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Bill	CRIM CD-AGG ASSAULT&AGG BAT	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the assault or battery of a person known to be a utility worker, while the utility worker is engaged in the execution of his or her duties, or to prevent the utility worker from performing his or her duties, or in retaliation for the utility worker performing his or her duties is enhanced to aggravated assault or aggravated battery. Establishes penalties.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	95th	SB 1293	Illinois SB 1293 (95th)	bill		enacted		3	32	2	2007-02-09	2007-08-24	openstates	ocd-bill/67e600da-2bed-408f-ac7a-cfa9d228855b	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1293&GAID=9&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=29369&SessionID=51&GA=95	8d6087d4dbf831d172213fe46b339958077f93acf34ddb6d1ece3a935afccec6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1293 (95th) — CRIM CD-AGG ASSAULT&AGG BAT

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the assault or battery of a person known to be a utility worker, while the utility worker is engaged in the execution of his or her duties, or to prevent the utility worker from performing his or her duties, or in retaliation for the utility worker performing his or her duties is enhanced to aggravated assault or aggravated battery. Establishes penalties.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 52–1 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Elga L. Jefferies — cosponsor (person)
• Esther Golar — cosponsor (person)
• Martin A. Sandoval — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2007-02-09 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval filing
• 2007-02-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2007-02-09 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2007-02-21 Assigned to Judiciary Criminal Law referral-committee
• 2007-03-07 Do Pass Judiciary Criminal Law; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2007-03-07 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 8, 2007
• 2007-03-20 Second Reading reading-2
• 2007-03-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 21, 2007
• 2007-03-30 Third Reading - Passed; 052-001-002 reading-3, passage
• 2007-03-30 Arrived in House introduction
• 2007-03-30 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2007-03-30 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
• 2007-04-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2007-04-09 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2007-04-24 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Cynthia Soto
• 2007-04-24 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
• 2007-04-24 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul D. Froehlich
• 2007-04-24 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough
• 2007-04-24 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez
• 2007-04-30 Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee referral-committee
• 2007-05-10 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2007-05-10 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2007-05-24 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2007-05-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2007-05-30 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 116-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2007-05-30 Passed Both Houses
• 2007-05-30 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Esther Golar
• 2007-05-30 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Elga L. Jefferies
• 2007-06-28 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2007-08-24 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2007-08-24 Effective Date January 1, 2008
• 2007-08-24 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 95-0429 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67e600da-2bed-408f-ac7a-cfa9d228855b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).