Public Act 098-1024
 
SB2744 EnrolledLRB098 16241 KTG 51300 b



    AN ACT concerning State government.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 



 
    Section 5. The Military Code of Illinois is amended  by 
adding Article XVI-A as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 1805/Art. XVI-A heading new)
ARTICLE XVI-A. ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD
  
STATE-SPONSORED LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAM  

 
    (20 ILCS 1805/91.1 new)
    Sec. 91.1. State-sponsored life insurance program. 
    (a) The General Assembly finds:
        (1) It is desirable for members of the Illinois 
    National Guard to have access to low-cost life insurance in 
    addition to the Servicemembers Group Life Insurance 
    program currently offered to all service members.
        (2) The U.S. Congress has provided in 37 U.S.C. 707 
    that the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air 
    Force, as the case may be, may allow a member of the 
    National Guard to make allotments from his or her pay for 
    the payment of premiums under a group life insurance 
    program sponsored by the military department of the state 
    in which such member holds his or her National Guard 
    membership or by the National Guard Association of such 
    state.
        (3) The U.S. Secretary of Defense has provided by 
    regulation in Section 3-209 of the Department of Defense 
    Directive 5500.07-R that offering group life insurance 
    programs sponsored by a state military department, to the 
    same extent and similar manner as the offering of the 
    Servicemembers Group Life Insurance program, is not an 
    endorsement of a non-federal entity in violation of said 
    regulation.
    It is hereby the policy of the State of Illinois that 
members of the Illinois National Guard should be provided with 
the opportunity to purchase the Illinois National Guard 
State-Sponsored Life Insurance Program products as provided 
for in this Section and that the members be allowed to make an 
allotment for the payment of premiums using the U.S. Defense 
Finance and Accounting Service military pay allotment 
procedures in force at the time the allotment is requested.
    (b) It is hereby established that the National Guard 
Association of Illinois shall be the designated provider of 
State-sponsored life insurance products offered through 
insurers licensed to transact insurance business in Illinois 
for military members and dependents of the Illinois National 
Guard.  The life insurance products provided by the National 
Guard Association of Illinois through its membership in the 
Militia Insurance Trust shall be known as the Illinois National 
Guard State-Sponsored Life Insurance Program.
    (c) The Department of Military Affairs, through the 
Adjutant General, is hereby designated as the official 
departmental sponsor of the Illinois National Guard 
State-Sponsored Life Insurance Program, shall allow, 
facilitate, and coordinate all efforts to make the Program 
available to all members of the Illinois National Guard, and 
shall allow, facilitate, and coordinate requested allotments 
with the appropriate United States Property and Fiscal Office.
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.