Bill Text: IL SB2939 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the State Employee Indemnification Act. Adds individuals or organizations who contract with the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to provide professional services to the definition of "employee". Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2939 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB2939-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Employee Indemnification Act is
amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
(5 ILCS 350/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 1301)
Sec. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this Act:
(a) The term "State" means the State of Illinois, the
General Assembly, the court, or any State office, department,
division, bureau, board, commission, or committee, the
governing boards of the public institutions of higher education
created by the State, the Illinois National Guard, the
Comprehensive Health Insurance Board, any poison control
center designated under the Poison Control System Act that
receives State funding, or any other agency or instrumentality
of the State. It does not mean any local public entity as that
term is defined in Section 1-206 of the Local Governmental and
Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act or a pension fund.
(b) The term "employee" means any present or former elected
or appointed officer, trustee or employee of the State, or of a
pension fund, any present or former commissioner or employee of
the Executive Ethics Commission or of the Legislative Ethics
Commission, any present or former Executive, Legislative, or

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Auditor General's Inspector General, any present or former
employee of an Office of an Executive, Legislative, or Auditor
General's Inspector General, any present or former member of
the Illinois National Guard while on active duty, individuals
or organizations who contract with the Department of
Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the
Comprehensive Health Insurance Board, or the Department of
Veterans' Affairs to provide services, individuals or
organizations who contract with the Department of Human
Services (as successor to the Department of Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities) to provide services including but
not limited to treatment and other services for sexually
violent persons, individuals or organizations who contract
with the Department of Military Affairs for youth programs,
individuals or organizations who contract to perform carnival
and amusement ride safety inspections for the Department of
Labor, individuals or organizations who contract with the
Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to provide
professional services, individuals or organizations who
contract with the Office of the State Appellate Defender,
individual representatives of or designated organizations
authorized to represent the Office of State Long-Term Ombudsman
for the Department on Aging, individual representatives of or
organizations designated by the Department on Aging in the
performance of their duties as adult protective services
agencies or regional administrative agencies under the Adult

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Protective Services Act, individuals or organizations
appointed as members of a review team or the Advisory Council
under the Adult Protective Services Act, individuals or
organizations who perform volunteer services for the State
where such volunteer relationship is reduced to writing,
individuals who serve on any public entity (whether created by
law or administrative action) described in paragraph (a) of
this Section, individuals or not for profit organizations who,
either as volunteers, where such volunteer relationship is
reduced to writing, or pursuant to contract, furnish
professional advice or consultation to any agency or
instrumentality of the State, individuals who serve as foster
parents for the Department of Children and Family Services when
caring for a Department ward, individuals who serve as members
of an independent team of experts under Brian's Law, and
individuals who serve as arbitrators pursuant to Part 10A of
Article II of the Code of Civil Procedure and the rules of the
Supreme Court implementing Part 10A, each as now or hereafter
amended, but does not mean an independent contractor except as
provided in this Section. The term includes an individual
appointed as an inspector by the Director of State Police when
performing duties within the scope of the activities of a
Metropolitan Enforcement Group or a law enforcement
organization established under the Intergovernmental
Cooperation Act. An individual who renders professional advice
and consultation to the State through an organization which

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qualifies as an "employee" under the Act is also an employee.
The term includes the estate or personal representative of an
employee.
(c) The term "pension fund" means a retirement system or
pension fund created under the Illinois Pension Code.
(Source: P.A. 98-49, eff. 7-1-13; 98-83, eff. 7-15-13; revised
8-9-13.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.