Public Act 095-0602
 
SB0234 Enrolled LRB095 07027 DRJ 27149 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 1-119 and by
adding Section 1-104.5 as follows:
 
    (405 ILCS 5/1-104.5 new)
    Sec. 1-104.5. "Dangerous conduct" means threatening
behavior or conduct that places another individual in
reasonable expectation of being harmed, or a person's inability
to provide, without the assistance of family or outside help,
for his or her basic physical needs so as to guard himself or
herself from serious harm.
 
    (405 ILCS 5/1-119)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-119)
    Sec. 1-119. "Person subject to involuntary admission"
means:
        (1) A person with mental illness and who because of his
    or her illness is reasonably expected to engage in
    dangerous conduct inflict serious physical harm upon
    himself or herself or another in the near future which may
    include threatening behavior or conduct that places that
    person or another individual in reasonable expectation of
    being harmed; or
        (2) A person with mental illness and who because of his
    or her illness is unable to provide for his or her basic
    physical needs so as to guard himself or herself from
    serious harm without the assistance of family or outside
    help; or .
        (3) A person with mental illness who, because of the
    nature of his or her illness, is unable to understand his
    or her need for treatment and who, if not treated, is
    reasonably expected to suffer or continue to suffer mental
    deterioration or emotional deterioration, or both, to the
    point that the person is reasonably expected to engage in
    dangerous conduct.
    In determining whether a person meets the criteria
specified in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) or (2), the court may
consider evidence of the person's repeated past pattern of
specific behavior and actions related to the person's illness.
(Source: P.A. 93-573, eff. 8-21-03.)