SB3479sam001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Dale A. Righter

Filed: 2/26/2010

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3479

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3479 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 1-104.5 as follows:

(405 ILCS 5/1-104.5)

Sec. 1-104.5. "Dangerous conduct" means threatening behavior or conduct that places another individual in reasonable expectation of being physically harmed, or conduct evincing a person's inability to provide, without the assistance of family or outside help, for his or her basic physical needs so as to guard himself or herself from serious harm.

(Source: P.A. 95-602, eff. 6-1-08.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".