HB1052 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1052

Introduced 2/8/2007, 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.

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 Code of Civil Procedure is amended by changing Section 13-202 as follows:

(735 ILCS 5/13-202) (from Ch. 110, par. 13-202)

Sec. 13-202. Personal injury - Penalty. Actions for damages for an injury to the the person, or for false imprisonment, or malicious prosecution, or for a statutory penalty, or for abduction, or for seduction, or for criminal conversation, except damages resulting from first degree murder or the commission of a Class X felony and the perpetrator thereof is convicted of such crime, shall be commenced within 2 years next after the cause of action accrued but such an action against a defendant arising from a crime committed by the defendant in whose name an escrow account was established under the "Criminal Victims' Escrow Account Act" shall be commenced within 2 years after the establishment of such account.

(Source: P.A. 84-1450.)