HB5483 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB5483

Introduced 1/27/2006, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

405 ILCS 5/1-102

from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-102

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "care and custody".

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning health.

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

Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 1-102 as follows:

(405 ILCS 5/1-102) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-102)

Sec. 1-102. "Care and and custody" means authorization to an appropriate person, with his consent, to provide or arrange for proper and adequate treatment of another person who is subject to involuntary admission but does not include the authority to require hospitalization of the recipient unless such authority is expressly granted by court order pursuant to Article VII of Chapter III.

(Source: P.A. 88-380.)