97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB1754

 

Introduced 2/9/2011, by Sen. John G. Mulroe

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/12-2  from Ch. 38, par. 12-2

    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Includes in the offense of aggravated assault, the assault of an employee of a county juvenile detention center who provides direct and continuous supervision of residents of a juvenile detention center, including an employee of a county juvenile detention center who supervises recreational activity for residents of a juvenile detention center. Effective immediately.


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CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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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 1961 is amended by changing
5Section 12-2 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/12-2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 12-2)
7    Sec. 12-2. Aggravated assault.
8    (a) A person commits an aggravated assault, when, in
9committing an assault, he:
10        (1) Uses a deadly weapon, an air rifle as defined in
11    the Air Rifle Act, or any device manufactured and designed
12    to be substantially similar in appearance to a firearm,
13    other than by discharging a firearm in the direction of
14    another person, a peace officer, a person summoned or
15    directed by a peace officer, a correctional officer, a
16    private security officer, or a fireman or in the direction
17    of a vehicle occupied by another person, a peace officer, a
18    person summoned or directed by a peace officer, a
19    correctional officer, a private security officer, or a
20    fireman while the officer or fireman is engaged in the
21    execution of any of his official duties, or to prevent the
22    officer or fireman from performing his official duties, or
23    in retaliation for the officer or fireman performing his

 

 

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1    official duties;
2        (2) Is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to
3    conceal his identity or any device manufactured and
4    designed to be substantially similar in appearance to a
5    firearm;
6        (3) Knows the individual assaulted to be a teacher or
7    other person employed in any school and such teacher or
8    other employee is upon the grounds of a school or grounds
9    adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used for
10    school purposes;
11        (4) Knows the individual assaulted to be a supervisor,
12    director, instructor or other person employed in any park
13    district and such supervisor, director, instructor or
14    other employee is upon the grounds of the park or grounds
15    adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used for
16    park purposes;
17        (5) Knows the individual assaulted to be a caseworker,
18    investigator, or other person employed by the Department of
19    Healthcare and Family Services (formerly State Department
20    of Public Aid), a County Department of Public Aid, or the
21    Department of Human Services (acting as successor to the
22    Illinois Department of Public Aid under the Department of
23    Human Services Act) and such caseworker, investigator, or
24    other person is upon the grounds of a public aid office or
25    grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building
26    used for public aid purposes, or upon the grounds of a home

 

 

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1    of a public aid applicant, recipient or any other person
2    being interviewed or investigated in the employee's
3    discharge of his duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or
4    is in any part of a building in which the applicant,
5    recipient, or other such person resides or is located;
6        (6) Knows the individual assaulted to be a peace
7    officer, a community policing volunteer, a private
8    security officer, or a fireman while the officer or fireman
9    is engaged in the execution of any of his official duties,
10    or to prevent the officer, community policing volunteer, or
11    fireman from performing his official duties, or in
12    retaliation for the officer, community policing volunteer,
13    or fireman performing his official duties, and the assault
14    is committed other than by the discharge of a firearm in
15    the direction of the officer or fireman or in the direction
16    of a vehicle occupied by the officer or fireman;
17        (7) Knows the individual assaulted to be an emergency
18    medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
19    technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
20    paramedic, ambulance driver or other medical assistance or
21    first aid personnel engaged in the execution of any of his
22    official duties, or to prevent the emergency medical
23    technician - ambulance, emergency medical technician -
24    intermediate, emergency medical technician - paramedic,
25    ambulance driver, or other medical assistance or first aid
26    personnel from performing his official duties, or in

 

 

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1    retaliation for the emergency medical technician -
2    ambulance, emergency medical technician - intermediate,
3    emergency medical technician - paramedic, ambulance
4    driver, or other medical assistance or first aid personnel
5    performing his official duties;
6        (8) Knows the individual assaulted to be the driver,
7    operator, employee or passenger of any transportation
8    facility or system engaged in the business of
9    transportation of the public for hire and the individual
10    assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using
11    such public transportation as a passenger or using any area
12    of any description designated by the transportation
13    facility or system as a vehicle boarding, departure, or
14    transfer location;
15        (9) Or the individual assaulted is on or about a public
16    way, public property, or public place of accommodation or
17    amusement;
18        (9.5) Is, or the individual assaulted is, in or about a
19    publicly or privately owned sports or entertainment arena,
20    stadium, community or convention hall, special event
21    center, amusement facility, or a special event center in a
22    public park during any 24-hour period when a professional
23    sporting event, National Collegiate Athletic Association
24    (NCAA)-sanctioned sporting event, United States Olympic
25    Committee-sanctioned sporting event, or International
26    Olympic Committee-sanctioned sporting event is taking

 

 

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1    place in this venue;
2        (10) Knows the individual assaulted to be an employee
3    of the State of Illinois, a municipal corporation therein
4    or a political subdivision thereof, engaged in the
5    performance of his authorized duties as such employee;
6        (11) Knowingly and without legal justification,
7    commits an assault on a physically handicapped person;
8        (12) Knowingly and without legal justification,
9    commits an assault on a person 60 years of age or older;
10        (13) Discharges a firearm, other than from a motor
11    vehicle;
12        (13.5) Discharges a firearm from a motor vehicle;
13        (14) Knows the individual assaulted to be a
14    correctional officer, while the officer is engaged in the
15    execution of any of his or her official duties, or to
16    prevent the officer from performing his or her official
17    duties, or in retaliation for the officer performing his or
18    her official duties;
19        (14.5) Knows the individual assaulted to be a probation
20    officer, as defined in the Probation and Probation Officers
21    Act, while the officer is engaged in the execution of any
22    of his or her official duties, or to prevent the officer
23    from performing his or her official duties, or in
24    retaliation for the officer performing his or her official
25    duties;
26        (15) Knows the individual assaulted to be a

 

 

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1    correctional employee, an employee of a county juvenile
2    detention center who provides direct and continuous
3    supervision of residents of a juvenile detention center,
4    including an employee of a county juvenile detention center
5    who supervises recreational activity for residents of a
6    juvenile detention center, or an employee or officer of the
7    Department of Human Services supervising or controlling
8    sexually dangerous persons or sexually violent persons, or
9    an employee of a subcontractor of the Department of Human
10    Services supervising or controlling sexually dangerous
11    persons or sexually violent persons, while the employee or
12    officer is engaged in the execution of any of his or her
13    official duties, or to prevent the employee or officer from
14    performing his or her official duties, or in retaliation
15    for the employee or officer performing his or her official
16    duties, and the assault is committed other than by the
17    discharge of a firearm in the direction of the employee or
18    officer or in the direction of a vehicle occupied by the
19    employee or officer;
20        (16) Knows the individual assaulted to be an employee
21    of a police or sheriff's department, or a person who is
22    employed by a municipality and whose duties include traffic
23    control, engaged in the performance of his or her official
24    duties as such employee;
25        (17) Knows the individual assaulted to be a sports
26    official or coach at any level of competition and the act

 

 

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1    causing the assault to the sports official or coach
2    occurred within an athletic facility or an indoor or
3    outdoor playing field or within the immediate vicinity of
4    the athletic facility or an indoor or outdoor playing field
5    at which the sports official or coach was an active
6    participant in the athletic contest held at the athletic
7    facility. For the purposes of this paragraph (17), "sports
8    official" means a person at an athletic contest who
9    enforces the rules of the contest, such as an umpire or
10    referee; and "coach" means a person recognized as a coach
11    by the sanctioning authority that conducted the athletic
12    contest;
13        (18) Knows the individual assaulted to be an emergency
14    management worker, while the emergency management worker
15    is engaged in the execution of any of his or her official
16    duties, or to prevent the emergency management worker from
17    performing his or her official duties, or in retaliation
18    for the emergency management worker performing his or her
19    official duties, and the assault is committed other than by
20    the discharge of a firearm in the direction of the
21    emergency management worker or in the direction of a
22    vehicle occupied by the emergency management worker; or
23        (19) Knows the individual assaulted to be a utility
24    worker, while the utility worker is engaged in the
25    execution of his or her duties, or to prevent the utility
26    worker from performing his or her duties, or in retaliation

 

 

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1    for the utility worker performing his or her duties. In
2    this paragraph (19), "utility worker" means a person
3    employed by a public utility as defined in Section 3-105 of
4    the Public Utilities Act and also includes an employee of a
5    municipally owned utility, an employee of a cable
6    television company, an employee of an electric cooperative
7    as defined in Section 3-119 of the Public Utilities Act, an
8    independent contractor or an employee of an independent
9    contractor working on behalf of a cable television company,
10    public utility, municipally owned utility, or an electric
11    cooperative, or an employee of a telecommunications
12    carrier as defined in Section 13-202 of the Public
13    Utilities Act, an independent contractor or an employee of
14    an independent contractor working on behalf of a
15    telecommunications carrier, or an employee of a telephone
16    or telecommunications cooperative as defined in Section
17    13-212 of the Public Utilities Act, or an independent
18    contractor or an employee of an independent contractor
19    working on behalf of a telephone or telecommunications
20    cooperative.
21    (a-5) A person commits an aggravated assault when he or she
22knowingly and without lawful justification shines or flashes a
23laser gunsight or other laser device that is attached or
24affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so
25that the laser beam strikes near or in the immediate vicinity
26of any person.

 

 

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1    (a-10) A person commits an aggravated assault when he or
2she knowingly and without justification operates a motor
3vehicle in a manner which places a person in reasonable
4apprehension of being struck by a moving vehicle.
5    (b) Sentence.
6    Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs (1) through (5)
7and (8) through (12) and (17) and (19) of subsection (a) of
8this Section is a Class A misdemeanor. Aggravated assault as
9defined in paragraphs (13), (14), (14.5), and (15) of
10subsection (a) of this Section and as defined in subsection
11(a-5) or (a-10) of this Section is a Class 4 felony. Aggravated
12assault as defined in paragraphs (6) and (16) of subsection (a)
13of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor if a Category I,
14Category II, or Category III weapon is not used in the
15commission of the assault. Aggravated assault as defined in
16paragraphs (6) and (16) of subsection (a) of this Section is a
17Class 4 felony if a Category I, Category II, or Category III
18weapon is used in the commission of the assault. Aggravated
19assault as defined in paragraphs (7) and (18) of subsection (a)
20of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor if a firearm is not
21used in the commission of the assault. Aggravated assault as
22defined in paragraphs (7) and (18) of subsection (a) of this
23Section is a Class 4 felony if a firearm is used in the
24commission of the assault. Aggravated assault as defined in
25subsection (a-10) where the victim was a person defined in
26paragraph (6) or paragraph (13.5) of subsection (a) is a Class

 

 

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13 felony. For the purposes of this subsection (b), "Category I
2weapon", "Category II weapon", and "Category III weapon" have
3the meanings ascribed to those terms in subsection (c) of
4Section 33A-1 of this Code.
5    (c) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (6) of
6subsection (a), "private security officer" means a registered
7employee of a private security contractor agency under the
8Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security,
9Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004.
10(Source: P.A. 95-236, eff. 1-1-08; 95-292, eff. 8-20-07;
1195-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-429, eff. 1-1-08; 95-591, eff.
129-10-07; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08; 96-201, eff. 8-10-09; 96-1000,
13eff. 7-2-10; 96-1109, eff. 1-1-11; 96-1398, eff. 7-29-10;
14revised 9-16-10.)
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16becoming law.