Bill Text: IL HB0454 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. Deletes language providing that neither a local public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for injury resulting from diagnosing or failing to diagnose that a person is afflicted with mental or physical illness or addiction or from failing to prescribe for mental or physical illness or addiction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0454 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HB0454-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Local Governmental and Governmental | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Employees Tort
Immunity Act is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | 6-106 as follows:
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7 | (745 ILCS 10/6-106) (from Ch. 85, par. 6-106)
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8 | Sec. 6-106. Immunity related to incidents involving mental | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | or physical illness or addiction. | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | (a) (Blank). Neither a local public entity nor a public | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | employee acting
within the scope of his employment is liable | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | for injury resulting from
diagnosing or failing to diagnose | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | that a person is afflicted with mental or
physical illness or | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | addiction or from failing to prescribe for mental or
physical | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | illness or addiction.
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16 | (b) Neither a local public entity nor a public employee | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | acting within
the scope of his or her employment is liable for | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | administering with due care the
treatment prescribed for | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | mental or physical illness or addiction.
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20 | (c) Nothing in this Section section exonerates a public | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | employee who has
undertaken to prescribe for mental or | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | physical illness or addiction from
liability for injury | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | proximately caused by his or her negligence or by his or her
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1 | wrongful act in so prescribing or exonerates a local public | ||||||
2 | entity whose
employee, while acting in the scope of his or her | ||||||
3 | employment, so causes such an
injury.
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4 | (d) Nothing in this Section section exonerates a public | ||||||
5 | employee from liability
for injury proximately caused by his | ||||||
6 | or her negligent or wrongful act or omission
in administering | ||||||
7 | any treatment prescribed for mental or physical illness or
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8 | addiction or exonerates a local public entity whose employee, | ||||||
9 | while acting
in the scope of his or her employment, so causes | ||||||
10 | such an injury.
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11 | (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)
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