101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4478

 

Introduced 2/4/2020, by Rep. Bob Morgan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 130/50

    Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. In provisions regarding employment and employer liability: (1) replaces references to "employees" with "registered qualifying patients"; and (2) provides that nothing in the Act prohibits an employer from adopting a reasonable policy (rather than regulations) concerning, among other things, the use of medical cannabis by registered qualifying patients (rather than timekeeping requirements for them). Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis
5Program Act is amended by changing Section 50 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 130/50)
7    Sec. 50. Employment; employer liability.
8    (a) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit an employer from
9adopting reasonable policy regulations concerning the
10consumption, storage, or use of medical cannabis by registered
11timekeeping requirements for qualifying patients related to
12the use of medical cannabis.
13    (b) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit an employer from
14enforcing a policy concerning drug testing, zero-tolerance, or
15a drug free workplace provided the policy is applied in a
16nondiscriminatory manner.
17    (c) Nothing in this Act shall limit an employer from
18disciplining a registered qualifying patient for violating a
19workplace drug policy.
20    (d) Nothing in this Act shall limit an employer's ability
21to discipline a registered qualifying patient an employee for
22failing a drug test if failing to do so would put the employer
23in violation of federal law or cause it to lose a federal

 

 

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1contract or funding.
2    (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to create a
3defense for a third party who fails a drug test.
4    (f) An employer may consider a registered qualifying
5patient to be impaired when the registered qualifying patient
6he or she manifests specific, articulable symptoms while
7working that decrease or lessen the registered qualifying
8patient's his or her performance of the duties or tasks of the
9registered qualifying patient's employee's job position,
10including symptoms of the registered qualifying patient's
11employee's speech, physical dexterity, agility, coordination,
12demeanor, irrational or unusual behavior, negligence or
13carelessness in operating equipment or machinery, disregard
14for the safety of the registered qualifying patient employee or
15others, or involvement in an accident that results in serious
16damage to equipment or property, disruption of a production or
17manufacturing process, or carelessness that results in any
18injury to the registered qualifying patient employee or others.
19If an employer elects to discipline a registered qualifying
20patient under this subsection, it must afford the registered
21qualifying patient employee a reasonable opportunity to
22contest the basis of the determination.
23    (g) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to create or
24imply a cause of action for any person against an employer for:
25(1) actions based on the employer's good faith belief that a
26registered qualifying patient used or possessed cannabis while

 

 

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1on the employer's premises or during the hours of employment;
2(2) actions based on the employer's good faith belief that a
3registered qualifying patient was impaired while working on the
4employer's premises during the hours of employment; (3) injury
5or loss to a third party if the employer neither knew nor had
6reason to know that the registered qualifying patient employee
7was impaired.
8    (h) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere
9with any federal restrictions on employment including but not
10limited to the United States Department of Transportation
11regulation 49 CFR 40.151(e).
12(Source: P.A. 98-122, eff. 1-1-14.)
 
13    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
14becoming law.