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90_HB3668
725 ILCS 207/20
Amends the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act.
Makes a stylistic change in Section that states that
proceedings under the Act are civil in nature.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment
2 Act by changing Section 20.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act
6 is amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
7 (725 ILCS 207/20)
8 Sec. 20. Civil nature of proceedings. The proceedings
9 under this Act shall be civil in nature. The provisions of
10 the Civil Practice Law, and all existing and future
11 amendments of that Law shall apply to all proceedings under
12 this Act hereunder except as otherwise provided in this Act.
13 (Source: P.A. 90-40, eff. 1-1-98.)