Bill Text: IL HB1785 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the Self-Insurers Advisory Board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB1785 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB1785-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB1785 Introduced , by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 305/4a-1 from Ch. 48, par. 138.4a-1
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the Self-Insurers Advisory Board.
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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 Workers' Compensation Act is amended by
changing Section 4a-1 as follows:
(820 ILCS 305/4a-1) (from Ch. 48, par. 138.4a-1)
Sec. 4a-1. The The Self-Insurers Advisory Board is hereby
established within the Commission for the purpose of providing
for the continuation of workers' compensation and occupational
disease benefits due and unpaid or interrupted due to the
inability of an insolvent self-insurer as defined in subsection
(d) of Section 4a-2 to meet its compensation obligations when
the employers' financial resources, security deposit, guaranty
agreements, surety agreements and excess insurance are either
inadequate or not immediately accessible for the payment of
benefits, and to review and recommend to the Chairman of the
Commission the disposition of all initial and renewal
applications to self-insure filed by private self-insurers
under this Act and the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act.
(Source: P.A. 85-1385.)