96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1152

 

Introduced 2/11/2009, by Rep. Daniel J. Burke

 

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. If the
19 compelling of a confession or information by imminent bodily
20 harm or threat of imminent bodily harm results in whole or in
21 part in a criminal prosecution of the plaintiff, the 2-year
22 period set out in this Section shall be tolled during the time
23 in which the plaintiff is incarcerated, or until criminal

 

 

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1 prosecution has been finally adjudicated in favor of the above
2 referred plaintiff, whichever is later. However, this
3 provision relating to the compelling of a confession or
4 information shall not apply to units of local government
5 subject to the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees
6 Tort Immunity Act.
7 (Source: P.A. 94-1113, eff. 1-1-08.)