Bill Text: IL HB3249 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: Provides that for purposes of plans administered under the State Employee Group Insurance Act of 1971, changes in coverage may only be elected during open enrollment or following a qualifying event.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-4)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0340 [HB3249 Detail]

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3249 Introduced , by Rep. Mary Beth Canty SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 320/10
Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. In a provision requiring a public safety employer to pay the entire premium of its health insurance plan for a public safety employee, the employee's spouse, and the employee's dependent children after the employee suffers a fatal or catastrophic injury in the line of duty, requires the employer to offer any individual who qualifies for such premium payments the choice of any health insurance plan available to currently employed full-time public safety employees.
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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 Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is
amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
(820 ILCS 320/10)
Sec. 10. Required health coverage benefits.
(a) An employer who employs a full-time law enforcement,
correctional or correctional probation officer, or
firefighter, who, on or after the effective date of this Act
suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty
shall pay the entire premium of the employer's health
insurance plan for the injured employee, the injured
employee's spouse, and for each dependent child of the injured
employee until the child reaches the age of majority or until
the end of the calendar year in which the child reaches the age
of 25 if the child continues to be dependent for support or the
child is a full-time or part-time student and is dependent for
support. An individual whose entire premium is paid in
accordance with this Section shall be offered by the employer
the choice of any health insurance plan available to currently
employed full-time law enforcement, correctional or
correctional probation officers, or firefighters. The term

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"health insurance plan" does not include supplemental benefits
that are not part of the basic group health insurance plan. If
the injured employee subsequently dies, the employer shall
continue to pay the entire health insurance premium for the
surviving spouse until remarried and for the dependent
children under the conditions established in this Section.
However:
(1) Health insurance benefits payable from any other
source shall reduce benefits payable under this Section.
(2) It is unlawful for a person to willfully and
knowingly make, or cause to be made, or to assist,
conspire with, or urge another to make, or cause to be
made, any false, fraudulent, or misleading oral or written
statement to obtain health insurance coverage as provided
under this Section. A violation of this item is a Class A
misdemeanor.
(3) Upon conviction for a violation described in item
(2), a law enforcement, correctional or correctional
probation officer, or other beneficiary who receives or
seeks to receive health insurance benefits under this
Section shall forfeit the right to receive health
insurance benefits and shall reimburse the employer for
all benefits paid due to the fraud or other prohibited
activity. For purposes of this item, "conviction" means a
determination of guilt that is the result of a plea or
trial, regardless of whether adjudication is withheld.

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(b) In order for the law enforcement, correctional or
correctional probation officer, firefighter, spouse, or
dependent children to be eligible for insurance coverage under
this Act, the injury or death must have occurred as the result
of the officer's response to fresh pursuit, the officer or
firefighter's response to what is reasonably believed to be an
emergency, an unlawful act perpetrated by another, or during
the investigation of a criminal act. Nothing in this Section
shall be construed to limit health insurance coverage or
pension benefits for which the officer, firefighter, spouse,
or dependent children may otherwise be eligible.
(Source: P.A. 90-535, eff. 11-14-97.)