Bill Text: IL HB3356 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who, in committing a domestic battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, knows the individual battered to be a person 60 years of age or older commits aggravated domestic battery.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-16 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tony M. McCombie [HB3356 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB3356-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 12-3.3 as follows:
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| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/12-3.3)
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| 7 | Sec. 12-3.3. Aggravated domestic battery.
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| 8 | (a) A person who, in committing a domestic battery,
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| 9 | knowingly causes great bodily harm, or permanent disability or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | disfigurement
commits aggravated domestic battery.
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| 11 | (a-5) A person who, in committing a domestic battery, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | strangles another individual commits aggravated domestic | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | battery. For the purposes of this subsection (a-5), "strangle" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | means intentionally impeding the normal breathing or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | circulation of the blood of an individual by applying pressure | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | on the throat or neck of that individual or by blocking the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | nose or mouth of that individual. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | (a-10) A person who, in committing a domestic battery, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | other than by discharge of a firearm,
knows the individual | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | battered to be a person
60 years of age or older commits | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | aggravated domestic battery. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | (b) Sentence. Aggravated domestic battery is a Class 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | felony. Any order
of probation or conditional discharge | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | entered following a conviction for an
offense under this | ||||||
| 2 | Section must include, in addition to any other condition of
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| 3 | probation or conditional discharge, a condition that the | ||||||
| 4 | offender serve a
mandatory term of imprisonment of not less | ||||||
| 5 | than 60 consecutive days. A person
convicted of a second or | ||||||
| 6 | subsequent violation of this Section must be
sentenced to a | ||||||
| 7 | mandatory term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not
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| 8 | more than 7 years or an extended term of imprisonment of not | ||||||
| 9 | less than 7 years
and not more than 14 years.
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| 10 | (c) Upon conviction of aggravated domestic battery, the | ||||||
| 11 | court shall advise the defendant orally or in writing, | ||||||
| 12 | substantially as follows: "An individual convicted of | ||||||
| 13 | aggravated domestic battery may be subject to federal criminal | ||||||
| 14 | penalties for possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving | ||||||
| 15 | any firearm or ammunition in violation of the federal Gun | ||||||
| 16 | Control Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8) and (9))." A notation | ||||||
| 17 | shall be made in the court file that the admonition was given. | ||||||
| 18 | (Source: P.A. 96-287, eff. 8-11-09; 96-363, eff. 8-13-09; | ||||||
| 19 | 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)
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