Bill Text: IL SB1731 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Fire Protection District Act and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that municipalities and fire protection districts may fix, charge, and collect reasonable fees from independent living facilities, assisted living facilities, nursing home facilities, or other similar congregate care facilities for all lift-assist services rendered by a fire department, firefighter, emergency response unit, public safety employee of a municipal department, or fire protection district in connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or other individual. Provides that the fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment costs for all services rendered by the municipality or fire protection district in connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or other individual. Provides that the municipality or fire protection district may require a facility to enter into a written agreement to reimburse the municipality or fire protection district for the costs of injuries suffered at the facility by municipal or district personnel when providing lift-assist services, including, but not limited to, costs of medical treatment, payments required under the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act, disability payments, and pension payments for injured personnel, but provides that any such agreement does not relieve the municipality or fire protection district of a statutory or contractual obligation it may have to its employees for an injury suffered relating to lift-assist services rendered. Contains provisions relating to third-party claims and intervention in a suit relating to claims made by a municipal or fire protection district employee for an injury suffered relating to lift-assist services rendered.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [SB1731 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1731-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1731 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Neil Anderson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/11-6-12 new
70 ILCS 705/11n new
Amends the Fire Protection District Act and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that municipalities and fire protection districts may fix, charge, and collect reasonable fees from independent living facilities, assisted living facilities, nursing home facilities, or other similar congregate care facilities for all lift-assist services rendered by a fire department, firefighter, emergency response unit, public safety employee of a municipal department, or fire protection district in connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or other individual. Provides that the fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment costs for all services rendered by the municipality or fire protection district in connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or other individual. Provides that the municipality or fire protection district may require a facility to enter into a written agreement to reimburse the municipality or fire protection district for the costs of injuries suffered at the facility by municipal or district personnel when providing lift-assist services, including, but not limited to, costs of medical treatment, payments required under the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act, disability payments, and pension payments for injured personnel, but provides that any such agreement does not relieve the municipality or fire protection district of a statutory or contractual obligation it may have to its employees for an injury suffered relating to lift-assist services rendered. Contains provisions relating to third-party claims and intervention in a suit relating to claims made by a municipal or fire protection district employee for an injury suffered relating to lift-assist services rendered.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
adding Section 11-6-12 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-6-12 new)
Sec. 11-6-12. Reimbursement for lift-assist services.
(a) For purposes of this Section, the term "lift-assist
service" means a response to an independent living facility,
assisted living facility, nursing home facility, or other
similar congregate care facility, by personnel of a fire
department, emergency response unit, or a unit of another
public safety department providing automatic or mutual aid to
a municipality, in order to lift a patient or other individual
from the individual's current position to a desired position.
"Lift-assist service" does not include a response to a request
for transportation via ambulance to a health care facility.
(b) Municipalities may fix, charge, and collect reasonable
fees from independent living facilities, assisted living
facilities, nursing home facilities, or other similar
congregate care facilities for all lift-assist services
rendered by a municipal fire department, firefighter,
emergency response unit, or public safety employee of a

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municipal department in connection with providing lift-assist
services to a patient or other individual.
The fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment
costs for all services rendered by the municipality in
connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or
other individual.
(c) In addition to the fees imposed, a municipality may
require an independent living facility, assisted living
facility, nursing home facility, or other similar congregate
care facility to which a municipal department may respond to a
request in which lift-assist services may be rendered to enter
into a written agreement to reimburse the municipality for the
costs of injuries suffered at the facility by municipal
personnel when providing lift-assist services, including, but
not limited to, costs of medical treatment, payments required
under the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act, disability
payments, and pension payments for injured municipal
personnel. Any such agreement does not relieve the
municipality of a statutory or contractual obligation it may
have to its employees for an injury suffered relating to
lift-assist services rendered. An independent living facility,
assisted living facility, nursing home facility, or other
similar congregate care facility with which the municipality
has such an agreement may not be made a third party to claims
made by a municipal employee and does not have the right to
intervene in claims made by the municipal employee for an

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injury suffered relating to lift-assist services rendered.
Section 10. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by
adding Section 11n as follows:
(70 ILCS 705/11n new)
Sec. 11n. Reimbursement for lift-assist services.
(a) For purposes of this Section, the term "lift-assist
service" means a response to an independent living facility,
assisted living facility, nursing home facility, or other
similar congregate care facility, by personnel of a fire
protection district, in order to lift a patient or other
individual from the individual's current position to a desired
position. "Lift-assist service" does not include a response to
a request for transportation via ambulance to a health care
facility.
(b) A fire protection district may fix, charge, and
collect reasonable fees from independent living facilities,
assisted living facilities, nursing home facilities, or other
similar congregate care facilities for all lift-assist
services rendered by the fire protection district in
connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or
other individual.
The fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment
costs for all services rendered by the fire protection
district in connection with providing lift-assist services to

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a patient or other individual.
(c) In addition to the fees imposed, a fire protection
district may require an independent living facility, assisted
living facility, nursing home facility, or other similar
congregate care facility to which a fire protection district
may respond to a request in which lift-assist services may be
rendered to enter into a written agreement to reimburse the
fire protection district for the costs of injuries suffered at
the facility by fire protection district personnel when
providing lift-assist services, including, but not limited to,
costs of medical treatment, payments required under the Public
Safety Employee Benefits Act, disability payments, and pension
payments for injured fire protection district personnel. Any
such agreement does not relieve the fire protection district
of a statutory or contractual obligation it may have to its
employees for an injury suffered relating to lift-assist
services rendered. An independent living facility, assisted
living facility, nursing home facility, or other similar
congregate care facility with which the fire protection
district has such an agreement may not be made a third party to
claims made by a fire protection district employee and does
not have the right to intervene in claims made by the fire
protection district employee for an injury suffered relating
to lift-assist services rendered.