Bill Text: IL HB4418 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the sentence for the offense of interfering with the report of domestic violence is a Class 4 felony (rather than a Class A misdemeanor).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4418 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB4418-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 changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 12-3.5 as follows:
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6 | (720 ILCS 5/12-3.5)
(was 720 ILCS 5/12-6.3)
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7 | Sec. 12-3.5. Interfering with the reporting of domestic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | violence.
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9 | (a) A person commits interfering with the reporting of
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10 | domestic violence when, after having committed an act of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | domestic violence, he
or she knowingly prevents or attempts to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | prevent the victim of or a witness to the act of
domestic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | violence from calling a 9-1-1 emergency telephone system, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | obtaining
medical assistance, or making a report to any law | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | enforcement official.
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16 | (b) In For the purposes of this Section:
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17 | "Domestic violence" shall have the meaning ascribed to it | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | in Section
112A-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963.
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19 | (c) Sentence. Interfering with the reporting of domestic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | violence is a
Class 4 felony A misdemeanor .
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21 | (Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11 .)
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