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Rep. Elaine Nekritz
Filed: 3/10/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3816
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3816 on page 1, line |
| 3 | | 5, by replacing "Section 3-3-3.1" with the following: |
| 4 | | "Sections 3-3-3.1 and 3-3-3.2"; and
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| 5 | | on page 14, line 8, by deleting "and"; and
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| 6 | | on page 14, line 17, by replacing "Code." with the following: |
| 7 | | "Code; and |
| 8 | | (13) hear by at least 8 members and, with the majority |
| 9 | | vote of the panel voting, release a committed person on |
| 10 | | medical parole as provided in Section 3-3-3.2 of this |
| 11 | | Code."; and
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| 12 | | on page 21, by inserting immediately below line 22 the |
| 13 | | following:
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| 14 | | "(730 ILCS 5/3-3-3.2 new) |
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| 1 | | Sec. 3-3-3.2. Medical parole. Notwithstanding any other |
| 2 | | provision of law to the contrary, any committed person who is |
| 3 | | serving a sentence, including one who has not yet served the |
| 4 | | minimum term of the sentence, who is diagnosed as suffering |
| 5 | | from a terminal condition so as to render the committed person |
| 6 | | likely to live less than 9 months may be released on medical |
| 7 | | parole to a hospital, hospice, other licensed inpatient |
| 8 | | facility, or suitable housing accommodation as specified by the |
| 9 | | Board. The Department shall promptly notify the Board upon |
| 10 | | receipt of medical information that a committed person has a |
| 11 | | diagnosis of a terminal condition with less than 9 months to |
| 12 | | live which prevents him or her from filing a petition on his or |
| 13 | | her own. As used in this Section, "other licensed inpatient |
| 14 | | facility" or "suitable housing accommodation" does not include |
| 15 | | a facility licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act.".
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