Illinois House Bill 5278 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 7 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. Provides that if a local public entity does not pay a court order or administrative agency order requiring payment to a local entity during the fiscal year it becomes final, or cannot pay a judgment, court order, or administrative agency order due to the overall revenue of the local public entity and the overall volume of operating expenses and debts, and if the payment of the judgment, court order, settlement agreement, or administrative agency order creates an unreasonable financial hardship for the local public entity, it shall pay the balance of the judgment, court order, settlement agreement, or administrative agency order in installments. Provides that a local public entity shall have the power of judicial relief to restructure the settlement agreement if the payment of the settlement agreement creates an unreasonable hardship for the local public entity. Provides that a local public entity that derives revenue for its maintenance and operation from rates and charges made for services or facilities it provides shall make rates and charges in an amount sufficient to pay all its tort judgments and settlements under the Payment of Claims and Judgment Article of the Act and its obligations under the Workers' Compensation Act, the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, and the Unemployment Insurance Act, to the extent possible.

GOV EMPLOYEE TORT IMMUNITY

Rep. William Davis [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-07	House	Session Sine Die
2024-04-05	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2024-03-13	House	To Civil Procedure & Tort Liability subcommittee
2024-02-28	House	Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee
2024-02-09	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2024-02-09	House	First Reading
2024-02-08	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. William "Will" Davis

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
745	10	9-104	Amended Code	Citation Text
745	10	9-106	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5278&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB5278.htm