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| | 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB0962 Introduced 01/31/11, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 735 ILCS 5/13-202 | from Ch. 110, par. 13-202 |
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Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning the limitation period for actions for damages
for personal injury.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | HB0962 | | LRB097 03780 AJO 43817 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 13-202 as follows:
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| 6 | | (735 ILCS 5/13-202) (from Ch. 110, par. 13-202)
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| 7 | | Sec. 13-202. Personal injury - Penalty. Actions for damages |
| 8 | | for an injury
to the
the person, or for
false imprisonment, or |
| 9 | | malicious prosecution, or for a statutory
penalty, or for |
| 10 | | abduction, or for seduction, or for criminal
conversation, |
| 11 | | except damages resulting from first degree murder or the |
| 12 | | commission of
a Class X felony and the perpetrator thereof is |
| 13 | | convicted of such crime,
shall be commenced within 2 years next |
| 14 | | after the cause
of action accrued but such an action against a |
| 15 | | defendant arising from a
crime committed by the defendant in |
| 16 | | whose name an escrow account was established
under the |
| 17 | | "Criminal Victims' Escrow Account Act" shall be commenced |
| 18 | | within
2 years after the establishment of such account. If the |
| 19 | | compelling of a confession or information by imminent bodily |
| 20 | | harm or threat of imminent bodily harm results in whole or in |
| 21 | | part in a criminal prosecution of the plaintiff, the
2-year |
| 22 | | period set out in this Section shall be tolled during the time |
| 23 | | in which the plaintiff is incarcerated, or until criminal |