98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB2939

 

Introduced 2/4/2014, by Sen. Don Harmon and Michael Connelly

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 350/1  from Ch. 127, par. 1301

    Amends the State Employee Indemnification Act. Adds individuals or organizations who contract with the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to provide professional services to the definition of "employee". Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Employee Indemnification Act is
5amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 350/1)  (from Ch. 127, par. 1301)
7    Sec. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this Act:
8    (a) The term "State" means the State of Illinois, the
9General Assembly, the court, or any State office, department,
10division, bureau, board, commission, or committee, the
11governing boards of the public institutions of higher education
12created by the State, the Illinois National Guard, the
13Comprehensive Health Insurance Board, any poison control
14center designated under the Poison Control System Act that
15receives State funding, or any other agency or instrumentality
16of the State. It does not mean any local public entity as that
17term is defined in Section 1-206 of the Local Governmental and
18Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act or a pension fund.
19    (b) The term "employee" means any present or former elected
20or appointed officer, trustee or employee of the State, or of a
21pension fund, any present or former commissioner or employee of
22the Executive Ethics Commission or of the Legislative Ethics
23Commission, any present or former Executive, Legislative, or

 

 

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1Auditor General's Inspector General, any present or former
2employee of an Office of an Executive, Legislative, or Auditor
3General's Inspector General, any present or former member of
4the Illinois National Guard while on active duty, individuals
5or organizations who contract with the Department of
6Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the
7Comprehensive Health Insurance Board, or the Department of
8Veterans' Affairs to provide services, individuals or
9organizations who contract with the Department of Human
10Services (as successor to the Department of Mental Health and
11Developmental Disabilities) to provide services including but
12not limited to treatment and other services for sexually
13violent persons, individuals or organizations who contract
14with the Department of Military Affairs for youth programs,
15individuals or organizations who contract to perform carnival
16and amusement ride safety inspections for the Department of
17Labor, individuals or organizations who contract with the
18Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to provide
19professional services, individual representatives of or
20designated organizations authorized to represent the Office of
21State Long-Term Ombudsman for the Department on Aging,
22individual representatives of or organizations designated by
23the Department on Aging in the performance of their duties as
24adult protective services agencies or regional administrative
25agencies under the Adult Protective Services Act, individuals
26or organizations appointed as members of a review team or the

 

 

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1Advisory Council under the Adult Protective Services Act,
2individuals or organizations who perform volunteer services
3for the State where such volunteer relationship is reduced to
4writing, individuals who serve on any public entity (whether
5created by law or administrative action) described in paragraph
6(a) of this Section, individuals or not for profit
7organizations who, either as volunteers, where such volunteer
8relationship is reduced to writing, or pursuant to contract,
9furnish professional advice or consultation to any agency or
10instrumentality of the State, individuals who serve as foster
11parents for the Department of Children and Family Services when
12caring for a Department ward, individuals who serve as members
13of an independent team of experts under Brian's Law, and
14individuals who serve as arbitrators pursuant to Part 10A of
15Article II of the Code of Civil Procedure and the rules of the
16Supreme Court implementing Part 10A, each as now or hereafter
17amended, but does not mean an independent contractor except as
18provided in this Section. The term includes an individual
19appointed as an inspector by the Director of State Police when
20performing duties within the scope of the activities of a
21Metropolitan Enforcement Group or a law enforcement
22organization established under the Intergovernmental
23Cooperation Act. An individual who renders professional advice
24and consultation to the State through an organization which
25qualifies as an "employee" under the Act is also an employee.
26The term includes the estate or personal representative of an

 

 

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1employee.
2    (c) The term "pension fund" means a retirement system or
3pension fund created under the Illinois Pension Code.
4(Source: P.A. 98-49, eff. 7-1-13; 98-83, eff. 7-15-13; revised
58-9-13.)
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.