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Public Act 098-0465


 

Public Act 0465 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
Public Act 098-0465
 
HB3035 EnrolledLRB098 08955 JDS 39088 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Disaster Relief Act is amended by changing
Section 3 as follows:
 
    (15 ILCS 30/3)  (from Ch. 127, par. 293.3)
    Sec. 3. Whenever funds regularly appropriated to the State
and local governmental bodies for disaster response and
recovery are insufficient to provide services, and when the
Governor has declared a disaster by proclamation in accordance
with Section 7 of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act
or any successor Act, the Governor may draw upon the Disaster
Response and Recovery Relief Fund in order to provide services
or to reimburse local governmental bodies furnishing services.
The fund may be used for the payment of emergency employees,
for the payment of the Illinois National Guard when called to
active duty, for disaster-related expenses of State Agencies
and Departments, and for the emergency purchase or renting of
equipment and commodities. The fund shall be used for
furnishing emergency services and relief to the disaster area
as a whole and shall not be used to provide private relief to
persons sustaining property damages or personal injury as a
result of a disaster.
(Source: P.A. 87-168.)
 
    Section 10. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act is
amended by changing Sections 5, 8, and 9 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 3305/5)  (from Ch. 127, par. 1055)
    Sec. 5. Illinois Emergency Management Agency.
    (a) There is created within the executive branch of the
State Government an Illinois Emergency Management Agency and a
Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, herein
called the "Director" who shall be the head thereof. The
Director shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice
and consent of the Senate, and shall serve for a term of 2
years beginning on the third Monday in January of the
odd-numbered year, and until a successor is appointed and has
qualified; except that the term of the first Director appointed
under this Act shall expire on the third Monday in January,
1989. The Director shall not hold any other remunerative public
office. The Director shall receive an annual salary as set by
the Compensation Review Board.
    (b) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall obtain,
under the provisions of the Personnel Code, technical,
clerical, stenographic and other administrative personnel, and
may make expenditures within the appropriation therefor as may
be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act. The agency
created by this Act is intended to be a successor to the agency
created under the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster
Agency Act of 1975 and the personnel, equipment, records, and
appropriations of that agency are transferred to the successor
agency as of the effective date of this Act.
    (c) The Director, subject to the direction and control of
the Governor, shall be the executive head of the Illinois
Emergency Management Agency and the State Emergency Response
Commission and shall be responsible under the direction of the
Governor, for carrying out the program for emergency management
of this State. The Director shall also maintain liaison and
cooperate with the emergency management organizations of this
State and other states and of the federal government.
    (d) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall take an
integral part in the development and revision of political
subdivision emergency operations plans prepared under
paragraph (f) of Section 10. To this end it shall employ or
otherwise secure the services of professional and technical
personnel capable of providing expert assistance to the
emergency services and disaster agencies. These personnel
shall consult with emergency services and disaster agencies on
a regular basis and shall make field examinations of the areas,
circumstances, and conditions that particular political
subdivision emergency operations plans are intended to apply.
    (e) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency and political
subdivisions shall be encouraged to form an emergency
management advisory committee composed of private and public
personnel representing the emergency management phases of
mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The Local
Emergency Planning Committee, as created under the Illinois
Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, shall serve
as an advisory committee to the emergency services and disaster
agency or agencies serving within the boundaries of that Local
Emergency Planning Committee planning district for:
        (1) the development of emergency operations plan
    provisions for hazardous chemical emergencies; and
        (2) the assessment of emergency response capabilities
    related to hazardous chemical emergencies.
    (f) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall:
        (1) Coordinate the overall emergency management
    program of the State.
        (2) Cooperate with local governments, the federal
    government and any public or private agency or entity in
    achieving any purpose of this Act and in implementing
    emergency management programs for mitigation,
    preparedness, response, and recovery.
        (2.5) Develop a comprehensive emergency preparedness
    and response plan for any nuclear accident in accordance
    with Section 65 of the Department of Nuclear Safety Law of
    2004 (20 ILCS 3310) and in development of the Illinois
    Nuclear Safety Preparedness program in accordance with
    Section 8 of the Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act.
        (2.6) Coordinate with the Department of Public Health
    with respect to planning for and responding to public
    health emergencies.
        (3) Prepare, for issuance by the Governor, executive
    orders, proclamations, and regulations as necessary or
    appropriate in coping with disasters.
        (4) Promulgate rules and requirements for political
    subdivision emergency operations plans that are not
    inconsistent with and are at least as stringent as
    applicable federal laws and regulations.
        (5) Review and approve, in accordance with Illinois
    Emergency Management Agency rules, emergency operations
    plans for those political subdivisions required to have an
    emergency services and disaster agency pursuant to this
    Act.
        (5.5) Promulgate rules and requirements for the
    political subdivision emergency management exercises,
    including, but not limited to, exercises of the emergency
    operations plans.
        (5.10) Review, evaluate, and approve, in accordance
    with Illinois Emergency Management Agency rules, political
    subdivision emergency management exercises for those
    political subdivisions required to have an emergency
    services and disaster agency pursuant to this Act.
        (6) Determine requirements of the State and its
    political subdivisions for food, clothing, and other
    necessities in event of a disaster.
        (7) Establish a register of persons with types of
    emergency management training and skills in mitigation,
    preparedness, response, and recovery.
        (8) Establish a register of government and private
    response resources available for use in a disaster.
        (9) Expand the Earthquake Awareness Program and its
    efforts to distribute earthquake preparedness materials to
    schools, political subdivisions, community groups, civic
    organizations, and the media. Emphasis will be placed on
    those areas of the State most at risk from an earthquake.
    Maintain the list of all school districts, hospitals,
    airports, power plants, including nuclear power plants,
    lakes, dams, emergency response facilities of all types,
    and all other major public or private structures which are
    at the greatest risk of damage from earthquakes under
    circumstances where the damage would cause subsequent harm
    to the surrounding communities and residents.
        (10) Disseminate all information, completely and
    without delay, on water levels for rivers and streams and
    any other data pertaining to potential flooding supplied by
    the Division of Water Resources within the Department of
    Natural Resources to all political subdivisions to the
    maximum extent possible.
        (11) Develop agreements, if feasible, with medical
    supply and equipment firms to supply resources as are
    necessary to respond to an earthquake or any other disaster
    as defined in this Act. These resources will be made
    available upon notifying the vendor of the disaster.
    Payment for the resources will be in accordance with
    Section 7 of this Act. The Illinois Department of Public
    Health shall determine which resources will be required and
    requested.
        (11.5) In coordination with the Department of State
    Police, develop and implement a community outreach program
    to promote awareness among the State's parents and children
    of child abduction prevention and response.
        (12) Out of funds appropriated for these purposes,
    award capital and non-capital grants to Illinois hospitals
    or health care facilities located outside of a city with a
    population in excess of 1,000,000 to be used for purposes
    that include, but are not limited to, preparing to respond
    to mass casualties and disasters, maintaining and
    improving patient safety and quality of care, and
    protecting the confidentiality of patient information. No
    single grant for a capital expenditure shall exceed
    $300,000. No single grant for a non-capital expenditure
    shall exceed $100,000. In awarding such grants, preference
    shall be given to hospitals that serve a significant number
    of Medicaid recipients, but do not qualify for
    disproportionate share hospital adjustment payments under
    the Illinois Public Aid Code. To receive such a grant, a
    hospital or health care facility must provide funding of at
    least 50% of the cost of the project for which the grant is
    being requested. In awarding such grants the Illinois
    Emergency Management Agency shall consider the
    recommendations of the Illinois Hospital Association.
        (13) Do all other things necessary, incidental or
    appropriate for the implementation of this Act.
    (g) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency is authorized
to make grants to various higher education institutions for
safety and security improvements. For the purpose of this
subsection (g), "higher education institution" means a public
university, a public community college, or an independent,
not-for-profit or for-profit higher education institution
located in this State. Grants made under this subsection (g)
shall be paid out of moneys appropriated for that purpose from
the Build Illinois Bond Fund. The Illinois Emergency Management
Agency shall adopt rules to implement this subsection (g).
These rules may specify: (i) the manner of applying for grants;
(ii) project eligibility requirements; (iii) restrictions on
the use of grant moneys; (iv) the manner in which the various
higher education institutions must account for the use of grant
moneys; and (v) any other provision that the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency determines to be necessary or useful for the
administration of this subsection (g).
    (h) Except as provided in Section 17.5 of this Act, any
moneys received by the Agency from donations or sponsorships
shall be deposited in the Emergency Planning and Training Fund
and used by the Agency, subject to appropriation, to effectuate
planning and training activities.
(Source: P.A. 96-800, eff. 10-30-09; 96-820, eff. 11-18-09;
96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
 
    (20 ILCS 3305/8)  (from Ch. 127, par. 1058)
    Sec. 8. Mobile Support Teams.
    (a) The Governor or Director may cause to be created Mobile
Support Teams to aid and to reinforce the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency, and emergency services and disaster
agencies in areas stricken by disaster. Each mobile support
team shall have a leader, selected by the Director who will be
responsible, under the direction and control of the Director,
for the organization, administration, and training, and
operation of the mobile support team.
    (b) Personnel of a mobile support team while on duty
pursuant to such a call or while engaged in regularly scheduled
training or exercises, whether within or without the State,
shall either:
        (1) If they are paid employees of the State, have the
    powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities and
    receive the compensation incidental to their employment.
        (2) If they are paid employees of a political
    subdivision or body politic of this State, and whether
    serving within or without that political subdivision or
    body politic, have the powers, duties, rights, privileges
    and immunities, and receive the compensation incidental to
    their employment.
        (3) If they are not employees of the State, political
    subdivision or body politic, or being such employees, are
    not normally paid for their services, be entitled to at
    least one dollar per year compensation from the State.
    Personnel of a mobile support team who suffer disease,
injury or death arising out of or in the course of emergency
duty, shall for the purposes of benefits under the Workers'
Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational Diseases Act only, be
deemed to be employees of this State. If the person diseased,
injured or killed is an employee described in item (3) above,
the computation of benefits payable under either of those Acts
shall be based on income commensurate with comparable State
employees doing the same type of work or income from the
person's regular employment, whichever is greater.
    All personnel of mobile support teams shall, while on duty
under such call, be reimbursed by this State for all actual and
necessary travel and subsistence expenses.
    (c) The State shall reimburse each political subdivision or
body politic from the Disaster Response and Recovery Relief
Fund for the compensation paid and the actual and necessary
travel, subsistence and maintenance expenses of paid employees
of the political subdivision or body politic while serving,
outside of its geographical boundaries pursuant to such a call,
as members of a mobile support team, and for all payments made
for death, disease or injury of those paid employees arising
out of and incurred in the course of that duty, and for all
losses of or damage to supplies and equipment of the political
subdivision or body politic resulting from the operations.
    (d) Whenever mobile support teams or units of another
state, while the Governor has the emergency powers provided for
under Section 7 of this Act, render aid to this State under the
orders of the Governor of its home state and upon the request
of the Governor of this State, all questions relating to
reimbursement by this State to the other state and its citizens
in regard to the assistance so rendered shall be determined by
the mutual aid agreements or interstate compacts described in
subparagraph (5) of paragraph (c) of Section 6 as are existing
at the time of the assistance rendered or are entered into
thereafter and under Section 303 (d) of the Federal Civil
Defense Act of 1950.
    (e) No personnel of mobile support teams of this State may
be ordered by the Governor to operate in any other state unless
a request for the same has been made by the Governor or duly
authorized representative of the other state.
(Source: P.A. 92-73, eff. 1-1-02.)
 
    (20 ILCS 3305/9)  (from Ch. 127, par. 1059)
    Sec. 9. Financing.
    (a) It is the intent of the Legislature and declared to be
the policy of the State that funds to meet disasters shall
always be available.
    (b) It is the legislative intent that the first recourse
shall be to funds regularly appropriated to State and political
subdivision departments and agencies. If the Governor finds
that the demands placed upon these funds in coping with a
particular disaster are unreasonably great, the Governor may
make funds available from the Disaster Response and Recovery
Relief Fund. If monies available from the Fund are
insufficient, and if the Governor finds that other sources of
money to cope with the disaster are not available or are
insufficient, the Governor shall request the General Assembly
to enact legislation as it may deem necessary to transfer and
expend monies appropriated for other purposes or borrow, for a
term not to exceed 2 years from the United States government or
other public or private source. If the General Assembly is not
sitting in regular session to enact such legislation for the
transfer, expenditure or loan of such monies, and the President
of the Senate and the Speaker of the House certify that the
Senate and House are not in session, the Governor is authorized
to carry out those decisions, by depositing transfers or loan
proceeds into and making expenditures from the Disaster
Response and Recovery Relief Fund, until such time as a quorum
of the General Assembly can convene in a regular or
extraordinary session. The General Assembly shall, to the
extent moneys become available, restore moneys used from other
sources under this Section.
    (c) Nothing contained in this Section shall be construed to
limit the Governor's authority to apply for, administer and
expend grants, gifts or payments in aid of disaster mitigation,
preparedness, response or recovery.
(Source: P.A. 92-73, eff. 1-1-02; 93-249, eff. 7-22-03.)
 
    Section 15. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact
Act is amended by adding Section 10 as follows:
 
    (45 ILCS 151/10 new)
    Sec. 10. Reimbursements and expenses. The Illinois
Emergency Management Agency as the authorized representative
of the State may use the Disaster Response and Recovery Fund to
deposit any reimbursements received from a party state and to
pay any expenses incurred relating to this Act.
 
    Section 20. The Illinois Emergency Planning and Community
Right to Know Act is amended by changing Section 18 as follows:
 
    (430 ILCS 100/18)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7718)
    Sec. 18. Penalties.
    (a) Any person who violates any requirement of Section 9,
10, 11, 12, or 14 of this Act shall be liable for a civil
penalty in an amount not to exceed $25,000 for each violation.
In the case of a second or subsequent violation of Section 10,
the civil penalty shall not exceed $75,000 for each day during
which the violation continues.
    (b) Any person who knowingly fails to provide immediate
notification of a release in violation of Section 10 of this
Act, shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony, and in addition to
any other penalty prescribed by law is subject to a fine not to
exceed $25,000 for each day of the violation. In the case of a
second or subsequent conviction, the person shall be guilty of
a Class 3 felony, and in addition to any other penalty
prescribed by law is subject to a fine not to exceed $50,000
for each day of the violation.
    (c) All civil penalties and fines collected under this
Section shall be deposited in the Emergency Planning and
Training Fund, which that is hereby created as a special fund
in the State Treasury, and may shall be used by IEMA, pursuant
to appropriation, for its activities arising under this Act and
the Federal Act, including providing financial support for
local emergency planning committees and for training
initiatives authorized by IEMA.
(Source: P.A. 86-449; 87-168.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 8/16/2013