093_SB1668
LRB093 02970 WGH 02986 b
1 AN ACT in relation to health in the workplace.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Workers' Compensation Act is amended by
5 changing Section 4a-1 as follows:
6 (820 ILCS 305/4a-1) (from Ch. 48, par. 138.4a-1)
7 Sec. 4a-1. Self-Insurers Advisory Board. The
8 Self-Insurers Advisory Board is hereby established within the
9 Commission for the purpose of providing for the continuation
10 of workers' compensation and occupational disease benefits
11 due and unpaid or interrupted due to the inability of an
12 insolvent self-insurer as defined in subsection (d) of
13 Section 4a-2 to meet its compensation obligations when the
14 employers' financial resources, security deposit, guaranty
15 agreements, surety agreements and excess insurance are either
16 inadequate or not immediately accessible for the payment of
17 benefits, and to review and recommend to the Chairman of the
18 Commission the disposition of all initial and renewal
19 applications to self-insure filed by private self-insurers
20 under this Act and the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act.
21 (Source: P.A. 85-1385.)