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91_HB3412

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to criminal law.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Criminal  Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 2-10.1 as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 5/2-10.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 2-10.1)
 7        Sec.  2-10.1.   "Institutionalized severely or profoundly
 8    mentally   retarded   person"   means   a   person   who   is
 9    institutionalized in  a  developmental  disability  facility,
10    nursing  home facility, or long term care facility and either
11    (i) the person's intelligence quotient does not exceed 40  or
12    (ii)  the  person's  intelligence quotient does not exceed 55
13    and the person suffers from significant mental illness to the
14    extent  that  the  person's  ability  to  exercise   rational
15    judgment   is  impaired.  In  any  proceeding  in  which  the
16    defendant is charged with committing a violation  of  Section
17    10-2,  10-5,  11-15.1,  11-19.1,  11-19.2,  11-20.1,  12-4.3,
18    12-14,  or 12-16 of this Code against a victim who is alleged
19    to be an institutionalized severely  or  profoundly  mentally
20    retarded  person, any findings concerning the victim's status
21    as  an  institutionalized  severely  or  profoundly  mentally
22    retarded person, made by a court after a  judicial  admission
23    hearing  concerning  the  victim  under  Articles V and VI of
24    Chapter 4 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
25    Code is shall be admissible.
26    (Source: P.A. 87-1198.)

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