SB1890 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB1890

Introduced 2/10/2017, by Sen. Wm. Sam McCann

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

745 ILCS 49/70.1 new

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.

A BILL FOR

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 adding Section 70.1 as follows:

(745 ILCS 49/70.1 new)

Sec. 70.1. Volunteer firefighters, emergency medical services personnel; exemption from civil liability for emergency care. 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 as defined in Section 5-23 of the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act, 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.