96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB0172

 

Introduced 1/30/2009, by Sen. William R. Haine

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/12-4   from Ch. 38, par. 12-4

    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that when a person commits a battery and knows the individual harmed to be an individual under 14 years of age, the offense is enhanced to aggravated battery. Provides that this provision shall not be construed to prohibit a parent, guardian, or legal custodian of the individual harmed from exercising reasonable discipline over the individual under 14 years of age. 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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
5 Section 12-4 as follows:
 
6     (720 ILCS 5/12-4)  (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
7     Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
8     (a) A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally or
9 knowingly causes great bodily harm, or permanent disability or
10 disfigurement commits aggravated battery.
11     (b) In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated
12 battery if he or she:
13         (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by the discharge of
14     a firearm;
15         (2) Is hooded, robed or masked, in such manner as to
16     conceal his identity;
17         (3) Knows the individual harmed to be a teacher or
18     other person employed in any school and such teacher or
19     other employee is upon the grounds of a school or grounds
20     adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used for
21     school purposes;
22         (4) (Blank);
23         (5) (Blank);

 

 

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1         (6) Knows the individual harmed to be a community
2     policing volunteer while such volunteer is engaged in the
3     execution of any official duties, or to prevent the
4     volunteer from performing official duties, or in
5     retaliation for the volunteer performing official duties,
6     and the battery is committed other than by the discharge of
7     a firearm;
8         (7) Knows the individual harmed to be an emergency
9     medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
10     technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
11     paramedic, ambulance driver, other medical assistance,
12     first aid personnel, or hospital personnel engaged in the
13     performance of any of his or her official duties, or to
14     prevent the emergency medical technician - ambulance,
15     emergency medical technician - intermediate, emergency
16     medical technician - paramedic, ambulance driver, other
17     medical assistance, first aid personnel, or hospital
18     personnel from performing official duties, or in
19     retaliation for performing official duties;
20         (8) Is, or the person battered is, on or about a public
21     way, public property or public place of accommodation or
22     amusement;
23         (8.5) Is, or the person battered is, on a publicly or
24     privately owned sports or entertainment arena, stadium,
25     community or convention hall, special event center,
26     amusement facility, or a special event center in a public

 

 

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1     park during any 24-hour period when a professional sporting
2     event, National Collegiate Athletic Association
3     (NCAA)-sanctioned sporting event, United States Olympic
4     Committee-sanctioned sporting event, or International
5     Olympic Committee-sanctioned sporting event is taking
6     place in this venue;
7         (9) Knows the individual harmed to be the driver,
8     operator, employee or passenger of any transportation
9     facility or system engaged in the business of
10     transportation of the public for hire and the individual
11     assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using
12     such public transportation as a passenger or using any area
13     of any description designated by the transportation
14     facility or system as a vehicle boarding, departure, or
15     transfer location;
16         (10) Knows the individual harmed to be an individual of
17     60 years of age or older;
18         (11) Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
19         (12) Knows the individual harmed to be a judge whom the
20     person intended to harm as a result of the judge's
21     performance of his or her official duties as a judge;
22         (13) (Blank);
23         (14) Knows the individual harmed to be a person who is
24     physically handicapped;
25         (15) Knowingly and without legal justification and by
26     any means causes bodily harm to a merchant who detains the

 

 

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1     person for an alleged commission of retail theft under
2     Section 16A-5 of this Code. In this item (15), "merchant"
3     has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 16A-2.4 of this
4     Code;
5         (16) Is, or the person battered is, in any building or
6     other structure used to provide shelter or other services
7     to victims or to the dependent children of victims of
8     domestic violence pursuant to the Illinois Domestic
9     Violence Act of 1986 or the Domestic Violence Shelters Act,
10     or the person battered is within 500 feet of such a
11     building or other structure while going to or from such a
12     building or other structure. "Domestic violence" has the
13     meaning ascribed to it in Section 103 of the Illinois
14     Domestic Violence Act of 1986. "Building or other structure
15     used to provide shelter" has the meaning ascribed to
16     "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic Violence Shelters
17     Act;
18         (17) (Blank);
19         (18) Knows the individual harmed to be an officer or
20     employee of the State of Illinois, a unit of local
21     government, or school district engaged in the performance
22     of his or her authorized duties as such officer or
23     employee;
24         (19) Knows the individual harmed to be an emergency
25     management worker engaged in the performance of any of his
26     or her official duties, or to prevent the emergency

 

 

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1     management worker from performing official duties, or in
2     retaliation for the emergency management worker performing
3     official duties;
4         (20) Knows the individual harmed to be a private
5     security officer engaged in the performance of any of his
6     or her official duties, or to prevent the private security
7     officer from performing official duties, or in retaliation
8     for the private security officer performing official
9     duties; or
10         (21) Knows the individual harmed to be a taxi driver
11     and the battery is committed while the taxi driver is on
12     duty; or
13         (22) Knows the individual harmed to be a utility
14     worker, while the utility worker is engaged in the
15     execution of his or her duties, or to prevent the utility
16     worker from performing his or her duties, or in retaliation
17     for the utility worker performing his or her duties. In
18     this paragraph (22), "utility worker" means a person
19     employed by a public utility as defined in Section 3-105 of
20     the Public Utilities Act and also includes an employee of a
21     municipally owned utility, an employee of a cable
22     television company, an employee of an electric cooperative
23     as defined in Section 3-119 of the Public Utilities Act, an
24     independent contractor or an employee of an independent
25     contractor working on behalf of a cable television company,
26     public utility, municipally owned utility, or an electric

 

 

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1     cooperative, or an employee of a telecommunications
2     carrier as defined in Section 13-202 of the Public
3     Utilities Act, an independent contractor or an employee of
4     an independent contractor working on behalf of a
5     telecommunications carrier, or an employee of a telephone
6     or telecommunications cooperative as defined in Section
7     13-212 of the Public Utilities Act, or an independent
8     contractor or an employee of an independent contractor
9     working on behalf of a telephone or telecommunications
10     cooperative; or .
11         (23) Knows the individual harmed to be an individual
12     under 14 years of age. Nothing in this paragraph (23) shall
13     be construed to prohibit a parent, guardian, or legal
14     custodian of the individual harmed from exercising
15     reasonable discipline over the individual under 14 years of
16     age.
17     For the purpose of paragraph (14) of subsection (b) of this
18 Section, a physically handicapped person is a person who
19 suffers from a permanent and disabling physical
20 characteristic, resulting from disease, injury, functional
21 disorder or congenital condition.
22     For the purpose of paragraph (20) of subsection (b) and
23 subsection (e) of this Section, "private security officer"
24 means a registered employee of a private security contractor
25 agency under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
26 Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004.

 

 

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1     (c) A person who administers to an individual or causes him
2 to take, without his consent or by threat or deception, and for
3 other than medical purposes, any intoxicating, poisonous,
4 stupefying, narcotic, anesthetic, or controlled substance
5 commits aggravated battery.
6     (d) A person who knowingly gives to another person any food
7 that contains any substance or object that is intended to cause
8 physical injury if eaten, commits aggravated battery.
9     (d-3) A person commits aggravated battery when he or she
10 knowingly and without lawful justification shines or flashes a
11 laser gunsight or other laser device that is attached or
12 affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so
13 that the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of
14 another.
15     (d-5) An inmate of a penal institution or a sexually
16 dangerous person or a sexually violent person in the custody of
17 the Department of Human Services who causes or attempts to
18 cause a correctional employee of the penal institution or an
19 employee of the Department of Human Services to come into
20 contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, or feces, by
21 throwing, tossing, or expelling that fluid or material commits
22 aggravated battery. For purposes of this subsection (d-5),
23 "correctional employee" means a person who is employed by a
24 penal institution.
25     (e) Sentence.
26         (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (2),

 

 

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1     (3), and (4) aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony.
2         (2) Aggravated battery that does not cause great bodily
3     harm or permanent disability or disfigurement is a Class 2
4     felony when the person knows the individual harmed to be a
5     peace officer, a community policing volunteer, a private
6     security officer, a correctional institution employee, an
7     employee of the Department of Human Services supervising or
8     controlling sexually dangerous persons or sexually violent
9     persons, or a fireman while such officer, volunteer,
10     employee, or fireman is engaged in the execution of any
11     official duties including arrest or attempted arrest, or to
12     prevent the officer, volunteer, employee, or fireman from
13     performing official duties, or in retaliation for the
14     officer, volunteer, employee, or fireman performing
15     official duties, and the battery is committed other than by
16     the discharge of a firearm.
17         (3) Aggravated battery that causes great bodily harm or
18     permanent disability or disfigurement in violation of
19     subsection (a) is a Class 1 felony when the person knows
20     the individual harmed to be a peace officer, a community
21     policing volunteer, a private security officer, a
22     correctional institution employee, an employee of the
23     Department of Human Services supervising or controlling
24     sexually dangerous persons or sexually violent persons, or
25     a fireman while such officer, volunteer, employee, or
26     fireman is engaged in the execution of any official duties

 

 

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1     including arrest or attempted arrest, or to prevent the
2     officer, volunteer, employee, or fireman from performing
3     official duties, or in retaliation for the officer,
4     volunteer, employee, or fireman performing official
5     duties, and the battery is committed other than by the
6     discharge of a firearm.
7         (4) Aggravated battery under subsection (d-5) is a
8     Class 2 felony.
9 (Source: P.A. 94-243, eff. 1-1-06; 94-327, eff. 1-1-06; 94-333,
10 eff. 7-26-05; 94-363, eff. 7-29-05; 94-482, eff. 1-1-06;
11 95-236, eff. 1-1-08; 95-256, eff. 1-1-08; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07;
12 95-429, eff. 1-1-08; 95-748, eff. 1-1-09; 95-876, eff.
13 8-21-08.)
 
14     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15 becoming law.