HB1543 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1543

Introduced 2/10/2005, by Rep. Rich Brauer

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

820 ILCS 320/4 new

Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides the health benefits of that Act to a person who is employed as a security guard by the State on a full-time, part-time, temporary, or contractual-payroll basis and whose death or catastrophic injury in the line of duty occurs on or after September 1, 2004. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is amended by adding Section 4 as follows:

(820 ILCS 320/4 new)

Sec. 4. State security guards.

(a) A person who is employed as a security guard by the State on a full-time, part-time, temporary, or contractual-payroll basis and who suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty on or after September 1, 2004 under circumstances described in subsection (b) of Section 10 is entitled to the benefits provided in that Section, notwithstanding the "full-time" requirement of subsection (a) of that Section.

(b) As used in this Section, "State" means the State of Illinois or any of its departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions, authorities, colleges, and universities.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.