Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 11/17/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1365

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1365 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services
5Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
6changing Section 405-105 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 405/405-105)  (was 20 ILCS 405/64.1)
8    Sec. 405-105. Fidelity, surety, property, and casualty
9insurance. The Department shall establish and implement a
10program to coordinate the handling of all fidelity, surety,
11property, and casualty insurance exposures of the State and the
12departments, divisions, agencies, branches, and universities
13of the State. In performing this responsibility, the Department
14shall have the power and duty to do the following:
15        (1) Develop and maintain loss and exposure data on all
16    State property.

 

 

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1        (2) Study the feasibility of establishing a
2    self-insurance plan for State property and prepare
3    estimates of the costs of reinsurance for risks beyond the
4    realistic limits of the self-insurance.
5        (3) Prepare a plan for centralizing the purchase of
6    property and casualty insurance on State property under a
7    master policy or policies and purchase the insurance
8    contracted for as provided in the Illinois Purchasing Act.
9        (4) Evaluate existing provisions for fidelity bonds
10    required of State employees and recommend changes that are
11    appropriate commensurate with risk experience and the
12    determinations respecting self-insurance or reinsurance so
13    as to permit reduction of costs without loss of coverage.
14        (5) Investigate procedures for inclusion of school
15    districts, public community college districts, and other
16    units of local government in programs for the centralized
17    purchase of insurance.
18        (6) Implement recommendations of the State Property
19    Insurance Study Commission that the Department finds
20    necessary or desirable in the performance of its powers and
21    duties under this Section to achieve efficient and
22    comprehensive risk management.
23        (7) Prepare and, in the discretion of the Director,
24    implement a plan in writing providing for the purchase of
25    public liability insurance or for self-insurance for
26    public liability or for a combination of purchased

 

 

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1    insurance and self-insurance for public liability (i)
2    covering the State and drivers of motor vehicles owned,
3    leased, or controlled by the State of Illinois pursuant to
4    the provisions and limitations contained in the Illinois
5    Vehicle Code, (ii) covering other public liability
6    exposures of the State and its employees within the scope
7    of their employment, and (iii) covering drivers of motor
8    vehicles not owned, leased, or controlled by the State but
9    used by a State employee on State business, in excess of
10    liability covered by an insurance policy obtained by the
11    owner of the motor vehicle or in excess of the dollar
12    amounts that the Department shall determine to be
13    reasonable. Any contract of insurance let under this Law
14    shall be by bid in accordance with the procedure set forth
15    in the Illinois Purchasing Act. Any provisions for
16    self-insurance shall conform to subdivision (11).
17        The term "employee" as used in this subdivision (7) and
18    in subdivision (11) means a person while in the employ of
19    the State who is a member of the staff or personnel of a
20    State agency, bureau, board, commission, committee,
21    department, university, or college or who is a State
22    officer, elected official, commissioner, member of or ex
23    officio member of a State agency, bureau, board,
24    commission, committee, department, university, or college,
25    or a member of the National Guard while on active duty
26    pursuant to orders of the Governor of the State of

 

 

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1    Illinois, or any other person while using a licensed motor
2    vehicle owned, leased, or controlled by the State of
3    Illinois with the authorization of the State of Illinois,
4    provided the actual use of the motor vehicle is within the
5    scope of that authorization and within the course of State
6    service.
7        Subsequent to payment of a claim on behalf of an
8    employee pursuant to this Section and after reasonable
9    advance written notice to the employee, the Director may
10    exclude the employee from future coverage or limit the
11    coverage under the plan if (i) the Director determines that
12    the claim resulted from an incident in which the employee
13    was grossly negligent or had engaged in willful and wanton
14    misconduct or (ii) the Director determines that the
15    employee is no longer an acceptable risk based on a review
16    of prior accidents in which the employee was at fault and
17    for which payments were made pursuant to this Section.
18        The Director is authorized to promulgate
19    administrative rules that may be necessary to establish and
20    administer the plan.
21        Appropriations from the Road Fund shall be used to pay
22    auto liability claims and related expenses involving
23    employees of the Department of Transportation, the
24    Illinois State Police, and the Secretary of State.
25        (8) Charge, collect, and receive from all other
26    agencies of the State government fees or monies equivalent

 

 

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1    to the cost of purchasing the insurance.
2        (9) Establish, through the Director, charges for risk
3    management services rendered to State agencies by the
4    Department. The State agencies so charged shall reimburse
5    the Department by vouchers drawn against their respective
6    appropriations. The reimbursement shall be determined by
7    the Director as amounts sufficient to reimburse the
8    Department for expenditures incurred in rendering the
9    service.
10        The Department shall charge the employing State agency
11    or university for workers' compensation payments for
12    temporary total disability paid to any employee after the
13    employee has received temporary total disability payments
14    for 120 days if the employee's treating physician has
15    issued a release to return to work with restrictions and
16    the employee is able to perform modified duty work but the
17    employing State agency or university does not return the
18    employee to work at modified duty. Modified duty shall be
19    duties assigned that may or may not be delineated as part
20    of the duties regularly performed by the employee. Modified
21    duties shall be assigned within the prescribed
22    restrictions established by the treating physician and the
23    physician who performed the independent medical
24    examination. The amount of all reimbursements shall be
25    deposited into the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund
26    which is hereby created as a revolving fund in the State

 

 

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1    treasury. In addition to any other purpose authorized by
2    law, moneys in the Fund shall be used, subject to
3    appropriation, to pay these or other temporary total
4    disability claims of employees of State agencies and
5    universities.
6        Beginning with fiscal year 1996, all amounts recovered
7    by the Department through subrogation in workers'
8    compensation and workers' occupational disease cases shall
9    be deposited into the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund
10    created under this subdivision (9).
11        (10) Establish rules, procedures, and forms to be used
12    by State agencies in the administration and payment of
13    workers' compensation claims. The Department shall
14    initially evaluate and determine the compensability of any
15    injury that is the subject of a workers' compensation claim
16    and provide for the administration and payment of such a
17    claim for all State agencies. The Director may delegate to
18    any agency with the agreement of the agency head the
19    responsibility for evaluation, administration, and payment
20    of that agency's claims.
21        (11) Any plan for public liability self-insurance
22    implemented under this Section and extended to the General
23    Assembly, its legislative district offices, and its
24    members and employees pursuant to subdivision (15) of this
25    Section shall provide that (i) the Department shall attempt
26    to settle and may settle any public liability claim filed

 

 

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1    against the State of Illinois or any public liability claim
2    filed against a State employee on the basis of an
3    occurrence in the course of the employee's State
4    employment; (ii) any settlement of such a claim is not
5    subject to fiscal year limitations and must be approved by
6    the Director and, in cases of settlements exceeding
7    $100,000, by the Governor; and (iii) a settlement of any
8    public liability claim against the State or a State
9    employee shall require an unqualified release of any right
10    of action against the State and the employee for acts
11    within the scope of the employee's employment giving rise
12    to the claim.
13        Whenever and to the extent that a State employee
14    operates a motor vehicle or engages in other activity
15    covered by self-insurance under this Section, the State of
16    Illinois shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the
17    employee against any claim in tort filed against the
18    employee for acts or omissions within the scope of the
19    employee's employment in any proper judicial forum and not
20    settled pursuant to this subdivision (11), provided that
21    this obligation of the State of Illinois shall not exceed a
22    maximum liability of $2,000,000 for any single occurrence
23    in connection with the operation of a motor vehicle or
24    $100,000 per person per occurrence for any other single
25    occurrence, or $500,000 for any single occurrence in
26    connection with the provision of medical care by a licensed

 

 

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1    physician employee.
2        Any claims against the State of Illinois under a
3    self-insurance plan that are not settled pursuant to this
4    subdivision (11) shall be heard and determined by the Court
5    of Claims and may not be filed or adjudicated in any other
6    forum. The Attorney General of the State of Illinois or the
7    Attorney General's designee shall be the attorney with
8    respect to all public liability self-insurance claims that
9    are not settled pursuant to this subdivision (11) and
10    therefore result in litigation. The payment of any award of
11    the Court of Claims entered against the State relating to
12    any public liability self-insurance claim shall act as a
13    release against any State employee involved in the
14    occurrence.
15        (12) Administer a plan the purpose of which is to make
16    payments on final settlements or final judgments in
17    accordance with the State Employee Indemnification Act.
18    The plan shall be funded through appropriations from the
19    General Revenue Fund specifically designated for that
20    purpose, except that indemnification expenses for
21    employees of the Department of Transportation, the
22    Illinois State Police, and the Secretary of State shall be
23    paid from the Road Fund. The term "employee" as used in
24    this subdivision (12) has the same meaning as under
25    subsection (b) of Section 1 of the State Employee
26    Indemnification Act. Subject to sufficient appropriation,

 

 

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1    the Director shall approve payment of any claim, without
2    regard to fiscal year limitations, presented to the
3    Director that is supported by a final settlement or final
4    judgment when the Attorney General and the chief officer of
5    the public body against whose employee the claim or cause
6    of action is asserted certify to the Director that the
7    claim is in accordance with the State Employee
8    Indemnification Act and that they approve of the payment.
9    In no event shall an amount in excess of $150,000 be paid
10    from this plan to or for the benefit of any claimant.
11        (13) Administer a plan the purpose of which is to make
12    payments on final settlements or final judgments for
13    employee wage claims in situations where there was an
14    appropriation relevant to the wage claim, the fiscal year
15    and lapse period have expired, and sufficient funds were
16    available to pay the claim. The plan shall be funded
17    through appropriations from the General Revenue Fund
18    specifically designated for that purpose.
19        Subject to sufficient appropriation, the Director is
20    authorized to pay any wage claim presented to the Director
21    that is supported by a final settlement or final judgment
22    when the chief officer of the State agency employing the
23    claimant certifies to the Director that the claim is a
24    valid wage claim and that the fiscal year and lapse period
25    have expired. Payment for claims that are properly
26    submitted and certified as valid by the Director shall

 

 

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1    include interest accrued at the rate of 7% per annum from
2    the forty-fifth day after the claims are received by the
3    Department or 45 days from the date on which the amount of
4    payment is agreed upon, whichever is later, until the date
5    the claims are submitted to the Comptroller for payment.
6    When the Attorney General has filed an appearance in any
7    proceeding concerning a wage claim settlement or judgment,
8    the Attorney General shall certify to the Director that the
9    wage claim is valid before any payment is made. In no event
10    shall an amount in excess of $150,000 be paid from this
11    plan to or for the benefit of any claimant.
12        Nothing in Public Act 84-961 shall be construed to
13    affect in any manner the jurisdiction of the Court of
14    Claims concerning wage claims made against the State of
15    Illinois.
16        (14) Prepare and, in the discretion of the Director,
17    implement a program for self-insurance for official
18    fidelity and surety bonds for officers and employees as
19    authorized by the Official Bond Act.
20        (15) By February 1, 2011, extend to the General
21    Assembly, its legislative district offices, and its
22    members and employees within the scope of their service or
23    employment the State's existing plan for public liability
24    and property self-insurance established and administered
25    by the Department pursuant to subdivision (7) of this
26    Section and, upon request, promptly issue certificates

 

 

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1    demonstrating such coverage. For purposes of this
2    subdivision (15), "employee" means any person employed
3    full-time, part-time, or pursuant to a contract. In no
4    event shall this subdivision (15) be administered in a
5    manner that would extend coverage (i) to property in which
6    political activity is conducted or (ii) to members or
7    employees engaged in political activity.
8        (16) By February 1, 2011, recommend a plan to be
9    administered by the General Assembly providing for the
10    purchase of insurance or for self-insurance or for a
11    combination of purchased insurance and self-insurance (i)
12    covering all foreseeable public liability and property
13    exposures (including fire and casualty) of the General
14    Assembly, its legislative district offices, and its
15    members and employees acting within the scope of their
16    service or employment not otherwise covered by the
17    extension of the State's plan pursuant to subdivision (15)
18    of this Section, (ii) covering drivers of motor vehicles
19    owned, leased, or controlled by the General Assembly,
20    provided that such drivers are acting within the scope of
21    their service or employment, and (iii) covering drivers of
22    motor vehicles not owned, leased, or controlled by the
23    General Assembly but used by the General Assembly, provided
24    that such drivers are acting within the scope of their
25    service or employment. For purposes of this subdivision
26    (16), "employee" means any person employed full-time,

 

 

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1    part-time, or pursuant to a contract.
2(Source: P.A. 96-928, eff. 6-15-10.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.".