Public Act 098-1024
 
SB2744 EnrolledLRB098 16241 KTG 51300 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 Military Code of Illinois is amended by
adding Article XVI-A as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 1805/Art. XVI-A heading new)
ARTICLE XVI-A. ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD
STATE-SPONSORED LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAM

 
    (20 ILCS 1805/91.1 new)
    Sec. 91.1. State-sponsored life insurance program.
    (a) The General Assembly finds:
        (1) It is desirable for members of the Illinois
    National Guard to have access to low-cost life insurance in
    addition to the Servicemembers Group Life Insurance
    program currently offered to all service members.
        (2) The U.S. Congress has provided in 37 U.S.C. 707
    that the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air
    Force, as the case may be, may allow a member of the
    National Guard to make allotments from his or her pay for
    the payment of premiums under a group life insurance
    program sponsored by the military department of the state
    in which such member holds his or her National Guard
    membership or by the National Guard Association of such
    state.
        (3) The U.S. Secretary of Defense has provided by
    regulation in Section 3-209 of the Department of Defense
    Directive 5500.07-R that offering group life insurance
    programs sponsored by a state military department, to the
    same extent and similar manner as the offering of the
    Servicemembers Group Life Insurance program, is not an
    endorsement of a non-federal entity in violation of said
    regulation.
    It is hereby the policy of the State of Illinois that
members of the Illinois National Guard should be provided with
the opportunity to purchase the Illinois National Guard
State-Sponsored Life Insurance Program products as provided
for in this Section and that the members be allowed to make an
allotment for the payment of premiums using the U.S. Defense
Finance and Accounting Service military pay allotment
procedures in force at the time the allotment is requested.
    (b) It is hereby established that the National Guard
Association of Illinois shall be the designated provider of
State-sponsored life insurance products offered through
insurers licensed to transact insurance business in Illinois
for military members and dependents of the Illinois National
Guard. The life insurance products provided by the National
Guard Association of Illinois through its membership in the
Militia Insurance Trust shall be known as the Illinois National
Guard State-Sponsored Life Insurance Program.
    (c) The Department of Military Affairs, through the
Adjutant General, is hereby designated as the official
departmental sponsor of the Illinois National Guard
State-Sponsored Life Insurance Program, shall allow,
facilitate, and coordinate all efforts to make the Program
available to all members of the Illinois National Guard, and
shall allow, facilitate, and coordinate requested allotments
with the appropriate United States Property and Fiscal Office.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.