Rep. Jay Hoffman

Filed: 4/26/2023

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 476

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 476 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974
5is amended by changing Section 3-4 as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 2905/3-4)  (from Ch. 42, par. 503-4)
7    Sec. 3-4. (a) Commissioners shall be paid the same
8salaries as the county board members from either St. Clair or
9Madison County whichever is lower.
10    (b) The board of commissioners may, by ordinance, arrange
11to provide employees and commissioners of the sanitary
12district group, life, health, accident, hospital, and medical
13insurance, or any one or any combination of such types of
14insurance. The insurance may include provision for employees
15and commissioners who rely on treatment by prayer or spiritual
16means alone for healing in accordance with the tenets and

 

 

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1practice of a well-recognized religious denomination. The
2board of commissioners may provide for payment by the sanitary
3district of the premium or charge for the insurance.
4    If the sanitary district does not pay for the premium or
5charge for group life, health, accident, hospital, or medical
6insurance, the board of commissioners may allow withholding
7and deducting from the compensation of the employees and
8commissioners of the premium or charge for the group life,
9health, accident, hospital, or medical insurance.
10    Insurance obtained under this subsection must be obtained
11from an insurance company authorized to do business in the
12State of Illinois or any other organization or service
13offering similar coverage authorized to do business in the
14State of Illinois.
15(Source: P.A. 83-1422.)".