engaged  in  the execution of any of his official duties,
22        or to prevent the officer or fireman from performing  his
23        official  duties,  or  in  retaliation for the officer or
24        fireman performing his official duties;
25             (2)  Is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to
26        conceal his  identity  or  any  device  manufactured  and
27        designed  to  be substantially similar in appearance to a
28        firearm;
29             (3)  Knows the individual assaulted to be a  teacher
30        or  other  person employed in any school and such teacher
31        or other employee is upon the  grounds  of  a  school  or
 
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 1        grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building
 2        used for school purposes;
 3             (4)  Knows   the   individual   assaulted  to  be  a
 4        supervisor, director, instructor or other person employed
 5        in any  park  district  and  such  supervisor,  director,
 6        instructor  or  other employee is upon the grounds of the
 7        park or grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of  a
 8        building used for park purposes;
 9             (5)  Knows   the   individual   assaulted  to  be  a
10        caseworker, investigator, or other person employed by the
11        State Department of Public Aid, a  County  Department  of
12        Public  Aid,  or the Department of Human Services (acting
13        as successor to the Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid
14        under  the  Department  of  Human  Services Act) and such
15        caseworker, investigator, or other  person  is  upon  the
16        grounds  of  a  public  aid  office  or  grounds adjacent
17        thereto, or is in any part of a building used for  public
18        aid  purposes,  or upon the grounds of a home of a public
19        aid  applicant,  recipient  or  any  other  person  being
20        interviewed or investigated in the  employees'  discharge
21        of  his  duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or is in
22        any part of a building in which the applicant, recipient,
23        or other such person resides or is located;
24             (6)  Knows the individual assaulted to  be  a  peace
25        officer,  or a community policing volunteer, or a fireman
26        while the officer or fireman is engaged in the  execution
27        of any of his official duties, or to prevent the officer,
28        community  policing volunteer, or fireman from performing
29        his official duties, or in retaliation for  the  officer,
30        community  policing  volunteer, or fireman performing his
31        official duties, and the assault is committed other  than
32        by  the  discharge  of  a firearm in the direction of the
33        officer or fireman or  in  the  direction  of  a  vehicle
34        occupied by the officer or fireman;
 
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 1             (7)  Knows   the   individual  assaulted  to  be  an
 2        emergency  medical  technician  -  ambulance,   emergency
 3        medical  technician  -  intermediate,  emergency  medical
 4        technician - paramedic, ambulance driver or other medical
 5        assistance   or   first   aid  personnel  employed  by  a
 6        municipality or other governmental unit  engaged  in  the
 7        execution  of  any  of his official duties, or to prevent
 8        the emergency medical technician -  ambulance,  emergency
 9        medical  technician  -  intermediate,  emergency  medical
10        technician   -  paramedic,  ambulance  driver,  or  other
11        medical assistance or first aid personnel from performing
12        his official duties, or in retaliation for the  emergency
13        medical   technician   -   ambulance,  emergency  medical
14        technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
15        paramedic, ambulance driver, or other medical  assistance
16        or first aid personnel performing his official duties;
17             (8)  Knows   the  individual  assaulted  to  be  the
18        driver,  operator,   employee   or   passenger   of   any
19        transportation facility or system engaged in the business
20        of   transportation  of  the  public  for  hire  and  the
21        individual assaulted is then performing in such  capacity
22        or  then  using such public transportation as a passenger
23        or using any area of any description  designated  by  the
24        transportation  facility or system as a vehicle boarding,
25        departure, or transfer location;
26             (9)  Or the individual assaulted is on  or  about  a
27        public   way,   public   property,  or  public  place  of
28        accommodation or amusement;
29             (10)  Knows  the  individual  assaulted  to  be   an
30        employee   of   the   State   of  Illinois,  a  municipal
31        corporation therein or a political  subdivision  thereof,
32        engaged  in  the  performance of his authorized duties as
33        such employee;
34             (11)  Knowingly  and  without  legal  justification,
 
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 1        commits an assault on a physically handicapped person;
 2             (12)  Knowingly  and  without  legal  justification,
 3        commits an assault on a person 60 years of age or older;
 4             (13)  Discharges a firearm;
 5             (14)  Knows  the  individual  assaulted  to   be   a
 6        correctional officer, while the officer is engaged in the
 7        execution  of  any  of  his or her official duties, or to
 8        prevent the officer from performing his or  her  official
 9        duties,  or in retaliation for the officer performing his
10        or her official duties; or
11             (15)  Knows  the  individual  assaulted  to   be   a
12        correctional  employee,  while the employee is engaged in
13        the execution of any of his or her official duties, or to
14        prevent the employee from performing his or her  official
15        duties, or in retaliation for the employee performing his
16        or  her  official  duties,  and  the assault is committed
17        other than by the discharge of a firearm in the direction
18        of the employee or in the direction of a vehicle occupied
19        by the employee.
20        (b)  Sentence.
21        Aggravated assault as defined  in  paragraphs  (1),  (2),
22    (4),  and  through (5) and (7) through (12) of subsection (a)
23    of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor.  Aggravated assault
24    as defined  in  paragraphs  (3),  (13),  (14),  and  (15)  of
25    subsection   (a)  of  this  Section  is  a  Class  4  felony.
26    Aggravated assault as defined in paragraph (6) of  subsection
27    (a)  of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor if a firearm is
28    not used  in  the  commission  of  the  assault.   Aggravated
29    assault as defined in paragraph (6) of subsection (a) of this
30    Section  is  a  Class  4  felony  if a firearm is used in the
31    commission of the assault.
32    (Source: P.A. 89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-406,  eff.  8-15-97;
33    90-651, eff. 1-1-99.)
 
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 1        (720 ILCS 5/12-6.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-6.1)
 2        Sec.   12-6.1.  Compelling   organization  membership  of
 3    persons. A person who expressly or impliedly threatens to  do
 4    bodily  harm  or does bodily harm to an individual or to that
 5    individual's family or uses  any  other  criminally  unlawful
 6    means  to  solicit  or cause any person to join, or deter any
 7    person  from  leaving,  any   organization   or   association
 8    regardless of the nature of such organization or association,
 9    is guilty of a Class 2 felony.
10        A  violation of this Section occurring, regardless of the
11    time of day or the time of year, in a  school,  on  the  real
12    property  comprising  a  school, on a public way within 1,000
13    feet of a school,  or  in  a  conveyance  owned,  leased,  or
14    contracted  by  a  school  to  transport  students to or from
15    school or a school related activity is a Class 1 felony.  For
16    purposes of this Section, "school" means a public or  private
17    elementary  or  secondary school, community college, college,
18    or university.
19        Any person of the age of 18 years or older who  expressly
20    or  impliedly threatens to do bodily harm or does bodily harm
21    to a  person  under  18  years  of  age  or  uses  any  other
22    criminally  unlawful  means  to  solicit  or cause any person
23    under 18 years of age to join, or deter any person  under  18
24    years  of  age  from leaving, any organization or association
25    regardless of the nature of such organization or  association
26    is guilty of a Class 1 felony.
27        A person convicted of an offense under this Section shall
28    not   be   eligible  to  receive  a  sentence  of  probation,
29    conditional discharge, or periodic imprisonment.
30    (Source: P.A. 88-680, eff. 1-1-95; 89-8, eff. 1-1-96; 89-314,
31    eff. 1-1-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)

32        (720 ILCS 5/12-6.4 new)
 
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 1        Sec. 12-6.4.  Displaying gang imagery.
 2        (a)  A person who displays imagery created in furtherance
 3    of gang-related activity or gang affiliation within a  school
 4    or  on  the  real  property  comprising  a school commits the
 5    offense of displaying gang imagery.
 6        (b)  Sentence.  Displaying gang  imagery  is  a  Class  A
 7    misdemeanor.
 8        (c)  Definitions.  For purposes of this Section:
 9             (1)  "Gang"  and  "gang-related"  have  the meanings
10        ascribed to them in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang
11        Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
12             (2)  "School" means any public or private elementary
13        or  secondary  school,  community  college,  college,  or
14        university.

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