Bill Text: IL SB2250 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act relating to health insurance benefits for a public safety officer or his or her spouse or dependents when the public safety officer suffers catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty. Provides that health insurance benefits available (rather than payable) from any other source shall reduce those benefits. Provides that the injured employee shall notify the employer of new employment and the availability of a group health insurance plan through the new employer. Provides that the injured employee shall notify the employer of a group health insurance plan available through a spouse's employment. Provides that the injured employee shall be required to accept an available group health insurance plan available to the employee or spouse, whether through new employment or the spouse's employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-15 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB2250 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB2250-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB2250 Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. Michael Noland SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 320/10
Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act relating to health insurance benefits for a public safety officer or his or her spouse or dependents when the public safety officer suffers catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty. Provides that health insurance benefits available (rather than payable) from any other source shall reduce those benefits. Provides that the injured employee shall notify the employer of new employment and the availability of a group health insurance plan through the new employer. Provides that the injured employee shall notify the employer of a group health insurance plan available through a spouse's employment. Provides that the injured employee shall be required to accept an available group health insurance plan available to the employee or spouse, whether through new employment or the spouse's employment.
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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.
The term "health 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

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children under the conditions established in this Section.
However:
(1) Health insurance benefits available payable from
any other source shall reduce benefits payable under this
Section.
(A) The injured employee shall notify the employer
of new employment and the availability of a group
health insurance plan through the new employer.
(B) The injured employee shall notify the employer
of a group health insurance plan available through a
spouse's employment.
(C) The injured employee shall be required to
accept an available group health insurance plan
available to the employee or spouse, whether through
new employment or the spouse's employment.
(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

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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
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.)