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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1668

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1668 by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:

 4        "AN ACT concerning veterans' affairs."; and

 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:

 7        "Section   5.    The   Illinois   National    Guardsman's
 8    Compensation Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:

 9        (20 ILCS 1825/3) (from Ch. 129, par. 403)
10        Sec.  3.   If a claim therefor is made within one year of
11    the date of the death of the guardsman, compensation shall be
12    paid to the person designated by such guardsman killed  while
13    on  duty.   The  amount of compensation shall be equal to the
14    greater of (i) $100,000 or (ii) the  amount  of  compensation
15    payable  under  Section 3 of the Line of Duty Law Enforcement
16    Officers, Civil Defense Workers, Civil  Air  Patrol  Members,
17    Paramedics,   Firemen,   Chaplains,   and   State   Employees
18    Compensation  Act when an individual to whom that Act applies
19    is killed  in  the  line  of  duty.   If  no  beneficiary  is
20    designated  or surviving at the death of the guardsman killed
21    while on duty, the compensation shall be paid as follows:
 
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 1             (a)  When there is a surviving  spouse,  the  entire
 2        sum shall be paid to the spouse.
 3             (b)  When  there  is  no  surviving  spouse,  but  a
 4        surviving  descendant  of  the  decedent,  the entire sum
 5        shall be paid to the decedent's descendants per stirpes.
 6             (c)  When there is neither a surviving spouse nor  a
 7        surviving descendant, the entire sum shall be paid to the
 8        parents  of  the decedent in equal parts, allowing to the
 9        surviving parent, if one is dead, the entire sum.
10             (d)  When there is no surviving  spouse,  descendant
11        or  parent  of  the  decedent,  but  there  are surviving
12        brothers or sisters,  or  descendants  of  a  brother  or
13        sister,  who  were receiving their principal support from
14        the decedent at his death, the entire sum shall be  paid,
15        in  equal  parts, to the dependent brothers or sisters or
16        dependent descendant of a brother or sister.   Dependency
17        shall be determined by the Court of Claims based upon the
18        investigation and report of the Attorney General.
19        When  there  is no beneficiary designated or surviving at
20    the death of the  guardsman  killed  while  on  duty  and  no
21    surviving  spouse,  descendant,  parent, dependent brother or
22    sister, or dependent descendant of a brother  or  sister,  no
23    compensation shall be payable under this Act.
24        No  part  of  such  compensation may be paid to any other
25    person for any efforts in securing such compensation.
26    (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

27        Section 10.  The  Court  of  Claims  Act  is  amended  by
28    changing Sections 8 and 21 as follows:

29        (705 ILCS 505/8) (from Ch. 37, par. 439.8)
30        Sec.  8.  Court  of Claims jurisdiction.  The court shall
31    have  exclusive  jurisdiction  to  hear  and  determine   the
32    following matters:
 
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 1        (a)  All claims against the State founded upon any law of
 2    the   State  of  Illinois  or  upon  any  regulation  adopted
 3    thereunder by  an  executive  or  administrative  officer  or
 4    agency;   provided,   however,   the  court  shall  not  have
 5    jurisdiction (i) to hear or determine  claims  arising  under
 6    the  Workers'  Compensation  Act or the Workers' Occupational
 7    Diseases Act, or claims for expenses in civil litigation,  or
 8    (ii)  to  review administrative decisions for which a statute
 9    provides that review shall be in  the  circuit  or  appellate
10    court.
11        (b)  All  claims  against  the  State  founded  upon  any
12    contract entered into with the State of Illinois.
13        (c)  All  claims  against  the  State  for  time unjustly
14    served in prisons of this State where the persons  imprisoned
15    shall  receive  a  pardon from the governor stating that such
16    pardon is issued on the ground of innocence of the crime  for
17    which they were imprisoned; provided, the court shall make no
18    award in excess of the following amounts: for imprisonment of
19    5  years  or less, not more than $15,000; for imprisonment of
20    14 years or less but over 5 years, not more than $30,000; for
21    imprisonment of over 14 years, not  more  than  $35,000;  and
22    provided  further, the court shall fix attorney's fees not to
23    exceed 25% of the award granted.  On December 31,  1996,  the
24    court  shall make a one-time adjustment in the maximum awards
25    authorized by this subsection (c), to reflect the increase in
26    the cost of living from  the  year  in  which  these  maximum
27    awards  were  last  adjusted  until  1996, but with no annual
28    increment exceeding 5%.  Thereafter, the court shall annually
29    adjust the maximum awards authorized by this  subsection  (c)
30    to  reflect the increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index
31    For All Urban Consumers for the previous  calendar  year,  as
32    determined  by  the United States Department of Labor, except
33    that no  annual  increment  may  exceed  5%.   For  both  the
34    one-time adjustment and the subsequent annual adjustments, if
 
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 1    the  Consumer  Price  Index decreases during a calendar year,
 2    there shall be no adjustment for  that  calendar  year.   The
 3    changes  made  by Public Act 89-689 apply to all claims filed
 4    on or after January 1, 1995 that are pending on December  31,
 5    1996 and all claims filed on or after December 31, 1996.
 6        (d)  All  claims  against  the State for damages in cases
 7    sounding in tort, if a like cause of action would lie against
 8    a private person or corporation in a civil suit, and all like
 9    claims  sounding  in  tort   against   the   Medical   Center
10    Commission,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  University of
11    Illinois,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of   Southern   Illinois
12    University,   the   Board   of   Trustees  of  Chicago  State
13    University,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Eastern   Illinois
14    University,   the   Board  of  Trustees  of  Governors  State
15    University,  the  Board  of  Trustees   of   Illinois   State
16    University,  the  Board  of Trustees of Northeastern Illinois
17    University,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Northern  Illinois
18    University,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Western   Illinois
19    University,   or  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Illinois
20    Mathematics and Science Academy; provided, that an award  for
21    damages  in a case sounding in tort, other than certain cases
22    involving the operation of a State vehicle described in  this
23    paragraph, shall not exceed the sum of $100,000 to or for the
24    benefit  of  any  claimant.  The $100,000 limit prescribed by
25    this Section does not apply to an award  of  damages  in  any
26    case sounding in tort arising out of the operation by a State
27    employee  of  a  vehicle  owned,  leased or controlled by the
28    State.  The defense that the  State  or  the  Medical  Center
29    Commission  or  the  Board  of  Trustees of the University of
30    Illinois,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of   Southern   Illinois
31    University,   the   Board   of   Trustees  of  Chicago  State
32    University,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Eastern   Illinois
33    University,   the   Board  of  Trustees  of  Governors  State
34    University,  the  Board  of  Trustees   of   Illinois   State
 
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 1    University,  the  Board  of Trustees of Northeastern Illinois
 2    University,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Northern  Illinois
 3    University,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Western   Illinois
 4    University,   or  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Illinois
 5    Mathematics  and  Science  Academy  is  not  liable  for  the
 6    negligence of its officers,  agents,  and  employees  in  the
 7    course  of  their employment is not applicable to the hearing
 8    and determination of such claims.
 9        (e)  All claims for  recoupment  made  by  the  State  of
10    Illinois against any claimant.
11        (f)  All   claims  pursuant  to  the  Line  of  Duty  Law
12    Enforcement Officers, Civil Defense Workers, Civil Air Patrol
13    Members, Paramedics, Firemen, Chaplains, and State  Employees
14    Compensation Act.
15        (g)  All  claims  filed  pursuant  to  the  Crime Victims
16    Compensation Act.
17        (h)  All  claims  pursuant  to  the   Illinois   National
18    Guardsman's Compensation Act.
19        (i)  All  claims  authorized by subsection (a) of Section
20    10-55 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure  Act  for  the
21    expenses  incurred  by  a  party  in  a contested case on the
22    administrative level.
23    (Source: P.A.  89-4,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-689,  eff.  12-31-96;
24    90-492, eff. 8-17-97.)

25        (705 ILCS 505/21) (from Ch. 37, par. 439.21)
26        Sec.  21.  The  court is authorized to impose, by uniform
27    rules, a fee of $15 for the filing of a petition in any  case
28    in  which  the  award  sought  is more than $50 and less than
29    $1,000 and $35 in any case  in  which  the  award  sought  is
30    $1,000  or  more;  and  to  charge  and collect for copies of
31    opinions or other documents filed in the Court of Claims such
32    fees as may be prescribed by the rules of the Court. All fees
33    and charges so collected shall be  forthwith  paid  into  the
 
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 1    State Treasury.
 2        A  petitioner who is a prisoner in an Illinois Department
 3    of Corrections facility who  files  a  pleading,  motion,  or
 4    other filing that purports to be a legal document against the
 5    State,  the  Illinois Department of Corrections, the Prisoner
 6    Review Board, or any of their officers or employees in  which
 7    the court makes a specific finding that it is frivolous shall
 8    pay all filing fees and court costs in the manner provided in
 9    Article XXII of the Code of Civil Procedure.
10        In  claims  based  upon  lapsed  appropriations  or  lost
11    warrant  or  in  claims  filed  under  the  Line  of Duty Law
12    Enforcement Officers, Civil Defense Workers, Civil Air Patrol
13    Members, Paramedics, Firemen, Chaplains, and State  Employees
14    Compensation   Act,   the   Illinois   National   Guardsman's
15    Compensation Act, or the Crime Victims Compensation Act or in
16    claims filed by medical vendors for medical services rendered
17    by  the  claimant  to persons eligible for Medical Assistance
18    under programs administered by  the  Illinois  Department  of
19    Public Aid, no filing fee shall be required.
20    (Source:  P.A.  90-492,  eff.  8-17-97; 90-505, eff. 8-19-97;
21    90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

22        Section  15.   The  Good  Samaritan  Act  is  amended  by
23    changing Section 70 as follows:

24        (745 ILCS 49/70)
25        Sec. 70.  Law enforcement officers or firemen;  exemption
26    from   civil   liability   for  emergency  care.     Any  law
27    enforcement officer or fireman as defined in Section 2 of the
28    Line of Duty Law Enforcement Officers, Civil Defense Workers,
29    Civil Air Patrol Members, Paramedics, Firemen, Chaplains, and
30    State Employees Compensation Act, who in good faith  provides
31    emergency  care  without  fee  to  any person shall not, as a
32    result of his or her acts or omissions,  except  willful  and
 
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 1    wanton misconduct on the part of the person, in providing the
 2    care, be liable to a person to whom such care is provided for
 3    civil damages.
 4    (Source: P.A. 89-607, eff. 1-1-97; 90-742, eff. 8-13-98.)

 5        Section 20.   The Law Enforcement Officers, Civil Defense
 6    Workers,  Civil  Air  Patrol  Members,  Paramedics,  Firemen,
 7    Chaplains, and State Employees Compensation Act is amended by
 8    changing Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 as follows:

 9        (820 ILCS 315/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 281)
10        Sec.  1.  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the
11    Line  of  Duty  "Law  Enforcement  Officers,  Civil   Defense
12    Workers,  Civil  Air  Patrol  Members,  Paramedics,  Firemen,
13    Chaplains, and State Employees Compensation Act".
14    (Source: P.A. 89-323, eff. 1-1-96.)

15        (820 ILCS 315/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 282)
16        Sec.  2.   As  used  in  this  Act,  unless  the  context
17    otherwise requires:
18        (a)  "Law  enforcement  officer"  or  "officer" means any
19    person employed by the State or a local  governmental  entity
20    as a policeman, peace officer, auxiliary policeman or in some
21    like  position  involving  the  enforcement  of  the  law and
22    protection of  the  public  interest  at  the  risk  of  that
23    person's    life.   This   includes   supervisors,   wardens,
24    superintendents and their  assistants,  guards  and  keepers,
25    correctional  officers,  youth  supervisors,  parole  agents,
26    school   teachers   and   correctional   counsellors  in  all
27    facilities of both the Juvenile and Adult  Divisions  of  the
28    Department  of Corrections, while within the facilities under
29    the control of the Department of Corrections or in the act of
30    transporting inmates or wards from one location to another or
31    while  performing  their  official  duties,  and  all   other
 
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 1    Department  of  Correction  employees  who have daily contact
 2    with inmates.
 3        The death of the foregoing employees of the Department of
 4    Corrections in order to be included herein  must  be  by  the
 5    direct   or   indirect   willful  act  of  an  inmate,  ward,
 6    work-releasee,  parolee,  parole   violator,   person   under
 7    conditional release, or any person sentenced or committed, or
 8    otherwise  subject  to confinement in or to the Department of
 9    Corrections.
10        (b)  "Fireman" means any person employed by the State  or
11    a  local  governmental  entity as, or otherwise serving as, a
12    member or officer of a fire department either for the purpose
13    of the prevention  or  control  of  fire  or  the  underwater
14    recovery of drowning victims, including volunteer firemen.
15        (c)  "Local   governmental   entity"  includes  counties,
16    municipalities and municipal corporations.
17        (d)  "State"  means  the  State  of  Illinois   and   its
18    departments,   divisions,   boards,   bureaus,   commissions,
19    authorities and colleges and universities.
20        (e)  "Killed in the line of duty" means losing one's life
21    as  a  result of injury received in the active performance of
22    duties as a law enforcement officer,  civil  defense  worker,
23    civil  air  patrol member, paramedic, fireman, or chaplain if
24    the death occurs within one year from the date the injury was
25    received and if that injury  arose  from  violence  or  other
26    accidental  cause.   In the case of a State employee, "killed
27    in the line of duty" means losing one's life as a  result  of
28    injury  received in the active performance of one's duties as
29    a State employee, if the death occurs within  one  year  from
30    the  date  the  injury  was received and if that injury arose
31    from a willful act of  violence  by  another  State  employee
32    committed  during  such other employee's course of employment
33    and after January 1, 1988.  The term excludes death resulting
34    from the willful misconduct or intoxication of  the  officer,
 
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 1    civil  defense  worker,  civil  air patrol member, paramedic,
 2    fireman, chaplain, or State employee.  However, the burden of
 3    proof of such  willful  misconduct  or  intoxication  of  the
 4    officer,  civil  defense  worker,  civil  air  patrol member,
 5    paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or State  employee  is  on  the
 6    Attorney  General.  Subject  to  the  conditions set forth in
 7    subsection (a) with respect to inclusion under  this  Act  of
 8    Department   of   Corrections  employees  described  in  that
 9    subsection, for the purposes of this Act, instances in  which
10    a  law  enforcement  officer receives an injury in the active
11    performance of duties as a law  enforcement  officer  include
12    but are not limited to instances when:
13             (1)  the  injury is received as a result of a wilful
14        act of violence committed other than by the officer and a
15        relationship exists between the commission  of  such  act
16        and  the  officer's  performance  of  his duties as a law
17        enforcement  officer,  whether  or  not  the  injury   is
18        received   while   the  officer  is  on  duty  as  a  law
19        enforcement officer;
20             (2)  the injury is received by the officer while the
21        officer is attempting to  prevent  the  commission  of  a
22        criminal  act  by  another  or attempting to apprehend an
23        individual the officer suspects has  committed  a  crime,
24        whether  or  not the injury is received while the officer
25        is on duty as a law enforcement officer;
26             (3)  the injury is received by the officer while the
27        officer is travelling to or from his employment as a  law
28        enforcement  officer  or  during any meal break, or other
29        break, which takes place during the period in  which  the
30        officer is on duty as a law enforcement officer.
31        In  the  case  of  an Armed Forces member, "killed in the
32    line of duty" means losing one's life while on active duty in
33    the Iraq and Arabian Peninsula Combat Zone between January 1,
34    2003 and the date that all United States  Armed  Forces  have
 
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 1    been redeployed from Iraq.
 2        (f)  "Volunteer  fireman" means a person having principal
 3    employment other than as a fireman, but who is carried on the
 4    rolls of a regularly constituted fire department  either  for
 5    the  purpose  of  the  prevention  or  control of fire or the
 6    underwater recovery of drowning victims, the members of which
 7    are under the jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of  a
 8    city,   village,   incorporated   town,  or  fire  protection
 9    district,  and  includes  a  volunteer  member  of   a   fire
10    department  organized  under  the  "General  Not  for  Profit
11    Corporation Act", approved July 17, 1943, as now or hereafter
12    amended,  which  is  under  contract  with any city, village,
13    incorporated  town,  fire  protection  district,  or  persons
14    residing therein, for fire  fighting  services.    "Volunteer
15    fireman"   does   not   mean  an  individual  who  volunteers
16    assistance without being regularly enrolled as a fireman.
17        (g)  "Civil defense worker" means any person employed  by
18    the  State  or  a  local governmental entity as, or otherwise
19    serving as, a member of a civil defense work force, including
20    volunteer civil defense work forces engaged  in  serving  the
21    public  interest  during periods of disaster, whether natural
22    or man-made.
23        (h)  "Civil air patrol member" means any person  employed
24    by  the State or a local governmental entity as, or otherwise
25    serving as, a member of the organization  commonly  known  as
26    the  "Civil  Air  Patrol", including volunteer members of the
27    organization commonly known as the "Civil Air Patrol".
28        (i)  "Paramedic"    means    an     Emergency     Medical
29    Technician-Paramedic  certified by the Illinois Department of
30    Public Health under  the  Emergency  Medical  Services  (EMS)
31    Systems  Act,  and  all  other  emergency  medical  personnel
32    certified by the Illinois Department of Public Health who are
33    members  of  an  organized body or not-for-profit corporation
34    under the jurisdiction of a city, village, incorporated town,
 
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 1    fire protection district or county, that  provides  emergency
 2    medical treatment to persons of a defined geographical area.
 3        (j)  "State  employee"  means  any employee as defined in
 4    Section 14-103.05 of the Illinois Pension  Code,  as  now  or
 5    hereafter amended.
 6        (k)  "Chaplain" means an individual who:
 7             (1)  is  a chaplain of (i) a fire department or (ii)
 8        a police department or other  agency  consisting  of  law
 9        enforcement officers; and
10             (2)  has  been designated a chaplain by (i) the fire
11        department, police department,  or  other  agency  or  an
12        officer  or  body having jurisdiction over the department
13        or agency or (ii) a labor organization  representing  the
14        firemen or law enforcement officers.
15        (l)  "Armed Forces member" means an Illinois resident who
16    is:  a  member  of  the  Armed Forces of the United States; a
17    member  of  the  Illinois  National  Guard  while  on  active
18    military service pursuant to an order of the President of the
19    United States; or a member of any reserve  component  of  the
20    Armed  Forces  of  the United States while on active military
21    service pursuant to an order of the President of  the  United
22    States.
23        (m)  "Iraq  and  Arabian Peninsula Combat Zone" means the
24    Arabian  Peninsula  Areas,  Airspace,  and  Adjacent   Waters
25    designated  as  a Combat Zone in Presidential Executive Order
26    12744 of  January  21,  1991,  consisting  of  the  following
27    locations,  including  the airspace above such locations: the
28    Persian Gulf; the Red Sea; the Gulf of Oman; that portion  of
29    the  Arabian Sea that lies north of 10 degrees north latitude
30    and west of 68 degrees east longitude; the Gulf of Aden;  and
31    the  total  land  areas  of Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman,
32    Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
33    (Source: P.A. 89-323, eff. 1-1-96.)
 
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 1        (820 ILCS 315/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 283)
 2        Sec. 3.  Duty death benefit.  If a claim therefor is made
 3    within one year of the date of death  of  a  law  enforcement
 4    officer,  civil  defense  worker,  civil  air  patrol member,
 5    paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or  State  employee,  or  Armed
 6    Forces  member killed in the line of duty, compensation shall
 7    be paid to the  person  designated  by  the  law  enforcement
 8    officer,  civil  defense  worker,  civil  air  patrol member,
 9    paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or  State  employee,  or  Armed
10    Forces member.
11        The  amount of compensation shall be $10,000 if the death
12    in the line of  duty  occurred  prior  to  January  1,  1974;
13    $20,000  if  such  death occurred after December 31, 1973 and
14    before July 1, 1983; $50,000 if such  death  occurred  on  or
15    after  July  1,  1983 and before January 1, 1996; $100,000 if
16    the death occurred on or after January 1, 1996 and before May
17    18, 2001; $118,000 if the death occurred on or after May  18,
18    2001  and before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
19    the 92nd General Assembly; and $259,038 if the  death  occurs
20    on  or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
21    92nd General Assembly and before January 1, 2003.
22        For deaths occurring on or after  January  1,  2003,  the
23    death  compensation  rate  for  death  in  the  line  of duty
24    occurring in a particular calendar year shall  be  the  death
25    compensation   rate  for  death  occurring  in  the  previous
26    calendar year (or in the case of deaths  occurring  in  2003,
27    the  rate  in  effect  on  December  31, 2002) increased by a
28    percentage thereof equal to the percentage increase, if  any,
29    in  the index known as the Consumer Price Index for All Urban
30    Consumers: U.S. city average, unadjusted, for all  items,  as
31    published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of
32    Labor  Statistics, for the 12 months ending with the month of
33    June of that previous calendar year.
34        If no beneficiary is designated or surviving at the death
 
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 1    of the law enforcement officer, civil defense  worker,  civil
 2    air  patrol  member,  paramedic,  fireman, chaplain, or State
 3    employee, or Armed Forces member killed in the line of  duty,
 4    the compensation shall be paid as follows:
 5             (a)  when  there  is  a surviving spouse, the entire
 6        sum shall be paid to the spouse;
 7             (b)  when  there  is  no  surviving  spouse,  but  a
 8        surviving descendant of  the  decedent,  the  entire  sum
 9        shall be paid to the decedent's descendants per stirpes;
10             (c)  when  there is neither a surviving spouse nor a
11        surviving descendant, the entire sum shall be paid to the
12        parents of the decedent in equal parts, allowing  to  the
13        surviving parent, if one is dead, the entire sum; and
14             (d)  when  there  is no surviving spouse, descendant
15        or parent  of  the  decedent,  but  there  are  surviving
16        brothers  or  sisters,  or  descendants  of  a brother or
17        sister, who were receiving their principal  support  from
18        the  decedent at his death, the entire sum shall be paid,
19        in equal parts, to the dependent brothers or  sisters  or
20        dependent  descendant of a brother or sister.  Dependency
21        shall be determined by the Court of Claims based upon the
22        investigation and report of the Attorney General.
23        When there is no beneficiary designated or  surviving  at
24    the  death  of  the  law  enforcement  officer, civil defense
25    worker,  civil  air  patrol   member,   paramedic,   fireman,
26    chaplain, or State employee, or Armed Forces member killed in
27    the line of duty and no surviving spouse, descendant, parent,
28    dependent  brother  or  sister,  or dependent descendant of a
29    brother or sister, no compensation  shall  be  payable  under
30    this Act.
31        No  part  of  such  compensation may be paid to any other
32    person for any efforts in securing such compensation.
33    (Source: P.A. 92-3, eff. 5-18-01; 92-609, eff. 7-1-02.)
 
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 1        (820 ILCS 315/4) (from Ch. 48, par. 284)
 2        Sec. 4.  Notwithstanding Section 3,  no  compensation  is
 3    payable  under  this  Act  unless  a claim therefor is filed,
 4    within the time specified by that Section with the  Court  of
 5    Claims  on  an  application  prescribed  and furnished by the
 6    Attorney General and setting forth:
 7        (a)  the name, address and title or  designation  of  the
 8    position  in  which  the officer, civil defense worker, civil
 9    air patrol member, paramedic,  fireman,  chaplain,  or  State
10    employee,  or  Armed Forces member was serving at the time of
11    his death;
12        (b)  the  names  and  addresses  of  person  or   persons
13    designated  by  the  officer, civil defense worker, civil air
14    patrol  member,  paramedic,  fireman,  chaplain,   or   State
15    employee,  or Armed Forces member to receive the compensation
16    and, if more than one, the percentage or share to be paid  to
17    each  such  person, or if there has been no such designation,
18    the name and address of the personal  representative  of  the
19    estate of the officer, civil defense worker, civil air patrol
20    member,  paramedic,  fireman, chaplain, or State employee, or
21    Armed Forces member;
22        (c)  a  full,  factual  account  of   the   circumstances
23    resulting in or the course of events causing the death of the
24    officer,  civil  defense  worker,  civil  air  patrol member,
25    paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or  State  employee,  or  Armed
26    Forces member; and
27        (d)  such  other  information  as  the  Court  of  Claims
28    reasonably requires.
29        When a claim is filed, the Attorney General shall make an
30    investigation for substantiation of matters set forth in such
31    an application.
32    (Source: P.A. 89-323, eff. 1-1-96.)

33        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 
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