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| | HB2568 Enrolled | | LRB102 15306 JLS 20662 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning employment.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (820 ILCS 320/3)
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| 7 | | Sec. 3. Definition. For the purposes of this Act, the term |
| 8 | | "firefighter"
includes, without limitation, a licensed |
| 9 | | emergency medical technician (EMT) who
is a sworn member of a |
| 10 | | public fire department, a paramedic employed by a unit of |
| 11 | | local government, or an EMT, emergency medical |
| 12 | | technician-intermediate (EMT-I), or advanced emergency medical |
| 13 | | technician (A-EMT) employed by a unit of local government.
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| 14 | | For the purposes of this Act, the term "health insurance |
| 15 | | plan" is limited to the insurance plan options that are |
| 16 | | codified in the employee's collective bargaining agreement. If |
| 17 | | the collective bargaining agreement is silent on plan options, |
| 18 | | the available plans for the employee shall be negotiated with |
| 19 | | the authorized representative and subject to the grievance |
| 20 | | process. |
| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 100-1132, eff. 11-28-18.)
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