Full Text of HB1035 95th General Assembly
HB1035 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB1035
Introduced 2/8/2007, by Rep. Mike Boland SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Authorizes the board of trustees to provide group insurance to employees. Sets forth requirements.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by | 5 |
| adding Section 6.3 as follows: | 6 |
| (70 ILCS 705/6.3 new) | 7 |
| Sec. 6.3. Group insurance. | 8 |
| (a) In addition and supplementary to the powers granted | 9 |
| under Section 6, the trustees of any fire protection district | 10 |
| may arrange
to provide, for the benefit of employees of the | 11 |
| district, group life,
health, accident, hospital, and medical | 12 |
| insurance, or any one or any
combination of those types of | 13 |
| insurance, and may arrange to provide that
insurance for the | 14 |
| benefit of the spouses or dependents of those employees.
The | 15 |
| insurance may include provision for employees or other insured | 16 |
| persons
who rely on treatment by prayer or spiritual means | 17 |
| alone for healing in
accordance with the tenets and practice of | 18 |
| a well recognized religious
denomination. The trustees may | 19 |
| provide for payment by the
district of a portion of the premium | 20 |
| or charge for the insurance with
the employee paying the | 21 |
| balance of the premium or charge. If the trustees undertake a | 22 |
| plan under which the district pays a portion of
the premium or | 23 |
| charge, the trustees shall provide for
withholding and |
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| deducting from the compensation of those employees who consent | 2 |
| to join the plan the balance of the premium or charge
for the | 3 |
| insurance. | 4 |
| (b) If the trustees do not provide for a plan under which
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| the district pays a portion of the premium or charge for a | 6 |
| group
insurance plan, the trustees may provide for withholding
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| and deducting from the compensation of those employees who | 8 |
| consent thereto
the premium or charge for any group life, | 9 |
| health, accident, hospital, and
medical insurance. | 10 |
| (c) The trustees may exercise the powers granted in this
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| Section only if the kinds of group insurance are obtained from | 12 |
| an
insurance company authorized to do business
in the State of | 13 |
| Illinois,
or are obtained through an
intergovernmental joint | 14 |
| self-insurance pool as authorized under the
Intergovernmental | 15 |
| Cooperation Act. The trustees shall be allowed to join or | 16 |
| create an intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool | 17 |
| regardless of size.
The
trustees may enact an ordinance | 18 |
| prescribing the method of
operation of the insurance program. | 19 |
| (d) If a district is a
self-insurer for purposes of | 20 |
| providing health insurance coverage for its
employees, the | 21 |
| insurance coverage shall include screening by low-dose
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| mammography for all women 35 years of age or older for the | 23 |
| presence of
occult breast cancer. The coverage shall be as | 24 |
| follows: | 25 |
| (1) A baseline mammogram for women 35 to 39 years of | 26 |
| age. |
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| (2) An annual mammogram for women 40 years of age or | 2 |
| older. | 3 |
| Those benefits shall be at least as favorable as for other | 4 |
| radiological
examinations and subject to the same dollar | 5 |
| limits, deductibles, and
co-insurance factors. For purposes of | 6 |
| this subsection, "low-dose mammography"
means the x-ray | 7 |
| examination of the breast using equipment dedicated
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| specifically for mammography, including the x-ray tube, | 9 |
| filter, compression
device, screens, and image receptors, with | 10 |
| an average radiation exposure
delivery of less than one rad | 11 |
| mid-breast, with 2 views for each breast.
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