Date	Chamber	Action
1/11/2011	House	Session Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

735 ILCS 5/2-1117

from Ch. 110, par. 2-1117

740 ILCS 100/3

from Ch. 70, par. 303

740 ILCS 100/4 rep.

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that in actions arising out of bodily injury, death, or damage to property based on negligence or product liability based on strict tort liability there will not be joint and several liability, rather when more than one defendant is found to be liable, a defendant will only be liable for that percentage of the plaintiff's damages, found by the trier of fact, that the defendant's percentage of contributory fault, found by the trier of fact, represents. Provides that those provisions do not apply when the plaintiff is barred from recovering damages because the plaintiff's contributory fault is more than 50% of the proximate cause of the injury, death, or damage to property. Amends the Joint Tortfeasor Contribution Act requiring, in the event that the obligation of one or more tortfeasors is uncollectible, the remaining tortfeasors to share, pro rata, the unpaid portion. Repeals Section stating that a plaintiff's right to recover the full amount of his or her tort judgment from any one or more defendants is unaffected by the Contribution Act.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
2/10/2010	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Ron Stephens
2/10/2010	House	First Reading
2/10/2010	House	Referred to Rules Committee
5/25/2010	House	Motion Filed to Discharge Rules Committee Rep. William B. Black
5/25/2010	House	Objects to Motion Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
5/25/2010	House	Chair Rules Motion Lost
5/25/2010	House	Motion Discharge Committee Lost
5/25/2010	House	Appeal Ruling of Chair Rep. William B. Black
5/25/2010	House	Shall the Chair be Sustained
5/25/2010	House	Motion to Sustain the Chair - Prevailed 068-048-000
1/11/2011	House	Session Sine Die

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