Bill Text: IL HB3373 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. In a provision requiring a public safety employer to pay the entire premium of its health insurance plan for a public safety employee, the employee's spouse, and the employee's dependent children after the employee suffers a fatal or catastrophic injury in the line of duty, requires the employer to offer any individual who qualifies for such premium payments the choice of any health insurance plan available to currently employed full-time public safety employees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3373 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HB3373-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,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| 6 | (820 ILCS 320/10)
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| 7 | Sec. 10. Required health coverage benefits.
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| 8 | (a) An employer who employs a full-time law enforcement, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | correctional or
correctional probation officer, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | firefighter, who, on or after the effective
date of this Act | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty
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| 12 | shall pay the entire premium of the employer's health | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | insurance plan for the
injured employee, the injured | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | employee's spouse, and for each dependent child
of the injured | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | employee until the child reaches the age of majority or until
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| 16 | the end of the calendar year in which the child reaches the age | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | of 25 if the
child continues to be dependent for support or the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | child is a full-time or
part-time student and is dependent for | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | support. An individual whose entire premium is paid in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | accordance with this Section shall be offered by the employer | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | the choice of any health insurance plan available to currently | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | employed full-time law enforcement, correctional or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | correctional probation officers, or firefighters. The term | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | "health insurance
plan" does not include supplemental benefits | ||||||
| 2 | that are not part of the basic
group health insurance plan.
If | ||||||
| 3 | the
injured employee subsequently dies, the employer shall | ||||||
| 4 | continue to pay the
entire health insurance premium for the | ||||||
| 5 | surviving spouse until remarried and
for the dependent | ||||||
| 6 | children under the conditions established in this Section.
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| 7 | However:
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| 8 | (1) Health insurance benefits payable from any other | ||||||
| 9 | source shall reduce
benefits payable under this Section.
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| 10 | (2) It is unlawful for a person to willfully and | ||||||
| 11 | knowingly make, or cause
to be made, or to assist, | ||||||
| 12 | conspire with, or urge another to make, or cause to
be | ||||||
| 13 | made, any false, fraudulent, or misleading oral or written | ||||||
| 14 | statement to
obtain health insurance coverage as provided | ||||||
| 15 | under this Section. A violation
of this item is a Class A | ||||||
| 16 | misdemeanor.
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| 17 | (3) Upon conviction for a violation described in item | ||||||
| 18 | (2), a law
enforcement, correctional or correctional | ||||||
| 19 | probation officer, or other
beneficiary who receives or | ||||||
| 20 | seeks to receive health insurance benefits under
this | ||||||
| 21 | Section shall forfeit the right to receive health | ||||||
| 22 | insurance benefits and
shall reimburse the employer for | ||||||
| 23 | all benefits paid due to the fraud or other
prohibited | ||||||
| 24 | activity. For purposes of this item, "conviction" means a
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| 25 | determination of guilt that is the result of a plea or | ||||||
| 26 | trial, regardless of
whether adjudication is withheld.
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| 1 | (b) In order for the law enforcement, correctional or | ||||||
| 2 | correctional probation
officer, firefighter, spouse, or | ||||||
| 3 | dependent children to be eligible for
insurance coverage under | ||||||
| 4 | this Act, the injury or death must have occurred as
the result | ||||||
| 5 | of the officer's response to fresh pursuit, the officer or
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| 6 | firefighter's response to what is reasonably believed to be an | ||||||
| 7 | emergency, an
unlawful act perpetrated by another, or during | ||||||
| 8 | the investigation of a criminal
act. Nothing in this Section | ||||||
| 9 | shall be construed to limit health insurance
coverage or | ||||||
| 10 | pension benefits for which the officer, firefighter, spouse, | ||||||
| 11 | or
dependent children may otherwise be eligible.
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| 12 | (Source: P.A. 90-535, eff. 11-14-97.)
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