Bill Text: IL SB2769 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Amends the Organ Donor Leave Act. Allows the Director of Central Management Services to set, by administrative rule, the amount of compensated time that an employee may use to donate blood. Acknowledges that technology may advance at a rate that outpaces the General Assembly's ability to address those advances legislatively. Provides that, to the extent that the Act may not expressly apply to those technological advances, the Act should nonetheless be interpreted to further the declared policy of the Act. Defines the terms "blood" and "organ". Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2014-07-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0758 [SB2769 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB2769-Amended.html
Bill Title: Amends the Organ Donor Leave Act. Allows the Director of Central Management Services to set, by administrative rule, the amount of compensated time that an employee may use to donate blood. Acknowledges that technology may advance at a rate that outpaces the General Assembly's ability to address those advances legislatively. Provides that, to the extent that the Act may not expressly apply to those technological advances, the Act should nonetheless be interpreted to further the declared policy of the Act. Defines the terms "blood" and "organ". Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2014-07-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0758 [SB2769 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB2769-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2769
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2769 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Organ Donor Leave Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Sections 5, 10, and 20 as follows:
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| 6 | (5 ILCS 327/5)
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| 7 | Sec. 5. Purpose. This Act is intended to provide time off | ||||||
| 8 | with pay for
State
employees who donate an organ, bone marrow, | ||||||
| 9 | or blood, or blood platelets.
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| 10 | (Source: P.A. 92-754, eff. 1-1-03.)
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| 11 | (5 ILCS 327/10)
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| 12 | Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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| 13 | "Agency" means any branch, department, board, committee, | ||||||
| 14 | or commission of
State government, but does not include units | ||||||
| 15 | of local government, school
districts, or boards of election | ||||||
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| 1 | commissioners.
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| 2 | "Blood" means both the liquid that circulates in the | ||||||
| 3 | arteries and veins of a human body and any cells or parts | ||||||
| 4 | thereof, including, but not limited to, whole blood, plasma, | ||||||
| 5 | red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. | ||||||
| 6 | "Department" means the Department of Central Management | ||||||
| 7 | Services.
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| 8 | "Organ" means any biological tissue of the human body that | ||||||
| 9 | may be donated by a living donor, including, but not limited | ||||||
| 10 | to, the kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, intestine, bone, and | ||||||
| 11 | skin or any subpart thereof. | ||||||
| 12 | "Participating employee" means a permanent full-time or | ||||||
| 13 | part-time employee
who has
been employed by an agency for a | ||||||
| 14 | period of 6 months or more and who donates an
organ, bone | ||||||
| 15 | marrow, or blood, or blood platelets.
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| 16 | (Source: P.A. 92-754, eff. 1-1-03.)
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| 17 | (5 ILCS 327/20)
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| 18 | Sec. 20. Administration of Act.
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| 19 | (a) A On request, a participating employee subject to this | ||||||
| 20 | Act who wishes to donate blood, an organ, or bone marrow shall | ||||||
| 21 | request in advance leave under this Act may be
entitled to | ||||||
| 22 | organ donation leave with pay.
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| 23 | (b) An employee may use
(i) up to 30 days of organ donation | ||||||
| 24 | leave in any 12-month period to serve
as a bone marrow donor,
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| 25 | (ii) up to 30 days of organ donation leave in any 12-month | ||||||
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| 1 | period to
serve
as an organ donor,
(iii) up to one hour or more
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| 2 | to donate blood every 56 days, (iv) up to 1.5 hours to donate | ||||||
| 3 | double red cells, and (v) (iv) up to 2 hours
or more to donate | ||||||
| 4 | blood platelets. The frequency of the blood donation times | ||||||
| 5 | shall be set by rule in accordance with appropriate medical | ||||||
| 6 | standards
established by the American Red Cross, America's | ||||||
| 7 | Blood Centers, the American Association of Blood Banks, or
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| 8 | other nationally-recognized standards.
Leave under item (iv) | ||||||
| 9 | may not be granted more than 24 times in a
12-month period.
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| 10 | (c) An employee may use organ donation leave or other leave | ||||||
| 11 | authorized in
subsection (b) of this Section only after | ||||||
| 12 | obtaining approval
from the employee's agency.
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| 13 | (d) An employee may not be required to use accumulated sick | ||||||
| 14 | or vacation
leave time before being eligible for organ donor | ||||||
| 15 | leave.
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| 16 | (e) The Department must adopt rules governing organ | ||||||
| 17 | donation leave,
including rules that (i) establish conditions | ||||||
| 18 | and procedures for requesting
and approving leave and (ii) | ||||||
| 19 | require medical documentation of the proposed
organ or
bone | ||||||
| 20 | marrow donation before leave is approved by the employing | ||||||
| 21 | agency.
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| 22 | (Source: P.A. 94-33, eff. 1-1-06; 95-354, eff. 1-1-08.)
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| 23 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 24 | becoming law.".
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