101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4015

 

Introduced 1/8/2020, by Rep. Katie Stuart

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 3305/8  from Ch. 127, par. 1058

    Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Provides that architects, engineers, individuals with specified qualifications, and construction contractors, equipment dealers, and other owners and operators of construction equipment may volunteer the use of their services and equipment for up to 5 consecutive days as part of a mobile support team by providing essential demolition, cleanup, or other related services and determining whether structures affected by a disaster are safe. Provides that such persons are exempt from civil liability under the Good Samaritan Act. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act is
5amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 3305/8)  (from Ch. 127, par. 1058)
7    Sec. 8. Mobile Support Teams.
8    (a) The Governor or Director may cause to be created Mobile
9Support Teams to aid and to reinforce the Illinois Emergency
10Management Agency, and emergency services and disaster
11agencies in areas stricken by disaster. Each mobile support
12team shall have a leader, selected by the Director who will be
13responsible, under the direction and control of the Director,
14for the organization, administration, and training, and
15operation of the mobile support team.
16    (a-5) The following persons may volunteer the use of their
17services and equipment, either manned or unmanned, for up to 5
18consecutive days as part of a mobile support team as requested
19and needed by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency:
20        (1) architects licensed under the Illinois
21    Architectural Practice Act of 1989;
22        (2) engineers licensed under the Professional
23    Engineering Practice Act of 1989 or the Structural

 

 

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1    Engineering Practice Act of 1989;
2        (3) any individuals, including, but not limited to,
3    building officials and building inspectors employed by
4    units of local government, who:
5            (A) are qualified by training and experience;
6            (B) have been certified by the Illinois Emergency
7        Management Agency; and
8            (C) perform their duties under the direction of an
9        architect licensed under the Illinois Architectural
10        Practice Act of 1989 or an engineer licensed under the
11        Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989 or the
12        Structural Engineering Practice Act of 1989; and
13        (4) construction contractors, equipment dealers, and
14    other owners and operators of construction equipment.
15    In the event of a disaster, persons volunteering under this
16subsection (a-5) shall, where needed, assist units of local
17government and local building inspectors by performing either
18or both of the following:
19        (i) Providing essential demolition, cleanup, or other
20    related services.
21        (ii) Determining whether structures affected by a
22    disaster have not sustained serious damage and may be
23    occupied, must be restricted in their use pending repairs,
24    or are unsafe and shall not be occupied pending repair or
25    demolition.
26    Persons volunteering under this subsection (a-5) are

 

 

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1subject to the provisions of Section 72 of the Good Samaritan
2Act.
3    (b) Personnel of a mobile support team while on duty
4pursuant to such a call or while engaged in regularly scheduled
5training or exercises, whether within or without the State,
6shall either:
7        (1) If they are paid employees of the State, have the
8    powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities and
9    receive the compensation incidental to their employment.
10        (2) If they are paid employees of a political
11    subdivision or body politic of this State, and whether
12    serving within or without that political subdivision or
13    body politic, have the powers, duties, rights, privileges
14    and immunities, and receive the compensation incidental to
15    their employment.
16        (3) If they are not employees of the State, political
17    subdivision or body politic, or being such employees, are
18    not normally paid for their services, be entitled to at
19    least one dollar per year compensation from the State.
20    Personnel of a mobile support team who suffer disease,
21injury or death arising out of or in the course of emergency
22duty, shall for the purposes of benefits under the Workers'
23Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational Diseases Act only, be
24deemed to be employees of this State. If the person diseased,
25injured or killed is an employee described in item (3) above,
26the computation of benefits payable under either of those Acts

 

 

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1shall be based on income commensurate with comparable State
2employees doing the same type of work or income from the
3person's regular employment, whichever is greater.
4    All personnel of mobile support teams shall, while on duty
5under such call, be reimbursed by this State for all actual and
6necessary travel and subsistence expenses.
7    (c) The State shall reimburse each political subdivision or
8body politic from the Disaster Response and Recovery Fund for
9the compensation paid and the actual and necessary travel,
10subsistence and maintenance expenses of paid employees of the
11political subdivision or body politic while serving, outside of
12its geographical boundaries pursuant to such a call, as members
13of a mobile support team, and for all payments made for death,
14disease or injury of those paid employees arising out of and
15incurred in the course of that duty, and for all losses of or
16damage to supplies and equipment of the political subdivision
17or body politic resulting from the operations.
18    (d) Whenever mobile support teams or units of another
19state, while the Governor has the emergency powers provided for
20under Section 7 of this Act, render aid to this State under the
21orders of the Governor of its home state and upon the request
22of the Governor of this State, all questions relating to
23reimbursement by this State to the other state and its citizens
24in regard to the assistance so rendered shall be determined by
25the mutual aid agreements or interstate compacts described in
26subparagraph (5) of paragraph (c) of Section 6 as are existing

 

 

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1at the time of the assistance rendered or are entered into
2thereafter and under Section 303 (d) of the Federal Civil
3Defense Act of 1950.
4    (e) No personnel of mobile support teams of this State may
5be ordered by the Governor to operate in any other state unless
6a request for the same has been made by the Governor or duly
7authorized representative of the other state.
8(Source: P.A. 98-465, eff. 8-16-13.)
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10becoming law.