Public Act 098-1077
 
HB5512 EnrolledLRB098 17969 HEP 55451 b

    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
changing Sections 13-211, 13-212, and 13-214.3 as follows:
 
    (735 ILCS 5/13-211)  (from Ch. 110, par. 13-211)
    Sec. 13-211. Minors and persons under legal disability.
    (a) If the person entitled to bring an action, specified in
Sections 13-201 through 13-210 of this Code Act, at the time
the cause of action accrued, is under the age of 18 years, or
is under a legal disability, then he or she may bring the
action within 2 years after the person attains the age of 18
years, or the disability is removed.
    (b) If the person entitled to bring an action specified
under Sections 13-201 through 13-210 of this Code is not under
a legal disability at the time the cause of action accrues, but
becomes under a legal disability before the period of
limitations otherwise runs, the period of limitations is stayed
until the disability is removed. This subsection (b) does not
invalidate any statute of repose provisions contained in
Sections 13-201, 13-202, 13-202.1, 13-202.2, 13-202.3, 13-203,
13-203.1, 13-204, 13-207, 13-208, 13-209, and 13-210 of this
Code. In no event shall the period of limitations for a cause
of action under Section 13-205 or 13-206 of this Code be stayed
in excess of 10 years from the date of the adjudication of
legal disability. This subsection (b) applies to actions
commenced or pending on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 85-18; 85-907; 86-1329.)
 
    (735 ILCS 5/13-212)  (from Ch. 110, par. 13-212)
    Sec. 13-212. Physician or hospital.
    (a) Except as provided in Section 13-215 of this Act, no
action for damages for injury or death against any physician,
dentist, registered nurse or hospital duly licensed under the
laws of this State, whether based upon tort, or breach of
contract, or otherwise, arising out of patient care shall be
brought more than 2 years after the date on which the claimant
knew, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have
known, or received notice in writing of the existence of the
injury or death for which damages are sought in the action,
whichever of such date occurs first, but in no event shall such
action be brought more than 4 years after the date on which
occurred the act or omission or occurrence alleged in such
action to have been the cause of such injury or death.
    (b) Except as provided in Section 13-215 of this Act, no
action for damages for injury or death against any physician,
dentist, registered nurse or hospital duly licensed under the
laws of this State, whether based upon tort, or breach of
contract, or otherwise, arising out of patient care shall be
brought more than 8 years after the date on which occurred the
act or omission or occurrence alleged in such action to have
been the cause of such injury or death where the person
entitled to bring the action was, at the time the cause of
action accrued, under the age of 18 years; provided, however,
that in no event may the cause of action be brought after the
person's 22nd birthday. If the person was under the age of 18
years when the cause of action accrued and, as a result of this
amendatory Act of 1987, the action is either barred or there
remains less than 3 years to bring such action, then he or she
may bring the action within 3 years of July 20, 1987.
    (c) If the person entitled to bring an action described in
this Section is, at the time the cause of action accrued, under
a legal disability other than being under the age of 18 years,
then the period of limitations does not begin to run until the
disability is removed.
    (d) If the person entitled to bring an action described in
this Section is not under a legal disability at the time the
cause of action accrues, but becomes under a legal disability
before the period of limitations otherwise runs, the period of
limitations is stayed until the disability is removed. This
subsection (d) does not invalidate any statute of repose
provisions contained in this Section. This subsection (d)
applies to actions commenced or pending on or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General
Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 85-18; 85-907; 86-1329.)
 
    (735 ILCS 5/13-214.3)  (from Ch. 110, par. 13-214.3)
    (Text of Section WITHOUT the changes made by P.A. 89-7,
which has been held unconstitutional)
    Sec. 13-214.3. Attorneys.
    (a) In this Section: "attorney" includes (i) an individual
attorney, together with his or her employees who are attorneys,
(ii) a professional partnership of attorneys, together with its
employees, partners, and members who are attorneys, and (iii) a
professional service corporation of attorneys, together with
its employees, officers, and shareholders who are attorneys;
and "non-attorney employee" means a person who is not an
attorney but is employed by an attorney.
    (b) An action for damages based on tort, contract, or
otherwise (i) against an attorney arising out of an act or
omission in the performance of professional services or (ii)
against a non-attorney employee arising out of an act or
omission in the course of his or her employment by an attorney
to assist the attorney in performing professional services must
be commenced within 2 years from the time the person bringing
the action knew or reasonably should have known of the injury
for which damages are sought.
    (c) Except as provided in subsection (d), an action
described in subsection (b) may not be commenced in any event
more than 6 years after the date on which the act or omission
occurred.
    (d) When the injury caused by the act or omission does not
occur until the death of the person for whom the professional
services were rendered, the action may be commenced within 2
years after the date of the person's death unless letters of
office are issued or the person's will is admitted to probate
within that 2 year period, in which case the action must be
commenced within the time for filing claims against the estate
or a petition contesting the validity of the will of the
deceased person, whichever is later, as provided in the Probate
Act of 1975.
    (e) If the person entitled to bring the action is under the
age of majority or under other legal disability at the time the
cause of action accrues, the period of limitations shall not
begin to run until majority is attained or the disability is
removed.
    (f) If the person entitled to bring an action described in
this Section is not under a legal disability at the time the
cause of action accrues, but becomes under a legal disability
before the period of limitations otherwise runs, the period of
limitations is stayed until the disability is removed. This
subsection (f) does not invalidate any statute of repose
provisions contained in this Section. This subsection (f)
applies to actions commenced or pending on or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General
Assembly.
    (g) (f) This Section applies to all causes of action
accruing on or after its effective date.
(Source: P.A. 86-1371.)