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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB3256 Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. William R. Haine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning required health coverage benefits.
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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 10 as follows:
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| 6 | | (820 ILCS 320/10)
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| 7 | | Sec. 10. Required health coverage benefits.
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| 8 | | (a) An employer who who employs a full-time law |
| 9 | | enforcement, correctional or
correctional probation officer, |
| 10 | | or firefighter, who, on or after the effective
date of this Act |
| 11 | | suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty
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| 12 | | shall pay the entire premium of the employer's health insurance |
| 13 | | plan for the
injured employee, the injured employee's spouse, |
| 14 | | and for each dependent child
of the injured employee until the |
| 15 | | child reaches the age of majority or until
the end of the |
| 16 | | calendar year in which the child reaches the age of 25 if the
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| 17 | | child continues to be dependent for support or the child is a |
| 18 | | full-time or
part-time student and is dependent for support. |
| 19 | | The term "health insurance
plan" does not include supplemental |
| 20 | | benefits that are not part of the basic
group health insurance |
| 21 | | plan.
If the
injured employee subsequently dies, the employer |
| 22 | | shall continue to pay the
entire health insurance premium for |
| 23 | | the surviving spouse until remarried and
for the dependent |
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| 1 | | children under the conditions established in this Section.
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| 2 | | However:
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| 3 | | (1) Health insurance benefits payable from any other |
| 4 | | source shall reduce
benefits payable under this Section.
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| 5 | | (2) It is unlawful for a person to willfully and |
| 6 | | knowingly make, or cause
to be made, or to assist, conspire |
| 7 | | with, or urge another to make, or cause to
be made, any |
| 8 | | false, fraudulent, or misleading oral or written statement |
| 9 | | to
obtain health insurance coverage as provided under this |
| 10 | | Section. A violation
of this item is a Class A misdemeanor.
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| 11 | | (3) Upon conviction for a violation described in item |
| 12 | | (2), a law
enforcement, correctional or correctional |
| 13 | | probation officer, or other
beneficiary who receives or |
| 14 | | seeks to receive health insurance benefits under
this |
| 15 | | Section shall forfeit the right to receive health insurance |
| 16 | | benefits and
shall reimburse the employer for all benefits |
| 17 | | paid due to the fraud or other
prohibited activity. For |
| 18 | | purposes of this item, "conviction" means a
determination |
| 19 | | of guilt that is the result of a plea or trial, regardless |
| 20 | | of
whether adjudication is withheld.
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| 21 | | (b) In order for the law enforcement, correctional or |
| 22 | | correctional probation
officer, firefighter, spouse, or |
| 23 | | dependent children to be eligible for
insurance coverage under |
| 24 | | this Act, the injury or death must have occurred as
the result |
| 25 | | of the officer's response to fresh pursuit, the officer or
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| 26 | | firefighter's response to what is reasonably believed to be an |
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| 1 | | emergency, an
unlawful act perpetrated by another, or during |
| 2 | | the investigation of a criminal
act. Nothing in this Section |
| 3 | | shall be construed to limit health insurance
coverage or |
| 4 | | pension benefits for which the officer, firefighter, spouse, or
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| 5 | | dependent children may otherwise be eligible.
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| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 90-535, eff. 11-14-97.)
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