Bill Amendment: IL HB3249 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: PUBLIC SAFETY-HEALTH INSURANCE
Status: 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0340 [HB3249 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB3249-Senate_Amendment_002.html
Bill Title: PUBLIC SAFETY-HEALTH INSURANCE
Status: 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0340 [HB3249 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB3249-Senate_Amendment_002.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3249
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3249 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is | ||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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6 | (820 ILCS 320/10)
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7 | Sec. 10. Required health coverage benefits.
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8 | (a) An employer who employs a full-time law enforcement, | ||||||
9 | correctional or
correctional probation officer, or | ||||||
10 | firefighter, who, on or after the effective
date of this Act | ||||||
11 | suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty
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12 | shall pay the entire premium of the employer's health | ||||||
13 | insurance plan for the
injured employee, the injured | ||||||
14 | employee's spouse, and for each dependent child
of the injured | ||||||
15 | employee until the child reaches the age of majority or until
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16 | the end of the calendar year in which the child reaches the age |
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1 | of 25 if the
child continues to be dependent for support or the | ||||||
2 | child is a full-time or
part-time student and is dependent for | ||||||
3 | support. An individual whose entire premium is paid in | ||||||
4 | accordance with this Section shall be offered by the employer | ||||||
5 | the choice of any health insurance plan available to currently | ||||||
6 | employed full-time law enforcement, correctional or | ||||||
7 | correctional probation officers, or firefighters. For purposes | ||||||
8 | of plans administered under the State Employee Group Insurance | ||||||
9 | Act of 1971, changes in coverage may only be elected during | ||||||
10 | open enrollment or following a qualifying event. The term | ||||||
11 | "health insurance
plan" does not include supplemental benefits | ||||||
12 | that are not part of the basic
group health insurance plan.
If | ||||||
13 | the
injured employee subsequently dies, the employer shall | ||||||
14 | continue to pay the
entire health insurance premium for the | ||||||
15 | surviving spouse until remarried and
for the dependent | ||||||
16 | children under the conditions established in this Section.
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17 | However:
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18 | (1) Health insurance benefits payable from any other | ||||||
19 | source shall reduce
benefits payable under this Section.
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20 | (2) It is unlawful for a person to willfully and | ||||||
21 | knowingly make, or cause
to be made, or to assist, | ||||||
22 | conspire with, or urge another to make, or cause to
be | ||||||
23 | made, any false, fraudulent, or misleading oral or written | ||||||
24 | statement to
obtain health insurance coverage as provided | ||||||
25 | under this Section. A violation
of this item is a Class A | ||||||
26 | misdemeanor.
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1 | (3) Upon conviction for a violation described in item | ||||||
2 | (2), a law
enforcement, correctional or correctional | ||||||
3 | probation officer, or other
beneficiary who receives or | ||||||
4 | seeks to receive health insurance benefits under
this | ||||||
5 | Section shall forfeit the right to receive health | ||||||
6 | insurance benefits and
shall reimburse the employer for | ||||||
7 | all benefits paid due to the fraud or other
prohibited | ||||||
8 | activity. For purposes of this item, "conviction" means a
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9 | determination of guilt that is the result of a plea or | ||||||
10 | trial, regardless of
whether adjudication is withheld.
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11 | (b) In order for the law enforcement, correctional or | ||||||
12 | correctional probation
officer, firefighter, spouse, or | ||||||
13 | dependent children to be eligible for
insurance coverage under | ||||||
14 | this Act, the injury or death must have occurred as
the result | ||||||
15 | of the officer's response to fresh pursuit, the officer or
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16 | firefighter's response to what is reasonably believed to be an | ||||||
17 | emergency, an
unlawful act perpetrated by another, or during | ||||||
18 | the investigation of a criminal
act. Nothing in this Section | ||||||
19 | shall be construed to limit health insurance
coverage or | ||||||
20 | pension benefits for which the officer, firefighter, spouse, | ||||||
21 | or
dependent children may otherwise be eligible.
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22 | (Source: P.A. 90-535, eff. 11-14-97.)".
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