Bill Text: IL HB3356 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the legal representative of a person under the age of 18 years or under a disability may bring specific actions within 2 years after the person attains the age of 18 years or the disability is removed. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3356 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3356-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3356 Introduced , by Rep. Arthur Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
735 ILCS 5/13-211 from Ch. 110, par. 13-211
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the legal representative of a person under the age of 18 years or under a disability may bring specific actions within 2 years after the person attains the age of 18 years or the disability is removed. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
changing Section 13-211 as follows:
(735 ILCS 5/13-211) (from Ch. 110, par. 13-211)
Sec. 13-211. Minors and persons under legal disability.
(a) If the person entitled to bring an action, specified in
Sections 13-201 through 13-210 of this Code, at the time the
cause of action accrued, is under the age of 18 years or is
under a legal disability, then he or she, or his or her legal
representative, may bring the action within 2 years after the
person attains the age of 18 years, or the disability is
removed.
(b) If the person entitled to bring an action specified
under Sections 13-201 through 13-210 of this Code is not under
a legal disability at the time the cause of action accrues, but
becomes under a legal disability before the period of
limitations otherwise runs, the period of limitations is stayed
until the disability is removed. This subsection (b) does not
invalidate any statute of repose provisions contained in
Sections 13-201, 13-202, 13-202.1, 13-202.2, 13-202.3, 13-203,
13-203.1, 13-204, 13-207, 13-208, 13-209, and 13-210 of this

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Code. In no event shall the period of limitations for a cause
of action under Section 13-205 or 13-206 of this Code be stayed
in excess of 10 years from the date of the adjudication of
legal disability. This subsection (b) applies to actions
commenced or pending on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 98-1077, eff. 1-1-15.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.