SB1468 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB097 07012 RLC 47105 b

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB1468

Introduced 2/9/2011, by Sen. Christine Radogno

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/2-10.1

from Ch. 38, par. 2-10.1

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "severely or profoundly mentally retarded person".

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

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

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing Section 2-10.1 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/2-10.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 2-10.1)

Sec. 2-10.1. "Severely or profoundly mentally retarded person" means a person (i) whose intelligence quotient does not exceed 40 or (ii) whose intelligence quotient does not exceed 55 and and who suffers from significant mental illness to the extent that the person's ability to exercise rational judgment is impaired. In any proceeding in which the defendant is charged with committing a violation of Section 10-2, 10-5, 11-15.1, 11-19.1, 11-19.2, 11-20.1, 12-4.3, 12-14, or 12-16 of this Code against a victim who is alleged to be a severely or profoundly mentally retarded person, any findings concerning the victim's status as a severely or profoundly mentally retarded person, made by a court after a judicial admission hearing concerning the victim under Articles V and VI of Chapter 4 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code shall be admissible.

(Source: P.A. 92-434, eff. 1-1-02.)