Full Text of HB1507 94th General Assembly
HB1507 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB1507
Introduced 02/10/05, by Rep. David R. Leitch - William Delgado - Frank J. Mautino - Elizabeth Coulson - Carolyn H. Krause SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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5 ILCS 350/1 |
from Ch. 127, par. 1301 |
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Amends the State Employee Indemnification Act. Includes as "employees" for State indemnification purposes certain child welfare agencies providing services for the Department of Children and Family Services. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning 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 State Employee Indemnification Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 1 as follows: | 6 |
| (5 ILCS 350/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 1301)
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| Sec. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this Act:
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| (a) The term "State" means the State of Illinois, the | 9 |
| General
Assembly, the court, or any State office, department, | 10 |
| division, bureau,
board, commission, or committee, the | 11 |
| governing boards of the public
institutions of higher education | 12 |
| created by the State, the Illinois
National Guard, the | 13 |
| Comprehensive Health Insurance Board, any poison control
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| center designated under the Poison Control System Act that | 15 |
| receives State
funding, or any other agency or instrumentality | 16 |
| of the State. It
does not mean any local public entity as that | 17 |
| term is defined in Section
1-206 of the Local Governmental and | 18 |
| Governmental Employees Tort Immunity
Act or a pension fund.
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| (b) The term "employee" means any present or former elected | 20 |
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appointed officer, trustee or employee of the State, or of a | 21 |
| pension
fund,
any present or former commissioner or employee of | 22 |
| the Executive Ethics
Commission or of the Legislative Ethics | 23 |
| Commission, any present or former
Executive, Legislative, or | 24 |
| Auditor General's Inspector General, any present or
former | 25 |
| employee of an Office of an Executive, Legislative, or Auditor | 26 |
| General's
Inspector General, any present or former member of | 27 |
| the Illinois National
Guard
while on active duty, individuals | 28 |
| or organizations who contract with the
Department of | 29 |
| Corrections, the Comprehensive Health Insurance Board, or the
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| Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide services, | 31 |
| individuals or
organizations who contract with the Department | 32 |
| of Human Services (as
successor to the Department of Mental |
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| Health and Developmental
Disabilities) to provide services | 2 |
| including but not limited to treatment and
other services for | 3 |
| sexually violent persons, individuals or organizations who
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| contract with the Department of
Military
Affairs for youth | 5 |
| programs, individuals or
organizations who contract to perform | 6 |
| carnival and amusement ride safety
inspections for the | 7 |
| Department of Labor, individual representatives of or
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| designated organizations authorized to represent the Office of | 9 |
| State Long-Term
Ombudsman for the Department on Aging, | 10 |
| individual representatives of or
organizations designated by | 11 |
| the Department on Aging in the performance of their
duties as | 12 |
| elder abuse provider agencies or regional administrative | 13 |
| agencies
under the Elder Abuse and Neglect Act, individuals or | 14 |
| organizations who perform
volunteer services for the State | 15 |
| where such volunteer relationship is reduced
to writing, | 16 |
| individuals who serve on any public entity (whether created by | 17 |
| law
or administrative action) described in paragraph (a) of | 18 |
| this Section,
individuals or not for profit organizations who, | 19 |
| either as volunteers, where
such volunteer relationship is | 20 |
| reduced to writing, or pursuant to contract,
furnish | 21 |
| professional advice or consultation to any agency or | 22 |
| instrumentality of
the State, child welfare agencies providing | 23 |
| services for the Department of Children and Family Services | 24 |
| that are funded in part by Title IVB or Title IVE of the | 25 |
| federal Social Security Act, individuals who serve as foster | 26 |
| parents for the Department of
Children and Family Services when | 27 |
| caring for a Department ward, and individuals
who serve as | 28 |
| arbitrators pursuant to Part 10A of
Article II of the Code of | 29 |
| Civil Procedure and the rules of the Supreme Court
implementing | 30 |
| Part 10A, each as now or hereafter amended, but does not mean | 31 |
| an
independent contractor except as provided in this Section. | 32 |
| The term includes an
individual appointed as an inspector by | 33 |
| the Director of State Police when
performing duties within the | 34 |
| scope of the activities of a Metropolitan
Enforcement Group or | 35 |
| a law enforcement organization established under the
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| Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. An individual who renders |
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| professional
advice and consultation to the State through an | 2 |
| organization which qualifies as
an "employee" under the Act is | 3 |
| also an employee. The term includes the estate
or personal | 4 |
| representative of an employee.
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| (c) The term "pension fund" means a retirement system or | 6 |
| pension
fund created under the Illinois Pension Code.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-617, eff. 12-9-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 |
| becoming law.
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