Bill Text: IL SB1937 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Township Code. Provides that, except as otherwise required by a contract existing on the effective date of the amendatory Act or by federal law, a township board may not provide group life, health, accident, hospital, or dental insurance or any combination of those types of insurance to the spouse of an employee or official or provide those types of insurances after the employee's employment ends or official's term of office expires. Makes conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-21 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dale Fowler [SB1937 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1937-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1937 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/100-15
Amends the Township Code. Provides that, except as otherwise required by a contract existing on the effective date of the amendatory Act or by federal law, a township board may not provide group life, health, accident, hospital, or dental insurance or any combination of those types of insurance to the spouse of an employee or official or provide those types of insurances after the employee's employment ends or official's term of office expires. Makes conforming changes.
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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 Township Code is amended by changing
Section 100-15 as follows:
(60 ILCS 1/100-15)
Sec. 100-15. Group insurance. In addition to any powers
that it may exercise under the Government Salary Withholding
Act, the township board may provide, for the benefit of the
township's employees, officials, and the nonspouse dependents
of those employees and officials, or retired officials and
their dependents, group life, health, accident, hospital, or
dental insurance or any combination of those types of
insurance. The insurance may include provision for employees,
officials, retired officials, and their nonspouse dependents
who rely on treatment by prayer or spiritual means alone for
healing in accordance with the tenets and practice of a well
recognized religious denomination. The township board may
provide for payment by the township of all or a portion of the
premium or charge for the insurance for covered persons,
except that the township may not pay all or a portion of the
premium or charge for the insurance for retired officials and
their dependents. If the township board undertakes a plan

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under which the township does not pay the entire amount of
premiums or charges for the insurance, the board may provide
for withholding and deducting from the compensation of its
employees or officers amounts required to pay the balance of
the premiums or charges.
Except as otherwise required by a contract existing on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly or by federal law, the township board may not
provide, beginning on the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 103rd General Assembly, group life, health,
accident, hospital, or dental insurance or any combination of
those types of insurance to the spouse of an employee or
official or provide those types of insurances after the
employee's employment ends or official's term of office
expires.
(Source: P.A. 88-62; 89-326, eff. 1-1-96.)