HB7328 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 23471 LRD 53464 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB7328

Introduced 9/23/2004, by Rep. Rich Brauer - Dan Brady

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

820 ILCS 320/4 new

Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides the benefits of that Act to a person who is employed as a security guard by the State on a full-time, part-time, temporary, or contractual-payroll basis and whose death or catastrophic injury in the line of duty occurs on or after September 1, 2004. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.

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

Section 5. The Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is amended by adding Section 4 as follows:

(820 ILCS 320/4 new)

Sec. 4. State security guards.

(a) A person who is employed as a security guard by the State on a full-time, part-time, temporary, or contractual-payroll basis and who suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty on or after September 1, 2004 under circumstances described in subsection (b) of Section 10 is entitled to the benefits provided in that Section, notwithstanding the "full-time" requirement of subsection (a) of that Section.

(b) A person who is employed as a security guard by the State on a full-time, part-time, temporary, or contractual-payroll basis and who is accidentally or unlawfully and intentionally killed on or after September 1, 2004 under circumstances described in subsection (b) of Section 10 is entitled to the benefits provided in Section 15, notwithstanding the "full-time" requirement of subsection (a) of Section 10.

(c) "State" means the State of Illinois and any of its departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions, authorities, colleges, and universities.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.