Public Act 095-0602
 		





SB0234 Enrolled
LRB095 07027 DRJ 27149 b






    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 1-119 and  by 
adding Section 1-104.5 as follows:
 
    (405 ILCS 5/1-104.5 new)

    Sec. 1-104.5. "Dangerous conduct" means threatening 
behavior or conduct that places another individual in 
reasonable expectation of being harmed, or 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.
 



    (405 ILCS 5/1-119)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-119)



    Sec. 1-119. "Person subject to involuntary admission" 
means: 


        (1) A person with mental illness and who because of his 
    or her illness is
reasonably expected to engage in 
    dangerous conduct
inflict serious physical harm upon 
    himself or herself or
another in the near future which may 
    include threatening behavior or conduct
that places that 
    person or another individual in reasonable expectation of 
    being harmed; or


        (2) A person with mental illness and who because of his 
    or her illness is
unable to
provide for his or her basic 
    physical needs so as to guard
himself or
herself from 
    serious harm without the assistance of family or outside 
    help; or
.

        (3) A person with mental illness who, because of the 
    nature of his or her illness, is unable to understand his 
    or her need for treatment and who, if not treated, is 
    reasonably expected to suffer or continue to suffer mental 
    deterioration or emotional deterioration, or both, to the 
    point that the person is reasonably expected to engage in 
    dangerous conduct.
    In determining whether a person meets the criteria 
specified in paragraph
(1), (2), or (3)
or
(2), the court may 
consider evidence of the person's repeated past pattern
of 
specific behavior
and actions related to the
person's illness.

(Source: P.A. 93-573, eff. 8-21-03.)






Effective Date:  6/1/2008