Bill Text: IL HB0787 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "developmental disability".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0787 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB0787-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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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 Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 1-106 as | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | follows:
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7 | (405 ILCS 5/1-106) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-106)
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8 | Sec. 1-106.
"Developmental disability" means a disability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | which is
attributable to: (a) mental retardation, cerebral | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | palsy, epilepsy or autism;
or to (b) any other condition which | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | results in impairment similar to that
that
caused by mental | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | retardation and which requires services similar to those
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13 | required by mentally retarded persons. Such disability must | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | originate before
the age of 18 years,
be expected to continue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | indefinitely, and constitute
a substantial handicap. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | (Source: P.A. 80-1414.)
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