Public Act 098-0369
 
HB0801 EnrolledLRB098 03646 RLC 33662 b

    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
Section 12-3.05 as follows:
 
    (720 ILCS 5/12-3.05)  (was 720 ILCS 5/12-4)
    Sec. 12-3.05. Aggravated battery.
    (a) Offense based on injury. A person commits aggravated
battery when, in committing a battery, other than by the
discharge of a firearm, he or she knowingly does any of the
following:
        (1) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
    disfigurement.
        (2) Causes severe and permanent disability, great
    bodily harm, or disfigurement by means of a caustic or
    flammable substance, a poisonous gas, a deadly biological
    or chemical contaminant or agent, a radioactive substance,
    or a bomb or explosive compound.
        (3) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
    disfigurement to an individual whom the person knows to be
    a peace officer, community policing volunteer, fireman,
    private security officer, correctional institution
    employee, or Department of Human Services employee
    supervising or controlling sexually dangerous persons or
    sexually violent persons:
            (i) performing his or her official duties;
            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
        official duties; or
            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
        or her official duties.
        (4) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
    disfigurement to an individual 60 years of age or older.
        (5) Strangles another individual.
    (b) Offense based on injury to a child or intellectually
disabled person. A person who is at least 18 years of age
commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or
she knowingly and without legal justification by any means:
        (1) causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
    disfigurement to any child under the age of 13 years, or to
    any severely or profoundly intellectually disabled person;
    or
        (2) causes bodily harm or disability or disfigurement
    to any child under the age of 13 years or to any severely
    or profoundly intellectually disabled person.
    (c) Offense based on location of conduct. A person commits
aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
the discharge of a firearm, he or she is or the person battered
is on or about a public way, public property, a public place of
accommodation or amusement, a sports venue, or a domestic
violence shelter.
    (d) Offense based on status of victim. A person commits
aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered
to be any of the following:
        (1) A person 60 years of age or older.
        (2) A person who is pregnant or physically handicapped.
        (3) A teacher or school employee upon school grounds or
    grounds adjacent to a school or in any part of a building
    used for school purposes.
        (4) A peace officer, community policing volunteer,
    fireman, private security officer, correctional
    institution employee, or Department of Human Services
    employee supervising or controlling sexually dangerous
    persons or sexually violent persons:
            (i) performing his or her official duties;
            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
        official duties; or
            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
        or her official duties.
        (5) A judge, emergency management worker, emergency
    medical technician, or utility worker:
            (i) performing his or her official duties;
            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
        official duties; or
            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
        or her official duties.
        (6) An officer or employee of the State of Illinois, a
    unit of local government, or a school district, while
    performing his or her official duties.
        (7) A transit employee performing his or her official
    duties, or a transit passenger.
        (8) A taxi driver on duty.
        (9) A merchant who detains the person for an alleged
    commission of retail theft under Section 16-26 of this Code
    and the person without legal justification by any means
    causes bodily harm to the merchant.
        (10) A person authorized to serve process under Section
    2-202 of the Code of Civil Procedure or a special process
    server appointed by the circuit court while that individual
    is in the performance of his or her duties as a process
    server.
        (11) A nurse while in the performance of his or her
    duties as a nurse.
    (e) Offense based on use of a firearm. A person commits
aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or she
knowingly does any of the following:
        (1) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
    another person.
        (2) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
    a person he or she knows to be a peace officer, community
    policing volunteer, person summoned by a police officer,
    fireman, private security officer, correctional
    institution employee, or emergency management worker:
            (i) performing his or her official duties;
            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
        official duties; or
            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
        or her official duties.
        (3) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
    a person he or she knows to be an emergency medical
    technician employed by a municipality or other
    governmental unit:
            (i) performing his or her official duties;
            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
        official duties; or
            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
        or her official duties.
        (4) Discharges a firearm and causes any injury to a
    person he or she knows to be a teacher, a student in a
    school, or a school employee, and the teacher, student, or
    employee is upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a
    school or in any part of a building used for school
    purposes.
        (5) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
    a silencer, and causes any injury to another person.
        (6) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
    knows to be a peace officer, community policing volunteer,
    person summoned by a police officer, fireman, private
    security officer, correctional institution employee or
    emergency management worker:
            (i) performing his or her official duties;
            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
        official duties; or
            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
        or her official duties.
        (7) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
    knows to be an emergency medical technician employed by a
    municipality or other governmental unit:
            (i) performing his or her official duties;
            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
        official duties; or
            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
        or her official duties.
        (8) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
    knows to be a teacher, or a student in a school, or a
    school employee, and the teacher, student, or employee is
    upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a school or in
    any part of a building used for school purposes.
    (f) Offense based on use of a weapon or device. A person
commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or
she does any of the following:
        (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by discharge of a
    firearm, or uses an air rifle as defined in the Air Rifle
    Act.
        (2) Wears a hood, robe, or mask to conceal his or her
    identity.
        (3) Knowingly and without lawful justification shines
    or flashes a laser gunsight or other laser device attached
    to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so that
    the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of
    another.
    (g) Offense based on certain conduct. A person commits
aggravated battery when, other than by discharge of a firearm,
he or she does any of the following:
        (1) Violates Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled
    Substances Act by unlawfully delivering a controlled
    substance to another and any user experiences great bodily
    harm or permanent disability as a result of the injection,
    inhalation, or ingestion of any amount of the controlled
    substance.
        (2) Knowingly administers to an individual or causes
    him or her to take, without his or her consent or by threat
    or deception, and for other than medical purposes, any
    intoxicating, poisonous, stupefying, narcotic, anesthetic,
    or controlled substance, or gives to another person any
    food containing any substance or object intended to cause
    physical injury if eaten.
        (3) Knowingly causes or attempts to cause a
    correctional institution employee or Department of Human
    Services employee to come into contact with blood, seminal
    fluid, urine, or feces by throwing, tossing, or expelling
    the fluid or material, and the person is an inmate of a
    penal institution or is a sexually dangerous person or
    sexually violent person in the custody of the Department of
    Human Services.
    (h) Sentence. Unless otherwise provided, aggravated
battery is a Class 3 felony.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(4),
(d)(4), or (g)(3) is a Class 2 felony.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(3) or
(g)(1) is a Class 1 felony.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(1) is a
Class 1 felony when the aggravated battery was intentional and
involved the infliction of torture, as defined in paragraph
(14) of subsection (b) of Section 9-1 of this Code, as the
infliction of or subjection to extreme physical pain, motivated
by an intent to increase or prolong the pain, suffering, or
agony of the victim.
    Aggravated battery under subdivision (a)(5) is a Class 1
felony if:
        (A) the person used or attempted to use a dangerous
    instrument while committing the offense; or
        (B) the person caused great bodily harm or permanent
    disability or disfigurement to the other person while
    committing the offense; or
        (C) the person has been previously convicted of a
    violation of subdivision (a)(5) under the laws of this
    State or laws similar to subdivision (a)(5) of any other
    state.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(1) is a
Class X felony.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(2) is a
Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
of imprisonment of a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of 45
years.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(5) is a
Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
of imprisonment of a minimum of 12 years and a maximum of 45
years.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(2),
(e)(3), or (e)(4) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 15 years
and a maximum of 60 years.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(6),
(e)(7), or (e)(8) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 20 years
and a maximum of 60 years.
    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (b)(1) is a
Class X felony, except that:
        (1) if the person committed the offense while armed
    with a firearm, 15 years shall be added to the term of
    imprisonment imposed by the court;
        (2) if, during the commission of the offense, the
    person personally discharged a firearm, 20 years shall be
    added to the term of imprisonment imposed by the court;
        (3) if, during the commission of the offense, the
    person personally discharged a firearm that proximately
    caused great bodily harm, permanent disability, permanent
    disfigurement, or death to another person, 25 years or up
    to a term of natural life shall be added to the term of
    imprisonment imposed by the court.
    (i) Definitions. For the purposes of this Section:
    "Building or other structure used to provide shelter" has
the meaning ascribed to "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic
Violence Shelters Act.
    "Domestic violence" has the meaning ascribed to it in
Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
    "Domestic violence shelter" means any building or other
structure used to provide shelter or other services to victims
or to the dependent children of victims of domestic violence
pursuant to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or the
Domestic Violence Shelters Act, or any place within 500 feet of
such a building or other structure in the case of a person who
is going to or from such a building or other structure.
    "Firearm" has the meaning provided under Section 1.1 of the
Firearm Owners Identification Card Act, and does not include an
air rifle as defined by Section 1 of the Air Rifle Act.
    "Machine gun" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
24-1 of this Code.
    "Merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 16-0.1
of this Code.
    "Strangle" means intentionally impeding the normal
breathing or circulation of the blood of an individual by
applying pressure on the throat or neck of that individual or
by blocking the nose or mouth of that individual.
(Source: P.A. 96-201, eff. 8-10-09; 96-363, eff. 8-13-09;
96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-597, eff.
1-1-12; incorporates 97-227, eff. 1-1-12, 97-313, eff. 1-1-12,
and 97-467, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)