Bill Text: IL SB3015 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In the statute concerning threatening a public official or human service provider, includes in the definition of "public official" a public health officer or administrator of the State or a unit of local government.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - Referred to Assignments [SB3015 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB3015-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB3015 Introduced 1/5/2022, by Sen. Sara Feigenholtz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/12-9 from Ch. 38, par. 12-9
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In the statute concerning threatening a public official or human service provider, includes in the definition of "public official" a public health officer or administrator of the State or a unit of local government.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
changing Section 12-9 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/12-9) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-9)
Sec. 12-9. Threatening public officials; human service
providers.
(a) A person commits threatening a public official or
human service provider when:
(1) that person knowingly delivers or conveys,
directly or indirectly, to a public official or human
service provider by any means a communication:
(i) containing a threat that would place the
public official or human service provider or a member
of his or her immediate family in reasonable
apprehension of immediate or future bodily harm,
sexual assault, confinement, or restraint; or
(ii) containing a threat that would place the
public official or human service provider or a member
of his or her immediate family in reasonable
apprehension that damage will occur to property in the
custody, care, or control of the public official or

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his or her immediate family; and
(2) the threat was conveyed because of the performance
or nonperformance of some public duty or duty as a human
service provider, because of hostility of the person
making the threat toward the status or position of the
public official or the human service provider, or because
of any other factor related to the official's public
existence.
(a-5) For purposes of a threat to a sworn law enforcement
officer, the threat must contain specific facts indicative of
a unique threat to the person, family or property of the
officer and not a generalized threat of harm.
(a-6) For purposes of a threat to a social worker,
caseworker, investigator, or human service provider, the
threat must contain specific facts indicative of a unique
threat to the person, family or property of the individual and
not a generalized threat of harm.
(b) For purposes of this Section:
(1) "Public official" means a person who is elected to
office in accordance with a statute or who is appointed to
an office which is established, and the qualifications and
duties of which are prescribed, by statute, to discharge a
public duty for the State or any of its political
subdivisions or in the case of an elective office any
person who has filed the required documents for nomination
or election to such office. "Public official" includes a

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duly appointed assistant State's Attorney, assistant
Attorney General, or Appellate Prosecutor; a sworn law
enforcement or peace officer; a social worker, caseworker,
attorney, or investigator employed by the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Human
Services, the Department of Children and Family Services,
or the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission; or an
assistant public guardian, attorney, social worker, case
manager, or investigator employed by a duly appointed
public guardian. "Public official" includes a public
health officer or administrator of the State or a unit of
local government.
(1.5) "Human service provider" means a social worker,
case worker, or investigator employed by an agency or
organization providing social work, case work, or
investigative services under a contract with or a grant
from the Department of Human Services, the Department of
Children and Family Services, the Department of Healthcare
and Family Services, or the Department on Aging.
(2) "Immediate family" means a public official's
spouse or child or children.
(c) Threatening a public official or human service
provider is a Class 3 felony for a first offense and a Class 2
felony for a second or subsequent offense.
(Source: P.A. 100-1, eff. 1-1-18.)