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90_HB0406
410 ILCS 210/1 from Ch. 111, par. 4501
Amends the Consent by Minors to Medical Procedures Act.
Allows a homeless minor not living with a parent or guardian
to consent to medical and surgical care.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Consent by Minors to Medical
2 Procedures Act by changing Section 1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Consent by Minors to Medical Procedures
6 Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
7 (410 ILCS 210/1) (from Ch. 111, par. 4501)
8 Sec. 1. Consent by minor. The consent to the performance
9 of a medical or surgical procedure by a physician licensed to
10 practice medicine and surgery executed by a married person
11 who is a minor, by a parent who is a minor, by a pregnant
12 woman who is a minor, by a homeless person who is a minor, or
13 by any person 18 years of age or older, is not voidable
14 because of such minority, and, for such purpose, a married
15 person who is a minor, a parent who is a minor, a pregnant
16 woman who is a minor, a homeless person who is a minor, or
17 any person 18 years of age or older, is deemed to have the
18 same legal capacity to act and has the same powers and
19 obligations as has a person of legal age.
20 For purposes of this Act, "homeless person who is a
21 minor" means a person under the age of 18 who is not living
22 with his or her parent or legal guardian and (i) who lacks a
23 fixed or regular nighttime residence or (ii) whose primary
24 residence is a supervised shelter designed to provide
25 temporary accommodations, a halfway house, or a place not
26 designed for ordinary use by humans for sleeping.
27 (Source: P.A. 89-187, eff. 7-19-95.)