Date	Chamber	Action
1/13/2009	House	Session Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

720 ILCS 5/12-3.1-1 new

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of heinous battery of an unborn child. Defines the offense as intentionally or knowingly without medical legal justification extracting by cutting, severing, mutilating, or otherwise causing by force the unnatural expulsion of an independently viable fetus from the uterus of another living human being. Provides that the penalty is a Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more than 45 years. Exempts from this offense acts that cause bodily harm to an unborn child if those acts were committed during any abortion to which the pregnant woman has consented and acts that were committed pursuant to usual and customary standards of medical practice during diagnostic testing or therapeutic treatment.

House Amendment No. 1

	Deletes reference to:
	720 ILCS 5/12-3.1-1 new

	Adds reference to:
	720 ILCS 5/12-4.4	from Ch. 38, par. 12-4.4

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Increases the penalty for aggravated battery of an unborn child from a Class 2 felony to a Class X felony for which the person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more than 45 years.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
1/3/2007	House	Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. David Reis
1/19/2007	House	First Reading
1/19/2007	House	Referred to Rules Committee
1/31/2007	House	Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
2/22/2007	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel V. Beiser
2/22/2007	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. John E. Bradley
3/20/2007	House	Motion to Suspend Rule 25 - Prevailed
3/22/2007	House	House Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
3/22/2007	House	House Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; by Voice Vote
3/22/2007	House	Recommends Do Pass as Amended Subcommittee/ Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 005-000-000
3/22/2007	House	Remains in Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
3/22/2007	House	Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 013-000-000
3/22/2007	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
3/22/2007	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Careen M Gordon
3/22/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elga L. Jefferies
3/27/2007	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
3/27/2007	House	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia R. Bellock
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. William B. Black
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. James H. Meyer
3/28/2007	House	Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-002-000
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Donald L. Moffitt
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Bill Mitchell
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dan Brady
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ron Stephens
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Renée Kosel
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia Reid Lindner
3/28/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry R. Ramey, Jr.
3/29/2007	Senate	Arrive in Senate
3/29/2007	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading
3/29/2007	Senate	Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Dale A. Righter
3/29/2007	Senate	First Reading
3/29/2007	Senate	Referred to Rules
3/29/2007	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. John O. Jones
4/17/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Mike Bost
4/17/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Timothy L. Schmitz
4/17/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Roger L. Eddy
4/17/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jim Watson
4/17/2007	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jim Sacia
5/15/2008	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 22, 2008; Substantive House Bills Out of Committee
1/13/2009	House	Session Sine Die

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