95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB0234


 
Introduced 2/7/2007, by Sen. Dale A. Righter
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		















405 ILCS 5/1-104.5 new





405 ILCS 5/1-119
  from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-119







    Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that "person subject to involuntary admission" includes (i) a person with mental illness and who because of his or her illness is reasonably expected to engage in dangerous conduct (instead of reasonably expected to inflict serious physical harm upon himself or herself or another in the near future) and (ii) a person with mental illness who, because of the nature of his or her illness, is unable to understand his or her need for treatment and who, if not treated, is reasonably expected to suffer or continue to suffer mental deterioration or emotional deterioration, or both, to the point that the person is reasonably expected to engage in dangerous conduct. Defines "dangerous conduct" as threatening behavior or conduct that places another individual in reasonable expectation of being harmed, or a person's inability to provide, without the assistance of family or outside help, for his or her basic physical needs so as to guard himself or herself from serious harm.
















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    AN ACT concerning health.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental 
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Disabilities Code is amended  by changing Section 1-119 and  by 
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adding Section 1-104.5 as follows:
 
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    (405 ILCS 5/1-104.5 new)

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    Sec. 1-104.5. "Dangerous conduct" means threatening 
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behavior or conduct that places another individual in 
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reasonable expectation of being harmed, or a person's inability 
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to provide, without the assistance of family or outside help, 
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for his or her basic physical needs so as to guard himself or 
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herself from serious harm.
 



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    (405 ILCS 5/1-119)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-119)



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    Sec. 1-119. "Person subject to involuntary admission" 
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means: 


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        (1) A person with mental illness and who because of his 
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    or her illness is
reasonably expected to engage in 
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    dangerous conduct
inflict serious physical harm upon 
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    himself or herself or
another in the near future which may 
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    include threatening behavior or conduct
that places that 
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    person or another individual in reasonable expectation of 
 


 






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    being harmed; or


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        (2) A person with mental illness and who because of his 
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    or her illness is
unable to
provide for his or her basic 
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    physical needs so as to guard
himself or
herself from 
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    serious harm without the assistance of family or outside 
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    help; or
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        (3) A person with mental illness who, because of the 
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    nature of his or her illness, is unable to understand his 
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    or her need for treatment and who, if not treated, is 
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    reasonably expected to suffer or continue to suffer mental 
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    deterioration or emotional deterioration, or both, to the 
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    point that the person is reasonably expected to engage in 
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    dangerous conduct.
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    In determining whether a person meets the criteria 
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specified in paragraph
(1)
or
(2), the court may consider 
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evidence of the person's repeated past pattern
of specific 
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behavior
and actions related to the
person's illness.

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(Source: P.A. 93-573, eff. 8-21-03.)