94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB3192

 

Introduced 11/14/2006, by Sen. Antonio Munoz

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
745 ILCS 49/12

    Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Provides that a person who, in good faith and without compensation, renders emergency medical care by using an automatic external defibrillator is not civilly liable for any act or omission, except willful and wanton misconduct, in rendering that care. (At present, this exemption only applies if the person rendering the care uses training conducted in accord with the standards of the American Heart Association.) Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

SB3192 LRB094 21187 AJO 59520 b

1     AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Good Samaritan Act is amended by changing
5 Section 12 as follows:
 
6     (745 ILCS 49/12)
7     Sec. 12. Use of an automatic external defibrillator;
8 exemption from civil liability for emergency care. Any person
9 who has successfully completed the training requirements of a
10 course in basic emergency care of a person in cardiac arrest
11 that:
12         (i) included training in the operation and use of an
13     automatic external defibrillator; and
14         (ii) was conducted in accordance with the standards of
15     the American Heart Association,
16 and who, in good faith, not for compensation, renders emergency
17 medical care involving the use of an automatic external
18 defibrillator in accordance with his or her training is not
19 liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or
20 omission, except for willful and wanton misconduct, by that
21 person in rendering that care.
22 (Source: P.A. 90-746, eff. 8-14-98.)
 
23     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24 becoming law.