Public Act 094-0733
 
SB2921 Enrolled LRB094 19057 RSP 54557 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 Department of Professional Regulation Law of
the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
changing Section 2105-400 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2105/2105-400)
    Sec. 2105-400. Emergency Powers.
    (a) Upon proclamation of a disaster by the Governor, as
provided for in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act,
the Secretary Director of Financial and Professional
Regulation shall have the following powers, which shall be
exercised only in coordination with the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency and the Department of Public Health:
        (1) The power to suspend the requirements for permanent
    or temporary licensure of persons who are licensed in
    another state and are working under the direction of the
    Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the Department of
    Public Health pursuant to a declared disaster.
        (2) The power to modify the scope of practice
    restrictions under any licensing act administered by the
    Department for any person working under the direction of
    the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the Illinois
    Department of Public Health pursuant to the declared
    disaster.
        (3) The power to expand the exemption in Section 4(a)
    of the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 to those licensed
    professionals whose scope of practice has been modified,
    under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this Section, to
    include any element of the practice of pharmacy as defined
    in the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 for any person working
    under the direction of the Illinois Emergency Management
    Agency and the Illinois Department of Public Health
    pursuant to the declared disaster.
    (b) Persons exempt from licensure under paragraph (1) of
subsection (a) of this Section and persons operating under
modified scope of practice provisions under paragraph (2) of
subsection (a) of this Section shall be exempt from licensure
or be subject to modified scope of practice only until the
declared disaster has ended as provided by law. For purposes of
this Section, persons working under the direction of an
emergency services and disaster agency accredited by the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency and a local public health
department, pursuant to a declared disaster, shall be deemed to
be working under the direction of the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency and the Department of Public Health.
    (c) The Director shall exercise these powers by way of
proclamation.
(Source: P.A. 93-829, eff. 7-28-04.)
 
    Section 10. The Department of Public Health Powers and
Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by changing Section 2310-625 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2310/2310-625)
    Sec. 2310-625. Emergency Powers.
    (a) Upon proclamation of a disaster by the Governor, as
provided for in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act,
the Director of Public Health shall have the following powers,
which shall be exercised only in coordination with the Illinois
Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation:
        (1) The power to suspend the requirements for temporary
    or permanent licensure or certification of persons who are
    licensed or certified in another state and are working
    under the direction of the Illinois Emergency Management
    Agency and the Illinois Department of Public Health
    pursuant to the declared disaster.
        (2) The power to modify the scope of practice
    restrictions under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
    Systems Act for any persons who are licensed under that Act
    for any person working under the direction of the Illinois
    Emergency Management Agency and the Illinois Department of
    Public Health pursuant to the declared disaster.
        (3) The power to modify the scope of practice
    restrictions under the Nursing Home Care Act for Certified
    Nursing Assistants for any person working under the
    direction of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and
    the Illinois Department of Public Health pursuant to the
    declared disaster.
    (b) Persons exempt from licensure or certification under
paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and persons operating under
modified scope of practice provisions under paragraph (2) of
subsection (a) and paragraph (3) of subsection (a) shall be
exempt from licensure or certification or subject to modified
scope of practice only until the declared disaster has ended as
provided by law. For purposes of this Section, persons working
under the direction of an emergency services and disaster
agency accredited by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency
and a local public health department, pursuant to a declared
disaster, shall be deemed to be working under the direction of
the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the Department of
Public Health.
    (c) The Director shall exercise these powers by way of
proclamation.
(Source: P.A. 93-829, eff. 7-28-04.)
 
    Section 15. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act is
amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 3305/10)  (from Ch. 127, par. 1060)
    Sec. 10. Emergency Services and Disaster Agencies.
    (a) Each political subdivision within this State shall be
within the jurisdiction of and served by the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency and by an emergency services and disaster
agency responsible for emergency management programs. A
township, if the township is in a county having a population of
more than 2,000,000, must have approval of the county
coordinator before establishment of a township emergency
services and disaster agency.
    (b) Unless multiple county emergency services and disaster
agency consolidation is authorized by the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency with the consent of the respective counties,
each county shall maintain an emergency services and disaster
agency that has jurisdiction over and serves the entire county,
except as otherwise provided under this Act and except that in
any county with a population of over 3,000,000 containing a
municipality with a population of over 500,000 the jurisdiction
of the county agency shall not extend to the municipality when
the municipality has established its own agency.
    (c) Each municipality with a population of over 500,000
shall maintain an emergency services and disaster agency which
has jurisdiction over and serves the entire municipality. A
municipality with a population less than 500,000 may establish,
by ordinance, an agency or department responsible for emergency
management within the municipality's corporate limits.
    (d) The Governor shall determine which municipal
corporations, other than those specified in paragraph (c) of
this Section, need emergency services and disaster agencies of
their own and require that they be established and maintained.
The Governor shall make these determinations on the basis of
the municipality's disaster vulnerability and capability of
response related to population size and concentration. The
emergency services and disaster agency of a county or township,
shall not have a jurisdiction within a political subdivision
having its own emergency services and disaster agency, but
shall cooperate with the emergency services and disaster agency
of a city, village or incorporated town within their borders.
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall publish and
furnish a current list to the municipalities required to have
an emergency services and disaster agency under this
subsection.
    (e) Each municipality that is not required to and does not
have an emergency services and disaster agency shall have a
liaison officer designated to facilitate the cooperation and
protection of that municipal corporation with the county
emergency services and disaster agency in which it is located
in the work of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and
recovery.
    (f) The principal executive officer or his or her designee
of each political subdivision in the State shall annually
notify the Illinois Emergency Management Agency of the manner
in which the political subdivision is providing or securing
emergency management, identify the executive head of the agency
or the department from which the service is obtained, or the
liaison officer in accordance with paragraph (d) of this
Section and furnish additional information relating thereto as
the Illinois Emergency Management Agency requires.
    (g) Each emergency services and disaster agency shall
prepare an emergency operations plan for its geographic
boundaries that complies with planning, review, and approval
standards promulgated by the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall
determine which jurisdictions will be required to include
earthquake preparedness in their local emergency operations
plans.
    (h) The emergency services and disaster agency shall
prepare and distribute to all appropriate officials in written
form a clear and complete statement of the emergency
responsibilities of all local departments and officials and of
the disaster chain of command.
    (i) Each emergency services and disaster agency shall have
a Coordinator who shall be appointed by the principal executive
officer of the political subdivision in the same manner as are
the heads of regular governmental departments. If the political
subdivision is a county and the principal executive officer
appoints the sheriff as the Coordinator, the sheriff may, in
addition to his or her regular compensation, receive
compensation at the same level as provided in Section 3 of "An
Act in relation to the regulation of motor vehicle traffic and
the promotion of safety on public highways in counties",
approved August 9, 1951, as amended. The Coordinator shall have
direct responsibility for the organization, administration,
training, and operation of the emergency services and disaster
agency, subject to the direction and control of that principal
executive officer. Each emergency services and disaster agency
shall coordinate and may perform emergency management
functions within the territorial limits of the political
subdivision within which it is organized as are prescribed in
and by the State Emergency Operations Plan, and programs,
orders, rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency and by local ordinance
and, in addition, shall conduct such functions outside of those
territorial limits as may be required under mutual aid
agreements and compacts as are entered into under subparagraph
(5) of paragraph (c) of Section 6.
    (j) In carrying out the provisions of this Act, each
political subdivision may enter into contracts and incur
obligations necessary to place it in a position effectively to
combat the disasters as are described in Section 4, to protect
the health and safety of persons, to protect property, and to
provide emergency assistance to victims of those disasters. If
a disaster occurs, each political subdivision may exercise the
powers vested under this Section in the light of the exigencies
of the disaster and, excepting mandatory constitutional
requirements, without regard to the procedures and formalities
normally prescribed by law pertaining to the performance of
public work, entering into contracts, the incurring of
obligations, the employment of temporary workers, the rental of
equipment, the purchase of supplies and materials, and the
appropriation, expenditure, and disposition of public funds
and property.
    (k) Volunteers who, while engaged in a disaster, an
exercise, training related to the emergency operations plan of
the political subdivision, or a search-and-rescue team
response to an occurrence or threat of injury or loss of life
that is beyond local response capabilities, suffer disease,
injury or death, shall, for the purposes of benefits under the
Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational Diseases
Act only, be deemed to be employees of the State, if: (1) the
claimant is a duly qualified and enrolled (sworn in) as a
volunteer of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency or an
emergency services and disaster agency accredited by the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency, and (2) if: (i) the
claimant was participating in a disaster as defined in Section
4 of this Act, (ii) the exercise or training participated in
was specifically and expressly approved by the Illinois
Emergency Management Agency prior to the exercise or training,
or (iii) the search-and-rescue team response was to an
occurrence or threat of injury or loss of life that was beyond
local response capabilities and was specifically and expressly
approved by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency prior to
the search-and-rescue team response. The computation of
benefits payable under either of those Acts shall be based on
the income commensurate with comparable State employees doing
the same type work or income from the person's regular
employment, whichever is greater.
    Volunteers who are working under the direction of an
emergency services and disaster agency accredited by the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency, pursuant to a plan
approved by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (i) during
a disaster declared by the Governor under Section 7 of this
Act, or (ii) in circumstances otherwise expressly approved by
the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, shall be deemed
exclusively employees of the State for purposes of Section 8(d)
of the Court of Claims Act, provided that the Illinois
Emergency Management Agency may, in coordination with the
emergency services and disaster agency, audit implementation
for compliance with the plan.
    (l) If any person who is entitled to receive benefits
through the application of this Section receives, in connection
with the disease, injury or death giving rise to such
entitlement, benefits under an Act of Congress or federal
program, benefits payable under this Section shall be reduced
to the extent of the benefits received under that other Act or
program.
    (m) (1) Prior to conducting an exercise, the principal
    executive officer of a political subdivision or his or her
    designee shall provide area media with written
    notification of the exercise. The notification shall
    indicate that information relating to the exercise shall
    not be released to the public until the commencement of the
    exercise. The notification shall also contain a request
    that the notice be so posted to ensure that all relevant
    media personnel are advised of the exercise before it
    begins.
        (2) During the conduct of an exercise, all messages,
    two-way radio communications, briefings, status reports,
    news releases, and other oral or written communications
    shall begin and end with the following statement: "This is
    an exercise message".
(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-73, eff. 1-1-02.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.