95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB3030

 

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
745 ILCS 49/10

    Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning immunity from civil liability for providing emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation to an apparent victim of acute cardiopulmonary insufficiency.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Good Samaritan Act is amended by changing
5 Section 10 as follows:
 
6     (745 ILCS 49/10)
7     Sec. 10. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; exemption from
8 civil liability for emergency care. Any person currently
9 certified in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation who complies
10 with generally recognized standards, and and who in good faith,
11 not for compensation, provides emergency cardiopulmonary
12 resuscitation to a person who is an apparent victim of acute
13 cardiopulmonary insufficiency shall not, as the result of his
14 or her acts or omissions in providing resuscitation, be liable
15 for civil damages, unless the acts or omissions constitute
16 willful and wanton misconduct.
17 (Source: P.A. 89-607, eff. 1-1-97; 90-742, eff. 8-13-98.)