Bill Text: IL HB4080 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides that any full-time law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officer, or firefighter that suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty, as well as their spouse or child, shall be offered by the employer of the law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officer, or firefighter the choice of any health insurance plan available to currently employed full-time law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officers, or firefighters.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4080 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4080-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4080 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 320/10
Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides that any full-time law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officer, or firefighter that suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty, as well as their spouse or child, shall be offered by the employer of the law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officer, or firefighter the choice of any health insurance plan available to currently employed full-time law enforcement, correctional or correctional probation officers, or firefighters.
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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 pursuant to 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 "health

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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.
(b) In order for the law enforcement, correctional or
correctional probation officer, firefighter, spouse, or

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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.)