Bill Text: IL SB2891 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. Provides that nothing in the Act: prohibits employers from adopting workplace policies concerning the consumption, storage, or timekeeping requirements for qualifying patients related to the use of medical cannabis; prohibits employers from enforcing policies concerning the use or possession of drugs by employees; or limits an employer's ability to discipline an employee for failing a drug test, including, but not limited to, if failing to discipline such an employee would cause the employer to violate federal law or lose a federal contract or funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2891 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB2891-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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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 Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Program Act is amended by changing Section 50 as follows:
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6 | (410 ILCS 130/50) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
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8 | Sec. 50. Employment; employer liability.
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9 | (a) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit an employer from | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | adopting reasonable regulations or workplace policies | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | concerning the consumption, storage, or timekeeping | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | requirements for qualifying patients related to the use of | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | medical cannabis.
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14 | (b) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit an employer from | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | enforcing a policy concerning the use or possession of drugs, | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | drug testing, zero-tolerance, or a drug free workplace provided | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | the policy is applied in a nondiscriminatory manner.
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18 | (c) Nothing in this Act shall limit an employer from | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | disciplining a registered qualifying patient for violating a | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | workplace drug policy.
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21 | (d) Nothing in this Act shall limit an employer's ability | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | to discipline an employee for failing a drug test , including, | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | but not limited to, if failing to do so would put the employer |
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1 | in violation of federal law or cause it to lose a federal | ||||||
2 | contract or funding.
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3 | (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to create a | ||||||
4 | defense for a third party who fails a drug test.
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5 | (f) An employer may consider a registered qualifying | ||||||
6 | patient to be impaired when he or she manifests specific, | ||||||
7 | articulable symptoms while working that decrease or lessen his | ||||||
8 | or her performance of the duties or tasks of the employee's job | ||||||
9 | position, including symptoms of the employee's speech, | ||||||
10 | physical dexterity, agility, coordination, demeanor, | ||||||
11 | irrational or unusual behavior, negligence or carelessness in | ||||||
12 | operating equipment or machinery, disregard for the safety of | ||||||
13 | the employee or others, or involvement in an accident that | ||||||
14 | results in serious damage to equipment or property, disruption | ||||||
15 | of a production or manufacturing process, or carelessness that | ||||||
16 | results in any injury to the employee or others. If an employer | ||||||
17 | elects to discipline a qualifying patient under this | ||||||
18 | subsection, it must afford the employee a reasonable | ||||||
19 | opportunity to contest the basis of the determination.
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20 | (g) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to create or | ||||||
21 | imply a cause of action for any person against an employer for: | ||||||
22 | (1) actions based on the employer's good faith belief that a | ||||||
23 | registered qualifying patient used or possessed cannabis while | ||||||
24 | on the employer's premises or during the hours of employment; | ||||||
25 | (2) actions based on the employer's good faith belief that a | ||||||
26 | registered qualifying patient was impaired while working on the |
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1 | employer's premises during the hours of employment; (3) injury | ||||||
2 | or loss to a third party if the employer neither knew nor had | ||||||
3 | reason to know that the employee was impaired.
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4 | (h) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere | ||||||
5 | with any federal restrictions on employment including but not | ||||||
6 | limited to the United States Department of Transportation | ||||||
7 | regulation 49 CFR 40.151(e).
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8 | (Source: P.A. 98-122, eff. 1-1-14.)
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