Bill Text: IL SB1890 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Provides that any individual who serves as either a firefighter on a volunteer basis or as EMS personnel under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act on a volunteer basis, who in good faith provides emergency care, including the administration of an opioid antagonist, without fee or compensation to any person shall not, as a result of his or her acts or omissions, except willful and wanton misconduct on the part of the person, in providing the care, be liable to a person to whom such care is provided for civil damages.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1890 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB1890-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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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 Good Samaritan Act is amended by adding | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 70.1 as follows:
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6 | (745 ILCS 49/70.1 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 70.1. Volunteer firefighters, emergency medical | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | services personnel; exemption from civil liability for | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | emergency care. Any individual who serves as either a | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | firefighter on a volunteer basis or as EMS personnel under the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act on a volunteer | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | basis, who in good faith provides emergency care, including the | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | administration of an opioid antagonist as defined in Section | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | 5-23 of the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act, | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | without fee or compensation to any person shall not, as a | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | result of his or her acts or omissions, except willful and | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | wanton misconduct on the part of the person, in providing the | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | care, be liable to a person to whom such care is provided for | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | civil damages.
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