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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1280
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1280 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Code by adding Section 2-110.5."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
9 Disabilities Code is amended by adding Section 2-110.5 as
10 follows:
11 (405 ILCS 5/2-110.5 new)
12 Sec. 2-110.5. Electro-convulsive therapy for minors. If
13 a recipient is a minor, that recipient's parent or guardian
14 is authorized, only with the approval of the court under the
15 procedures set out in Section 2-107.1, to provide consent for
16 participation of the minor in electro-convulsive therapy if
17 the parent or guardian deems it to be in the best interest of
18 the minor. In addition to the requirements in Section
19 2-107.1, prior to the court entering an order approving
20 treatment by electro-convulsive therapy, 2 licensed
21 psychiatrists, one of which may be the minor's treating
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1 psychiatrist, who have examined the patient must concur in
2 the determination that the minor should participate in
3 treatment by electro-convulsive therapy.
4 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5 becoming law.".