Full Text of SB2471 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection | 5 | | Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows: | 6 | | (50 ILCS 748/3)
| 7 | | Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act: | 8 | | "Volunteer emergency worker" means a person who serves as a | 9 | | member of a fire department of a fire protection district, | 10 | | municipality, or other unit of government on other than a | 11 | | full-time career basis and who meets the requirements for | 12 | | volunteer status provided in Section 553.106 of Title 29 of the | 13 | | Code of Federal Regulations and United States Department of | 14 | | Labor Wage and Hour Opinion Letter FLSA 2006-28 and United | 15 | | States Department of Labor Wage and Hour Opinion Letter FLSA | 16 | | 2005-51 firefighter who does not receive monetary compensation | 17 | | for his or her services to a fire department or fire protection | 18 | | district and who does not work for any other fire department or | 19 | | fire protection district for monetary compensation . "Volunteer | 20 | | emergency worker" also means , including, but not limited to, a | 21 | | person who serves on a volunteer basis and is licensed under | 22 | | the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act as an | 23 | | Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)(First Responder), Emergency |
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| 1 | | Medical Technician (EMT), Emergency Medical | 2 | | Technician-Intermediate (EMT-I), Advanced Emergency Medical | 3 | | Responder (A-EMT), or Paramedic (EMT-P), or a volunteer | 4 | | ambulance driver or attendant, and the person does not work in | 5 | | one of these capacities for another fire department, fire | 6 | | protection district, or governmental entity on a full-time | 7 | | career basis who does not receive monetary compensation for his | 8 | | or her services as a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician | 9 | | (licensed as an EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT, or Paramedic under the | 10 | | Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act), a volunteer | 11 | | ambulance driver or attendant, or a volunteer "Emergency | 12 | | Medical Responder", as defined in Sec. 3.50 of the Emergency | 13 | | Medical Services (EMT) Systems Act, to a fire department, fire | 14 | | protection district, or other governmental entity and who does | 15 | | not work in one of these capacities for any other fire | 16 | | department, fire protection district, or governmental entity | 17 | | for monetary compensation . "Volunteer emergency worker" also | 18 | | means a person who is a volunteer member of a county or | 19 | | municipal emergency services and disaster agency pursuant to | 20 | | the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, an auxiliary | 21 | | policeman appointed pursuant to the Municipal Code, or an | 22 | | auxiliary deputy appointed by a county sheriff pursuant to the | 23 | | Counties Code.
| 24 | | "Monetary compensation" does not include a monetary | 25 | | incentive awarded to a firefighter by the board of trustees of | 26 | | a fire protection district under Section 6 of the Fire |
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| 1 | | Protection District Act.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 98-973, eff. 8-15-14.)
| 3 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 4 | | becoming law.
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