Full Text of SB2939 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The State Employee Indemnification Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 1 as follows: | 6 | | (5 ILCS 350/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 1301)
| 7 | | Sec. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this Act:
| 8 | | (a) The term "State" means the State of Illinois, the | 9 | | General
Assembly, the court, or any State office, department, | 10 | | division, bureau,
board, commission, or committee, the | 11 | | governing boards of the public
institutions of higher education | 12 | | created by the State, the Illinois
National Guard, the | 13 | | Comprehensive Health Insurance Board, any poison control
| 14 | | center designated under the Poison Control System Act that | 15 | | receives State
funding, or any other agency or instrumentality | 16 | | of the State. It
does not mean any local public entity as that | 17 | | term is defined in Section
1-206 of the Local Governmental and | 18 | | Governmental Employees Tort Immunity
Act or a pension fund.
| 19 | | (b) The term "employee" means any present or former elected | 20 | | or
appointed officer, trustee or employee of the State, or of a | 21 | | pension
fund,
any present or former commissioner or employee of | 22 | | the Executive Ethics
Commission or of the Legislative Ethics | 23 | | Commission, any present or former
Executive, Legislative, or |
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| 1 | | Auditor General's Inspector General, any present or
former | 2 | | employee of an Office of an Executive, Legislative, or Auditor | 3 | | General's
Inspector General, any present or former member of | 4 | | the Illinois National
Guard
while on active duty, individuals | 5 | | or organizations who contract with the
Department of | 6 | | Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the | 7 | | Comprehensive Health Insurance Board, or the
Department of | 8 | | Veterans' Affairs to provide services, individuals or
| 9 | | organizations who contract with the Department of Human | 10 | | Services (as
successor to the Department of Mental Health and | 11 | | Developmental
Disabilities) to provide services including but | 12 | | not limited to treatment and
other services for sexually | 13 | | violent persons, individuals or organizations who
contract | 14 | | with the Department of
Military
Affairs for youth programs, | 15 | | individuals or
organizations who contract to perform carnival | 16 | | and amusement ride safety
inspections for the Department of | 17 | | Labor, individuals or organizations who contract with the | 18 | | Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to provide | 19 | | professional services, individuals or organizations who | 20 | | contract with the Office of the State Appellate Defender, | 21 | | individual representatives of or
designated organizations | 22 | | authorized to represent the Office of State Long-Term
Ombudsman | 23 | | for the Department on Aging, individual representatives of or
| 24 | | organizations designated by the Department on Aging in the | 25 | | performance of their
duties as adult protective services | 26 | | agencies or regional administrative agencies
under the Adult |
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| 1 | | Protective Services Act, individuals or organizations | 2 | | appointed as members of a review team or the Advisory Council | 3 | | under the Adult Protective Services Act, individuals or | 4 | | organizations who perform
volunteer services for the State | 5 | | where such volunteer relationship is reduced
to writing, | 6 | | individuals who serve on any public entity (whether created by | 7 | | law
or administrative action) described in paragraph (a) of | 8 | | this Section,
individuals or not for profit organizations who, | 9 | | either as volunteers, where
such volunteer relationship is | 10 | | reduced to writing, or pursuant to contract,
furnish | 11 | | professional advice or consultation to any agency or | 12 | | instrumentality of
the State, individuals who serve as foster | 13 | | parents for the Department of
Children and Family Services when | 14 | | caring for a Department ward, individuals who serve as members | 15 | | of an independent team of experts under Brian's Law, and | 16 | | individuals
who serve as arbitrators pursuant to Part 10A of
| 17 | | Article II of the Code of Civil Procedure and the rules of the | 18 | | Supreme Court
implementing Part 10A, each as now or hereafter | 19 | | amended, but does not mean an
independent contractor except as | 20 | | provided in this Section. The term includes an
individual | 21 | | appointed as an inspector by the Director of State Police when
| 22 | | performing duties within the scope of the activities of a | 23 | | Metropolitan
Enforcement Group or a law enforcement | 24 | | organization established under the
Intergovernmental | 25 | | Cooperation Act. An individual who renders professional
advice | 26 | | and consultation to the State through an organization which |
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| 1 | | qualifies as
an "employee" under the Act is also an employee. | 2 | | The term includes the estate
or personal representative of an | 3 | | employee.
| 4 | | (c) The term "pension fund" means a retirement system or | 5 | | pension
fund created under the Illinois Pension Code.
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 98-49, eff. 7-1-13; 98-83, eff. 7-15-13; revised | 7 | | 8-9-13.)
| 8 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 | | becoming law.
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