Bill Text: IL HB4159 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of peace officer targeting. Provides that a person commits the offense when, by reason of the actual or perceived employment as a peace officer of another individual, regardless of the existence of any other motivating factor or factors, he or she commits assault, battery, aggravated assault, intimidation, stalking, cyberstalking, misdemeanor theft, criminal trespass to residence, misdemeanor criminal damage to property, criminal trespass to vehicle, criminal trespass to real property, mob action, disorderly conduct, transmission of obscene messages, harassment by telephone, or harassment through electronic communications. Provides that peace officer targeting is a Class 3 felony for a first offense and a Class 2 felony for a second or subsequent offense. Provides that the State's Attorney of each county shall submit an annual report to the General Assembly outlining: (1) the number of offenses in which a peace officer was a victim, (2) the charges filed, and (3) the ultimate disposition of each case.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-26 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael Kelly [HB4159 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4159-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB4159 Introduced , by Rep. Martin J. Moylan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/12-7.1-5 new
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of peace officer targeting. Provides that a person commits the offense when, by reason of the actual or perceived employment as a peace officer of another individual, regardless of the existence of any other motivating factor or factors, he or she commits assault, battery, aggravated assault, intimidation, stalking, cyberstalking, misdemeanor theft, criminal trespass to residence, misdemeanor criminal damage to property, criminal trespass to vehicle, criminal trespass to real property, mob action, disorderly conduct, transmission of obscene messages, harassment by telephone, or harassment through electronic communications. Provides that peace officer targeting is a Class 3 felony for a first offense and a Class 2 felony for a second or subsequent offense. Provides that the State's Attorney of each county shall submit an annual report to the General Assembly outlining: (1) the number of offenses in which a peace officer was a victim, (2) the charges filed, and (3) the ultimate disposition of each case.
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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 1. This Act may be referred to as the Police
Protection Act.
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by adding
Section 12-7.1-5 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/12-7.1-5 new)
Sec. 12-7.1-5. Peace officer targeting.
(a) A person commits peace officer targeting when, by
reason of the actual or perceived employment as a peace
officer of another individual, regardless of the existence of
any other motivating factor or factors, he or she commits
assault, aggravated assault, battery, intimidation, stalking,
cyberstalking, misdemeanor theft, criminal trespass to a
residence, misdemeanor criminal damage to property, criminal
trespass to vehicles, criminal trespass to real property, mob
action, disorderly conduct, transmission of obscene messages,
harassment by telephone, or harassment through electronic
communications as these crimes are defined in Section 12-1,
12-2, 12-7.3, 12-7.5, 16-1, 19-4, 21-1, 21-2, 21-3, 25-1,
26-1, 26.5-1, or 26.5-2, subsection (a) of Section 12-3,

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paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a) of Section 12-6,
or paragraph (2) or (5) of subsection (a) of Section 26.5-3 of
this Code, respectively.
(b) The State's Attorney of each county shall submit an
annual report to the General Assembly outlining: (1) the
number of offenses in which a peace officer was a victim, (2)
the charges filed, and (3) the ultimate disposition of each
case.
(c) Sentence. Peace officer targeting is a Class 3 felony
for a first offense and a Class 2 felony for a second or
subsequent offense.