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90_HB2623

      405 ILCS 5/2-101          from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101
          Amends the Mental Health and  Developmental  Disabilities
      Code.   Makes  a  technical  change  in a provision regarding
      legal disability.
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                                               LRB9009127SMdv
 1        AN ACT to  amend  the  Mental  Health  and  Developmental
 2    Disabilities Code by changing Section 2-101.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The   Mental   Health   and   Developmental
 6    Disabilities  Code  is  amended  by changing Section 2-101 as
 7    follows:
 8        (405 ILCS 5/2-101) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101)
 9        Sec. 2-101.  No recipient of services shall  be  presumed
10    legally  disabled,  nor  shall  such  person  be held legally
11    disabled  except  as  determined  by   a   court.    A   Such
12    determination  of  legal  disability shall be separate from a
13    judicial proceeding held to determine  whether  a  person  is
14    subject  to  involuntary  admission or meets the standard for
15    judicial admission.
16    (Source: P.A. 85-971.)

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