102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB5317

 

Introduced 1/31/2022, by Rep. Frances Ann Hurley

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/11-6-12 new

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Defines "lift-assist service". Provides that municipalities may fix, charge, and collect reasonable fees from independent living facilities, assisted living facilities, nursing home facilities, or other similar congregate care facilities for all lift-assist services rendered by a municipal fire department, firefighter, emergency response unit, or public safety employee of any municipal department in connection with providing a patient or other individual lift-assist services. Limits lift-assist service fees. Provides that municipalities may require an independent living facility, assisted living facility, nursing home facility, or other similar congregate care facility to which a municipal department responds for a request for lift-assist services to indemnify and hold harmless the municipality for any and all injuries suffered at the facility by municipal personnel in the response to a lift-assist call for service, including specified costs.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5adding Section 11-6-12 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/11-6-12 new)
7    Sec. 11-6-12. Reimbursement for lift-assist services.
8    (a) For purposes of this Section, the term "lift-assist
9service" means a response by a fire department, emergency
10response unit or a unit of another public safety department
11providing automatic or mutual aid to a municipality to an
12independent living facility, assisted living facility, nursing
13home facility, or other similar congregate care facility for
14the purpose of lifting a fallen patient or other individual to
15a pre-fall position that does not include a request for
16transportation via ambulance to a health care facility.
17    (b) Municipalities may fix, charge, and collect reasonable
18fees from independent living facilities, assisted living
19facilities, nursing home facilities, or other similar
20congregate care facilities for all lift-assist services
21rendered by a municipal fire department, firefighter,
22emergency response unit, or public safety employee of any
23municipal department in connection with providing a patient or

 

 

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1other individual lift-assist services.
2    The fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment
3costs for all services rendered by a municipality for services
4provided in connection with providing a patient or other
5individual lift-assist services.
6    (c) In addition to the fees imposed, a municipality may
7require that any independent living facility, assisted living
8facility, nursing home facility, or other similar congregate
9care facility to which a municipal department responds for a
10request for lift-assist services provide a written agreement
11to indemnify and hold harmless the municipality for any and
12all injuries suffered at the facility by municipal personnel
13in the response to a lift-assist call for service, including
14costs of medical treatment, disability payments, and pension
15payments for any injured municipal personnel.