Bill Text: IL HB5664 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Provides that the defined term "petitioner" includes a respondent's employer, coworker, or an employee or teacher of a specified school that a respondent has attended in the previous 6 months.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-22 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman [HB5664 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5664-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5664 Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Hernandez SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
430 ILCS 67/5
Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Provides that the defined term "petitioner" includes a respondent's employer, coworker, or an employee or teacher of a specified school that a respondent has attended in the previous 6 months.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Firearms Restraining Order Act is amended by
changing Section 5 as follows:
(430 ILCS 67/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Family member of the respondent" means a spouse, parent,
child, or step-child of the respondent, any other person
related by blood or present marriage to the respondent, or a
person who shares a common dwelling with the respondent.
"Firearms restraining order" means an order issued by the
court, prohibiting and enjoining a named person from having in
his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing, or
receiving any firearms.
"Intimate partner" means a spouse, former spouse, a person
with whom the respondent has or allegedly has a child in
common, or a person with whom the respondent has or has had a
dating or engagement relationship.
"Petitioner" means:
(1) a family member of the respondent as defined in
this Act; or
(2) a law enforcement officer who files a petition

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alleging that the respondent poses a danger of causing
personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having
in his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing,
or receiving a firearm; .
(3) an employer of the respondent;
(4) a coworker of the respondent, if the coworker has
had substantial and regular interactions with the
respondent for at least one year and has obtained the
approval of the employer; or
(5) an employee or teacher of a secondary or
postsecondary school that the respondent has attended in
the previous 6 months, if the employee or teacher has
obtained the approval of a school administrator or a school
administration staff member with a supervisory role.
"Respondent" means the person alleged in the petition to
pose a danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself,
or another by having in his or her custody or control,
purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm.
(Source: P.A. 100-607, eff. 1-1-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)