Bill Text: IL HB5403 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Changes the definition of "petitioner" to include any medical personnel, social services and mental health personnel, crisis intervention personnel, or education personnel as described in a provision of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5403 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-HB5403-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning safety. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Firearms Restraining Order Act is amended | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | by changing Section 5 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (430 ILCS 67/5) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Family member of the respondent" means a spouse, former | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | spouse, person with whom the respondent has a minor child in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | common, parent, child, or step-child of the respondent, any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | other person related by blood or present marriage to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | respondent, or a person who shares a common dwelling with the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | respondent. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | "Firearms restraining order" means an order issued by the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | court, prohibiting and enjoining a named person from having in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | receiving any firearms or ammunition, or removing firearm | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | parts that could be assembled to make an operable firearm. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | "Intimate partner" means a spouse, former spouse, a person | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | with whom the respondent has or allegedly has a child in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | common, or a person with whom the respondent has or has had a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | dating or engagement relationship. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | "Petitioner" means: | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | (1) a family member of the respondent as defined in | ||||||
| 2 | this Act; or | ||||||
| 3 | (2) a law enforcement officer who files a petition | ||||||
| 4 | alleging that the respondent poses a danger of causing | ||||||
| 5 | personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having | ||||||
| 6 | in his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing, | ||||||
| 7 | or receiving a firearm, ammunition, or firearm parts that | ||||||
| 8 | could be assembled to make an operable firearm or removing | ||||||
| 9 | firearm parts that could be assembled to make an operable | ||||||
| 10 | firearm; or . | ||||||
| 11 | (3) any medical personnel, social services and mental | ||||||
| 12 | health personnel, crisis intervention personnel, or | ||||||
| 13 | education personnel as described in Section 4 of the | ||||||
| 14 | Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. | ||||||
| 15 | "Respondent" means the person alleged in the petition to | ||||||
| 16 | pose a danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, | ||||||
| 17 | or another by having in his or her custody or control, | ||||||
| 18 | purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm, ammunition, or | ||||||
| 19 | firearm parts that could be assembled to make an operable | ||||||
| 20 | firearm or removing firearm parts that could be assembled to | ||||||
| 21 | make an operable firearm. | ||||||
| 22 | (Source: P.A. 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 102-345, eff. 6-1-22.) | ||||||
