IL HB5329

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code to require psychiatrists or advanced practice psychiatric nurses (rather than physicians generally) to make written determinations when a patient refuses psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy and assess whether court-ordered treatment criteria are met.

Requires petitions for court-authorized psychotropic medication to specify the full names of medications and anticipated dosage ranges, including any alternative treatments and combinations that may be administered simultaneously.

Mandates that at least one psychiatrist or advanced practice psychiatric nurse who has examined the recipient must testify in person at hearings authorizing non-consensual psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy.

Updates the definition of "mental illness" to replace "dementia or Alzheimer's disease" with the broader term "neurocognitive disorder" and adds a new definition of "confinement" as preventing an individual from leaving a mental health facility.

Clarifies that "discharge" means full and physical release from treatment, and allows service of petition notices via secured electronic mail in addition to fax machines.