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1     AN ACT concerning the military.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Line of Duty Compensation Act is amended by
5 changing Sections 2 and 3 as follows:
 
6     (820 ILCS 315/2)   (from Ch. 48, par. 282)
7     Sec. 2. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise
8 requires:
9     (a) "Law enforcement officer" or "officer" means any person
10 employed by the State or a local governmental entity as a
11 policeman, peace officer, auxiliary policeman or in some like
12 position involving the enforcement of the law and protection of
13 the public interest at the risk of that person's life. This
14 includes supervisors, wardens, superintendents and their
15 assistants, guards and keepers, correctional officers, youth
16 supervisors, parole agents, school teachers and correctional
17 counsellors in all facilities of both the Juvenile and Adult
18 Divisions of the Department of Corrections, while within the
19 facilities under the control of the Department of Corrections
20 or in the act of transporting inmates or wards from one
21 location to another or while performing their official duties,
22 and all other Department of Correction employees who have daily
23 contact with inmates.
24     The death of the foregoing employees of the Department of
25 Corrections in order to be included herein must be by the
26 direct or indirect willful act of an inmate, ward,
27 work-releasee, parolee, parole violator, person under
28 conditional release, or any person sentenced or committed, or
29 otherwise subject to confinement in or to the Department of
30 Corrections.
31     (b) "Fireman" means any person employed by the State or a
32 local governmental entity as, or otherwise serving as, a member

 

 

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1 or officer of a fire department either for the purpose of the
2 prevention or control of fire or the underwater recovery of
3 drowning victims, including volunteer firemen.
4     (c) "Local governmental entity" includes counties,
5 municipalities and municipal corporations.
6     (d) "State" means the State of Illinois and its
7 departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions,
8 authorities and colleges and universities.
9     (e) "Killed in the line of duty" means losing one's life as
10 a result of injury received in the active performance of duties
11 as a law enforcement officer, civil defense worker, civil air
12 patrol member, paramedic, fireman, or chaplain if the death
13 occurs within one year from the date the injury was received
14 and if that injury arose from violence or other accidental
15 cause. In the case of a State employee, "killed in the line of
16 duty" means losing one's life as a result of injury received in
17 the active performance of one's duties as a State employee, if
18 the death occurs within one year from the date the injury was
19 received and if that injury arose from a willful act of
20 violence by another State employee committed during such other
21 employee's course of employment and after January 1, 1988. The
22 term excludes death resulting from the willful misconduct or
23 intoxication of the officer, civil defense worker, civil air
24 patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or State
25 employee. However, the burden of proof of such willful
26 misconduct or intoxication of the officer, civil defense
27 worker, civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain,
28 or State employee is on the Attorney General. Subject to the
29 conditions set forth in subsection (a) with respect to
30 inclusion under this Act of Department of Corrections employees
31 described in that subsection, for the purposes of this Act,
32 instances in which a law enforcement officer receives an injury
33 in the active performance of duties as a law enforcement
34 officer include but are not limited to instances when:
35         (1) the injury is received as a result of a wilful act
36     of violence committed other than by the officer and a

 

 

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1     relationship exists between the commission of such act and
2     the officer's performance of his duties as a law
3     enforcement officer, whether or not the injury is received
4     while the officer is on duty as a law enforcement officer;
5         (2) the injury is received by the officer while the
6     officer is attempting to prevent the commission of a
7     criminal act by another or attempting to apprehend an
8     individual the officer suspects has committed a crime,
9     whether or not the injury is received while the officer is
10     on duty as a law enforcement officer;
11         (3) the injury is received by the officer while the
12     officer is travelling to or from his employment as a law
13     enforcement officer or during any meal break, or other
14     break, which takes place during the period in which the
15     officer is on duty as a law enforcement officer.
16     In the case of an Armed Forces member, "killed in the line
17 of duty" means losing one's life while on active duty in
18 connection with the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the
19 United States, Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi
20 Freedom.
21     (f) "Volunteer fireman" means a person having principal
22 employment other than as a fireman, but who is carried on the
23 rolls of a regularly constituted fire department either for the
24 purpose of the prevention or control of fire or the underwater
25 recovery of drowning victims, the members of which are under
26 the jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of a city,
27 village, incorporated town, or fire protection district, and
28 includes a volunteer member of a fire department organized
29 under the "General Not for Profit Corporation Act", approved
30 July 17, 1943, as now or hereafter amended, which is under
31 contract with any city, village, incorporated town, fire
32 protection district, or persons residing therein, for fire
33 fighting services. "Volunteer fireman" does not mean an
34 individual who volunteers assistance without being regularly
35 enrolled as a fireman.
36     (g) "Civil defense worker" means any person employed by the

 

 

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1 State or a local governmental entity as, or otherwise serving
2 as, a member of a civil defense work force, including volunteer
3 civil defense work forces engaged in serving the public
4 interest during periods of disaster, whether natural or
5 man-made.
6     (h) "Civil air patrol member" means any person employed by
7 the State or a local governmental entity as, or otherwise
8 serving as, a member of the organization commonly known as the
9 "Civil Air Patrol", including volunteer members of the
10 organization commonly known as the "Civil Air Patrol".
11     (i) "Paramedic" means an Emergency Medical
12 Technician-Paramedic certified by the Illinois Department of
13 Public Health under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
14 Systems Act, and all other emergency medical personnel
15 certified by the Illinois Department of Public Health who are
16 members of an organized body or not-for-profit corporation
17 under the jurisdiction of a city, village, incorporated town,
18 fire protection district or county, that provides emergency
19 medical treatment to persons of a defined geographical area.
20     (j) "State employee" means any employee as defined in
21 Section 14-103.05 of the Illinois Pension Code, as now or
22 hereafter amended.
23     (k) "Chaplain" means an individual who:
24         (1) is a chaplain of (i) a fire department or (ii) a
25     police department or other agency consisting of law
26     enforcement officers; and
27         (2) has been designated a chaplain by (i) the fire
28     department, police department, or other agency or an
29     officer or body having jurisdiction over the department or
30     agency or (ii) a labor organization representing the
31     firemen or law enforcement officers.
32     (l) "Armed Forces member" means an Illinois resident who
33 is: a member of the Armed Forces of the United States; a member
34 of the Illinois National Guard while on active military service
35 pursuant to an order of the President of the United States; or
36 a member of any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the

 

 

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1 United States while on active military service pursuant to an
2 order of the President of the United States.
3 (Source: P.A. 93-1047, eff. 10-18-04.)
 
4     (820 ILCS 315/3)   (from Ch. 48, par. 283)
5     Sec. 3. Duty death benefit.
6     (a) If a claim therefor is made within one year of the date
7 of death of a law enforcement officer, civil defense worker,
8 civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State
9 employee, or Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty,
10 compensation shall be paid to the person designated by the law
11 enforcement officer, civil defense worker, civil air patrol
12 member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State employee, or Armed
13 Forces member. However, if the Armed Forces member was killed
14 in the line of duty before October 18, 2004 the effective date
15 of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the claim
16 must be made within one year of October 18, 2004 the effective
17 date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
18     (b) The amount of compensation, except for an Armed Forces
19 member, shall be $10,000 if the death in the line of duty
20 occurred prior to January 1, 1974; $20,000 if such death
21 occurred after December 31, 1973 and before July 1, 1983;
22 $50,000 if such death occurred on or after July 1, 1983 and
23 before January 1, 1996; $100,000 if the death occurred on or
24 after January 1, 1996 and before May 18, 2001; $118,000 if the
25 death occurred on or after May 18, 2001 and before July 1, 2002
26 the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General
27 Assembly; and $259,038 if the death occurred occurs on or after
28 July 1, 2002 the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
29 92nd General Assembly and before January 1, 2003. For an Armed
30 Forces member killed in the line of duty (i) at any time before
31 January 1, 2005, the compensation is $259,038 plus amounts
32 equal to the increases for 2003 and 2004 determined under
33 subsection (c) and (ii) on or after January 1, 2005, the
34 compensation is the amount determined under item (i) plus the
35 applicable increases for 2005 and thereafter determined under

 

 

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1 subsection (c).
2     (c) Except as provided in subsection (b), for For deaths
3 occurring on or after January 1, 2003, the death compensation
4 rate for death in the line of duty occurring in a particular
5 calendar year shall be the death compensation rate for death
6 occurring in the previous calendar year (or in the case of
7 deaths occurring in 2003, the rate in effect on December 31,
8 2002) increased by a percentage thereof equal to the percentage
9 increase, if any, in the index known as the Consumer Price
10 Index for All Urban Consumers: U.S. city average, unadjusted,
11 for all items, as published by the United States Department of
12 Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the 12 months ending
13 with the month of June of that previous calendar year.
14     (d) If no beneficiary is designated or surviving at the
15 death of the law enforcement officer, civil defense worker,
16 civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State
17 employee, or Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty,
18 the compensation shall be paid as follows:
19         (1) (a) when there is a surviving spouse, the entire
20     sum shall be paid to the spouse;
21         (2) (b) when there is no surviving spouse, but a
22     surviving descendant of the decedent, the entire sum shall
23     be paid to the decedent's descendants per stirpes;
24         (3) (c) when there is neither a surviving spouse nor a
25     surviving descendant, the entire sum shall be paid to the
26     parents of the decedent in equal parts, allowing to the
27     surviving parent, if one is dead, the entire sum; and
28         (4) (d) when there is no surviving spouse, descendant
29     or parent of the decedent, but there are surviving brothers
30     or sisters, or descendants of a brother or sister, who were
31     receiving their principal support from the decedent at his
32     death, the entire sum shall be paid, in equal parts, to the
33     dependent brothers or sisters or dependent descendant of a
34     brother or sister. Dependency shall be determined by the
35     Court of Claims based upon the investigation and report of
36     the Attorney General.

 

 

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1     (e) When there is no beneficiary designated or surviving at
2 the death of the law enforcement officer, civil defense worker,
3 civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State
4 employee, or Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty and
5 no surviving spouse, descendant, parent, dependent brother or
6 sister, or dependent descendant of a brother or sister, no
7 compensation shall be payable under this Act.
8     (f) No part of such compensation may be paid to any other
9 person for any efforts in securing such compensation.
10     (g) This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly
11 applies to claims made on or after October 18, 2004 with
12 respect to an Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty.
13 (Source: P.A. 92-3, eff. 5-18-01; 92-609, eff. 7-1-02; 93-1047,
14 eff. 10-18-04.)
 
15     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16 becoming law.