Veterans Affairs Committee

Filed: 11/8/2004

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1641

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1641 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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

 

 

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1 Corrections in order to be included herein must be by the
2 direct or indirect willful act of an inmate, ward,
3 work-releasee, parolee, parole violator, person under
4 conditional release, or any person sentenced or committed, or
5 otherwise subject to confinement in or to the Department of
6 Corrections.
7     (b) "Fireman" means any person employed by the State or a
8 local governmental entity as, or otherwise serving as, a member
9 or officer of a fire department either for the purpose of the
10 prevention or control of fire or the underwater recovery of
11 drowning victims, including volunteer firemen.
12     (c) "Local governmental entity" includes counties,
13 municipalities and municipal corporations.
14     (d) "State" means the State of Illinois and its
15 departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions,
16 authorities and colleges and universities.
17     (e) "Killed in the line of duty" means losing one's life as
18 a result of injury received in the active performance of duties
19 as a law enforcement officer, civil defense worker, civil air
20 patrol member, paramedic, fireman, or chaplain if the death
21 occurs within one year from the date the injury was received
22 and if that injury arose from violence or other accidental
23 cause. In the case of a State employee, "killed in the line of
24 duty" means losing one's life as a result of injury received in
25 the active performance of one's duties as a State employee, if
26 the death occurs within one year from the date the injury was
27 received and if that injury arose from a willful act of
28 violence by another State employee committed during such other
29 employee's course of employment and after January 1, 1988. The
30 term excludes death resulting from the willful misconduct or
31 intoxication of the officer, civil defense worker, civil air
32 patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or State
33 employee. However, the burden of proof of such willful
34 misconduct or intoxication of the officer, civil defense

 

 

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1 worker, civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain,
2 or State employee is on the Attorney General. Subject to the
3 conditions set forth in subsection (a) with respect to
4 inclusion under this Act of Department of Corrections employees
5 described in that subsection, for the purposes of this Act,
6 instances in which a law enforcement officer receives an injury
7 in the active performance of duties as a law enforcement
8 officer include but are not limited to instances when:
9         (1) the injury is received as a result of a wilful act
10     of violence committed other than by the officer and a
11     relationship exists between the commission of such act and
12     the officer's performance of his duties as a law
13     enforcement officer, whether or not the injury is received
14     while the officer is on duty as a law enforcement officer;
15         (2) the injury is received by the officer while the
16     officer is attempting to prevent the commission of a
17     criminal act by another or attempting to apprehend an
18     individual the officer suspects has committed a crime,
19     whether or not the injury is received while the officer is
20     on duty as a law enforcement officer;
21         (3) the injury is received by the officer while the
22     officer is travelling to or from his employment as a law
23     enforcement officer or during any meal break, or other
24     break, which takes place during the period in which the
25     officer is on duty as a law enforcement officer.
26     In the case of an Armed Forces member, "killed in the line
27 of duty" means losing one's life while on active duty in
28 connection with the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the
29 United States, Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi
30 Freedom.
31     (f) "Volunteer fireman" means a person having principal
32 employment other than as a fireman, but who is carried on the
33 rolls of a regularly constituted fire department either for the
34 purpose of the prevention or control of fire or the underwater

 

 

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1 recovery of drowning victims, the members of which are under
2 the jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of a city,
3 village, incorporated town, or fire protection district, and
4 includes a volunteer member of a fire department organized
5 under the "General Not for Profit Corporation Act", approved
6 July 17, 1943, as now or hereafter amended, which is under
7 contract with any city, village, incorporated town, fire
8 protection district, or persons residing therein, for fire
9 fighting services. "Volunteer fireman" does not mean an
10 individual who volunteers assistance without being regularly
11 enrolled as a fireman.
12     (g) "Civil defense worker" means any person employed by the
13 State or a local governmental entity as, or otherwise serving
14 as, a member of a civil defense work force, including volunteer
15 civil defense work forces engaged in serving the public
16 interest during periods of disaster, whether natural or
17 man-made.
18     (h) "Civil air patrol member" means any person employed by
19 the State or a local governmental entity as, or otherwise
20 serving as, a member of the organization commonly known as the
21 "Civil Air Patrol", including volunteer members of the
22 organization commonly known as the "Civil Air Patrol".
23     (i) "Paramedic" means an Emergency Medical
24 Technician-Paramedic certified by the Illinois Department of
25 Public Health under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
26 Systems Act, and all other emergency medical personnel
27 certified by the Illinois Department of Public Health who are
28 members of an organized body or not-for-profit corporation
29 under the jurisdiction of a city, village, incorporated town,
30 fire protection district or county, that provides emergency
31 medical treatment to persons of a defined geographical area.
32     (j) "State employee" means any employee as defined in
33 Section 14-103.05 of the Illinois Pension Code, as now or
34 hereafter amended.

 

 

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1     (k) "Chaplain" means an individual who:
2         (1) is a chaplain of (i) a fire department or (ii) a
3     police department or other agency consisting of law
4     enforcement officers; and
5         (2) has been designated a chaplain by (i) the fire
6     department, police department, or other agency or an
7     officer or body having jurisdiction over the department or
8     agency or (ii) a labor organization representing the
9     firemen or law enforcement officers.
10     (l) "Armed Forces member" means an Illinois resident who
11 is: a member of the Armed Forces of the United States; a member
12 of the Illinois National Guard while on active military service
13 pursuant to an order of the President of the United States; or
14 a member of any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the
15 United States while on active military service pursuant to an
16 order of the President of the United States.
17 (Source: P.A. 93-1047, eff. 10-18-04.)
 
18     (820 ILCS 315/3)   (from Ch. 48, par. 283)
19     Sec. 3. Duty death benefit.
20     (a) If a claim therefor is made within one year of the date
21 of death of a law enforcement officer, civil defense worker,
22 civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State
23 employee, or Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty,
24 compensation shall be paid to the person designated by the law
25 enforcement officer, civil defense worker, civil air patrol
26 member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State employee, or Armed
27 Forces member. However, if the Armed Forces member was killed
28 in the line of duty before October 18, 2004 the effective date
29 of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the claim
30 must be made within one year of October 18, 2004 the effective
31 date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
32     (b) The amount of compensation, except for an Armed Forces
33 member, shall be $10,000 if the death in the line of duty

 

 

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1 occurred prior to January 1, 1974; $20,000 if such death
2 occurred after December 31, 1973 and before July 1, 1983;
3 $50,000 if such death occurred on or after July 1, 1983 and
4 before January 1, 1996; $100,000 if the death occurred on or
5 after January 1, 1996 and before May 18, 2001; $118,000 if the
6 death occurred on or after May 18, 2001 and before July 1, 2002
7 the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General
8 Assembly; and $259,038 if the death occurred occurs on or after
9 July 1, 2002 the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
10 92nd General Assembly and before January 1, 2003. For an Armed
11 Forces member killed in the line of duty (i) at any time before
12 January 1, 2005, the compensation is $259,038 plus amounts
13 equal to the increases for 2003 and 2004 determined under
14 subsection (c) and (ii) on or after January 1, 2005, the
15 compensation is the amount determined under item (i) plus the
16 applicable increases for 2005 and thereafter determined under
17 subsection (c).
18     (c) Except as provided in subsection (b), for For deaths
19 occurring on or after January 1, 2003, the death compensation
20 rate for death in the line of duty occurring in a particular
21 calendar year shall be the death compensation rate for death
22 occurring in the previous calendar year (or in the case of
23 deaths occurring in 2003, the rate in effect on December 31,
24 2002) increased by a percentage thereof equal to the percentage
25 increase, if any, in the index known as the Consumer Price
26 Index for All Urban Consumers: U.S. city average, unadjusted,
27 for all items, as published by the United States Department of
28 Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the 12 months ending
29 with the month of June of that previous calendar year.
30     (d) If no beneficiary is designated or surviving at the
31 death of the law enforcement officer, civil defense worker,
32 civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State
33 employee, or Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty,
34 the compensation shall be paid as follows:

 

 

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1         (1) (a) when there is a surviving spouse, the entire
2     sum shall be paid to the spouse;
3         (2) (b) when there is no surviving spouse, but a
4     surviving descendant of the decedent, the entire sum shall
5     be paid to the decedent's descendants per stirpes;
6         (3) (c) when there is neither a surviving spouse nor a
7     surviving descendant, the entire sum shall be paid to the
8     parents of the decedent in equal parts, allowing to the
9     surviving parent, if one is dead, the entire sum; and
10         (4) (d) when there is no surviving spouse, descendant
11     or parent of the decedent, but there are surviving brothers
12     or sisters, or descendants of a brother or sister, who were
13     receiving their principal support from the decedent at his
14     death, the entire sum shall be paid, in equal parts, to the
15     dependent brothers or sisters or dependent descendant of a
16     brother or sister. Dependency shall be determined by the
17     Court of Claims based upon the investigation and report of
18     the Attorney General.
19     (e) When there is no beneficiary designated or surviving at
20 the death of the law enforcement officer, civil defense worker,
21 civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State
22 employee, or Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty and
23 no surviving spouse, descendant, parent, dependent brother or
24 sister, or dependent descendant of a brother or sister, no
25 compensation shall be payable under this Act.
26     (f) No part of such compensation may be paid to any other
27 person for any efforts in securing such compensation.
28     (g) This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly
29 applies to claims made on or after October 18, 2004 with
30 respect to an Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty.
31 (Source: P.A. 92-3, eff. 5-18-01; 92-609, eff. 7-1-02; 93-1047,
32 eff. 10-18-04.)
 
33     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1 becoming law.".