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91_SB0804
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Municipal Code by changing
2 Section 10-4-2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section . The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
6 changing
7 (65 ILCS 5/10-4-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-2)
8 Sec. 10-4-2. Group insurance.
9 (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality may
10 arrange to provide, for the benefit of employees of the
11 municipality, group life, health, accident, hospital, and
12 medical insurance, or any one or any combination of those
13 types of insurance, and may arrange to provide that insurance
14 for the benefit of the spouses or dependents of those
15 employees. The insurance may include provision for employees
16 or other insured persons who rely on treatment by prayer or
17 spiritual means alone for healing in accordance with the
18 tenets and practice of a well recognized religious
19 denomination. The corporate authorities may provide for
20 payment by the municipality of a portion of the premium or
21 charge for the insurance with the employee paying the balance
22 of the premium or charge. If the corporate authorities
23 undertake a plan under which the municipality pays a portion
24 of the premium or charge, the corporate authorities shall
25 provide for withholding and deducting from the compensation
26 of those municipal employees who consent to join the plan the
27 balance of the premium or charge for the insurance.
28 (b) If the corporate authorities do not provide for a
29 plan under which the municipality pays a portion of the
30 premium or charge for a group insurance plan, the corporate
31 authorities may provide for withholding and deducting from
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1 the compensation of those employees who consent thereto the
2 premium or charge for any group life, health, accident,
3 hospital, and medical insurance.
4 (c) The corporate authorities may exercise the powers
5 granted in this Section only if the kinds of group insurance
6 are obtained from an insurance company authorized to do
7 business in the State of Illinois, or are obtained through an
8 intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool as authorized
9 under the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. The corporate
10 authorities may enact an ordinance prescribing the method of
11 operation of the insurance program.
12 (d) If a municipality, including a home rule
13 municipality, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing
14 health insurance coverage for its employees, the insurance
15 coverage shall include screening by low-dose mammography for
16 all women 35 years of age or older for the presence of occult
17 breast cancer unless the municipality elects to provide
18 mammograms itself under Section 10-4-2.1. The coverage shall
19 be as follows:
20 (1) A baseline mammogram for women 35 to 39 years
21 of age.
22 (2) An annual mammogram for women 40 years of age
23 or older.
24 Those benefits shall be at least as favorable as for
25 other radiological examinations and subject to the same
26 dollar limits, deductibles, and co-insurance factors. For
27 purposes of this subsection, "low-dose mammography" means the
28 x-ray examination of the breast using equipment dedicated
29 specifically for mammography, including the x-ray tube,
30 filter, compression device, screens, and image receptors,
31 with an average radiation exposure delivery of less than one
32 rad mid-breast, with 2 views for each breast. The requirement
33 that mammograms be included in health insurance coverage as
34 provided in this subsection (d) is an exclusive power and
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1 function of the State and is a denial and limitation under
2 Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois
3 Constitution of home rule municipality powers. A home rule
4 municipality to which this subsection applies must comply
5 with every provision of this subsection.
6 (Source: P.A. 90-7, eff. 6-10-97.)