Bill Text: IL SB1204 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who, in committing a domestic battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, knows the individual battered to be a person 60 years of age or older commits aggravated domestic battery.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-24 - Referred to Assignments [SB1204 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB1204-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1204 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Terri Bryant SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/12-3.3
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who, in committing a domestic battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, knows the individual battered to be a person 60 years of age or older commits aggravated domestic battery.
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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 12-3.3 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/12-3.3)
Sec. 12-3.3. Aggravated domestic battery.
(a) A person who, in committing a domestic battery,
knowingly causes great bodily harm, or permanent disability or
disfigurement commits aggravated domestic battery.
(a-5) A person who, in committing a domestic battery,
strangles another individual commits aggravated domestic
battery. For the purposes of this subsection (a-5), "strangle"
means intentionally impeding the normal breathing or
circulation of the blood of an individual by applying pressure
on the throat or neck of that individual or by blocking the
nose or mouth of that individual.
(a-10) A person who, in committing a domestic battery,
other than by discharge of a firearm, knows the individual
battered to be a person 60 years of age or older commits
aggravated domestic battery.
(b) Sentence. Aggravated domestic battery is a Class 2
felony. Any order of probation or conditional discharge

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