Bill Text: IL HB5721 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Adds autism to the definition of disability.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5721 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5721-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 1-159.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (625 ILCS 5/1-159.1) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1-159.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 1-159.1. Person with disabilities. A natural person | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | who, as determined by a licensed physician, by a physician
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| 9 | assistant who has been delegated the authority to make this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | determination by
his or her supervising physician, or by an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | advanced practice nurse who has a
written collaborative | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | agreement with a collaborating physician that authorizes
the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | advanced practice nurse to make this determination: (1) cannot | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | walk
without the use of, or
assistance from, a brace, cane, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | crutch, another person, prosthetic device,
wheelchair, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | other assistive device; (2) is restricted by lung
disease to
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| 17 | such an extent that his or her forced (respiratory) expiratory | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | volume for one
second, when measured by spirometry, is less | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | than one liter, or the arterial
oxygen tension is less than 60 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | mm/hg on room air at rest; (3) uses
portable
oxygen; (4) has a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | cardiac condition to the extent that the person's
functional
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| 22 | limitations are classified in severity as Class III or Class | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | IV,
according to standards set by the American Heart | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | Association; (5) is
severely limited in the person's ability to | ||||||
| 2 | walk due to an arthritic,
neurological, oncological, or | ||||||
| 3 | orthopedic condition; (6) cannot walk 200 feet without
stopping | ||||||
| 4 | to rest because of one of the above 5 conditions; or (7) is | ||||||
| 5 | missing a hand or arm or has permanently lost the use of a hand | ||||||
| 6 | or arm; or (8) is autistic.
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| 7 | (Source: P.A. 98-405, eff. 1-1-14.)
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