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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:
| | | 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. |
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| | HB2917 | | LRB104 08591 JRC 18643 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Good Samaritan Act is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 125 as follows:
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| 6 | | (745 ILCS 49/125 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 125. Veteran not-for-profit corporations. A |
| 8 | | not-for-profit corporation organized to assist veterans that |
| 9 | | requests, sponsors, or participates in providing a suicide |
| 10 | | prevention intervention at the scene of a threatened suicide |
| 11 | | by a veteran, or a person who, without compensation, provides |
| 12 | | such an intervention for and at the request of a veteran |
| 13 | | not-for-profit corporation, is not liable for civil damages in |
| 14 | | any action in this State for any act or omission resulting from |
| 15 | | the rendering of suicide prevention intervention, unless the |
| 16 | | act or omission was not in good faith or was the result of |
| 17 | | gross negligence or willful misconduct. For the purposes of |
| 18 | | this Section, "not-for-profit corporation" has the meaning |
| 19 | | given to that term in Section 101.80 of the General Not For |
| 20 | | Profit Corporation Act of 1986. |