State Government Administration Committee

Adopted in House Comm. on May 28, 2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2489

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2489 on page 5, by
3 inserting after line 11 the following:
 
4     "Section 15. The Line of Duty Compensation Act is amended
5 by changing Section 3 as follows:
 
6     (820 ILCS 315/3)   (from Ch. 48, par. 283)
7     Sec. 3. Duty death benefit.
8     (a) If a claim therefor is made within one year of the date
9 of death of a law enforcement officer, civil defense worker,
10 civil air patrol member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or State
11 employee, or Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty, or
12 if a claim therefor is made within 2 years of the date of death
13 of an Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty,
14 compensation shall be paid to the person designated by the law
15 enforcement officer, civil defense worker, civil air patrol
16 member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State employee, or Armed

 

 

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1 Forces member. However, if the Armed Forces member was killed
2 in the line of duty before October 18, 2004, the claim must be
3 made within one year of October 18, 2004.
4     (b) The amount of compensation, except for an Armed Forces
5 member, shall be $10,000 if the death in the line of duty
6 occurred prior to January 1, 1974; $20,000 if such death
7 occurred after December 31, 1973 and before July 1, 1983;
8 $50,000 if such death occurred on or after July 1, 1983 and
9 before January 1, 1996; $100,000 if the death occurred on or
10 after January 1, 1996 and before May 18, 2001; $118,000 if the
11 death occurred on or after May 18, 2001 and before July 1,
12 2002; and $259,038 if the death occurred on or after July 1,
13 2002 and before January 1, 2003. For an Armed Forces member
14 killed in the line of duty (i) at any time before January 1,
15 2005, the compensation is $259,038 plus amounts equal to the
16 increases for 2003 and 2004 determined under subsection (c) and
17 (ii) on or after January 1, 2005, the compensation is the
18 amount determined under item (i) plus the applicable increases
19 for 2005 and thereafter determined under subsection (c).
20     (c) Except as provided in subsection (b), for deaths
21 occurring on or after January 1, 2003, the death compensation
22 rate for death in the line of duty occurring in a particular
23 calendar year shall be the death compensation rate for death
24 occurring in the previous calendar year (or in the case of
25 deaths occurring in 2003, the rate in effect on December 31,
26 2002) increased by a percentage thereof equal to the percentage

 

 

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1 increase, if any, in the index known as the Consumer Price
2 Index for All Urban Consumers: U.S. city average, unadjusted,
3 for all items, as published by the United States Department of
4 Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the 12 months ending
5 with the month of June of that previous calendar year.
6     (d) If no beneficiary is designated or if no designated
7 beneficiary survives at the death of the law enforcement
8 officer, civil defense worker, civil air patrol member,
9 paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or State employee killed in the
10 line of duty, the compensation shall be paid in accordance with
11 a legally binding will left by the law enforcement officer,
12 civil defense worker, civil air patrol member, paramedic,
13 fireman, chaplain, or State employee. If the law enforcement
14 officer, civil defense worker, civil air patrol member,
15 paramedic, fireman, chaplain, or State employee did not leave a
16 legally binding will, the compensation shall be paid as
17 follows:
18         (1) when there is a surviving spouse, the entire sum
19     shall be paid to the spouse;
20         (2) when there is no surviving spouse, but a surviving
21     descendant of the decedent, the entire sum shall be paid to
22     the decedent's descendants per stirpes;
23         (3) when there is neither a surviving spouse nor a
24     surviving descendant, the entire sum shall be paid to the
25     parents of the decedent in equal parts, allowing to the
26     surviving parent, if one is dead, the entire sum; and

 

 

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1         (4) when there is no surviving spouse, descendant or
2     parent of the decedent, but there are surviving brothers or
3     sisters, or descendants of a brother or sister, who were
4     receiving their principal support from the decedent at his
5     death, the entire sum shall be paid, in equal parts, to the
6     dependent brothers or sisters or dependent descendant of a
7     brother or sister. Dependency shall be determined by the
8     Court of Claims based upon the investigation and report of
9     the Attorney General.
10 The changes made to this subsection (d) by this amendatory Act
11 of the 94th General Assembly apply to any pending case as long
12 as compensation has not been paid to any party before the
13 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
14 Assembly.
15     (d-1) For purposes of subsection (d), in the case of a
16 person killed in the line of duty who was born out of wedlock
17 and was not an adoptive child at the time of the person's
18 death, a person shall be deemed to be a parent of the person
19 killed in the line of duty only if that person would be an
20 eligible parent, as defined in Section 2-2 of the Probate Act
21 of 1975, of the person killed in the line of duty. This
22 subsection (d-1) applies to any pending claim if compensation
23 was not paid to the claimant of the pending claim before the
24 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
25 Assembly.
26     (d-2) If no beneficiary is designated or if no designated

 

 

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1 beneficiary survives at the death of the Armed Forces member
2 killed in the line of duty, the compensation shall be paid in
3 entirety according to the designation made on the most recent
4 version of the Armed Forces member's Servicemembers' Group Life
5 Insurance Election and Certificate ("SGLI").
6     If no SGLI form exists at the time of the Armed Forces
7 member's death, the compensation shall be paid in accordance
8 with a legally binding will left by the Armed Forces member.
9     If no SGLI form exists for the Armed Forces member and the
10 Armed Forces member did not leave a legally binding will, the
11 compensation shall be paid to the persons and in the priority
12 as set forth in paragraphs (1) through (4) of subsection (d) of
13 this Section.
14     This subsection (d-2) applies to any pending case as long
15 as compensation has not been paid to any party before the
16 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
17 Assembly.
18     (e) If there is no beneficiary designated or if no
19 designated beneficiary survives at the death of the law
20 enforcement officer, civil defense worker, civil air patrol
21 member, paramedic, fireman, chaplain, State employee, or Armed
22 Forces member killed in the line of duty and there is no other
23 person or entity to whom compensation is payable under this
24 Section, no compensation shall be payable under this Act.
25     (f) No part of such compensation may be paid to any other
26 person for any efforts in securing such compensation.

 

 

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1     (g) This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly
2 applies to claims made on or after October 18, 2004 with
3 respect to an Armed Forces member killed in the line of duty.
4 (Source: P.A. 93-1047, eff. 10-18-04; 93-1073, eff. 1-18-05;
5 94-843, eff. 6-8-06; 94-844, eff. 6-8-06.)".