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1 AN ACT concerning criminal law.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
5Section 12-3.05 as follows:
6 (720 ILCS 5/12-3.05) (was 720 ILCS 5/12-4)
7 Sec. 12-3.05. Aggravated battery.
8 (a) Offense based on injury. A person commits aggravated
9battery when, in committing a battery, other than by the
10discharge of a firearm, he or she knowingly does any of the
11following:
12 (1) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
13 disfigurement.
14 (2) Causes severe and permanent disability, great
15 bodily harm, or disfigurement by means of a caustic or
16 flammable substance, a poisonous gas, a deadly biological
17 or chemical contaminant or agent, a radioactive substance,
18 or a bomb or explosive compound.
19 (3) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
20 disfigurement to an individual whom the person knows to be
21 a peace officer, community policing volunteer, fireman,
22 private security officer, correctional institution
23 employee, or Department of Human Services employee

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1 supervising or controlling sexually dangerous persons or
2 sexually violent persons:
3 (i) performing his or her official duties;
4 (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
5 official duties; or
6 (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
7 or her official duties.
8 (4) Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
9 disfigurement to an individual 60 years of age or older.
10 (5) Strangles another individual.
11 (b) Offense based on injury to a child or intellectually
12disabled person. A person who is at least 18 years of age
13commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or
14she knowingly and without legal justification by any means:
15 (1) causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or
16 disfigurement to any child under the age of 13 years, or to
17 any severely or profoundly intellectually disabled person;
18 or
19 (2) causes bodily harm or disability or disfigurement
20 to any child under the age of 13 years or to any severely
21 or profoundly intellectually disabled person.
22 (c) Offense based on location of conduct. A person commits
23aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
24the discharge of a firearm, he or she is or the person battered
25is on or about a public way, public property, a public place of
26accommodation or amusement, a sports venue, or a domestic

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1violence shelter.
2 (d) Offense based on status of victim. A person commits
3aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by
4discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered
5to be any of the following:
6 (1) A person 60 years of age or older.
7 (2) A person who is pregnant or physically handicapped.
8 (3) A teacher or school employee upon school grounds or
9 grounds adjacent to a school or in any part of a building
10 used for school purposes.
11 (4) A peace officer, community policing volunteer,
12 fireman, private security officer, correctional
13 institution employee, or Department of Human Services
14 employee supervising or controlling sexually dangerous
15 persons or sexually violent persons:
16 (i) performing his or her official duties;
17 (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
18 official duties; or
19 (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
20 or her official duties.
21 (5) A judge, emergency management worker, emergency
22 medical technician, or utility worker:
23 (i) performing his or her official duties;
24 (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
25 official duties; or
26 (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his

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1 or her official duties.
2 (6) An officer or employee of the State of Illinois, a
3 unit of local government, or a school district, while
4 performing his or her official duties.
5 (7) A transit employee performing his or her official
6 duties, or a transit passenger.
7 (8) A taxi driver on duty.
8 (9) A merchant who detains the person for an alleged
9 commission of retail theft under Section 16-26 of this Code
10 and the person without legal justification by any means
11 causes bodily harm to the merchant.
12 (10) A person authorized to serve process under Section
13 2-202 of the Code of Civil Procedure or a special process
14 server appointed by the circuit court while that individual
15 is in the performance of his or her duties as a process
16 server.
17 (11) A nurse while in the performance of his or her
18 duties as a nurse.
19 (e) Offense based on use of a firearm. A person commits
20aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or she
21knowingly does any of the following:
22 (1) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
23 firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
24 another person.
25 (2) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
26 firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to

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1 a person he or she knows to be a peace officer, community
2 policing volunteer, person summoned by a police officer,
3 fireman, private security officer, correctional
4 institution employee, or emergency management worker:
5 (i) performing his or her official duties;
6 (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
7 official duties; or
8 (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
9 or her official duties.
10 (3) Discharges a firearm, other than a machine gun or a
11 firearm equipped with a silencer, and causes any injury to
12 a person he or she knows to be an emergency medical
13 technician employed by a municipality or other
14 governmental unit:
15 (i) performing his or her official duties;
16 (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
17 official duties; or
18 (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
19 or her official duties.
20 (4) Discharges a firearm and causes any injury to a
21 person he or she knows to be a teacher, a student in a
22 school, or a school employee, and the teacher, student, or
23 employee is upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a
24 school or in any part of a building used for school
25 purposes.
26 (5) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with

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1 a silencer, and causes any injury to another person.
2 (6) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
3 a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
4 knows to be a peace officer, community policing volunteer,
5 person summoned by a police officer, fireman, private
6 security officer, correctional institution employee or
7 emergency management worker:
8 (i) performing his or her official duties;
9 (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
10 official duties; or
11 (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
12 or her official duties.
13 (7) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
14 a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
15 knows to be an emergency medical technician employed by a
16 municipality or other governmental unit:
17 (i) performing his or her official duties;
18 (ii) battered to prevent performance of his or her
19 official duties; or
20 (iii) battered in retaliation for performing his
21 or her official duties.
22 (8) Discharges a machine gun or a firearm equipped with
23 a silencer, and causes any injury to a person he or she
24 knows to be a teacher, or a student in a school, or a
25 school employee, and the teacher, student, or employee is
26 upon school grounds or grounds adjacent to a school or in

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1 any part of a building used for school purposes.
2 (f) Offense based on use of a weapon or device. A person
3commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, he or
4she does any of the following:
5 (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by discharge of a
6 firearm, or uses an air rifle as defined in the Air Rifle
7 Act.
8 (2) Wears a hood, robe, or mask to conceal his or her
9 identity.
10 (3) Knowingly and without lawful justification shines
11 or flashes a laser gunsight or other laser device attached
12 to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so that
13 the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of
14 another.
15 (g) Offense based on certain conduct. A person commits
16aggravated battery when, other than by discharge of a firearm,
17he or she does any of the following:
18 (1) Violates Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled
19 Substances Act by unlawfully delivering a controlled
20 substance to another and any user experiences great bodily
21 harm or permanent disability as a result of the injection,
22 inhalation, or ingestion of any amount of the controlled
23 substance.
24 (2) Knowingly administers to an individual or causes
25 him or her to take, without his or her consent or by threat
26 or deception, and for other than medical purposes, any

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1 intoxicating, poisonous, stupefying, narcotic, anesthetic,
2 or controlled substance, or gives to another person any
3 food containing any substance or object intended to cause
4 physical injury if eaten.
5 (3) Knowingly causes or attempts to cause a
6 correctional institution employee or Department of Human
7 Services employee to come into contact with blood, seminal
8 fluid, urine, or feces by throwing, tossing, or expelling
9 the fluid or material, and the person is an inmate of a
10 penal institution or is a sexually dangerous person or
11 sexually violent person in the custody of the Department of
12 Human Services.
13 (h) Sentence. Unless otherwise provided, aggravated
14battery is a Class 3 felony.
15 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(4),
16(d)(4), or (g)(3) is a Class 2 felony.
17 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(3) or
18(g)(1) is a Class 1 felony.
19 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(1) is a
20Class 1 felony when the aggravated battery was intentional and
21involved the infliction of torture, as defined in paragraph
22(14) of subsection (b) of Section 9-1 of this Code, as the
23infliction of or subjection to extreme physical pain, motivated
24by an intent to increase or prolong the pain, suffering, or
25agony of the victim.
26 Aggravated battery under subdivision (a)(5) is a Class 1

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1felony if:
2 (A) the person used or attempted to use a dangerous
3 instrument while committing the offense; or
4 (B) the person caused great bodily harm or permanent
5 disability or disfigurement to the other person while
6 committing the offense; or
7 (C) the person has been previously convicted of a
8 violation of subdivision (a)(5) under the laws of this
9 State or laws similar to subdivision (a)(5) of any other
10 state.
11 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(1) is a
12Class X felony.
13 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (a)(2) is a
14Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
15of imprisonment of a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of 45
16years.
17 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(5) is a
18Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term
19of imprisonment of a minimum of 12 years and a maximum of 45
20years.
21 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(2),
22(e)(3), or (e)(4) is a Class X felony for which a person shall
23be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 15 years
24and a maximum of 60 years.
25 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (e)(6),
26(e)(7), or (e)(8) is a Class X felony for which a person shall

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1be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of 20 years
2and a maximum of 60 years.
3 Aggravated battery as defined in subdivision (b)(1) is a
4Class X felony, except that:
5 (1) if the person committed the offense while armed
6 with a firearm, 15 years shall be added to the term of
7 imprisonment imposed by the court;
8 (2) if, during the commission of the offense, the
9 person personally discharged a firearm, 20 years shall be
10 added to the term of imprisonment imposed by the court;
11 (3) if, during the commission of the offense, the
12 person personally discharged a firearm that proximately
13 caused great bodily harm, permanent disability, permanent
14 disfigurement, or death to another person, 25 years or up
15 to a term of natural life shall be added to the term of
16 imprisonment imposed by the court.
17 (i) Definitions. For the purposes of this Section:
18 "Building or other structure used to provide shelter" has
19the meaning ascribed to "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic
20Violence Shelters Act.
21 "Domestic violence" has the meaning ascribed to it in
22Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
23 "Domestic violence shelter" means any building or other
24structure used to provide shelter or other services to victims
25or to the dependent children of victims of domestic violence
26pursuant to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or the

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1Domestic Violence Shelters Act, or any place within 500 feet of
2such a building or other structure in the case of a person who
3is going to or from such a building or other structure.
4 "Firearm" has the meaning provided under Section 1.1 of the
5Firearm Owners Identification Card Act, and does not include an
6air rifle as defined by Section 1 of the Air Rifle Act.
7 "Machine gun" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
824-1 of this Code.
9 "Merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 16-0.1
10of this Code.
11 "Strangle" means intentionally impeding the normal
12breathing or circulation of the blood of an individual by
13applying pressure on the throat or neck of that individual or
14by blocking the nose or mouth of that individual.
15(Source: P.A. 96-201, eff. 8-10-09; 96-363, eff. 8-13-09;
1696-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-597, eff.
171-1-12; incorporates 97-227, eff. 1-1-12, 97-313, eff. 1-1-12,
18and 97-467, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)