97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB1081

 

Introduced 02/03/11, by Rep. Jim Sacia

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 405/405-105  was 20 ILCS 405/64.1

    Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law. Provides that neither the Department nor a State agency may require that the cost of liability insurance covering a motor vehicle owned, leased, or controlled by the State be reimbursed by an employee who has been assigned or authorized to use that motor vehicle.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services
5Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
6changing Section 405-105 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 405/405-105)  (was 20 ILCS 405/64.1)
8    Sec. 405-105. Fidelity, surety, property, and casualty
9insurance. The Department shall establish and implement a
10program to coordinate the handling of all fidelity, surety,
11property, and casualty insurance exposures of the State and the
12departments, divisions, agencies, branches, and universities
13of the State. In performing this responsibility, the Department
14shall have the power and duty to do the following:
15        (1) Develop and maintain loss and exposure data on all
16    State property.
17        (2) Study the feasibility of establishing a
18    self-insurance plan for State property and prepare
19    estimates of the costs of reinsurance for risks beyond the
20    realistic limits of the self-insurance.
21        (3) Prepare a plan for centralizing the purchase of
22    property and casualty insurance on State property under a
23    master policy or policies and purchase the insurance

 

 

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1    contracted for as provided in the Illinois Purchasing Act.
2        (4) Evaluate existing provisions for fidelity bonds
3    required of State employees and recommend changes that are
4    appropriate commensurate with risk experience and the
5    determinations respecting self-insurance or reinsurance so
6    as to permit reduction of costs without loss of coverage.
7        (5) Investigate procedures for inclusion of school
8    districts, public community college districts, and other
9    units of local government in programs for the centralized
10    purchase of insurance.
11        (6) Implement recommendations of the State Property
12    Insurance Study Commission that the Department finds
13    necessary or desirable in the performance of its powers and
14    duties under this Section to achieve efficient and
15    comprehensive risk management.
16        (7) Prepare and, in the discretion of the Director,
17    implement a plan providing for the purchase of public
18    liability insurance or for self-insurance for public
19    liability or for a combination of purchased insurance and
20    self-insurance for public liability (i) covering the State
21    and drivers of motor vehicles owned, leased, or controlled
22    by the State of Illinois pursuant to the provisions and
23    limitations contained in the Illinois Vehicle Code, (ii)
24    covering other public liability exposures of the State and
25    its employees within the scope of their employment, and
26    (iii) covering drivers of motor vehicles not owned, leased,

 

 

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1    or controlled by the State but used by a State employee on
2    State business, in excess of liability covered by an
3    insurance policy obtained by the owner of the motor vehicle
4    or in excess of the dollar amounts that the Department
5    shall determine to be reasonable. Any contract of insurance
6    let under this Law shall be by bid in accordance with the
7    procedure set forth in the Illinois Purchasing Act. Any
8    provisions for self-insurance shall conform to subdivision
9    (11). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither
10    the Department nor a State agency may require an employee
11    who is assigned and authorized to use a specific motor
12    vehicle owned, leased, or controlled by the State to
13    reimburse the Department or agency for the cost of
14    liability insurance to cover the motor vehicle.
15        The term "employee" as used in this subdivision (7) and
16    in subdivision (11) means a person while in the employ of
17    the State who is a member of the staff or personnel of a
18    State agency, bureau, board, commission, committee,
19    department, university, or college or who is a State
20    officer, elected official, commissioner, member of or ex
21    officio member of a State agency, bureau, board,
22    commission, committee, department, university, or college,
23    or a member of the National Guard while on active duty
24    pursuant to orders of the Governor of the State of
25    Illinois, or any other person while using a licensed motor
26    vehicle owned, leased, or controlled by the State of

 

 

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1    Illinois with the authorization of the State of Illinois,
2    provided the actual use of the motor vehicle is within the
3    scope of that authorization and within the course of State
4    service.
5        Subsequent to payment of a claim on behalf of an
6    employee pursuant to this Section and after reasonable
7    advance written notice to the employee, the Director may
8    exclude the employee from future coverage or limit the
9    coverage under the plan if (i) the Director determines that
10    the claim resulted from an incident in which the employee
11    was grossly negligent or had engaged in willful and wanton
12    misconduct or (ii) the Director determines that the
13    employee is no longer an acceptable risk based on a review
14    of prior accidents in which the employee was at fault and
15    for which payments were made pursuant to this Section.
16        The Director is authorized to promulgate
17    administrative rules that may be necessary to establish and
18    administer the plan.
19        Appropriations from the Road Fund shall be used to pay
20    auto liability claims and related expenses involving
21    employees of the Department of Transportation, the
22    Illinois State Police, and the Secretary of State.
23        (8) Charge, collect, and receive from all other
24    agencies of the State government fees or monies equivalent
25    to the cost of purchasing the insurance.
26        (9) Establish, through the Director, charges for risk

 

 

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1    management services rendered to State agencies by the
2    Department. The State agencies so charged shall reimburse
3    the Department by vouchers drawn against their respective
4    appropriations. The reimbursement shall be determined by
5    the Director as amounts sufficient to reimburse the
6    Department for expenditures incurred in rendering the
7    service.
8        The Department shall charge the employing State agency
9    or university for workers' compensation payments for
10    temporary total disability paid to any employee after the
11    employee has received temporary total disability payments
12    for 120 days if the employee's treating physician has
13    issued a release to return to work with restrictions and
14    the employee is able to perform modified duty work but the
15    employing State agency or university does not return the
16    employee to work at modified duty. Modified duty shall be
17    duties assigned that may or may not be delineated as part
18    of the duties regularly performed by the employee. Modified
19    duties shall be assigned within the prescribed
20    restrictions established by the treating physician and the
21    physician who performed the independent medical
22    examination. The amount of all reimbursements shall be
23    deposited into the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund
24    which is hereby created as a revolving fund in the State
25    treasury. In addition to any other purpose authorized by
26    law, moneys in the Fund shall be used, subject to

 

 

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1    appropriation, to pay these or other temporary total
2    disability claims of employees of State agencies and
3    universities.
4        Beginning with fiscal year 1996, all amounts recovered
5    by the Department through subrogation in workers'
6    compensation and workers' occupational disease cases shall
7    be deposited into the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund
8    created under this subdivision (9).
9        (10) Establish rules, procedures, and forms to be used
10    by State agencies in the administration and payment of
11    workers' compensation claims. The Department shall
12    initially evaluate and determine the compensability of any
13    injury that is the subject of a workers' compensation claim
14    and provide for the administration and payment of such a
15    claim for all State agencies. The Director may delegate to
16    any agency with the agreement of the agency head the
17    responsibility for evaluation, administration, and payment
18    of that agency's claims.
19        (11) Any plan for public liability self-insurance
20    implemented under this Section shall provide that (i) the
21    Department shall attempt to settle and may settle any
22    public liability claim filed against the State of Illinois
23    or any public liability claim filed against a State
24    employee on the basis of an occurrence in the course of the
25    employee's State employment; (ii) any settlement of such a
26    claim is not subject to fiscal year limitations and must be

 

 

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1    approved by the Director and, in cases of settlements
2    exceeding $100,000, by the Governor; and (iii) a settlement
3    of any public liability claim against the State or a State
4    employee shall require an unqualified release of any right
5    of action against the State and the employee for acts
6    within the scope of the employee's employment giving rise
7    to the claim.
8        Whenever and to the extent that a State employee
9    operates a motor vehicle or engages in other activity
10    covered by self-insurance under this Section, the State of
11    Illinois shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the
12    employee against any claim in tort filed against the
13    employee for acts or omissions within the scope of the
14    employee's employment in any proper judicial forum and not
15    settled pursuant to this subdivision (11), provided that
16    this obligation of the State of Illinois shall not exceed a
17    maximum liability of $2,000,000 for any single occurrence
18    in connection with the operation of a motor vehicle or
19    $100,000 per person per occurrence for any other single
20    occurrence, or $500,000 for any single occurrence in
21    connection with the provision of medical care by a licensed
22    physician employee.
23        Any claims against the State of Illinois under a
24    self-insurance plan that are not settled pursuant to this
25    subdivision (11) shall be heard and determined by the Court
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1    forum. The Attorney General of the State of Illinois or the
2    Attorney General's designee shall be the attorney with
3    respect to all public liability self-insurance claims that
4    are not settled pursuant to this subdivision (11) and
5    therefore result in litigation. The payment of any award of
6    the Court of Claims entered against the State relating to
7    any public liability self-insurance claim shall act as a
8    release against any State employee involved in the
9    occurrence.
10        (12) Administer a plan the purpose of which is to make
11    payments on final settlements or final judgments in
12    accordance with the State Employee Indemnification Act.
13    The plan shall be funded through appropriations from the
14    General Revenue Fund specifically designated for that
15    purpose, except that indemnification expenses for
16    employees of the Department of Transportation, the
17    Illinois State Police, and the Secretary of State shall be
18    paid from the Road Fund. The term "employee" as used in
19    this subdivision (12) has the same meaning as under
20    subsection (b) of Section 1 of the State Employee
21    Indemnification Act. Subject to sufficient appropriation,
22    the Director shall approve payment of any claim, without
23    regard to fiscal year limitations, presented to the
24    Director that is supported by a final settlement or final
25    judgment when the Attorney General and the chief officer of
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1    of action is asserted certify to the Director that the
2    claim is in accordance with the State Employee
3    Indemnification Act and that they approve of the payment.
4    In no event shall an amount in excess of $150,000 be paid
5    from this plan to or for the benefit of any claimant.
6        (13) Administer a plan the purpose of which is to make
7    payments on final settlements or final judgments for
8    employee wage claims in situations where there was an
9    appropriation relevant to the wage claim, the fiscal year
10    and lapse period have expired, and sufficient funds were
11    available to pay the claim. The plan shall be funded
12    through appropriations from the General Revenue Fund
13    specifically designated for that purpose.
14        Subject to sufficient appropriation, the Director is
15    authorized to pay any wage claim presented to the Director
16    that is supported by a final settlement or final judgment
17    when the chief officer of the State agency employing the
18    claimant certifies to the Director that the claim is a
19    valid wage claim and that the fiscal year and lapse period
20    have expired. Payment for claims that are properly
21    submitted and certified as valid by the Director shall
22    include interest accrued at the rate of 7% per annum from
23    the forty-fifth day after the claims are received by the
24    Department or 45 days from the date on which the amount of
25    payment is agreed upon, whichever is later, until the date
26    the claims are submitted to the Comptroller for payment.

 

 

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1    When the Attorney General has filed an appearance in any
2    proceeding concerning a wage claim settlement or judgment,
3    the Attorney General shall certify to the Director that the
4    wage claim is valid before any payment is made. In no event
5    shall an amount in excess of $150,000 be paid from this
6    plan to or for the benefit of any claimant.
7        Nothing in Public Act 84-961 shall be construed to
8    affect in any manner the jurisdiction of the Court of
9    Claims concerning wage claims made against the State of
10    Illinois.
11        (14) Prepare and, in the discretion of the Director,
12    implement a program for self-insurance for official
13    fidelity and surety bonds for officers and employees as
14    authorized by the Official Bond Act.
15(Source: P.A. 96-928, eff. 6-15-10.)