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1     AN ACT concerning health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 1-119 and by
6 adding Section 1-104.5 as follows:
 
7     (405 ILCS 5/1-104.5 new)
8     Sec. 1-104.5. "Dangerous conduct" means threatening
9 behavior or conduct that places another individual in
10 reasonable expectation of being harmed, or a person's inability
11 to provide, without the assistance of family or outside help,
12 for his or her basic physical needs so as to guard himself or
13 herself from serious harm.
 
14     (405 ILCS 5/1-119)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-119)
15     Sec. 1-119. "Person subject to involuntary admission"
16 means:
17         (1) A person with mental illness and who because of his
18     or her illness is reasonably expected to engage in
19     dangerous conduct inflict serious physical harm upon
20     himself or herself or another in the near future which may
21     include threatening behavior or conduct that places that
22     person or another individual in reasonable expectation of

 

 

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1     being harmed; or
2         (2) A person with mental illness and who because of his
3     or her illness is unable to provide for his or her basic
4     physical needs so as to guard himself or herself from
5     serious harm without the assistance of family or outside
6     help; or .
7         (3) A person with mental illness who, because of the
8     nature of his or her illness, is unable to understand his
9     or her need for treatment and who, if not treated, is
10     reasonably expected to suffer or continue to suffer mental
11     deterioration or emotional deterioration, or both, to the
12     point that the person is reasonably expected to engage in
13     dangerous conduct.
14     In determining whether a person meets the criteria
15 specified in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) or (2), the court may
16 consider evidence of the person's repeated past pattern of
17 specific behavior and actions related to the person's illness.
18 (Source: P.A. 93-573, eff. 8-21-03.)