Full Text of SB2014 97th General Assembly
SB2014sam001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. William R. Haine Filed: 3/31/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2014
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2014 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
| 6 | | (820 ILCS 320/10)
| 7 | | Sec. 10. Required health coverage benefits.
| 8 | | (a) If a full time law enforcement, correctional or | 9 | | correctional probation officer, or firefighter suffers a | 10 | | catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty, and, as a | 11 | | result of that injury or death, the employee, or his or her | 12 | | beneficiary, is awarded a benefit, other than an interim | 13 | | benefit, under the federal Public Safety Officers' Death | 14 | | Benefits Act, then the employer An employer who employs a | 15 | | full-time law enforcement, correctional or
correctional | 16 | | probation officer, or firefighter, who, on or after the |
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date of this Act suffers a catastrophic injury or is | 2 | | killed in the line of duty
shall pay the entire premium of the | 3 | | employer's health insurance plan for the
injured employee, the | 4 | | injured employee's spouse, and for each dependent child
of the | 5 | | injured employee until the child reaches the age of majority or | 6 | | until
the end of the calendar year in which the child reaches | 7 | | the age of 25 if the
child continues to be dependent for | 8 | | support or the child is a full-time or
part-time student and is | 9 | | dependent for support. The term "health insurance
plan" does | 10 | | not include supplemental benefits that are not part of the | 11 | | basic
group health insurance plan.
If the
injured employee | 12 | | subsequently dies, the employer shall continue to pay the
| 13 | | entire health insurance premium for the surviving spouse until | 14 | | remarried and
for the dependent children under the conditions | 15 | | established in this Section.
However:
| 16 | | (1) Health insurance benefits payable from any other | 17 | | source shall reduce
benefits payable under this Section.
| 18 | | (2) It is unlawful for a person to willfully and | 19 | | knowingly make, or cause
to be made, or to assist, conspire | 20 | | with, or urge another to make, or cause to
be made, any | 21 | | false, fraudulent, or misleading oral or written statement | 22 | | to
obtain health insurance coverage as provided under this | 23 | | Section. A violation
of this item is a Class A misdemeanor.
| 24 | | (3) Upon conviction for a violation described in item | 25 | | (2), a law
enforcement, correctional or correctional | 26 | | probation officer, or other
beneficiary who receives or |
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| 1 | | seeks to receive health insurance benefits under
this | 2 | | Section shall forfeit the right to receive health insurance | 3 | | benefits and
shall reimburse the employer for all benefits | 4 | | paid due to the fraud or other
prohibited activity. For | 5 | | purposes of this item, "conviction" means a
determination | 6 | | of guilt that is the result of a plea or trial, regardless | 7 | | of
whether adjudication is withheld.
| 8 | | (b) In order for the law enforcement, correctional or | 9 | | correctional probation
officer, firefighter, spouse, or | 10 | | dependent children to be eligible for
insurance coverage under | 11 | | this Act, the injury or death must have occurred as
the result | 12 | | of the officer's response to fresh pursuit, the officer or
| 13 | | firefighter's response to what is reasonably believed to be an | 14 | | emergency, an
unlawful act perpetrated by another, or during | 15 | | the investigation of a criminal
act. Nothing in this Section | 16 | | shall be construed to limit health insurance
coverage or | 17 | | pension benefits for which the officer, firefighter, spouse, or
| 18 | | dependent children may otherwise be eligible. | 19 | | (c) This Act does not apply to any injury or death that | 20 | | occurred prior to the effective date of this Act. The changes | 21 | | made by this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly apply | 22 | | on and after the effective date of this amendatory Act.
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 90-535, eff. 11-14-97.)
| 24 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 25 | | becoming law.".
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