96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1040

 

Introduced 02/11/09, by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
405 ILCS 5/1-129

    Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning mental illness. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 1-129 as
6 follows:
 
7     (405 ILCS 5/1-129)
8     Sec. 1-129. Mental illness. "Mental illness" means a
9 mental, or emotional disorder that substantially impairs a
10 person's thought, perception of reality, emotional process,
11 judgment, behavior, or ability to cope with the the ordinary
12 demands of life, but does not include a developmental
13 disability, dementia or Alzheimer's disease absent psychosis,
14 a substance abuse disorder, or an abnormality manifested only
15 by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct.
16 (Source: P.A. 93-573, eff. 8-21-03.)
 
17     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18 becoming law.