Bill Text: IL SB0347 | 2015-2016 | 99th 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 legal disability.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-07-31 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB0347 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB0347-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB0347 Introduced 1/28/2015, by Sen. John J. Cullerton 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 legal disability.
LRB099 03281 RLC 23289 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
legally disabled, nor shall such person be held legally
disabled 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. 85-971.)