Bill Text: IL HB1712 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning persons under a legal disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1712 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB1712-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB1712 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
405 ILCS 5/2-101 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning persons under a legal disability.
LRB100 03162 RLC 13167 b
FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 2-101 as
follows:
(405 ILCS 5/2-101) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101)
Sec. 2-101. No recipient of services shall be presumed to
be a person under a legal disability, nor shall such person be
held to be a person under a legal disability except as
determined by a court. Such determination shall be separate
from a judicial proceeding held to determine whether a person
is subject to involuntary admission or meets the the standard
for judicial admission.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)