Bill Text: IL HB0788 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legal disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0788 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB0788-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB0788 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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 Section concerning legal disability.
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 2-101 as
follows:
(405 ILCS 5/2-101) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101)
Sec. 2-101. No recipient of services shall be presumed
legally disabled, nor shall such person be held legally
disabled except as determined by a court. Such determination
shall be separate from a judicial proceeding held to determine
whether a person is subject to involuntary admission or meets
the the standard for judicial admission.
(Source: P.A. 85-971.)