Bill Text: IL HB0533 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Adds street violence to the definition of "disaster".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0533 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB0533-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
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6 | (20 ILCS 3305/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 1054)
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7 | Sec. 4. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | context
clearly indicates otherwise, the following words and | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | terms have the
meanings ascribed to them in this Section:
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10 | "Coordinator" means the staff assistant to the principal
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11 | executive officer of a political subdivision with the duty of | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | coordinating
the emergency management programs of that | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | political subdivision.
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14 | "Disaster" means an occurrence or threat of widespread or | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | severe
damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | from any natural or
technological cause, including but not | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | limited to fire, flood, earthquake,
wind, storm, hazardous | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | materials spill or other water contamination requiring
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19 | emergency
action to avert danger or damage, epidemic, air | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | contamination, blight,
extended periods of severe and | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | inclement weather,
drought, infestation, critical shortages of | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | essential fuels and energy,
explosion, riot, street violence, | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | hostile military or
paramilitary action, public health |
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1 | emergencies, or acts of domestic
terrorism.
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2 | "Emergency Management" means the efforts of the State and | ||||||
3 | the
political subdivisions to develop, plan, analyze, conduct, | ||||||
4 | provide,
implement and
maintain programs for disaster | ||||||
5 | mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
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6 | "Emergency Services and Disaster Agency" means the
agency | ||||||
7 | by this name, by the name Emergency Management Agency, or by | ||||||
8 | any other
name that is established
by ordinance within a | ||||||
9 | political subdivision to coordinate the emergency
management | ||||||
10 | program within that political subdivision and with private
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11 | organizations, other political subdivisions, the State and | ||||||
12 | federal governments.
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13 | "Emergency Operations Plan" means the written plan of the | ||||||
14 | State and
political subdivisions describing the organization, | ||||||
15 | mission, and functions
of the government and supporting | ||||||
16 | services for responding to and recovering
from disasters and | ||||||
17 | shall include plans that take into account the needs of those | ||||||
18 | individuals with household pets and service animals following a | ||||||
19 | major disaster or emergency.
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20 | "Emergency Services" means the coordination of functions | ||||||
21 | by the
State and its political subdivision, other than | ||||||
22 | functions for which military
forces
are primarily responsible, | ||||||
23 | as may be necessary or proper to prevent,
minimize, repair, and | ||||||
24 | alleviate injury and damage resulting from
any natural or | ||||||
25 | technological causes. These functions include, without
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26 | limitation, fire fighting
services, police services, emergency |
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1 | aviation services, medical and
health services, HazMat and | ||||||
2 | technical rescue teams, rescue,
engineering, warning services, | ||||||
3 | communications, radiological,
chemical and other special | ||||||
4 | weapons defense, evacuation of persons from
stricken or | ||||||
5 | threatened areas, emergency assigned functions of plant | ||||||
6 | protection,
temporary restoration of public utility services | ||||||
7 | and other functions
related to civilian protection, together | ||||||
8 | with all other activities
necessary or incidental to protecting | ||||||
9 | life or property.
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10 | "Exercise" means a planned event realistically simulating | ||||||
11 | a disaster,
conducted for the purpose of
evaluating the | ||||||
12 | political subdivision's coordinated emergency management
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13 | capabilities, including,
but not limited to, testing the | ||||||
14 | emergency operations plan.
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15 | "HazMat team" means a career or volunteer mobile support | ||||||
16 | team that has been authorized by a unit of local government to | ||||||
17 | respond to hazardous materials emergencies and that is | ||||||
18 | primarily designed for emergency response to chemical or | ||||||
19 | biological terrorism, radiological emergencies, hazardous | ||||||
20 | material spills, releases, or fires, or other contamination | ||||||
21 | events.
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22 | "Illinois Emergency Management Agency"
means the agency
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23 | established by this Act within the executive branch of State | ||||||
24 | Government
responsible for coordination of the overall | ||||||
25 | emergency management program of
the State and with private | ||||||
26 | organizations, political subdivisions, and the
federal |
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1 | government.
Illinois Emergency Management Agency also means | ||||||
2 | the State
Emergency Response Commission responsible for the | ||||||
3 | implementation of Title
III of the Superfund Amendments and | ||||||
4 | Reauthorization Act of 1986.
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5 | "Mobile Support Team" means
a group of individuals | ||||||
6 | designated as a team by the Governor or Director to
train prior | ||||||
7 | to and to be
dispatched, if the Governor or the Director so | ||||||
8 | determines, to aid and reinforce
the State and political
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9 | subdivision emergency management efforts in response to a | ||||||
10 | disaster.
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11 | "Municipality" means any city, village, and incorporated | ||||||
12 | town.
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13 | "Political Subdivision" means any county, city, village, | ||||||
14 | or
incorporated town or township if the township is in a county | ||||||
15 | having a
population of more than 2,000,000.
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16 | "Principal Executive Officer" means chair
of the county | ||||||
17 | board, supervisor of a township if the township
is in a county | ||||||
18 | having a population of more than 2,000,000, mayor
of a city or | ||||||
19 | incorporated town,
president of a village,
or in their absence | ||||||
20 | or disability, the interim successor as
established under | ||||||
21 | Section 7 of the Emergency Interim
Executive Succession Act.
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22 | "Public health emergency" means an occurrence or imminent | ||||||
23 | threat of an
illness or health condition that:
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24 | (a) is believed to be caused by any of the following:
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25 | (i) bioterrorism;
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26 | (ii) the appearance of a novel or previously |
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1 | controlled or eradicated
infectious agent or
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2 | biological toxin;
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3 | (iii) a natural disaster;
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4 | (iv) a chemical attack or accidental release; or
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5 | (v) a nuclear attack or accident; and
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6 | (b) poses a high probability of any of the following | ||||||
7 | harms:
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8 | (i) a large number of deaths in the affected | ||||||
9 | population;
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10 | (ii) a large number of serious or long-term | ||||||
11 | disabilities in the affected
population; or
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12 | (iii) widespread exposure to an infectious or | ||||||
13 | toxic agent that poses a
significant risk of | ||||||
14 | substantial future harm to a large number of people in | ||||||
15 | the
affected population.
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16 | "Technical rescue team" means a career or volunteer mobile | ||||||
17 | support team that has been authorized by a unit of local | ||||||
18 | government to respond to building collapse, high angle rescue, | ||||||
19 | and other specialized rescue emergencies and that is primarily | ||||||
20 | designated for emergency response to technical rescue events.
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21 | (Source: P.A. 93-249, eff. 7-22-03; 94-334, eff. 1-1-06; | ||||||
22 | 94-1081, eff. 6-1-07 .)
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