Bill Text: IL HB3418 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Construction Safety Act. Defines: "entity" as a person, firm, public or private corporation, owner, contractor, or subcontractor; and "work" as the overall or specific erection, construction, repair, alteration, removal, painting, maintenance, or cleaning of any building, bridge, viaduct, or other structure. Provides that if an entity has overall charge of or retains authority to control the work, exercises control of the overall work, or undertakes the responsibility to make the work safe, then a private right of action shall lie against the entity by or on behalf of any worker injured or killed in the course of the work.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3418 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3418-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3418 Introduced , by Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Construction Safety Act. Defines: "entity" as a person, firm, public or private corporation, owner, contractor, or subcontractor; and "work" as the overall or specific erection, construction, repair, alteration, removal, painting, maintenance, or cleaning of any building, bridge, viaduct, or other structure. Provides that if an entity has overall charge of or retains authority to control the work, exercises control of the overall work, or undertakes the responsibility to make the work safe, then a private right of action shall lie against the entity by or on behalf of any worker injured or killed in the course of the work.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Construction Safety Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Entity" means a person, firm, public or private
corporation, owner, contractor, or subcontractor.
"Work" means the overall or specific erection,
construction, repair, alteration, removal, painting,
maintenance, or cleaning of any building, bridge, viaduct, or
other structure.
Section 10. Safety of contractors. If an entity has overall
charge of or retains authority to control the work, exercises
control of the overall work, or undertakes the responsibility
to make the work safe, then a private right of action shall lie
against the entity by or on behalf of any worker injured or
killed in the course of the work.