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Full Text of HB3348  96th General Assembly

HB3348 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3348

 

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/2-10.1   from Ch. 38, par. 2-10.1

    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "severely or profoundly mentally retarded person".


LRB096 04861 RLC 14927 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB3348 LRB096 04861 RLC 14927 b

1     AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
5 Section 2-10.1 as follows:
 
6     (720 ILCS 5/2-10.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 2-10.1)
7     Sec. 2-10.1. "Severely or profoundly mentally retarded
8 person" means a person (i) whose intelligence quotient does not
9 exceed 40 or (ii) whose intelligence quotient does not exceed
10 55 and and who suffers from significant mental illness to the
11 extent that the person's ability to exercise rational judgment
12 is impaired. In any proceeding in which the defendant is
13 charged with committing a violation of Section 10-2, 10-5,
14 11-15.1, 11-19.1, 11-19.2, 11-20.1, 12-4.3, 12-14, or 12-16 of
15 this Code against a victim who is alleged to be a severely or
16 profoundly mentally retarded person, any findings concerning
17 the victim's status as a severely or profoundly mentally
18 retarded person, made by a court after a judicial admission
19 hearing concerning the victim under Articles V and VI of
20 Chapter 4 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
21 Code shall be admissible.
22 (Source: P.A. 92-434, eff. 1-1-02.)