94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4896

 

Introduced 1/19/2006, by Rep. John A. Fritchey

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/13-202   from Ch. 110, par. 13-202

    Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the limitation period for actions for damages for personal injury.


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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 Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5 changing Section 13-202 as follows:
 
6     (735 ILCS 5/13-202)  (from Ch. 110, par. 13-202)
7     Sec. 13-202. Personal injury - Penalty. Actions for damages
8 for an injury to the the person, or for false imprisonment, or
9 malicious prosecution, or for a statutory penalty, or for
10 abduction, or for seduction, or for criminal conversation,
11 except damages resulting from first degree murder or the
12 commission of a Class X felony and the perpetrator thereof is
13 convicted of such crime, shall be commenced within 2 years next
14 after the cause of action accrued but such an action against a
15 defendant arising from a crime committed by the defendant in
16 whose name an escrow account was established under the
17 "Criminal Victims' Escrow Account Act" shall be commenced
18 within 2 years after the establishment of such account.
19 (Source: P.A. 84-1450.)