Full Text of SB0658 102nd General Assembly
SB0658ham002 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez Filed: 10/28/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 658
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 658 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended | 5 | | by changing Section 3 as follows:
| 6 | | (50 ILCS 750/3) (from Ch. 134, par. 33)
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2023)
| 8 | | Sec. 3.
(a) By July 1, 2017, every local public agency | 9 | | shall be within the jurisdiction of a 9-1-1 system.
| 10 | | (b) Within 18 months of the awarding of a contract to a | 11 | | vendor certified under Section 13-900 of the Public Utilities | 12 | | Act to provide Next Generation 9-1-1 service, every 9-1-1 | 13 | | system in Illinois, except in a municipality with a population | 14 | | over 500,000, shall provide Next Generation 9-1-1 service. A | 15 | | municipality with a population over 500,000 shall provide Next | 16 | | Generation 9-1-1 service by December 31, 2023. |
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| 1 | | Notwithstanding any provision of the Illinois Municipal | 2 | | Code, a private sector company providing emergency services to | 3 | | a municipality in a county with a population of at least | 4 | | 3,000,000 people must give written notice to the municipality | 5 | | it has a contract with or for which it currently provides | 6 | | emergency services not less than 12 months prior to | 7 | | termination of services. If an emergency services contract is | 8 | | terminated, the company terminating the emergency services | 9 | | contract may not increase the fees of any remaining contract | 10 | | by more than 3% of the fees from the previous year. Any private | 11 | | sector company that (i) terminates or (ii) has terminated an | 12 | | emergency services contract within 12 months of the effective | 13 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly or | 14 | | thereafter, prior to the natural expiration of the contract | 15 | | term, and subsequently seeks an increase in the annual | 16 | | contract value of more than 10%, shall be required to | 17 | | participate in mandatory arbitration and present its just | 18 | | cause for the requested increase. The arbitrator shall | 19 | | determine whether the request of the private sector company | 20 | | providing emergency services is based in good faith, and if | 21 | | not, whether a penalty should be imposed, up to and including, | 22 | | barring the private sector company providing emergency | 23 | | services from contracting with any units of local government | 24 | | or entities that receive funding under this Act for emergency | 25 | | services for a term determined by the arbitrator. As used in | 26 | | this Section, "emergency services" includes, but is not |
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| 1 | | limited to, dispatch, 9-1-1, paramedic, or ambulance services. | 2 | | (c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or
| 3 | | discourage in any way the formation of multijurisdictional or | 4 | | regional
systems, and any system established pursuant to this | 5 | | Act may include the
territory of more than one public agency or | 6 | | may include a segment of the
territory of a public agency.
| 7 | | (Source: P.A. 101-639, eff. 6-12-20; 102-9, eff. 6-3-21.)
| 8 | | Section 10. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems | 9 | | Act is amended by adding Section 3.260 as follows: | 10 | | (210 ILCS 50/3.260 new) | 11 | | Sec. 3.260. Contracts with municipalities. Notwithstanding | 12 | | any provision of the Illinois Municipal Code, a private sector | 13 | | company providing emergency services to a municipality in a | 14 | | county with a population of at least 3,000,000 people must | 15 | | give written notice to the municipality it has a contract with | 16 | | or for which it currently provides emergency services not less | 17 | | than 12 months prior to termination of services. If an | 18 | | emergency services contract is terminated, the company | 19 | | terminating the emergency services contract may not increase | 20 | | the fees of any remaining contract by more than 3% of the fees | 21 | | from the previous year. Any private sector company that (i) | 22 | | terminates or (ii) has terminated an emergency services | 23 | | contract within 12 months of the effective date of this | 24 | | amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly or thereafter, |
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| 1 | | prior to the natural expiration of the contract term, and | 2 | | subsequently seeks an increase in the annual contract value of | 3 | | more than 10%, shall be required to participate in mandatory | 4 | | arbitration and present its just cause for the requested | 5 | | increase. The arbitrator shall determine whether the request | 6 | | of the private sector company providing emergency services is | 7 | | based in good faith, and if not, whether a penalty should be | 8 | | imposed, up to and including, barring the private sector | 9 | | company providing emergency services from contracting with any | 10 | | units of local government or entities that receive funding | 11 | | under this Act for emergency services for a term determined by | 12 | | the arbitrator. As used in this Section, "emergency services" | 13 | | includes, but is not limited to, dispatch, 9-1-1, paramedic, | 14 | | or ambulance services. | 15 | | As used in this Section, "emergency services" includes, | 16 | | but is not limited to, dispatch, 9-1-1, paramedic, or | 17 | | ambulance services.
| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 | | becoming law.".
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