99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB0347

 

Introduced 1/28/2015, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
405 ILCS 5/2-101  from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101

    Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legal disability.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning health.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 2-101 as
6follows:
 
7    (405 ILCS 5/2-101)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101)
8    Sec. 2-101. No recipient of services shall be presumed
9legally disabled, nor shall such person be held legally
10disabled except as determined by a court. Such determination
11shall be separate from a judicial proceeding held to determine
12whether a person is subject to involuntary admission or meets
13the the standard for judicial admission.
14(Source: P.A. 85-971.)