HB6283 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6283

Introduced 02/06/04, by Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

755 ILCS 40/55

from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 851-55

Amends the Health Care Surrogate Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning the preservation of existing rights.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning health care.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Health Care Surrogate Act is amended by changing Section 55 as follows:

(755 ILCS 40/55) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 851-55)

Sec. 55. Preservation of existing rights. The provisions of this Act are cumulative with existing law regarding an individual's right to consent or refuse to consent to medical treatment. The provisions of this Act shall not impair any existing rights or responsibilities that a health care provider, a patient, including a minor or a patient lacking decisional capacity, or a patient's family may have in regard to the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, including any rights to seek judicial review of decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment under the common law or statutes of Illinois this State to the extent they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 87-749.)