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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 2012 is amended by changing
5Sections 12-0.1, 12-2, and 12-3.05 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/12-0.1)
7    Sec. 12-0.1. Definitions. In this Article, unless the
8context clearly requires otherwise:
9    "Bona fide labor dispute" means any controversy concerning
10wages, salaries, hours, working conditions, or benefits,
11including health and welfare, sick leave, insurance, and
12pension or retirement provisions, the making or maintaining of
13collective bargaining agreements, and the terms to be included
14in those agreements.
15    "Coach" means a person recognized as a coach by the
16sanctioning authority that conducts an athletic contest.
17    "Correctional institution employee" means a person
18employed by a penal institution.
19    "Emergency medical services personnel" has the meaning
20specified in Section 3.5 of the Emergency Medical Services
21(EMS) Systems Act and shall include all ambulance crew members,
22including drivers or pilots.
23    "Family or household members" include spouses, former

 

 

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1spouses, parents, children, stepchildren, and other persons
2related by blood or by present or prior marriage, persons who
3share or formerly shared a common dwelling, persons who have or
4allegedly have a child in common, persons who share or
5allegedly share a blood relationship through a child, persons
6who have or have had a dating or engagement relationship,
7persons with disabilities and their personal assistants, and
8caregivers as defined in Section 12-4.4a of this Code. For
9purposes of this Article, neither a casual acquaintanceship nor
10ordinary fraternization between 2 individuals in business or
11social contexts shall be deemed to constitute a dating
12relationship.
13    "In the presence of a child" means in the physical presence
14of a child or knowing or having reason to know that a child is
15present and may see or hear an act constituting an offense.
16    "Park district employee" means a supervisor, director,
17instructor, or other person employed by a park district.
18    "Person with a physical disability" means a person who
19suffers from a permanent and disabling physical
20characteristic, resulting from disease, injury, functional
21disorder, or congenital condition.
22    "Private security officer" means a registered employee of a
23private security contractor agency under the Private
24Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint
25Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004.
26    "Probation officer" means a person as defined in the

 

 

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1Probation and Probation Officers Act.
2    "Servicemember" means a person who is currently serving in
3the Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy, or Coast Guard on active
4duty, reserve status, or in the National Guard.
5    "Sports official" means a person at an athletic contest who
6enforces the rules of the contest, such as an umpire or
7referee.
8    "Sports venue" means a publicly or privately owned sports
9or entertainment arena, stadium, community or convention hall,
10special event center, or amusement facility, or a special event
11center in a public park, during the 12 hours before or after
12the sanctioned sporting event.
13    "Streetgang", "streetgang member", and "criminal street
14gang" have the meanings ascribed to those terms in Section 10
15of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
16    "Transit employee" means a driver, operator, or employee of
17any transportation facility or system engaged in the business
18of transporting the public for hire.
19    "Transit passenger" means a passenger of any
20transportation facility or system engaged in the business of
21transporting the public for hire, including a passenger using
22any area designated by a transportation facility or system as a
23vehicle boarding, departure, or transfer location.
24    "Utility worker" means any of the following:
25        (1) A person employed by a public utility as defined in
26    Section 3-105 of the Public Utilities Act.

 

 

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1        (2) An employee of a municipally owned utility.
2        (3) An employee of a cable television company.
3        (4) An employee of an electric cooperative as defined
4    in Section 3-119 of the Public Utilities Act.
5        (5) An independent contractor or an employee of an
6    independent contractor working on behalf of a cable
7    television company, public utility, municipally owned
8    utility, or electric cooperative.
9        (6) An employee of a telecommunications carrier as
10    defined in Section 13-202 of the Public Utilities Act, or
11    an independent contractor or an employee of an independent
12    contractor working on behalf of a telecommunications
13    carrier.
14        (7) An employee of a telephone or telecommunications
15    cooperative as defined in Section 13-212 of the Public
16    Utilities Act, or an independent contractor or an employee
17    of an independent contractor working on behalf of a
18    telephone or telecommunications cooperative.
19    "Veteran" means a former servicemember who was discharged
20or released from service under conditions other than
21dishonorable.
22(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-816, eff. 8-15-16.)
 
23    (720 ILCS 5/12-2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 12-2)
24    Sec. 12-2. Aggravated assault.
25    (a) Offense based on location of conduct. A person commits

 

 

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1aggravated assault when he or she commits an assault against an
2individual who is on or about a public way, public property, a
3public place of accommodation or amusement, or a sports venue.
4    (b) Offense based on status of victim. A person commits
5aggravated assault when, in committing an assault, he or she
6knows the individual assaulted to be any of the following:
7        (1) A person with a physical disability, a
8    servicemember, a veteran, or a person 60 years of age or
9    older and the assault is without legal justification.
10        (2) A teacher or school employee upon school grounds or
11    grounds adjacent to a school or in any part of a building
12    used for school purposes.
13        (3) A park district employee upon park grounds or
14    grounds adjacent to a park or in any part of a building
15    used for park purposes.
16        (4) A community policing volunteer, private security
17    officer, or utility worker:
18            (i) performing his or her official duties;
19            (ii) assaulted to prevent performance of his or her
20        official duties; or
21            (iii) assaulted in retaliation for performing his
22        or her official duties.
23        (4.1) A peace officer, fireman, emergency management
24    worker, or emergency medical services personnel:
25            (i) performing his or her official duties;
26            (ii) assaulted to prevent performance of his or her

 

 

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1        official duties; or
2            (iii) assaulted in retaliation for performing his
3        or her official duties.
4        (5) A correctional officer or probation officer:
5            (i) performing his or her official duties;
6            (ii) assaulted to prevent performance of his or her
7        official duties; or
8            (iii) assaulted in retaliation for performing his
9        or her official duties.
10        (6) A correctional institution employee, a county
11    juvenile detention center employee who provides direct and
12    continuous supervision of residents of a juvenile
13    detention center, including a county juvenile detention
14    center employee who supervises recreational activity for
15    residents of a juvenile detention center, or a Department
16    of Human Services employee, Department of Human Services
17    officer, or employee of a subcontractor of the Department
18    of Human Services supervising or controlling sexually
19    dangerous persons or sexually violent persons:
20            (i) performing his or her official duties;
21            (ii) assaulted to prevent performance of his or her
22        official duties; or
23            (iii) assaulted in retaliation for performing his
24        or her official duties.
25        (7) An employee of the State of Illinois, a municipal
26    corporation therein, or a political subdivision thereof,

 

 

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1    performing his or her official duties.
2        (8) A transit employee performing his or her official
3    duties, or a transit passenger.
4        (9) A sports official or coach actively participating
5    in any level of athletic competition within a sports venue,
6    on an indoor playing field or outdoor playing field, or
7    within the immediate vicinity of such a facility or field.
8        (10) A person authorized to serve process under Section
9    2-202 of the Code of Civil Procedure or a special process
10    server appointed by the circuit court, while that
11    individual is in the performance of his or her duties as a
12    process server.
13    (c) Offense based on use of firearm, device, or motor
14vehicle. A person commits aggravated assault when, in
15committing an assault, he or she does any of the following:
16        (1) Uses a deadly weapon, an air rifle as defined in
17    Section 24.8-0.1 of this Act, or any device manufactured
18    and designed to be substantially similar in appearance to a
19    firearm, other than by discharging a firearm.
20        (2) Discharges a firearm, other than from a motor
21    vehicle.
22        (3) Discharges a firearm from a motor vehicle.
23        (4) Wears a hood, robe, or mask to conceal his or her
24    identity.
25        (5) Knowingly and without lawful justification shines
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1    to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so that
2    the laser beam strikes near or in the immediate vicinity of
3    any person.
4        (6) Uses a firearm, other than by discharging the
5    firearm, against a peace officer, community policing
6    volunteer, fireman, private security officer, emergency
7    management worker, emergency medical services personnel,
8    employee of a police department, employee of a sheriff's
9    department, or traffic control municipal employee:
10            (i) performing his or her official duties;
11            (ii) assaulted to prevent performance of his or her
12        official duties; or
13            (iii) assaulted in retaliation for performing his
14        or her official duties.
15        (7) Without justification operates a motor vehicle in a
16    manner which places a person, other than a person listed in
17    subdivision (b)(4), in reasonable apprehension of being
18    struck by the moving motor vehicle.
19        (8) Without justification operates a motor vehicle in a
20    manner which places a person listed in subdivision (b)(4),
21    in reasonable apprehension of being struck by the moving
22    motor vehicle.
23        (9) Knowingly video or audio records the offense with
24    the intent to disseminate the recording.
25    (d) Sentence. Aggravated assault as defined in subdivision
26(a), (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(7), (b)(8), (b)(9),

 

 

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1(c)(1), (c)(4), or (c)(9) is a Class A misdemeanor, except that
2aggravated assault as defined in subdivision (b)(4) and (b)(7)
3is a Class 4 felony if a Category I, Category II, or Category
4III weapon is used in the commission of the assault. Aggravated
5assault as defined in subdivision (b)(4.1), (b)(5), (b)(6),
6(b)(10), (c)(2), (c)(5), (c)(6), or (c)(7) is a Class 4 felony.
7Aggravated assault as defined in subdivision (c)(3) or (c)(8)
8is a Class 3 felony.
9    (e) For the purposes of this Section, "Category I weapon",
10"Category II weapon, and "Category III weapon" have the
11meanings ascribed to those terms in Section 33A-1 of this Code.
12(Source: P.A. 98-385, eff. 1-1-14; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-143,
13eff. 7-27-15; 99-256, eff. 1-1-16; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16;
1499-816, eff. 8-15-16.)
 
15    (720 ILCS 5/12-3.05)  (was 720 ILCS 5/12-4)
16    Sec. 12-3.05. Aggravated battery.
17    (a) Offense based on injury. A person commits aggravated
18battery when, in committing a battery, other than by the
19discharge of a firearm, he or she knowingly does any of the
20following:
21        (1) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
22    disfigurement.
23        (2) Causes severe and permanent disability, great
24    bodily harm, or disfigurement by means of a caustic or
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1    or chemical contaminant or agent, a radioactive substance,
2    or a bomb or explosive compound.
3        (3) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
4    disfigurement to an individual whom the person knows to be
5    a peace officer, community policing volunteer, fireman,
6    private security officer, correctional institution
7    employee, or Department of Human Services employee
8    supervising or controlling sexually dangerous persons or
9    sexually violent persons:
10            (i) performing his or her official duties;
11            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
12        official duties; or
13            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
14        or her official duties.
15        (4) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
16    disfigurement to an individual 60 years of age or older.
17        (5) Strangles another individual.
18    (b) Offense based on injury to a child or person with an
19intellectual disability. A person who is at least 18 years of
20age commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery,
21he or she knowingly and without legal justification by any
22means:
23        (1) causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
24    disfigurement to any child under the age of 13 years, or to
25    any person with a severe or profound intellectual
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1        (2) causes bodily harm or disability or disfigurement
2    to any child under the age of 13 years or to any person
3    with a severe or profound intellectual disability.
4    (c) Offense based on location of conduct. A person commits
5aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
6the discharge of a firearm, he or she is or the person battered
7is on or about a public way, public property, a public place of
8accommodation or amusement, a sports venue, or a domestic
9violence shelter.
10    (d) Offense based on status of victim. A person commits
11aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
12discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered
13to be any of the following:
14        (1) A person 60 years of age or older, a service
15    member, or a veteran.
16        (2) A person who is pregnant or has a physical
17    disability.
18        (3) A teacher or school employee upon school grounds or
19    grounds adjacent to a school or in any part of a building
20    used for school purposes.
21        (4) A peace officer, community policing volunteer,
22    fireman, private security officer, correctional
23    institution employee, or Department of Human Services
24    employee supervising or controlling sexually dangerous
25    persons or sexually violent persons:
26            (i) performing his or her official duties;

 

 

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1            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
2        official duties; or
3            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
4        or her official duties.
5        (5) A judge, emergency management worker, emergency
6    medical services personnel, or utility worker:
7            (i) performing his or her official duties;
8            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
9        official duties; or
10            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
11        or her official duties.
12        (6) An officer or employee of the State of Illinois, a
13    unit of local government, or a school district, while
14    performing his or her official duties.
15        (7) A transit employee performing his or her official
16    duties, or a transit passenger.
17        (8) A taxi driver on duty.
18        (9) A merchant who detains the person for an alleged
19    commission of retail theft under Section 16-26 of this Code
20    and the person without legal justification by any means
21    causes bodily harm to the merchant.
22        (10) A person authorized to serve process under Section
23    2-202 of the Code of Civil Procedure or a special process
24    server appointed by the circuit court while that individual
25    is in the performance of his or her duties as a process
26    server.

 

 

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1        (11) A nurse while in the performance of his or her
2    duties as a nurse.
3    (e) Offense based on use of a firearm. A person commits
4aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or she
5knowingly does any of the following:
6        (1) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
7    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
8    another person.
9        (2) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
10    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
11    a person he or she knows to be a peace officer, community
12    policing volunteer, person summoned by a police officer,
13    fireman, private security officer, correctional
14    institution employee, or emergency management worker:
15            (i) performing his or her official duties;
16            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
17        official duties; or
18            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
19        or her official duties.
20        (3) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
21    firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
22    a person he or she knows to be emergency medical services
23    personnel:
24            (i) performing his or her official duties;
25            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
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1            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
2        or her official duties.
3        (4) Discharges a firearm and causes any injury to a
4    person he or she knows to be a teacher, a student in a
5    school, or a school employee, and the teacher, student, or
6    employee is upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a
7    school or in any part of a building used for school
8    purposes.
9        (5) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
10    a silencer, and causes any injury to another person.
11        (6) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
12    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
13    knows to be a peace officer, community policing volunteer,
14    person summoned by a police officer, fireman, private
15    security officer, correctional institution employee or
16    emergency management worker:
17            (i) performing his or her official duties;
18            (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
19        official duties; or
20            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
21        or her official duties.
22        (7) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
23    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
24    knows to be emergency medical services personnel:
25            (i) performing his or her official duties;
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1        official duties; or
2            (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
3        or her official duties.
4        (8) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
5    a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
6    knows to be a teacher, or a student in a school, or a
7    school employee, and the teacher, student, or employee is
8    upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a school or in
9    any part of a building used for school purposes.
10    (f) Offense based on use of a weapon or device. A person
11commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or
12she does any of the following:
13        (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by discharge of a
14    firearm, or uses an air rifle as defined in Section
15    24.8-0.1 of this Code.
16        (2) Wears a hood, robe, or mask to conceal his or her
17    identity.
18        (3) Knowingly and without lawful justification shines
19    or flashes a laser gunsight or other laser device attached
20    to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so that
21    the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of
22    another.
23        (4) Knowingly video or audio records the offense with
24    the intent to disseminate the recording.
25    (g) Offense based on certain conduct. A person commits
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1he or she does any of the following:
2        (1) Violates Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled
3    Substances Act by unlawfully delivering a controlled
4    substance to another and any user experiences great bodily
5    harm or permanent disability as a result of the injection,
6    inhalation, or ingestion of any amount of the controlled
7    substance.
8        (2) Knowingly administers to an individual or causes
9    him or her to take, without his or her consent or by threat
10    or deception, and for other than medical purposes, any
11    intoxicating, poisonous, stupefying, narcotic, anesthetic,
12    or controlled substance, or gives to another person any
13    food containing any substance or object intended to cause
14    physical injury if eaten.
15        (3) Knowingly causes or attempts to cause a
16    correctional institution employee or Department of Human
17    Services employee to come into contact with blood, seminal
18    fluid, urine, or feces by throwing, tossing, or expelling
19    the fluid or material, and the person is an inmate of a
20    penal institution or is a sexually dangerous person or
21    sexually violent person in the custody of the Department of
22    Human Services.
23    (h) Sentence. Unless otherwise provided, aggravated
24battery is a Class 3 felony.
25    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(4),
26(d)(4), or (g)(3) is a Class 2 felony.

 

 

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1    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(3) or
2(g)(1) is a Class 1 felony.
3    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(1) is a
4Class 1 felony when the aggravated battery was intentional and
5involved the infliction of torture, as defined in paragraph
6(14) of subsection (b) of Section 9-1 of this Code, as the
7infliction of or subjection to extreme physical pain, motivated
8by an intent to increase or prolong the pain, suffering, or
9agony of the victim.
10    Aggravated battery under subdivision (a)(5) is a Class 1
11felony if:
12        (A) the person used or attempted to use a dangerous
13    instrument while committing the offense; or
14        (B) the person caused great bodily harm or permanent
15    disability or disfigurement to the other person while
16    committing the offense; or
17        (C) the person has been previously convicted of a
18    violation of subdivision (a)(5) under the laws of this
19    State or laws similar to subdivision (a)(5) of any other
20    state.
21    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(1) is a
22Class X felony.
23    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(2) is a
24Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
25of imprisonment of a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of 45
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1    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(5) is a
2Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
3of imprisonment of a minimum of 12 years and a maximum of 45
4years.
5    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(2),
6(e)(3), or (e)(4) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
7be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 15 years
8and a maximum of 60 years.
9    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(6),
10(e)(7), or (e)(8) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
11be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 20 years
12and a maximum of 60 years.
13    Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (b)(1) is a
14Class X felony, except that:
15        (1) if the person committed the offense while armed
16    with a firearm, 15 years shall be added to the term of
17    imprisonment imposed by the court;
18        (2) if, during the commission of the offense, the
19    person personally discharged a firearm, 20 years shall be
20    added to the term of imprisonment imposed by the court;
21        (3) if, during the commission of the offense, the
22    person personally discharged a firearm that proximately
23    caused great bodily harm, permanent disability, permanent
24    disfigurement, or death to another person, 25 years or up
25    to a term of natural life shall be added to the term of
26    imprisonment imposed by the court.

 

 

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1    (i) Definitions. For the purposes of this Section:
2    "Building or other structure used to provide shelter" has
3the meaning ascribed to "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic
4Violence Shelters Act.
5    "Domestic violence" has the meaning ascribed to it in
6Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
7    "Domestic violence shelter" means any building or other
8structure used to provide shelter or other services to victims
9or to the dependent children of victims of domestic violence
10pursuant to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or the
11Domestic Violence Shelters Act, or any place within 500 feet of
12such a building or other structure in the case of a person who
13is going to or from such a building or other structure.
14    "Firearm" has the meaning provided under Section 1.1 of the
15Firearm Owners Identification Card Act, and does not include an
16air rifle as defined by Section 24.8-0.1 of this Code.
17    "Machine gun" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
1824-1 of this Code.
19    "Merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 16-0.1
20of this Code.
21    "Strangle" means intentionally impeding the normal
22breathing or circulation of the blood of an individual by
23applying pressure on the throat or neck of that individual or
24by blocking the nose or mouth of that individual.
25(Source: P.A. 98-369, eff. 1-1-14; 98-385, eff. 1-1-14; 98-756,
26eff. 7-16-14; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-816, eff. 8-15-16.)