HB1712 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB1712

Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan

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 persons under a legal disability.

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 2-101 as follows:

(405 ILCS 5/2-101) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101)

Sec. 2-101. No recipient of services shall be presumed to be a person under a legal disability, nor shall such person be held to be a person under a legal disability except as determined by a court. Such determination shall be separate from a judicial proceeding held to determine whether a person is subject to involuntary admission or meets the the standard for judicial admission.

(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)