Bill Text: IL SB1468 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "severely or profoundly mentally retarded person".

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1468 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB1468-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB1468 Introduced 2/9/2011, by Sen. Christine Radogno SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/2-10.1 from Ch. 38, par. 2-10.1
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "severely or profoundly mentally retarded person".
LRB097 07012 RLC 47105 b
A BILL FOR
SB1468 LRB097 07012 RLC 47105 b
AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
Section 2-10.1 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/2-10.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 2-10.1)
Sec. 2-10.1. "Severely or profoundly mentally retarded
person" means a person (i) whose intelligence quotient does not
exceed 40 or (ii) whose intelligence quotient does not exceed
55 and and who suffers from significant mental illness to the
extent that the person's ability to exercise rational judgment
is impaired. In any proceeding in which the defendant is
charged with committing a violation of Section 10-2, 10-5,
11-15.1, 11-19.1, 11-19.2, 11-20.1, 12-4.3, 12-14, or 12-16 of
this Code against a victim who is alleged to be a severely or
profoundly mentally retarded person, any findings concerning
the victim's status as a severely or profoundly mentally
retarded person, made by a court after a judicial admission
hearing concerning the victim under Articles V and VI of
Chapter 4 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Code shall be admissible.
(Source: P.A. 92-434, eff. 1-1-02.)