SB3192 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Good Samaritan Act is amended by changing Section 12 as follows:

(745 ILCS 49/12)

Sec. 12. Use of an automatic external defibrillator; exemption from civil liability for emergency care. Any person who has successfully completed the training requirements of a course in basic emergency care of a person in cardiac arrest that:

(i) included training in the operation and use of an automatic external defibrillator; and

(ii) was conducted in accordance with the standards of the American Heart Association, and who, in good faith, not for compensation, renders emergency medical care involving the use of an automatic external defibrillator in accordance with his or her training is not liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission, except for willful and wanton misconduct, by that person in rendering that care.

(Source: P.A. 90-746, eff. 8-14-98.)

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