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91_HB2236
LRB9102582RCks
1 AN ACT to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 by
2 changing Section 115-7.2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
6 amended by changing Section 115-7.2 as follows:
7 (725 ILCS 5/115-7.2) (from Ch. 38, par. 115-7.2)
8 Sec. 115-7.2. Post-traumatic stress syndrome; experts.
9 In a prosecution for an illegal sexual act perpetrated upon a
10 victim, including but not limited to prosecutions for
11 violations of Sections 12-13 through 12-16 of the Criminal
12 Code of 1961, or ritualized abuse of a child under Section
13 12-33 of the Criminal Code of 1961, testimony by an expert,
14 qualified by the court relating to any recognized and
15 accepted form of post-traumatic stress syndrome shall be
16 admissible as evidence.
17 (Source: P.A. 87-1167.)