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90_HB1368enr 720 ILCS 5/Art. 20.5 heading new 720 ILCS 5/20.5-5 new Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of causing a catastrophe. Defines the offense as knowingly causing a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, collapse of a building, release of poison, radioactive material, bacteria, virus, or other dangerous and difficult to confine force or substance. Penalty is a Class X felony. Effective immediately. LRB9004424RCks HB1368 Enrolled LRB9004424RCks 1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by adding 2 Article 20.5. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by 6 adding Article 20.5 as follows: 7 (720 ILCS 5/Art. 20.5 heading new) 8 ARTICLE 20.5. CAUSING A CATASTROPHE 9 (720 ILCS 5/20.5-5 new) 10 Sec. 20.5-5. Causing a catastrophe. 11 (a) A person commits the offense of causing a 12 catastrophe if he or she knowingly causes a catastrophe by 13 explosion, fire, flood, collapse of a building, release of 14 poison, radioactive material, bacteria, virus, or other 15 dangerous and difficult to confine force or substance. 16 (b) As used in this Section, "catastrophe" means serious 17 physical injury to 5 or more persons or substantial damage to 18 5 or more buildings or inhabitable structures or substantial 19 damage to a vital public facility that seriously impairs its 20 usefulness or operation; and "vital public facility" means a 21 facility that is necessary to ensure or protect the public 22 health, safety, or welfare, including but not limited to, a 23 hospital, law enforcement agency, fire department, private or 24 public utility company, national defense contractor, a 25 facility of the armed forces, or emergency services agency. 26 (c) Sentence. Causing a catastrophe is a Class X 27 felony. 28 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 29 becoming law.