103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1731

 

Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Neil Anderson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/11-6-12 new
70 ILCS 705/11n new

    Amends the Fire Protection District Act and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that municipalities and fire protection districts may fix, charge, and collect reasonable fees from independent living facilities, assisted living facilities, nursing home facilities, or other similar congregate care facilities for all lift-assist services rendered by a fire department, firefighter, emergency response unit, public safety employee of a municipal department, or fire protection district in connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or other individual. Provides that the fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment costs for all services rendered by the municipality or fire protection district in connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or other individual. Provides that the municipality or fire protection district may require a facility to enter into a written agreement to reimburse the municipality or fire protection district for the costs of injuries suffered at the facility by municipal or district personnel when providing lift-assist services, including, but not limited to, costs of medical treatment, payments required under the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act, disability payments, and pension payments for injured personnel, but provides that any such agreement does not relieve the municipality or fire protection district of a statutory or contractual obligation it may have to its employees for an injury suffered relating to lift-assist services rendered. Contains provisions relating to third-party claims and intervention in a suit relating to claims made by a municipal or fire protection district employee for an injury suffered relating to lift-assist services rendered.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5adding Section 11-6-12 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/11-6-12 new)
7    Sec. 11-6-12. Reimbursement for lift-assist services.
8    (a) For purposes of this Section, the term "lift-assist
9service" means a response to an independent living facility,
10assisted living facility, nursing home facility, or other
11similar congregate care facility, by personnel of a fire
12department, emergency response unit, or a unit of another
13public safety department providing automatic or mutual aid to
14a municipality, in order to lift a patient or other individual
15from the individual's current position to a desired position.
16"Lift-assist service" does not include a response to a request
17for transportation via ambulance to a health care facility.
18    (b) Municipalities may fix, charge, and collect reasonable
19fees from independent living facilities, assisted living
20facilities, nursing home facilities, or other similar
21congregate care facilities for all lift-assist services
22rendered by a municipal fire department, firefighter,
23emergency response unit, or public safety employee of a

 

 

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1municipal department in connection with providing lift-assist
2services to a patient or other individual.
3    The fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment
4costs for all services rendered by the municipality in
5connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or
6other individual.
7    (c) In addition to the fees imposed, a municipality may
8require an independent living facility, assisted living
9facility, nursing home facility, or other similar congregate
10care facility to which a municipal department may respond to a
11request in which lift-assist services may be rendered to enter
12into a written agreement to reimburse the municipality for the
13costs of injuries suffered at the facility by municipal
14personnel when providing lift-assist services, including, but
15not limited to, costs of medical treatment, payments required
16under the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act, disability
17payments, and pension payments for injured municipal
18personnel. Any such agreement does not relieve the
19municipality of a statutory or contractual obligation it may
20have to its employees for an injury suffered relating to
21lift-assist services rendered. An independent living facility,
22assisted living facility, nursing home facility, or other
23similar congregate care facility with which the municipality
24has such an agreement may not be made a third party to claims
25made by a municipal employee and does not have the right to
26intervene in claims made by the municipal employee for an

 

 

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1injury suffered relating to lift-assist services rendered.
 
2    Section 10. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by
3adding Section 11n as follows:
 
4    (70 ILCS 705/11n new)
5    Sec. 11n. Reimbursement for lift-assist services.
6    (a) For purposes of this Section, the term "lift-assist
7service" means a response to an independent living facility,
8assisted living facility, nursing home facility, or other
9similar congregate care facility, by personnel of a fire
10protection district, in order to lift a patient or other
11individual from the individual's current position to a desired
12position. "Lift-assist service" does not include a response to
13a request for transportation via ambulance to a health care
14facility.
15    (b) A fire protection district may fix, charge, and
16collect reasonable fees from independent living facilities,
17assisted living facilities, nursing home facilities, or other
18similar congregate care facilities for all lift-assist
19services rendered by the fire protection district in
20connection with providing lift-assist services to a patient or
21other individual.
22    The fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment
23costs for all services rendered by the fire protection
24district in connection with providing lift-assist services to

 

 

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1a patient or other individual.
2    (c) In addition to the fees imposed, a fire protection
3district may require an independent living facility, assisted
4living facility, nursing home facility, or other similar
5congregate care facility to which a fire protection district
6may respond to a request in which lift-assist services may be
7rendered to enter into a written agreement to reimburse the
8fire protection district for the costs of injuries suffered at
9the facility by fire protection district personnel when
10providing lift-assist services, including, but not limited to,
11costs of medical treatment, payments required under the Public
12Safety Employee Benefits Act, disability payments, and pension
13payments for injured fire protection district personnel. Any
14such agreement does not relieve the fire protection district
15of a statutory or contractual obligation it may have to its
16employees for an injury suffered relating to lift-assist
17services rendered. An independent living facility, assisted
18living facility, nursing home facility, or other similar
19congregate care facility with which the fire protection
20district has such an agreement may not be made a third party to
21claims made by a fire protection district employee and does
22not have the right to intervene in claims made by the fire
23protection district employee for an injury suffered relating
24to lift-assist services rendered.