Bill Text: IL SB0056 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act. Provides that the definition of "employee" does not include a worker participating in the H-2A temporary agricultural program. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - Referred to Assignments [SB0056 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB0056-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0056 Introduced 1/13/2025, by Sen. Dale Fowler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 192/10
Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act. Provides that the definition of "employee" does not include a worker participating in the H-2A temporary agricultural program. Effective immediately.
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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 Paid Leave for All Workers Act is amended by
changing Section 10 as follows:
(820 ILCS 192/10)
Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Construction industry" means any constructing, altering,
reconstructing, repairing, rehabilitating, refinishing,
refurbishing, remodeling, remediating, renovating, custom
fabricating, maintenance, landscaping, improving, wrecking,
painting, decorating, demolishing, or adding to or subtracting
from any building, structure, highway, roadway, street,
bridge, alley, sewer, ditch, sewage disposal plant,
waterworks, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other
structure, project, development, real property, or
improvement, or to do any part thereof, whether or not the
performance of the work herein described involves the addition
to or fabrication into, any structure, project, development,
real property, or improvement herein described of any material
or article of merchandise.
"Construction industry" also includes moving construction
related materials on the job site or to or from the job site,

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snow plowing, snow removal, and refuse collection.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Labor.
"Domestic work" and "domestic worker" have the same
meanings as defined in Section 10 of the Domestic Workers'
Bill of Rights Act, except that "domestic worker" also
includes independent contractors, sole proprietors, and
partnerships.
"Employee" has the same application and meaning as that
provided in Sections 1 and 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and
Collection Act. "Employee" also includes all domestic workers,
and, for the purposes of this Act, domestic workers shall not
be excluded as employees under the provisions of item (1),
(2), or (3) of Section 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and
Collection Act. "Employee" does not include:
(1) an employee as defined in the federal Railroad
Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) or the
Railway Labor Act;
(2) a student enrolled in and regularly attending
classes in a college or university that is also the
student's employer, and who is employed on a temporary
basis at less than full time at the college or university,
but this exclusion applies only to work performed for that
college or university; or
(3) a short-term employee who is employed by an
institution of higher education for less than 2
consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar year and

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who does not have a reasonable expectation that they will
be rehired by the same employer of the same service in a
subsequent calendar year; or .
(4) a worker participating in the H-2A temporary
agricultural program.
"Employer" has the same application and meaning as that
provided in Sections 1 and 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and
Collection Act, except that for purposes of this Act,
"employer" also means the State and units of local government,
any political subdivision of the State or units of local
government, or any State or local government agency.
"Employer" does not include school districts organized
under the School Code or park districts organized under the
Park District Code.
"Writing" or "written" means a printed or printable
communication in physical or electronic format, including a
communication that is transmitted through electronic mail,
text message, or a computer system or is otherwise sent or
stored electronically.
(Source: P.A. 102-1143, eff. 1-1-24.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.