Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB1911

Amends the Safety Inspection and Education Act and the Health and Safety Act. Provides that the Acts apply only to public employers and public employees. Provides for coordination between the 2 Acts. Changes procedures and time schedules for adjudicating complaints arising under the Acts. Provides that the Division of Safety Inspection and Education under the Director of Labor shall ensure that the health and safety of the public employees in Illinois are protected by a program at least as effective as the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program. Amends the Toxic Substances Disclosure to Employees Act. Provides that specified provisions of the Act are inoperative and the Department of Labor shall instead enforce federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration Hazard Communication standards; however, if at any time the Director of Labor determines that the federal standards have been amended so that they are less stringent than the Act, the Director of Labor shall adopt a rule setting forth this determination and a determination that the State law should again be operative to protect the health and safety of Illinois workers. Provides that, on the date such a rule is adopted, the Act shall again become operative, and the Department of Labor shall enforce the federal standards only to the extent the Act or rules of the Department provide for the enforcement of those standards. Effective immediately.

Provides that if the Director of Labor is of the opinion that imminent danger exists in the working conditions of any public employee in this State, which condition may reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm, the Director may seek an order from the circuit court to require such steps to be taken as may be necessary to abate, avoid, correct, or remove the imminent danger and prohibit the employment or presence of any individual in locations or under conditions where such imminent danger exists, except those individuals whose presence is necessary to abate, avoid, correct, or remove the imminent danger or to maintain the capacity of a continuous process operation to assume normal operations without a complete cessation of operations, or where a cessation of operations is necessary to permit the cessation to be accomplished in a safe and orderly manner. Provides that if at any time the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration Hazard Communication standard is repealed or revoked, the Director of Labor shall adopt a rule setting forth a determination that the Health and Safety Act should be reviewed and reinstated in order to protect the health and safety of Illinois' public sector workers. Provides that on the date such a rule is adopted, the Health and Safety Act shall again become operative.

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