HB5317 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding Section 11-6-12 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/11-6-12 new)

Sec. 11-6-12. Reimbursement for lift-assist services.

(a) For purposes of this Section, the term "lift-assist service" means a response by a fire department, emergency response unit or a unit of another public safety department providing automatic or mutual aid to a municipality to an independent living facility, assisted living facility, nursing home facility, or other similar congregate care facility for the purpose of lifting a fallen patient or other individual to a pre-fall position that does not include a request for transportation via ambulance to a health care facility.

(b) 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.

The fees may not exceed the actual personnel and equipment costs for all services rendered by a municipality for services provided in connection with providing a patient or other individual lift-assist services.

(c) In addition to the fees imposed, a municipality may require that any 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 provide a written agreement 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 costs of medical treatment, disability payments, and pension payments for any injured municipal personnel.