Bill Text: IL HB1027 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1027 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB1027-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB1027 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
735 ILCS 5/2-407 from Ch. 110, par. 2-407
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties.
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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 2-407 as follows:
(735 ILCS 5/2-407) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-407)
Sec. 2-407. Nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties - Change
of parties. No action shall be dismissed for misjoinder of
parties, or dismissed for nonjoinder of necessary parties
without first affording reasonable opportunity to add them as
parties. New parties may be added and and parties misjoined
may be dropped by order of the court, at any stage of the
cause, before or after judgment, as the ends of justice may
require and on terms which the court may fix.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)