Illinois House Bill 4569 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Failed on January 7 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the State shall indemnify and hold harmless a board-certified forensic pathologist who has been appointed or designated by a county or a county coroner's office to perform autopsies for all of the pathologist's acts, omissions, decisions, or conduct arising out of the scope of the pathologist's duties of performing autopsies for the county, except those involving willful or wanton misconduct. Provides that indemnification shall be as provided under the State Employee Indemnification Act. Amends the State Employee Indemnification Act to make conforming changes.

CORONERS-FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS

Rep. Jay Hoffman [D]

Rep. Lawrence Walsh [D]

Rep. Anthony DeLuca [D]

Rep. Brandun Schweizer [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-07	House	Session Sine Die
2024-05-16	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Brandun Schweizer
2024-04-05	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2024-03-07	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anthony DeLuca
2024-03-06	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr.
2024-02-14	House	Assigned to Counties & Townships Committee
2024-01-31	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2024-01-31	House	First Reading
2024-01-24	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Jay Hoffman

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
5	350	1	Amended Code	Citation Text
55	5	3-3014.5	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4569&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB4569.htm