Bill Text: IL HB0222 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that no contributory fault may be attributed to a plaintiff bringing an action for damages for personal injury based on childhood sexual abuse. Creates the Sexual Abuse Per Se Harmful Article in the Code. Provides that for an action arising out of an injury caused by sexual conduct or sexual penetration, if the plaintiff proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant committed childhood sexual abuse against the plaintiff, such sexual conduct or sexual penetration shall be considered obviously and materially harmful to the plaintiff and shall be deemed by the court per se harmful and traumatic. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-23 - Referred to Assignments [HB0222 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB0222-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB0222 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
740 ILCS 10/1 from Ch. 38, par. 60-1
Amends the Illinois Antitrust Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Antitrust Act is amended by
changing Section 1 as follows:
(740 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 60-1)
Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and and may be cited as the
Illinois Antitrust Act.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1943.)