Sen. John G. Mulroe

Filed: 3/15/2013

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2339

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2339 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Intergovernmental Cooperation Act is
5amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 220/6)  (from Ch. 127, par. 746)
7    Sec. 6. Joint self-insurance. An intergovernmental
8contract may, among other undertakings, authorize public
9agencies to jointly self-insure and authorize each public
10agency member of the contract to utilize its funds to pay to a
11joint insurance pool its costs and reserves to protect, wholly
12or partially, itself or any public agency member of the
13contract against liability or loss in the designated insurable
14area.
15    A joint insurance pool shall have an annual audit performed
16by an independent certified public accountant and shall file an

 

 

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1annual audited financial report with the Director of Insurance
2no later than 150 days after the end of the pool's immediately
3preceding fiscal year. The Director of Insurance shall issue
4rules necessary to implement this audit and report requirement.
5The rule shall establish the due date for filing the initial
6annual audited financial report. Within 30 days after January
71, 1991, and within 30 days after each January 1 thereafter,
8public agencies that are jointly self-insured to protect
9against liability under the Workers' Compensation Act and the
10Workers' Occupational Diseases Act shall file with the Illinois
11Workers' Compensation Commission a report indicating an
12election to self-insure.
13    The joint insurance pool shall also annually file with the
14Director a certification by an independent actuary that the
15pool's reserves are in accordance with sound loss-reserving and
16adequate for the payment of claims. This certification must be
17filed no later than 150 days after the end of each fiscal year.
18If the joint insurance pool obtains aggregate coverage or uses
19any other reinsurance mechanism, then the independent
20actuary's certification need only account for the primary level
21of coverage provided by the joint insurance pool prior to
22reinsurance. The independent actuary's certification shall
23also indicate the conditions under which the aggregate coverage
24or other reinsurance mechanism takes effect. In addition, the
25joint insurance pool must annually provide the Department with
26an accurate statement of the amount of coverage provided

 

 

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1through aggregate coverage or any other reinsurance mechanism.
2    The Director may adopt, by administrative rule,
3appropriate penalties for joint insurance pools that fail to
4comply with the auditing, reporting, and certification
5requirements of this Section. The Director, or his or her
6designees, may examine the affairs, transactions, accounts,
7records, and assets and liabilities of each joint insurance
8pool as often as the Director deems advisable. The joint
9insurance pool shall cooperate fully with the Director's
10representatives in all evaluations and audits of the joint
11insurance pool and resolve issues raised in those evaluations
12and audits. The failure to resolve those issues shall
13constitute a violation of this Section, and may, after notice
14and an opportunity to be heard, result in the imposition of
15penalties established by the Director by administrative rule.
16No sanctions under this Section may become effective until 30
17days after the date that a notice of sanctions is delivered by
18registered or certified mail to the joint insurance pool.
19    If a joint insurance pool requires a member to submit
20written notice in order for the member to withdraw from a
21qualified pool, then the period in which the member must
22provide the written notice cannot be greater than 90 days,
23except that this requirement applies only to joint insurance
24pool agreements entered into, modified, or renewed on or after
25the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General
26Assembly and this requirement does not apply during the initial

 

 

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1year of membership in the joint insurance pool.
2    The joint insurance pool shall notify each public agency
3member of the deadline for withdrawing from the pool at least
430 days before the deadline for withdrawal.
5    For purposes of this Section, "public agency member" means
6any public agency defined or created under this Act, any local
7public entity as defined in Section 1-206 of the Local
8Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, and
9any public agency, authority, instrumentality, council, board,
10service region, district, unit, bureau, or, commission, or any
11municipal corporation, college, or university, whether
12corporate or otherwise, and any other local governmental body
13or similar entity that is presently existing or created after
14the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General
15Assembly, whether or not specified in this Section. Only public
16agency members with tax receipts, tax revenues, taxing
17authority, or other resources sufficient to pay costs and to
18service debt related to intergovernmental activities described
19in this Section, or public agency members created by or as part
20of a public agency with these powers, may enter into contracts
21or otherwise associate among themselves as permitted in this
22Section.
23    No joint insurance pool or other intergovernmental
24cooperative offering health insurance shall interfere with the
25statutory obligation of any public agency member to bargain
26over or to reach agreement with a labor organization over a

 

 

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1mandatory subject of collective bargaining as those terms are
2used in the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. No
3intergovernmental contract of insurance offering health
4insurance shall limit the rights or obligations of public
5agency members to engage in collective bargaining, and it shall
6be unlawful for a joint insurance pool or other
7intergovernmental cooperative offering health insurance to
8discriminate against public agency members or otherwise
9retaliate against such members for limiting their
10participation in a joint insurance pool as a result of a
11collective bargaining agreement.
12    It shall not be considered a violation of this Section for
13an intergovernmental contract of insurance relating to health
14insurance coverage, life insurance coverage, or both to permit
15the pool or cooperative, if a member withdraws employees or
16officers into a union-sponsored program, to re-price the costs
17of benefits provided to the continuing employees or officers
18based upon the same underwriting criteria used by that pool or
19cooperative in the normal course of its business, but no member
20shall be expelled from a pool or cooperative if the continuing
21employees or officers meet the general criteria required of
22other members.
23(Source: P.A. 93-721, eff. 1-1-05; 94-685, eff. 11-2-05.)".