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90_HB0718ham001

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 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 718
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  718  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 4        "Section  5.   The  Illinois  Pension  Code is amended by
 5    changing Section 22-307 as follows:
 6        (40 ILCS 5/22-307) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 22-307)
 7        Sec. 22-307.  Common  law  or  statutory  rights  barred.
 8    Whenever  any city or village enacts an ordinance pursuant to
 9    this Division, no common law or statutory  right  to  recover
10    damages  against  such  city  or  village for injury or death
11    sustained by any policeman or fireman while  engaged  in  the
12    line of his duty as such policeman or fireman, other than the
13    payment  of  the  allowances of money and of the medical care
14    and hospital treatment provided in such ordinance,  shall  be
15    available  to  any policeman or fireman who is covered by the
16    provisions  of  such  ordinance,  or  to  anyone  wholly   or
17    partially dependent upon such policeman or fireman, or to the
18    legal  representative  of  the  estate  of  such policeman or
19    fireman, or to anyone who  would  otherwise  be  entitled  to
20    recover  damages  for  such injury or death.  Nothing in this
21    Division 3 relieves any municipality with a population  under
22    500,000  of its duties under the Workers' Compensation Act or
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 1    the Workers' Occupational  Diseases  Act.   Nothing  in  this
 2    Division   3   prevents   any   policeman  or  fireman  in  a
 3    municipality with a population under  500,000  from  recovery
 4    under   the   Workers'   Compensation  Act  or  the  Workers'
 5    Occupational Diseases Act.
 6        If any action against such city or village to  enforce  a
 7    common   law  or  statutory  right  to  recover  damages  for
 8    negligently causing the injury or death of any  policeman  or
 9    fireman, is pending, for trial or on appeal, at the time this
10    Division  shall  come  in  force or is so pending at the time
11    such ordinance  is  enacted,  the  amount  of  any  award  or
12    allowance  of money made pursuant to such ordinance shall not
13    be paid while such action is so pending and shall be reduced,
14    before payment,  by  the  amount  of  any  judgment  obtained
15    against  such city or village in such pending action; or such
16    allowance of money, if already paid, together with all moneys
17    expended pursuant to such  ordinance  for  medical  care  and
18    hospital  expenses,  may  be  set  off against such judgment,
19    either in such pending action or  through  other  appropriate
20    action by such city or village.
21    (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
22        Section  90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
23    Section 8.21 as follows:
24        (30 ILCS 805/8.21 new)
25        Sec. 8.21. Exempt mandate.   Notwithstanding  Sections  6
26    and  8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
27    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
28    amendatory Act of 1997.
29        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
30    becoming law.".

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