SB0125 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB101 05918 RLC 50939 b

101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB0125

Introduced 1/29/2019, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

405 ILCS 5/3-802

from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-802

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that when the respondent requests a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis, the jury shall consist of 6 persons, unless either party demands a jury of 12 persons. Provides that a respondent is also entitled (rather than not entitled) to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under the Code. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning health.

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 changing Section 3-802 as follows:

(405 ILCS 5/3-802) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-802)

Sec. 3-802. The respondent is entitled to a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis. The jury shall consist of 6 persons, unless either party demands a jury of 12 persons, to be chosen in the same manner as are jurors in other civil proceedings. A respondent is also not entitled to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under Section 2-107.1.

(Source: P.A. 95-172, eff. 8-14-07; 96-1399, eff. 7-29-10; 96-1453, eff. 8-20-10.)

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