Bill Text: IL SB1890 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1890 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1890-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB1890 Introduced 2/10/2017, by Sen. Wm. Sam McCann SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
745 ILCS 49/70.1 new
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.
LRB100 11132 MJP 21398 b
A BILL FOR
SB1890 LRB100 11132 MJP 21398 b
AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Good Samaritan Act is amended by adding
Section 70.1 as follows:
(745 ILCS 49/70.1 new)
Sec. 70.1. Volunteer firefighters, emergency medical
services personnel; exemption from civil liability for
emergency care. 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 as defined in Section
5-23 of the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act,
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.