Bill Text: IL SB3009 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides that the health insurance benefits provided by the Act apply without regard to whether the employee suffered a catastrophic injury or was killed in the line of duty before, on, or after the effective date of the Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-08 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3009 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB3009-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB3009 Introduced 2/4/2010, by Sen. Antonio Muñoz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 320/10
Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides that the health insurance benefits provided by the Act apply without regard to whether the employee suffered a catastrophic injury or was killed in the line of duty before, on, or after the effective date of the Act.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
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, without regard to 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

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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
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

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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.)