95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1035


 
Introduced 2/8/2007, by Rep. Mike Boland
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













70 ILCS 705/6.3 new










    Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Authorizes the board of trustees to provide group insurance to employees. Sets forth requirements.
















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    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended  by 
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adding Section 6.3 as follows:
 
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    (70 ILCS 705/6.3  new)
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    Sec. 6.3. Group insurance.
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    (a) In addition and supplementary to the powers granted 
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under Section 6, the trustees of any fire protection district 
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may arrange
to provide, for the benefit of employees of the 
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district, group life,
health, accident, hospital, and medical 
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insurance, or any one or any
combination of those types of 
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insurance, and may arrange to provide that
insurance for the 
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benefit of the spouses or dependents of those employees.
The 
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insurance may include provision for employees or other insured 
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persons
who rely on treatment by prayer or spiritual means 
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alone for healing in
accordance with the tenets and practice of 
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a well recognized religious
denomination.  The trustees may 
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provide for payment by the
district of a portion of the premium 
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or charge for the insurance with
the employee paying the 
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balance of the premium or charge. If the trustees undertake a 
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plan under which the district pays a portion of
the premium or 
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charge, the trustees shall provide for
withholding and 
 


 






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deducting from the compensation of those employees who consent 
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to join the plan the balance of the premium or charge
for the 
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insurance.
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    (b) If the trustees do not provide for a plan under which

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the district  pays a portion of the premium or charge for a 
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group
insurance plan, the trustees may provide for withholding

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and deducting from the compensation of those employees who 
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consent thereto
the premium or charge for any group life, 
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health, accident, hospital, and
medical insurance.
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    (c) The trustees may exercise the powers granted in this

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Section only if the kinds of group insurance are obtained from 
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an
insurance company authorized to do business
in the State of 
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Illinois,
or are obtained through an
intergovernmental joint 
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self-insurance pool as authorized under the
Intergovernmental 
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Cooperation Act. The trustees shall be allowed to join or 
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create an intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool 
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regardless of size.
The
trustees may enact an ordinance 
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prescribing the method of
operation of the insurance program.
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    (d) If a district  is a
self-insurer for purposes of 
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providing health insurance coverage for its
employees, the 
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insurance coverage shall include screening by low-dose

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mammography for all women 35 years of age or older for the 
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presence of
occult breast cancer.  The coverage shall be as 
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follows:
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        (1) A baseline mammogram for women 35 to 39 years of 
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    age.
 


 






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        (2) An annual mammogram for women 40 years of age or 
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    older.
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    Those benefits shall be at least as favorable as for other 
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radiological
examinations and subject to the same dollar 
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limits, deductibles, and
co-insurance factors.  For purposes of 
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this subsection, "low-dose mammography"
means the x-ray 
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examination of the breast using equipment dedicated

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specifically for mammography, including the x-ray tube, 
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filter, compression
device, screens, and image receptors, with 
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an average radiation exposure
delivery of less than one rad 
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mid-breast, with 2 views for each breast.