Bill Text: IL SB0125 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that when the respondent requests a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis, the jury shall consist of 6 persons, unless either party demands a jury of 12 persons. Provides that a respondent is also entitled (rather than not entitled) to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under the Code. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0125 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB0125-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB0125 Introduced 1/29/2019, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
405 ILCS 5/3-802 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-802
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that when the respondent requests a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis, the jury shall consist of 6 persons, unless either party demands a jury of 12 persons. Provides that a respondent is also entitled (rather than not entitled) to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under the Code. Effective immediately.
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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 3-802 as
follows:
(405 ILCS 5/3-802) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-802)
Sec. 3-802. The respondent is entitled to a jury on the
question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary
admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis. The jury shall
consist of 6 persons, unless either party demands a jury of 12
persons, to be chosen in the same manner as are jurors in other
civil proceedings. A respondent is also not entitled to a jury
on the question of whether psychotropic medication or
electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under Section
2-107.1.
(Source: P.A. 95-172, eff. 8-14-07; 96-1399, eff. 7-29-10;
96-1453, eff. 8-20-10.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.