CRIM CD-HEINOUS BAT UNBORN
Summary
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of heinous battery of an unborn child. Defines the offense as intentionally or knowingly without medical legal justification extracting by cutting, severing, mutilating, or otherwise causing by force the unnatural expulsion of an independently viable fetus from the uterus of another living human being. Provides that the penalty is a Class X felony for which a person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more than 45 years. Exempts from this offense acts that cause bodily harm to an unborn child if those acts were committed during any abortion to which the pregnant woman has consented and acts that were committed pursuant to usual and customary standards of medical practice during diagnostic testing or therapeutic treatment.
Bill status
failed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2007
Committee Review
May 2008
House Passage
Mar 2007
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 29, 2007
Last action Jan 13, 2009
Floor votes · House Mar 28, 2007
How they voted
104–1
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 107
Mar 28, 2007
D
Democratic59
96% Yea
R
Republican48
97% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
42
Key actions
6
Committee
7
Amendments
2
May 15, 2008
Upper · Passed
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 22, 2008; Substantive House Bills Out of Committee
upper
Mar 29, 2007
Committee
Referred to Rules
upper
Mar 29, 2007
Introduced
Arrive in Senate
upper
Mar 28, 2007
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (104-1-2)
house
Mar 22, 2007
Lower · Passed
Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 013-000-000
lower
Mar 22, 2007
Lower · Passed
Remains in Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
lower
Mar 22, 2007
Lower · Passed
Recommends Do Pass as Amended Subcommittee/ Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 005-000-000
lower
Mar 22, 2007
Lower · Passed
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; by Voice Vote
lower
Mar 22, 2007
Introduced
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
lower
Jan 31, 2007
Committee
Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
lower
Jan 19, 2007
Committee
Referred to Rules Committee
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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