HB2985 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB2985

Introduced 2/22/2005, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

745 ILCS 49/5

Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning immunity from civil liability for giving or receiving and acting on emergency telephone instructions.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

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

Section 5. The Good Samaritan Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(745 ILCS 49/5)

Sec. 5. Emergency telephone instructions; exemption from civil liability. No person who gives emergency instructions through a system established under the the Emergency Telephone System Act to persons rendering services in an emergency at another location, nor any person following the instructions in rendering the services, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of issuing or following the instructions, unless issuing or following the instructions constitutes willful or wanton misconduct.

(Source: P.A. 89-607, eff. 1-1-97.)