Bill Text: IL SB2221 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Provides that certain reimbursements received by State correctional institutions for administrative assistance to perform services shall be appropriated each year by the General Assembly to the Department of Corrections, which shall distribute the awards in annual lump sum payments to the Clerks of the Circuit Court in the counties in which the additional staff is employed. Deletes language providing that the payments shall be payable monthly from the State Treasury to the county treasurer. Provides that the reimbursement shall be paid for all types of administrative assistance provided by the Clerk of the Circuit Court in connection with the State correctional institution and that nothing in the provisions may be construed as limiting the reimbursement to only certain types of cases. Provides that the same reimbursement provided in connection with the operation of State correctional institutions shall also be paid in connection with treatment and detention facilities established under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-19 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-1131 [SB2221 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB2221-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning courts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
changing Section 13-214 as follows:
(735 ILCS 5/13-214) (from Ch. 110, par. 13-214)
Sec. 13-214. Construction - Design management and
supervision. As used in this Section "person" means any
individual, any business or legal entity, or any body politic.
(a) Actions based upon tort, contract or otherwise against
any person for an act or omission of such person in the design,
planning, supervision, observation or management of
construction, or construction of an improvement to real
property shall be commenced within 4 years from the time the
person bringing an action, or his or her privity, knew or
should reasonably have known of such act or omission.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, contract actions
against a surety on a payment or performance bond shall be
commenced, if at all, within the same time limitation
applicable to the bond principal.
(b) No action based upon tort, contract or otherwise may be
brought against any person for an act or omission of such
person in the design, planning, supervision, observation or

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management of construction, or construction of an improvement
to real property after 10 years have elapsed from the time of
such act or omission. However, any person who discovers such
act or omission prior to expiration of 10 years from the time
of such act or omission shall in no event have less than 4
years to bring an action as provided in subsection (a) of this
Section. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, contract
actions against a surety on a payment or performance bond shall
be commenced, if at all, within the same time limitation
applicable to the bond principal.
(c) If a person otherwise entitled to bring an action could
not have brought such action within the limitation periods
herein solely because such person was under the age of 18
years, or a person with a developmental disability or a person
with mental illness, then the limitation periods herein shall
not begin to run until the person attains the age of 18 years,
or the disability is removed.
(d) Subsection (b) shall not prohibit any action against a
defendant who has expressly warranted or promised the
improvement to real property for a longer period from being
brought within that period.
(e) The limitations of this Section shall not apply to
causes of action arising out of fraudulent misrepresentations
or to fraudulent concealment of causes of action.
(f) Subsection (b) does not apply to an action that is
based on personal injury, disability, disease, or death

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resulting from the discharge into the environment of asbestos.
(Source: P.A. 88-380.)