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1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
2 Section 24-1.2.
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 changing Section 24-1.2 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 5/24-1.2) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-1.2)
8 Sec. 24-1.2. Aggravated discharge of a firearm.
9 (a) A person commits aggravated discharge of a firearm
10 when he or she knowingly or intentionally:
11 (1) Discharges a firearm at or into a building he
12 or she knows or reasonably should know to be occupied and
13 the firearm is discharged from a place or position
14 outside that building;
15 (2) Discharges a firearm in the direction of
16 another person or in the direction of a vehicle he or she
17 knows or reasonably should know to be occupied by a
18 person;
19 (3) Discharges a firearm in the direction of a
20 person he or she knows to be a peace officer, a community
21 policing volunteer, a correctional institution employee,
22 or a fireman while the officer, volunteer, employee or
23 fireman is engaged in the execution of any of his or her
24 official duties, or to prevent the officer, volunteer,
25 employee or fireman from performing his or her official
26 duties, or in retaliation for the officer, volunteer,
27 employee or fireman performing his or her official
28 duties;
29 (4) Discharges a firearm in the direction of a
30 vehicle he or she knows to be occupied by a peace
31 officer, a person summoned or directed by a peace
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1 officer, a correctional institution employee or a fireman
2 while the officer, employee or fireman is engaged in the
3 execution of any of his or her official duties, or to
4 prevent the officer, employee or fireman from performing
5 his or her official duties, or in retaliation for the
6 officer, employee or fireman performing his or her
7 official duties;
8 (5) Discharges a firearm in the direction of a
9 person he or she knows to be an emergency medical
10 technician - ambulance, emergency medical technician -
11 intermediate, emergency medical technician - paramedic,
12 ambulance driver, or other medical assistance or first
13 aid personnel, employed by a municipality or other
14 governmental unit, while the emergency medical technician
15 - ambulance, emergency medical technician - intermediate,
16 emergency medical technician - paramedic, ambulance
17 driver, or other medical assistance or first aid
18 personnel is engaged in the execution of any of his or
19 her official duties, or to prevent the emergency medical
20 technician - ambulance, emergency medical technician -
21 intermediate, emergency medical technician - paramedic,
22 ambulance driver, or other medical assistance or first
23 aid personnel from performing his or her official duties,
24 or in retaliation for the emergency medical technician -
25 ambulance, emergency medical technician - intermediate,
26 emergency medical technician - paramedic, ambulance
27 driver, or other medical assistance or first aid
28 personnel performing his or her official duties; or
29 (6) Discharges a firearm in the direction of a
30 vehicle he or she knows to be occupied by an emergency
31 medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
32 technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
33 paramedic,, ambulance driver, or other medical assistance
34 or first aid personnel, employed by a municipality or
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1 other governmental unit, while the emergency medical
2 technician - ambulance, emergency medical technician -
3 intermediate, emergency medical technician - paramedic,
4 ambulance driver, or other medical assistance or first
5 aid personnel is engaged in the execution of any of his
6 or her official duties, or to prevent the emergency
7 medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
8 technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
9 paramedic, ambulance driver, or other medical assistance
10 or first aid personnel from performing his or her
11 official duties, or in retaliation for the emergency
12 medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
13 technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
14 paramedic, ambulance driver, or other medical assistance
15 or first aid personnel performing his or her official
16 duties.
17 (b) A violation of subsection (a)(1) or subsection
18 (a)(2) of this Section is a Class 1 felony. A violation of
19 subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this Section committed in a
20 school, on the real property comprising a school, within
21 1,000 feet of the real property comprising a school, at a
22 school related activity or on or within 1,000 feet of any
23 conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a school to
24 transport students to or from school or a school related
25 activity, regardless of the time of day or time of year that
26 the offense was committed is a Class X felony. A violation of
27 subsection (a)(3), (a)(4), (a)(5), or (a)(6) of this Section
28 is a Class X felony for which the sentence shall be a term of
29 imprisonment of no less than 10 years and not more than 45
30 years.
31 (c) For purposes of this Section:
32 "School" means a public or private elementary or
33 secondary school, community college, college, or university.
34 "School related activity" means any sporting, social,
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1 academic, or other activity for which students' attendance or
2 participation is sponsored, organized, or funded in whole or
3 in part by a school or school district.
4 (Source: P.A. 90-651, eff. 1-1-99; revised 10-31-98.)