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91_SB1406

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code  of  1961  by  changing
 2    Section 12-4.

 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 Section 12-4 as follows:

 7        (720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
 8        Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
 9        (a)  A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally
10    or   knowingly   causes   great  bodily  harm,  or  permanent
11    disability or disfigurement commits aggravated battery.
12        (b)  In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated
13    battery if he or she:
14             (1)  Uses  a  deadly  weapon  other  than   by   the
15        discharge of a firearm;
16             (2)  Is  hooded,  robed or masked, in such manner as
17        to conceal his identity;
18             (3)  Knows the individual harmed to be a teacher  or
19        other  person  employed in any school and such teacher or
20        other employee is upon the grounds of a school or grounds
21        adjacent thereto, or is in any part of  a  building  used
22        for school purposes;
23             (4)  Knows the individual harmed to be a supervisor,
24        director, instructor or other person employed in any park
25        district  and  such  supervisor,  director, instructor or
26        other employee is upon the grounds of the park or grounds
27        adjacent thereto, or is in any part of  a  building  used
28        for park purposes;
29             (5)  Knows the individual harmed to be a caseworker,
30        investigator,  or  other  person  employed  by  the State
31        Department of Public Aid, a County Department  of  Public
 
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 1        Aid,  or  the  Department  of  Human  Services (acting as
 2        successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid  under
 3        the   Department   of   Human   Services  Act)  and  such
 4        caseworker, investigator, or other  person  is  upon  the
 5        grounds  of  a  public  aid  office  or  grounds adjacent
 6        thereto, or is in any part of a building used for  public
 7        aid  purposes,  or upon the grounds of a home of a public
 8        aid applicant,  recipient,  or  any  other  person  being
 9        interviewed  or  investigated in the employee's discharge
10        of his duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or  is  in
11        any part of a building in which the applicant, recipient,
12        or other such person resides or is located;
13             (6)  Knows  the  individual  harmed  to  be  a peace
14        officer, a community policing volunteer,  a  correctional
15        institution  employee,  or  a fireman while such officer,
16        volunteer,  employee  or  fireman  is  engaged   in   the
17        execution  of  any  official  duties  including arrest or
18        attempted arrest, or to prevent the  officer,  volunteer,
19        employee  or  fireman from performing official duties, or
20        in retaliation for the officer,  volunteer,  employee  or
21        fireman  performing  official  duties, and the battery is
22        committed other than by the discharge of a firearm;
23             (7)  Knows the individual harmed to be an  emergency
24        medical   technician   -   ambulance,  emergency  medical
25        technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
26        paramedic, ambulance driver,  other  medical  assistance,
27        first aid personnel, or hospital emergency room personnel
28        engaged  in the performance of any of his or her official
29        duties, or to prevent the emergency medical technician  -
30        ambulance,  emergency  medical technician - intermediate,
31        emergency  medical  technician  -  paramedic,   ambulance
32        driver, other medical assistance, first aid personnel, or
33        hospital   emergency   room   personnel  from  performing
34        official  duties,  or  in  retaliation   for   performing
 
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 1        official duties;
 2             (8)  Is,  or  the  person battered is, on or about a
 3        public  way,  public  property   or   public   place   of
 4        accommodation or amusement;
 5             (9)  Knows  the  individual harmed to be the driver,
 6        operator, employee or  passenger  of  any  transportation
 7        facility   or   system   engaged   in   the  business  of
 8        transportation of the public for hire and the  individual
 9        assaulted  is  then  performing  in such capacity or then
10        using such public transportation as a passenger or  using
11        any   area   of   any   description   designated  by  the
12        transportation facility or system as a vehicle  boarding,
13        departure, or transfer location;
14             (10)  Knowingly  and without legal justification and
15        by any means causes bodily harm to an  individual  of  60
16        years of age or older;
17             (11)  Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
18             (12)  Knows the individual harmed to be a judge whom
19        the  person  intended  to harm as a result of the judge's
20        performance of his or her official duties as a judge;
21             (13)  Knows the individual harmed to be an  employee
22        of   the  Illinois  Department  of  Children  and  Family
23        Services engaged in the  performance  of  his  authorized
24        duties as such employee;
25             (14)  Knows the individual harmed to be a person who
26        is physically handicapped; or
27             (15)  Knowingly  and without legal justification and
28        by any means causes bodily harm to a merchant who detains
29        the person for an  alleged  commission  of  retail  theft
30        under  Section  16A-5  of  this  Code. In this item (15),
31        "merchant" has the meaning  ascribed  to  it  in  Section
32        16A-2.4 of this Code; or.
33             (16)  Is, or the person battered is, in any building
34        or  other  structure  used  to  provide  shelter or other
 
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 1        services to  victims  of  domestic  violence  or  to  the
 2        dependent  children  of  victims of domestic violence, or
 3        within 500 feet of such a building or other structure.
 4        For the purpose of paragraph (14) of  subsection  (b)  of
 5    this Section, a physically handicapped person is a person who
 6    suffers    from    a   permanent   and   disabling   physical
 7    characteristic, resulting from  disease,  injury,  functional
 8    disorder or congenital condition.
 9        (c)  A  person who administers to an individual or causes
10    him to take, without his consent or by threat  or  deception,
11    and  for  other  than  medical  purposes,  any  intoxicating,
12    poisonous,  stupefying,  narcotic,  anesthetic, or controlled
13    substance commits aggravated battery.
14        (d)  A person who knowingly gives to another  person  any
15    food  that  contains any substance or object that is intended
16    to  cause  physical  injury  if  eaten,  commits   aggravated
17    battery.
18        (d-5)  An  inmate  of  a  penal institution who causes or
19    attempts to  cause  a  correctional  employee  of  the  penal
20    institution  to  come into contact with blood, seminal fluid,
21    urine, or feces, by  throwing,  tossing,  or  expelling  that
22    fluid  or  material commits aggravated battery.  For purposes
23    of this subsection (d-5),  "correctional  employee"  means  a
24    person who is employed by a penal institution.
25        (e)  Sentence.
26        Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony.
27    (Source: P.A.  90-115,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-651,  eff.  1-1-99;
28    90-735,  eff.  8-11-98;  91-357,  eff.  7-29-99; 91-488, eff.
29    1-1-00; 91-619, eff. 1-1-00; revised 8-30-99.)

30        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
31    becoming law.

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