State of Illinois
91^st General Assembly
Public Acts

Public Act 91-0074

HB1280 Enrolled                                LRB9103956SMdv

    AN ACT to  amend  the  Mental  Health  and  Developmental
Disabilities Code by adding Section 2-110.5.

    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 adding Section 2-110.5 as
follows:

    (405 ILCS 5/2-110.5 new)
    Sec. 2-110.5.  Electro-convulsive therapy for minors.  If
a recipient is a minor, that recipient's parent  or  guardian
is  authorized, only with the approval of the court under the
procedures set out in Section 2-107.1, to provide consent for
participation of the minor in electro-convulsive  therapy  if
the parent or guardian deems it to be in the best interest of
the  minor.   In  addition  to  the  requirements  in Section
2-107.1, prior to  the  court  entering  an  order  approving
treatment   by   electro-convulsive   therapy,   2   licensed
psychiatrists,  one  of  which  may  be  the minor's treating
psychiatrist, who have examined the patient  must  concur  in
the  determination  that  the  minor  should  participate  in
treatment by electro-convulsive therapy.

    Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.