Illinois Senate Bill 861 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends and re-enacts provisions of the Civil Practice Article of the Code of Civil Procedure concerning actions on account of bodily injury or death or physical damage to property based on negligence or product liability based on strict tort liability. Provides that the court shall not instruct the jury of the consequence of any findings of fault of any plaintiff or defendant under specified provisions of the Code. Deletes language providing that the court shall instruct the jury in writing that the defendant shall be found not liable if the jury finds that the contributory fault of the plaintiff is more than 50% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought. In the Section concerning joint liability, deletes language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendant except the plaintiff's employer, is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendants except the plaintiff's employer, is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Adds language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Contains applicability provisions.

CIV PRO-INSTRUCTION-LIABILITY

Sen. Bill Brady [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2017-10-10	Senate	Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. William E. Brady
2017-03-17	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2017-02-16	Senate	To Subcommittee on Tort Reform
2017-02-08	Senate	Assigned to Judiciary
2017-02-07	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2017-02-07	Senate	First Reading
2017-02-07	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Christine Radogno

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
735	5	2-1107.1	Amended Code	Citation Text
735	5	2-1117	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=861&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB0861.htm