93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5458


 
Introduced 02/06/04, by Michael J. Madigan
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













820 ILCS 160/2
  from Ch. 48, par. 39x







    Amends the Employee Benefit Contribution Act.  Makes a stylistic change in
provisions concerning the failure to make payments to an employee health
insurance plan.
















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A BILL FOR









 











HB5458

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    AN ACT concerning labor. 

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
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represented in the General Assembly: 


 
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    Section 5. The Employee Benefit Contribution Act is amended 
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by changing
Section 2 as follows:


 
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    (820 ILCS 160/2)  (from Ch. 48, par. 39x)

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    Sec. 2. An
Any employer who has agreed to make payments to 
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an
employee
health insurance plan shall notify its employees of 
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any failure to make
such payments where such failure shall 
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result in the total
loss of insurance coverage
so as to provide 
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its employees a reasonable opportunity to replace such
coverage 
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at the time the employee health insurance plan terminates.
The 
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employer must provide written notification directly to each of 
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its
employees who
are covered under the plan.  Any employer who 
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fails to provide timely notice of
a
prospective
termination of 
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a health insurance plan, which failure results in the

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deprivation
of the opportunity to replace such coverage and 
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which further results in
damages to one or more employees 
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arising from the loss of coverage,
shall be guilty of a Class B 
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misdemeanor.


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(Source: P.A. 92-126, eff. 1-1-02.)