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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4179

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 4179 as follows:

 3    on page 1, line 5, by changing "Section  12-2"  to  "Sections
 4    12-2 and 12-4"; and

 5    on page 3, by replacing lines 3 through 5 with the following:
 6    "assistance or first aid personnel employed by a municipality
 7    or other governmental unit engaged in the execution of any of
 8    his official duties, or to prevent"; and

 9    on page 3, line 10, by changing "official" to "official"; and

10    on page 3, line 14, by changing "official" to "official"; and

11    on page 4, line 8, by replacing "or" with "or"; and

12    on page 4, line 17, by replacing "." with the following:

13        "; or.
14             (16)  Knows   the  individual  assaulted  to  be  an
15        employee of a police or sheriff's department  engaged  in
16        the  performance  of his or her authorized duties as such
17        employee."; and

18    on page 4, line 31, by changing "(6) and (7)" to  "(6),  (7),
19    and (16)"; and
 
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 1    on  page  4, line 34, by changing "(6) and (7)" to "(6), (7),
 2    and (16)"; and

 3    on page 5, by inserting below line 4 the following:

 4        "(720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
 5        Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
 6        (a)  A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally
 7    or  knowingly  causes  great  bodily   harm,   or   permanent
 8    disability or disfigurement commits aggravated battery.
 9        (b)  In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated
10    battery if he or she:
11             (1)  Uses   a   deadly  weapon  other  than  by  the
12        discharge of a firearm;
13             (2)  Is hooded, robed or masked, in such  manner  as
14        to conceal his identity;
15             (3)  Knows  the individual harmed to be a teacher or
16        other person employed in any school and such  teacher  or
17        other employee is upon the grounds of a school or grounds
18        adjacent  thereto,  or  is in any part of a building used
19        for school purposes;
20             (4)  Knows the individual harmed to be a supervisor,
21        director, instructor or other person employed in any park
22        district and such  supervisor,  director,  instructor  or
23        other employee is upon the grounds of the park or grounds
24        adjacent  thereto,  or  is in any part of a building used
25        for park purposes;
26             (5)  Knows the individual harmed to be a caseworker,
27        investigator, or  other  person  employed  by  the  State
28        Department  of  Public Aid, a County Department of Public
29        Aid, or the  Department  of  Human  Services  (acting  as
30        successor  to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under
31        the  Department  of  Human   Services   Act)   and   such
32        caseworker,  investigator,  or  other  person is upon the
33        grounds of  a  public  aid  office  or  grounds  adjacent
 
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 1        thereto,  or is in any part of a building used for public
 2        aid purposes, or upon the grounds of a home of  a  public
 3        aid  applicant,  recipient,  or  any  other  person being
 4        interviewed or investigated in the  employee's  discharge
 5        of  his  duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or is in
 6        any part of a building in which the applicant, recipient,
 7        or other such person resides or is located;
 8             (6)  Knows the  individual  harmed  to  be  a  peace
 9        officer,  a  community policing volunteer, a correctional
10        institution employee, or a fireman  while  such  officer,
11        volunteer,   employee   or  fireman  is  engaged  in  the
12        execution of any  official  duties  including  arrest  or
13        attempted  arrest,  or to prevent the officer, volunteer,
14        employee or fireman from performing official  duties,  or
15        in  retaliation  for  the officer, volunteer, employee or
16        fireman performing official duties, and  the  battery  is
17        committed other than by the discharge of a firearm;
18             (7)  Knows  the individual harmed to be an emergency
19        medical  technician  -   ambulance,   emergency   medical
20        technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
21        paramedic,  ambulance  driver,  other medical assistance,
22        first aid personnel, or hospital emergency room personnel
23        engaged in the performance of any of his or her  official
24        duties,  or to prevent the emergency medical technician -
25        ambulance, emergency medical technician  -  intermediate,
26        emergency   medical  technician  -  paramedic,  ambulance
27        driver, other medical assistance, first aid personnel, or
28        hospital  emergency  room   personnel   from   performing
29        official   duties,   or  in  retaliation  for  performing
30        official duties;
31             (8)  Is, or the person battered is, on  or  about  a
32        public   way,   public   property   or  public  place  of
33        accommodation or amusement;
34             (9)  Knows the individual harmed to be  the  driver,
 
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 1        operator,  employee  or  passenger  of any transportation
 2        facility  or  system   engaged   in   the   business   of
 3        transportation  of the public for hire and the individual
 4        assaulted is then performing in  such  capacity  or  then
 5        using  such public transportation as a passenger or using
 6        any  area  of   any   description   designated   by   the
 7        transportation  facility or system as a vehicle boarding,
 8        departure, or transfer location;
 9             (10)  Knowingly and without legal justification  and
10        by  any  means  causes bodily harm to an individual of 60
11        years of age or older;
12             (11)  Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
13             (12)  Knows the individual harmed to be a judge whom
14        the person intended to harm as a result  of  the  judge's
15        performance of his or her official duties as a judge;
16             (13)  Knows  the individual harmed to be an employee
17        of  the  Illinois  Department  of  Children  and   Family
18        Services  engaged  in  the  performance of his authorized
19        duties as such employee;
20             (14)  Knows the individual harmed to be a person who
21        is physically handicapped;
22             (15)  Knowingly and without legal justification  and
23        by any means causes bodily harm to a merchant who detains
24        the  person  for  an  alleged  commission of retail theft
25        under Section 16A-5 of this  Code.  In  this  item  (15),
26        "merchant"  has  the  meaning  ascribed  to it in Section
27        16A-2.4 of this Code; or
28             (16)  Is, or the person battered is, in any building
29        or other structure  used  to  provide  shelter  or  other
30        services  to  victims  or  to  the  dependent children of
31        victims of domestic violence  pursuant  to  the  Illinois
32        Domestic  Violence  Act  of 1986 or the Domestic Violence
33        Shelters Act, or the person battered is within  500  feet
34        of  such  a building or other structure while going to or
 
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 1        from such  a  building  or  other  structure.   "Domestic
 2        violence"  has  the meaning ascribed to it in Section 103
 3        of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.  "Building
 4        or  other  structure  used  to  provide  shelter" has the
 5        meaning  ascribed  to  "shelter"  in  Section  1  of  the
 6        Domestic Violence Shelters Act; or.
 7             (17)  Knows the individual harmed to be an  employee
 8        of a police or sheriff's department in the performance of
 9        his or her authorized duties as such employee.
10        For  the  purpose  of paragraph (14) of subsection (b) of
11    this Section, a physically handicapped person is a person who
12    suffers   from   a   permanent   and    disabling    physical
13    characteristic,  resulting  from  disease, injury, functional
14    disorder or congenital condition.
15        (c)  A person who administers to an individual or  causes
16    him  to  take, without his consent or by threat or deception,
17    and  for  other  than  medical  purposes,  any  intoxicating,
18    poisonous, stupefying, narcotic,  anesthetic,  or  controlled
19    substance commits aggravated battery.
20        (d)  A  person  who knowingly gives to another person any
21    food that contains any substance or object that  is  intended
22    to   cause  physical  injury  if  eaten,  commits  aggravated
23    battery.
24        (d-3)  A person commits aggravated battery when he or she
25    knowingly and without lawful justification shines or  flashes
26    a  laser  gunsight  or other laser device that is attached or
27    affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a  firearm,  so
28    that  the  laser  beam  strikes upon or against the person of
29    another.
30        (d-5)  An inmate of a penal  institution  who  causes  or
31    attempts  to  cause  a  correctional  employee  of  the penal
32    institution to come into contact with blood,  seminal  fluid,
33    urine,  or  feces,  by  throwing,  tossing, or expelling that
34    fluid or material commits aggravated battery.   For  purposes
 
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 1    of  this  subsection  (d-5),  "correctional employee" means a
 2    person who is employed by a penal institution.
 3        (e)  Sentence.
 4        Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony.
 5    (Source: P.A. 91-357,  eff.  7-29-99;  91-488,  eff.  1-1-00;
 6    91-619,   eff.  1-1-00;  91-672,  eff.  1-1-00;  92-16,  eff.
 7    6-28-01; 92-516, eff. 1-1-02.)".

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