Sen. Antonio Muņoz

Filed: 3/30/2016

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3076

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3076 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act is
5amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 3305/10)  (from Ch. 127, par. 1060)
7    Sec. 10. Emergency Services and Disaster Agencies.
8    (a) Each political subdivision within this State shall be
9within the jurisdiction of and served by the Illinois Emergency
10Management Agency and by an emergency services and disaster
11agency responsible for emergency management programs. A
12township, if the township is in a county having a population of
13more than 2,000,000, must have approval of the county
14coordinator before establishment of a township emergency
15services and disaster agency.
16    (b) Unless multiple county emergency services and disaster

 

 

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1agency consolidation is authorized by the Illinois Emergency
2Management Agency with the consent of the respective counties,
3each county shall maintain an emergency services and disaster
4agency that has jurisdiction over and serves the entire county,
5except as otherwise provided under this Act and except that in
6any county with a population of over 3,000,000 containing a
7municipality with a population of over 500,000 the jurisdiction
8of the county agency shall not extend to the municipality when
9the municipality has established its own agency.
10    (c) Each municipality with a population of over 500,000
11shall maintain an emergency services and disaster agency which
12has jurisdiction over and serves the entire municipality. A
13municipality with a population less than 500,000 may establish,
14by ordinance, an agency or department responsible for emergency
15management within the municipality's corporate limits.
16    (d) The Governor shall determine which municipal
17corporations, other than those specified in paragraph (c) of
18this Section, need emergency services and disaster agencies of
19their own and require that they be established and maintained.
20The Governor shall make these determinations on the basis of
21the municipality's disaster vulnerability and capability of
22response related to population size and concentration. The
23emergency services and disaster agency of a county or township,
24shall not have a jurisdiction within a political subdivision
25having its own emergency services and disaster agency, but
26shall cooperate with the emergency services and disaster agency

 

 

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1of a city, village or incorporated town within their borders.
2The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall publish and
3furnish a current list to the municipalities required to have
4an emergency services and disaster agency under this
5subsection.
6    (e) Each municipality that is not required to and does not
7have an emergency services and disaster agency shall have a
8liaison officer designated to facilitate the cooperation and
9protection of that municipal corporation with the county
10emergency services and disaster agency in which it is located
11in the work of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and
12recovery.
13    (f) The principal executive officer or his or her designee
14of each political subdivision in the State shall annually
15notify the Illinois Emergency Management Agency of the manner
16in which the political subdivision is providing or securing
17emergency management, identify the executive head of the agency
18or the department from which the service is obtained, or the
19liaison officer in accordance with paragraph (d) of this
20Section and furnish additional information relating thereto as
21the Illinois Emergency Management Agency requires.
22    (g) Each emergency services and disaster agency shall
23prepare an emergency operations plan for its geographic
24boundaries that complies with planning, review, and approval
25standards promulgated by the Illinois Emergency Management
26Agency. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall

 

 

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1determine which jurisdictions will be required to include
2earthquake preparedness in their local emergency operations
3plans.
4    (h) The emergency services and disaster agency shall
5prepare and distribute to all appropriate officials in written
6form a clear and complete statement of the emergency
7responsibilities of all local departments and officials and of
8the disaster chain of command.
9    (i) Each emergency services and disaster agency shall have
10a Coordinator who shall be appointed by the principal executive
11officer of the political subdivision in the same manner as are
12the heads of regular governmental departments. If the political
13subdivision is a county and the principal executive officer
14appoints the sheriff as the Coordinator, the sheriff may, in
15addition to his or her regular compensation, receive
16compensation at the same level as provided in Section 3 of "An
17Act in relation to the regulation of motor vehicle traffic and
18the promotion of safety on public highways in counties",
19approved August 9, 1951, as amended. The Coordinator shall have
20direct responsibility for the organization, administration,
21training, and operation of the emergency services and disaster
22agency, subject to the direction and control of that principal
23executive officer. Each emergency services and disaster agency
24shall coordinate and may perform emergency management
25functions within the territorial limits of the political
26subdivision within which it is organized as are prescribed in

 

 

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1and by the State Emergency Operations Plan, and programs,
2orders, rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the
3Illinois Emergency Management Agency and by local ordinance
4and, in addition, shall conduct such functions outside of those
5territorial limits as may be required under mutual aid
6agreements and compacts as are entered into under subparagraph
7(5) of paragraph (c) of Section 6.
8    (j) In carrying out the provisions of this Act, each
9political subdivision may enter into contracts and incur
10obligations necessary to place it in a position effectively to
11combat the disasters as are described in Section 4, to protect
12the health and safety of persons, to protect property, and to
13provide emergency assistance to victims of those disasters. If
14a disaster occurs, each political subdivision may exercise the
15powers vested under this Section in the light of the exigencies
16of the disaster and, excepting mandatory constitutional
17requirements, without regard to the procedures and formalities
18normally prescribed by law pertaining to the performance of
19public work, entering into contracts, the incurring of
20obligations, the employment of temporary workers, the rental of
21equipment, the purchase of supplies and materials, and the
22appropriation, expenditure, and disposition of public funds
23and property.
24    (k) Volunteers who, while engaged in a disaster, an
25exercise, training related to the emergency operations plan of
26the political subdivision, or a search-and-rescue team

 

 

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1response to an occurrence or threat of injury or loss of life
2that is beyond local response capabilities, suffer disease,
3injury or death, shall, for the purposes of benefits under the
4Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational Diseases
5Act only, be deemed to be employees of the State, if: (1) the
6claimant is a duly qualified and enrolled (sworn in) as a
7volunteer of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency or an
8emergency services and disaster agency accredited by the
9Illinois Emergency Management Agency, and (2) if: (i) the
10claimant was participating in a disaster as defined in Section
114 of this Act, (ii) the exercise or training participated in
12was specifically and expressly approved by the Illinois
13Emergency Management Agency prior to the exercise or training,
14or (iii) the search-and-rescue team response was to an
15occurrence or threat of injury or loss of life that was beyond
16local response capabilities and was specifically and expressly
17approved by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency prior to
18the search-and-rescue team response. The computation of
19benefits payable under either of those Acts shall be based on
20the income commensurate with comparable State employees doing
21the same type work or income from the person's regular
22employment, whichever is greater.
23    Volunteers who are working under the direction of an
24emergency services and disaster agency accredited by the
25Illinois Emergency Management Agency, pursuant to a plan
26approved by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (i) during

 

 

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1a disaster declared by the Governor under Section 7 of this
2Act, or (ii) in circumstances otherwise expressly approved by
3the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, shall be deemed
4exclusively employees of the State for purposes of Section 8(d)
5of the Court of Claims Act, provided that the Illinois
6Emergency Management Agency may, in coordination with the
7emergency services and disaster agency, audit implementation
8for compliance with the plan.
9    (l) If any person who is entitled to receive benefits
10through the application of this Section receives, in connection
11with the disease, injury or death giving rise to such
12entitlement, benefits under an Act of Congress or federal
13program, benefits payable under this Section shall be reduced
14to the extent of the benefits received under that other Act or
15program.
16    (m) (1) Prior to conducting an exercise, the principal
17    executive officer of a political subdivision or his or her
18    designee shall provide area media with written
19    notification of the exercise. The notification shall
20    indicate that information relating to the exercise shall
21    not be released to the public until the commencement of the
22    exercise. The notification shall also contain a request
23    that the notice be so posted to ensure that all relevant
24    media personnel are advised of the exercise before it
25    begins.
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1    two-way radio communications, briefings, status reports,
2    news releases, and other oral or written communications
3    shall begin and end with the following statement: "This is
4    an exercise message".
5    (n) The board of commissioners in a county having a
6population of more than 1,000,000 people may establish police
7powers within its Office or Department of Homeland Security and
8Emergency Management and may define and prescribe certain
9employees hired in that Office or Department with peace
10officers' duties and compensation. Every employee in that
11Office or Department appointed or hired may be vested with
12police powers and is hereby authorized to act as a conservator
13of the peace within that county and shall have the power to:
14investigate and mitigate threats of manmade disasters; protect
15the county's critical infrastructure; have access to law
16enforcement databases; protect the county's emergency assets
17and personnel that get deployed upon the request of local law
18enforcement agencies in emergency circumstances; protect
19county elected officials as requested; and observe and enforce
20local, county, and State ordinances and laws, such as are
21conferred upon and exercised by the police of organized cities
22and villages. Those sworn employees of the Office or Department
23of Homeland Security and Emergency Management shall not
24initiate independent investigations without working in concert
25with the local law enforcement agency of that community. No
26person employed in such Office or Department of Homeland

 

 

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1Security and Emergency Management shall have peace officer
2status or exercise police powers, unless he or she has
3successfully completed the basic police training course
4mandated and approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training
5Standards Board or the Board waives the training requirement by
6reason of the investigator's prior law enforcement experience
7or having already completed the basic police training course in
8compliance with the Board. Before a person is appointed with
9such police powers, his or her fingerprints shall be taken and
10transmitted to the Department of State Police. The Department
11of State Police shall examine its records and submit to the
12Office or Department of Homeland Security and Emergency
13Management any conviction information on file with the
14Department of State Police. No person shall be appointed with
15such police powers if he or she has been convicted of a felony
16or any other offenses concerning moral turpitude.
17    The county board may establish any other reasonable
18eligibility requirements for authorizing employees of the
19Office or Department of Homeland Security and Emergency
20Management with such police powers; however, no person may be
21appointed under this Section unless that person is at least 21
22years of age. Employees with police powers under this Section
23shall be paid a salary and be reimbursed for actual expenses
24incurred in the course of his or her duties. The county board
25shall approve the salary and actual expenses and appropriate
26the salary and expenses in a manner prescribed by law or

 

 

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1ordinance.
2(Source: P.A. 94-733, eff. 4-27-06.)".