Bill Text: IL SB0502 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Township Code. Provides that, except as otherwise required by a contract existing on the effective date of the amendatory Act or by federal law, a township board shall not provide group life, health, accident, hospital, or dental insurance or any combination of those types of insurance to the spouse of an employee or official or provide such insurances after the employee's employment ends or official's term of office expires.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-23 - Referred to Assignments [SB0502 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB0502-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB0502 Introduced 2/23/2021, by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/100-15
Amends the Township Code. Provides that, except as otherwise required by a contract existing on the effective date of the amendatory Act or by federal law, a township board shall not provide group life, health, accident, hospital, or dental insurance or any combination of those types of insurance to the spouse of an employee or official or provide such insurances after the employee's employment ends or official's term of office expires.
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing
Section 100-15 as follows:
(60 ILCS 1/100-15)
Sec. 100-15. Group insurance. In addition to any powers
that it may exercise under the Government Salary Withholding
Act, the township board may provide, for the benefit of the
township's employees or , officials, or retired officials and
their dependents, group life, health, accident, hospital, or
dental insurance or any combination of those types of
insurance. Except as otherwise required by a contract existing
on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd
General Assembly or by federal law, the township board shall
not provide such insurances to the spouse of an employee or
official or provide such insurances after the employee's
employment ends or official's term of office expires. The
insurance may include provision for employees, officials,
retired officials, and their dependents who rely on treatment
by prayer or spiritual means alone for healing in accordance
with the tenets and practice of a well recognized religious
denomination. The township board may provide for payment by

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the township of all or a portion of the premium or charge for
the insurance for covered persons, except that the township
may not pay all or a portion of the premium or charge for the
insurance for retired officials and their dependents. If the
township board undertakes a plan under which the township does
not pay the entire amount of premiums or charges for the
insurance, the board may provide for withholding and deducting
from the compensation of its employees or officers amounts
required to pay the balance of the premiums or charges.
(Source: P.A. 88-62; 89-326, eff. 1-1-96.)