Bill Text: IL HB1912 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "severely or profoundly intellectually disabled person".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB1912 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB1912-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 2-10.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/2-10.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 2-10.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 2-10.1.
"Severely or profoundly intellectually | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | disabled
person" means a person (i)
whose intelligence quotient | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | does not exceed 40 or (ii) whose
intelligence quotient does not | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | exceed 55 and
and who suffers
from
significant mental illness | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | to the extent that the person's ability to exercise
rational | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | judgment is impaired. In any proceeding in which the defendant | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | is
charged with committing a violation of Section 10-2, 10-5, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | 11-1.30, 11-1.60, 11-14.4, 11-15.1, 11-19.1,
11-19.2, 11-20.1, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | 11-20.1B, 11-20.3, 12-4.3, 12-14, or 12-16, or subdivision | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | (b)(1) of Section 12-3.05, of this Code against a victim who is
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| 17 | alleged to be a severely or profoundly intellectually disabled
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| 18 | person, any findings concerning the victim's status as a
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| 19 | severely or profoundly intellectually disabled person, made by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | a court after a
judicial admission hearing concerning the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | victim under Articles V and VI of
Chapter 4 of the Mental | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | Health and Developmental Disabilities Code
shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | admissible. | |||||||||||||||||||
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