HB4600 - 104th General Assembly (2025-2026)

HEALTH CARE AT HOME-PROTECTION
Last Action
2/03/2026 - House: Referred to Rules Committee
Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
720 ILCS 5/12-0.1  
720 ILCS 5/12-2  from Ch. 38, par. 12-2
720 ILCS 5/12-3.05  was 720 ILCS 5/12-4
720 ILCS 5/12-9.5 new  
Synopsis As Introduced
Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Health Care at Home Workforce Protection Act. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides for enhancement of assault or battery to aggravated assault or aggravated battery under certain circumstances if the person knows that the individual assaulted or battered is a health care at home provider or the health care at home provider's family or household members. Creates the offense of threatening a health care at home provider. Provides that a person commits the offense when: (1) that person knowingly delivers or conveys, directly or indirectly, to a health care at home provider by any means a communication containing a threat that would place that person or a member of his or her immediate family in reasonable apprehension of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint; (2) at the time of the threat, the person knows or should have known that the victim is a health care at home provider or is an immediate family member of a health care at home provider; (3) the threat was conveyed because of an action taken by the health care at home provider acting in his or her employment or volunteer capacity or because of the victim's professional or employment status; (4) there is no consent by the person threatened; and (5) the threat contains specific facts indicative of a unique threat to the health care at home provider or his or her immediate family and not a generalized threat of harm. Provides that threatening a health care at home provider is a Class 4 felony for a first offense and a Class 3 felony for a second or subsequent offense. Defines "health care at home provider".
Actions
DateChamberAction
1/26/2026HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Nicolle Grasse
2/03/2026HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman
2/03/2026HouseFirst Reading
2/03/2026HouseReferred to Rules Committee
2/10/2026HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung