Bill Text: IL SB4218 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the One Day Rest In Seven Act. Provides that in addition to the rest periods required under a specified provision of the Act, a law enforcement agency shall allow a law enforcement officer at least 24 consecutive hours of rest in either every consecutive 60-hour period or consecutive seven-day period, except while a disaster proclamation by the Governor is in effect.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-11-14 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert F. Martwick [SB4218 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB4218-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB4218 Introduced 11/14/2022, by Sen. Bill Cunningham and Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 140/1 from Ch. 48, par. 8a
820 ILCS 140/2 from Ch. 48, par. 8b
Amends the One Day Rest In Seven Act. Provides that in addition to the rest periods required under a specified provision of the Act, a law enforcement agency shall allow a law enforcement officer at least 24 consecutive hours of rest in either every consecutive 60-hour period or consecutive seven-day period, except while a disaster proclamation by the Governor is in effect.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The One Day Rest In Seven Act is amended by
changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:
(820 ILCS 140/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 8a)
Sec. 1. The words and phrases mentioned in this section,
as used in this Act, and in proceedings pursuant hereto shall,
unless the same be inconsistent with the context, be construed
as follows:
"Employer" shall mean a person, partnership, joint stock
company or corporation, which employs any person to work,
labor or exercise skill in connection with the operation of
any business, industry, vocation or occupation.
"Law enforcement agency" means all State agencies with law
enforcement officers, county sheriff's offices, municipal,
special district, college, unit of local government police
departments, or any other entity authorized by law to employ
peace officers or exercise police authority and who is
primarily responsible for the prevention or detection of crime
and the enforcement of the laws of this State.
"Law enforcement officer" means any person employed by a
State, county, municipality, special district, college, unit

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of government, or any other entity authorized by law to employ
peace officers or exercise police authority and who is
primarily responsible for the prevention or detection of crime
and the enforcement of the laws of this State.
(Source: P.A. 78-917.)
(820 ILCS 140/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 8b)
Sec. 2. Hours and days of rest in every calendar week.
(a) Every employer shall allow every employee except those
specified in this Section at least twenty-four consecutive
hours of rest in every calendar week in addition to the regular
period of rest allowed at the close of each working day.
A person employed as a domestic worker, as defined in
Section 10 of the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act, shall
be allowed at least 24 consecutive hours of rest in every
calendar week. This subsection (a) does not prohibit a
domestic worker from voluntarily agreeing to work on such day
of rest required by this subsection (a) if the worker is
compensated at the overtime rate for all hours worked on such
day of rest. The day of rest authorized under this subsection
(a) should, whenever possible, coincide with the traditional
day reserved by the domestic worker for religious worship.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to the following:
(1) Part-time employees whose total work hours for one
employer during a calendar week do not exceed 20; and
(2) Employees needed in case of breakdown of machinery

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or equipment or other emergency requiring the immediate
services of experienced and competent labor to prevent
injury to person, damage to property, or suspension of
necessary operation; and
(3) Employees employed in agriculture or coal mining;
and
(4) Employees engaged in the occupation of canning and
processing perishable agricultural products, if such
employees are employed by an employer in such occupation
on a seasonal basis and for not more than 20 weeks during
any calendar year or 12 month period; and
(5) Employees employed as watchmen or security guards;
and
(6) Employees who are employed in a bonafide
executive, administrative, or professional capacity or in
the capacity of an outside salesman, as defined in Section
12 (a) (1) of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, as
amended, and those employed as supervisors as defined in
Section 2 (11) of the National Labor Relations Act, as
amended; and
(7) Employees who are employed as crew members of any
uninspected towing vessel, as defined by Section 2101(40)
of Title 46 of the United States Code, operating in any
navigable waters in or along the boundaries of the State
of Illinois.
(c) In addition to the rest periods required under

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subsection (a), a law enforcement agency shall allow a law
enforcement officer at least 24 consecutive hours of rest in
either every consecutive 60-hour period or consecutive
seven-day period. This subsection (c) does not apply while a
disaster proclamation by the Governor is in effect.
(Source: P.A. 99-758, eff. 1-1-17.)