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90_HB2436
820 ILCS 320/10
Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act to provide
that benefits are available to covered employees killed or
injured in the line of duty on or after July 1, 1980 rather
than November 14, 1997. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act
2 by changing Section 10.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Public Safety Employee Benefits Act is
6 amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
7 (820 ILCS 320/10)
8 Sec. 10. Required health coverage benefits.
9 (a) An employer who employs a full-time law enforcement,
10 correctional or correctional probation officer, or
11 firefighter, who, on or after July 1, 1980, the effective
12 date of this Act suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed
13 in the line of duty shall pay the entire premium of the
14 employer's health insurance plan for the injured employee,
15 the injured employee's spouse, and for each dependent child
16 of the injured employee until the child reaches the age of
17 majority or until the end of the calendar year in which the
18 child reaches the age of 25 if the child continues to be
19 dependent for support or the child is a full-time or
20 part-time student and is dependent for support. The term
21 "health insurance plan" does not include supplemental
22 benefits that are not part of the basic group health
23 insurance plan. If the injured employee subsequently dies,
24 the employer shall continue to pay the entire health
25 insurance premium for the surviving spouse until remarried
26 and for the dependent children under the conditions
27 established in this Section. However:
28 (1) Health insurance benefits payable from any
29 other source shall reduce benefits payable under this
30 Section.
31 (2) It is unlawful for a person to willfully and
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1 knowingly make, or cause to be made, or to assist,
2 conspire with, or urge another to make, or cause to be
3 made, any false, fraudulent, or misleading oral or
4 written statement to obtain health insurance coverage as
5 provided under this Section. A violation of this item is
6 a Class A misdemeanor.
7 (3) Upon conviction for a violation described in
8 item (2), a law enforcement, correctional or correctional
9 probation officer, or other beneficiary who receives or
10 seeks to receive health insurance benefits under this
11 Section shall forfeit the right to receive health
12 insurance benefits and shall reimburse the employer for
13 all benefits paid due to the fraud or other prohibited
14 activity. For purposes of this item, "conviction" means
15 a determination of guilt that is the result of a plea or
16 trial, regardless of whether adjudication is withheld.
17 (b) In order for the law enforcement, correctional or
18 correctional probation officer, firefighter, spouse, or
19 dependent children to be eligible for insurance coverage
20 under this Act, the injury or death must have occurred as the
21 result of the officer's response to fresh pursuit, the
22 officer or firefighter's response to what is reasonably
23 believed to be an emergency, an unlawful act perpetrated by
24 another, or during the investigation of a criminal act.
25 Nothing in this Section shall be construed to limit health
26 insurance coverage or pension benefits for which the officer,
27 firefighter, spouse, or dependent children may otherwise be
28 eligible.
29 (Source: P.A. 90-535, eff. 11-14-97.)
30 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
31 becoming law.