HB1911sam001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Don Harmon

Filed: 5/8/2007

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1911

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1911 on page 5, by replacing lines 3 through 14 with the following:

"(B) Whenever the Director 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 immediately or before the imminence of such danger can be eliminated through the enforcement procedures otherwise provided by this Act and the Health and Safety Act, the Director may file a complaint in the circuit court for appropriate relief against an employer and employee, including an order that may 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 directing the employer or employee to cease and desist from the practice creating the imminent danger and to obtain immediate abatement of the hazard."; and

on page 34, line 11, by replacing "via" with "in"; and

on page 42, by replacing lines 8 through 21 with the following:

"(b) If at any time the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Hazard Communication standard at 29 CFR 1910.1200 is repealed or revoked, the Director of Labor shall adopt a rule setting forth a determination that this Act should be reviewed and reinstated in order to protect the health and safety of Illinois' public sector workers. On the date such a rule is adopted, this Act shall again become operative.".