Bill Text: IL HB0962 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the limitation period for actions for damages for personal injury.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0962 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB0962-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB0962 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
735 ILCS 5/13-202 from Ch. 110, par. 13-202
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the limitation period for actions for damages for personal injury.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
changing Section 13-202 as follows:
(735 ILCS 5/13-202) (from Ch. 110, par. 13-202)
Sec. 13-202. Personal injury - Penalty. Actions for damages
for an injury to the the person, or for false imprisonment, or
malicious prosecution, or for a statutory penalty, or for
abduction, or for seduction, or for criminal conversation,
except damages resulting from first degree murder or the
commission of a Class X felony and the perpetrator thereof is
convicted of such crime, shall be commenced within 2 years next
after the cause of action accrued but such an action against a
defendant arising from a crime committed by the defendant in
whose name an escrow account was established under the
"Criminal Victims' Escrow Account Act" shall be commenced
within 2 years after the establishment of such account. If the
compelling of a confession or information by imminent bodily
harm or threat of imminent bodily harm results in whole or in
part in a criminal prosecution of the plaintiff, the 2-year
period set out in this Section shall be tolled during the time
in which the plaintiff is incarcerated, or until criminal

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prosecution has been finally adjudicated in favor of the above
referred plaintiff, whichever is later. However, this
provision relating to the compelling of a confession or
information shall not apply to units of local government
subject to the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees
Tort Immunity Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-1113, eff. 1-1-08.)