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Public Act 91-0160
SB804 Enrolled LRB9102910DHmg
AN ACT to amend the Illinois Municipal Code by changing
Section 10-4-2.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 10-4-2 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/10-4-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-2)
Sec. 10-4-2. Group insurance.
(a) The corporate authorities of any municipality may
arrange to provide, for the benefit of employees of the
municipality, group life, health, accident, hospital, and
medical insurance, or any one or any combination of those
types of insurance, and may arrange to provide that insurance
for the benefit of the spouses or dependents of those
employees. The insurance may include provision for employees
or other insured persons who rely on treatment by prayer or
spiritual means alone for healing in accordance with the
tenets and practice of a well recognized religious
denomination. The corporate authorities may provide for
payment by the municipality of a portion of the premium or
charge for the insurance with the employee paying the balance
of the premium or charge. If the corporate authorities
undertake a plan under which the municipality pays a portion
of the premium or charge, the corporate authorities shall
provide for withholding and deducting from the compensation
of those municipal employees who consent to join the plan the
balance of the premium or charge for the insurance.
(b) If the corporate authorities do not provide for a
plan under which the municipality pays a portion of the
premium or charge for a group insurance plan, the corporate
authorities may provide for withholding and deducting from
the compensation of those employees who consent thereto the
premium or charge for any group life, health, accident,
hospital, and medical insurance.
(c) The corporate authorities may exercise the powers
granted in this Section only if the kinds of group insurance
are obtained from an insurance company authorized to do
business in the State of Illinois, or are obtained through an
intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool as authorized
under the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. The corporate
authorities may enact an ordinance prescribing the method of
operation of the insurance program.
(d) If a municipality, including a home rule
municipality, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing
health insurance coverage for its employees, the insurance
coverage shall include screening by low-dose mammography for
all women 35 years of age or older for the presence of occult
breast cancer unless the municipality elects to provide
mammograms itself under Section 10-4-2.1. The coverage shall
be as follows:
(1) A baseline mammogram for women 35 to 39 years
of age.
(2) An annual mammogram for women 40 years of age
or older.
Those benefits shall be at least as favorable as for
other radiological examinations and subject to the same
dollar limits, deductibles, and co-insurance factors. For
purposes of this subsection, "low-dose mammography" means the
x-ray examination of the breast using equipment dedicated
specifically for mammography, including the x-ray tube,
filter, compression device, screens, and image receptors,
with an average radiation exposure delivery of less than one
rad mid-breast, with 2 views for each breast. The requirement
that mammograms be included in health insurance coverage as
provided in this subsection (d) is an exclusive power and
function of the State and is a denial and limitation under
Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois
Constitution of home rule municipality powers. A home rule
municipality to which this subsection applies must comply
with every provision of this subsection.
(Source: P.A. 90-7, eff. 6-10-97.)
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