Bill Text: IL SB2485 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that when the respondent requests a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis, the jury shall consist of 12 persons, unless the respondent requests a jury of 6 persons. Provides that a respondent is also entitled (rather than not entitled) to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under the Code. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2485 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2485-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB2485 Introduced 1/22/2020, by Sen. Robert Peters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
405 ILCS 5/3-802 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-802
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that when the respondent requests a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis, the jury shall consist of 12 persons, unless the respondent request a jury of 6 persons. Provides that a respondent is also entitled (rather than not entitled) to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under the Code. Effective immediately.
LRB101 17481 RLC 66891 b
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A BILL FOR
SB2485 LRB101 17481 RLC 66891 b
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 3-802 as
follows:
(405 ILCS 5/3-802) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-802)
Sec. 3-802. The respondent is entitled to a jury on the
question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary
admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis. The jury shall
consist of 12 6 persons, unless the respondent requests a jury
of 6 persons, to be chosen in the same manner as are jurors in
other civil proceedings. A respondent is also not entitled to a
jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or
electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under Section
2-107.1.
(Source: P.A. 95-172, eff. 8-14-07; 96-1399, eff. 7-29-10;
96-1453, eff. 8-20-10.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.