|
| | 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB1890 Introduced 2/10/2017, by Sen. Wm. Sam McCann SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
|
| |
Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Provides that any individual who serves as either a firefighter on a volunteer basis or as EMS personnel under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act on a volunteer basis, who in good faith provides emergency care, including the administration of an opioid antagonist, without fee or compensation to any person shall not, as a result of his or her acts or omissions, except willful and wanton misconduct on the part of the person, in providing the care, be liable to a person to whom such care is provided for civil damages.
|
| |
| | A BILL FOR |
|
|
| | SB1890 | | LRB100 11132 MJP 21398 b |
|
|
| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
|
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
|
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
|
| 4 | | Section 5. The Good Samaritan Act is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 70.1 as follows:
|
| 6 | | (745 ILCS 49/70.1 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 70.1. Volunteer firefighters, emergency medical |
| 8 | | services personnel; exemption from civil liability for |
| 9 | | emergency care. Any individual who serves as either a |
| 10 | | firefighter on a volunteer basis or as EMS personnel under the |
| 11 | | Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act on a volunteer |
| 12 | | basis, who in good faith provides emergency care, including the |
| 13 | | administration of an opioid antagonist as defined in Section |
| 14 | | 5-23 of the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act, |
| 15 | | without fee or compensation to any person shall not, as a |
| 16 | | result of his or her acts or omissions, except willful and |
| 17 | | wanton misconduct on the part of the person, in providing the |
| 18 | | care, be liable to a person to whom such care is provided for |
| 19 | | civil damages.
|