Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB2917

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB2917

Introduced 2/6/2025, by Rep. Jackie Haas

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

745 ILCS 49/125 new

Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Provides civil immunity for a not-for-profit corporation organized to assist veterans that requests, sponsors, or participates in providing a suicide prevention intervention at the scene of a threatened suicide by a veteran; or a person, who without compensation, provides such an intervention at the request of a veteran no-for-profit corporation. Exempts an act or omission that was not in good faith or was the result of gross negligence or willful misconduct.

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 adding Section 125 as follows:

(745 ILCS 49/125 new)

Sec. 125. Veteran not-for-profit corporations. A not-for-profit corporation organized to assist veterans that requests, sponsors, or participates in providing a suicide prevention intervention at the scene of a threatened suicide by a veteran, or a person who, without compensation, provides such an intervention for and at the request of a veteran not-for-profit corporation, is not liable for civil damages in any action in this State for any act or omission resulting from the rendering of suicide prevention intervention, unless the act or omission was not in good faith or was the result of gross negligence or willful misconduct. For the purposes of this Section, "not-for-profit corporation" has the meaning given to that term in Section 101.80 of the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986.