SB2485 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB101 17481 RLC 66891 b

101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB2485

Introduced 1/22/2020, by Sen. Robert Peters

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

405 ILCS 5/3-802

from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-802

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that when the respondent requests a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis, the jury shall consist of 12 persons, unless the respondent request a jury of 6 persons. Provides that a respondent is also entitled (rather than not entitled) to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under the Code. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

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 3-802 as follows:

(405 ILCS 5/3-802) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-802)

Sec. 3-802. The respondent is entitled to a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis. The jury shall consist of 12 6 persons, unless the respondent requests a jury of 6 persons, to be chosen in the same manner as are jurors in other civil proceedings. A respondent is also not entitled to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under Section 2-107.1.

(Source: P.A. 95-172, eff. 8-14-07; 96-1399, eff. 7-29-10; 96-1453, eff. 8-20-10.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.