Bill Text: IL HB2239 | 2017-2018 | 100th 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) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB2239 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB2239-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB2239 Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin 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.
LRB100 04117 JLS 14122 b
A BILL FOR
HB2239 LRB100 04117 JLS 14122 b
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.)