101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4080

 

Introduced 1/16/2020, by Rep. Daniel Didech

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 320/10

    Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides that any full-time law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officer, or firefighter that suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty, as well as their spouse or child, shall be offered by the employer of the law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officer, or firefighter the choice of any health insurance plan available to currently employed full-time law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officers, or firefighters.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is
5amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 320/10)
7    Sec. 10. Required health coverage benefits.
8    (a) An employer who employs a full-time law enforcement,
9correctional or correctional probation officer, or
10firefighter, who, on or after the effective date of this Act
11suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty
12shall pay the entire premium of the employer's health insurance
13plan for the injured employee, the injured employee's spouse,
14and for each dependent child of the injured employee until the
15child reaches the age of majority or until the end of the
16calendar year in which the child reaches the age of 25 if the
17child continues to be dependent for support or the child is a
18full-time or part-time student and is dependent for support. An
19individual whose entire premium is paid pursuant to this
20Section shall be offered by the employer the choice of any
21health insurance plan available to currently employed
22full-time law enforcement, correctional or correctional
23probation officers, or firefighters. The term "health

 

 

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1insurance plan" does not include supplemental benefits that are
2not part of the basic group health insurance plan. If the
3injured employee subsequently dies, the employer shall
4continue to pay the entire health insurance premium for the
5surviving spouse until remarried and for the dependent children
6under the conditions established in this Section. However:
7        (1) Health insurance benefits payable from any other
8    source shall reduce benefits payable under this Section.
9        (2) It is unlawful for a person to willfully and
10    knowingly make, or cause to be made, or to assist, conspire
11    with, or urge another to make, or cause to be made, any
12    false, fraudulent, or misleading oral or written statement
13    to obtain health insurance coverage as provided under this
14    Section. A violation of this item is a Class A misdemeanor.
15        (3) Upon conviction for a violation described in item
16    (2), a law enforcement, correctional or correctional
17    probation officer, or other beneficiary who receives or
18    seeks to receive health insurance benefits under this
19    Section shall forfeit the right to receive health insurance
20    benefits and shall reimburse the employer for all benefits
21    paid due to the fraud or other prohibited activity. For
22    purposes of this item, "conviction" means a determination
23    of guilt that is the result of a plea or trial, regardless
24    of whether adjudication is withheld.
25    (b) In order for the law enforcement, correctional or
26correctional probation officer, firefighter, spouse, or

 

 

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1dependent children to be eligible for insurance coverage under
2this Act, the injury or death must have occurred as the result
3of the officer's response to fresh pursuit, the officer or
4firefighter's response to what is reasonably believed to be an
5emergency, an unlawful act perpetrated by another, or during
6the investigation of a criminal act. Nothing in this Section
7shall be construed to limit health insurance coverage or
8pension benefits for which the officer, firefighter, spouse, or
9dependent children may otherwise be eligible.
10(Source: P.A. 90-535, eff. 11-14-97.)