99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2919

 

Introduced 2/18/2016, by Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 305/29.3 new

    Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that employers may file safety and return to work programs with the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission. Authorizes the Commission to certify the programs upon review for certain minimum requirements. Provides that the Director of Insurance shall direct any workers' compensation rate setting advisory organization to recalculate rates with respect to employers that file safety and return to work programs. Provides for the Director of Insurance to waive the Workers' Compensation Commission Operations Fund fee with respect to self-insured employers that file the plans.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Workers' Compensation Act is amended by
5adding Section 29.3 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 305/29.3 new)
7    Sec. 29.3. Safety programs and return to work programs;
8recalculation of premiums and waiver of self-insurers fee.
9    (a) An employer may file with the Commission a workers'
10compensation safety program. An employer may file with the
11Commission a workers' compensation return to work program. The
12Commission may certify any such safety program as a bona fide
13safety program after reviewing the program for the following
14minimum requirements: adequate safety training for employees;
15establishment of joint employer-employee safety committees;
16use of safety devices; and consultation with safety
17organizations. The Commission may certify any such return to
18work program as a bona fide return to work program after
19reviewing the program for the following minimum requirements:
20light duty or restricted duty work; leave of absence policy;
21and full duty return to work policy.
22    (b) This subsection applies to all employers that have
23received certification from the Commission of a bona fide

 

 

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1safety program or a bona fide return to work program.
2    On the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th
3General Assembly, the Director of Insurance shall immediately
4direct in writing any workers' compensation rate setting
5advisory organization to recalculate workers' compensation
6advisory premium rates and assigned risk pool premium rates for
7any employer complying with this Section so that those premium
8rates incorporate and take into account the provisions of this
9amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly and to publish such
10rates on or before 90 days after the effective date of this
11amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly.
12    On the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th
13General Assembly, the Director of Insurance shall immediately
14direct in writing that the fee under Section 4d of this Act is
15waived as to any self-insured employer complying with this
16Section to incorporate and take into account the provisions of
17this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly and to publish
18such waiver on or before 90 days after the effective date of
19this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly.