Bill Text: IL SB1095 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning immunity from civil liability for providing emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation to an apparent victim of acute cardiopulmonary insufficiency.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1095 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB1095-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB1095 Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
745 ILCS 49/10
Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning immunity from civil liability for providing emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation to an apparent victim of acute cardiopulmonary insufficiency.
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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 Good Samaritan Act is amended by changing
Section 10 as follows:
(745 ILCS 49/10)
Sec. 10. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; exemption from
civil liability for emergency care. Any person currently
certified in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation who complies
with generally recognized standards, and and who in good faith,
not for compensation, provides emergency cardiopulmonary
resuscitation to a person who is an apparent victim of acute
cardiopulmonary insufficiency shall not, as the result of his
or her acts or omissions in providing resuscitation, be liable
for civil damages, unless the acts or omissions constitute
willful and wanton misconduct.
(Source: P.A. 89-607, eff. 1-1-97; 90-742, eff. 8-13-98.)