Bill Text: IL HB0776 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the Self-Insurers Advisory Board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0776 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HB0776-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning employment.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Workers' Compensation Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 4a-1 as follows:
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6 | (820 ILCS 305/4a-1) (from Ch. 48, par. 138.4a-1)
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7 | Sec. 4a-1.
The
The Self-Insurers Advisory Board is hereby | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | established
within the Commission for the purpose of providing | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | for the continuation of
workers' compensation and occupational | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | disease benefits due and unpaid or
interrupted due to the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | inability of an insolvent self-insurer as defined in
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12 | subsection (d) of Section 4a-2 to meet its compensation | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | obligations when
the employers' financial resources, security | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | deposit, guaranty agreements,
surety agreements and excess | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | insurance are either inadequate or not
immediately accessible | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | for the payment of benefits, and to review and
recommend to the | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | Chairman of the Commission the disposition of all initial
and | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | renewal applications to self-insure filed by private | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | self-insurers
under this Act and the Workers' Occupational | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | Diseases Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | (Source: P.A. 85-1385.)
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