Bill Text: IL HB4944 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act. Provides that the definition of "employee" does not include a part-time employee who is employed by a municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4944 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4944-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4944 Introduced , by Rep. Dennis Tipsword, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 192/10
Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act. Provides that the definition of "employee" does not include a part-time employee who is employed by a municipality.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Paid Leave for All Workers Act is amended by
changing Section 10 as follows:
(820 ILCS 192/10)
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a
delayed effective date)
Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Construction industry" means any constructing, altering,
reconstructing, repairing, rehabilitating, refinishing,
refurbishing, remodeling, remediating, renovating, custom
fabricating, maintenance, landscaping, improving, wrecking,
painting, decorating, demolishing, or adding to or subtracting
from any building, structure, highway, roadway, street,
bridge, alley, sewer, ditch, sewage disposal plant,
waterworks, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other
structure, project, development, real property, or
improvement, or to do any part thereof, whether or not the
performance of the work herein described involves the addition
to or fabrication into, any structure, project, development,
real property, or improvement herein described of any material
or article of merchandise.

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"Construction industry" also includes moving construction
related materials on the job site or to or from the job site,
snow plowing, snow removal, and refuse collection.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Labor.
"Domestic work" and "domestic worker" have the same
meanings as defined in Section 10 of the Domestic Workers'
Bill of Rights Act, except that "domestic worker" also
includes independent contractors, sole proprietors, and
partnerships.
"Employee" has the same application and meaning as that
provided in Sections 1 and 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and
Collection Act. "Employee" also includes all domestic workers,
and, for the purposes of this Act, domestic workers shall not
be excluded as employees under the provisions of item (1),
(2), or (3) of Section 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and
Collection Act. "Employee" does not include:
(1) an employee as defined in the federal Railroad
Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) or the
Railway Labor Act;
(2) a student enrolled in and regularly attending
classes in a college or university that is also the
student's employer, and who is employed on a temporary
basis at less than full time at the college or university,
but this exclusion applies only to work performed for that
college or university; or
(3) a short-term employee who is employed by an

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