HB4567 Summary

• Adds library employees to protections under threatening public officials law, making threats against library employees a Class 3 felony for first offense and Class 2 felony for subsequent offenses.

• Expands definition of "public official" to include employees of any State of Illinois constitutional office, State agency, or the General Assembly.

• Adds "library employee" definition as an employee of a public library, including privately endowed or tax-supported libraries established under the Illinois Local Library Act or Public Library District Act of 1991.

• Requires that threats to social workers, caseworkers, investigators, human service providers, or library employees contain specific facts indicative of a unique threat rather than generalized threats of harm.

• Extends disorderly conduct and terrorist threat provisions to cover communications made electronically or via social media, and adds library-related threats to bomb threat and school threat statutes.