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 1        AN ACT concerning compensation.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The Law Enforcement Officers, Civil Defense
 5    Workers,  Civil  Air  Patrol  Members,  Paramedics,  Firemen,
 6    Chaplains, and State Employees Compensation Act is amended by
 7    changing Section 3 as follows:

 8        (820 ILCS 315/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 283)
 9        Sec. 3.  If a claim therefor is made within one  year  of
10    the  date  of  death  of  the  law enforcement officer, civil
11    defense worker, civil air patrol member, paramedic,  fireman,
12    chaplain,  or  State  employee, compensation in the amount of
13    $10,000 shall be paid to  the  person  designated  by  a  law
14    enforcement  officer,  civil defense worker, civil air patrol
15    member,  paramedic,  fireman,  chaplain,  or  State  employee
16    killed in the line of duty prior  to  January  1,  1974,  and
17    $20,000  if  such  death occurred after December 31, 1973 and
18    before July 1, 1983, $50,000 if such  death  occurred  on  or
19    after  July  1, 1983 and before January 1, 1996 the effective
20    date of this amendatory Act of  1995,  and  $100,000  if  the
21    death  occurred  on  or  after January 1, 1996 and before the
22    effective date of this amendatory Act  of  the  92nd  General
23    Assembly,  and $118,000 if the death occurred on or after the
24    effective date of this Amendatory Act  of  the  92nd  General
25    Assembly  and  before  January 1, 2003.  Beginning January 1,
26    2003, the death  compensation  rate  shall  be  increased  on
27    January  1  of  each  year  by  an  amount equal to 3% of the
28    compensation amount payable for  a  death  occurring  in  the
29    previous  year  the  effective date of this amendatory Act of
30    1995.  If no beneficiary is designated or  surviving  at  the
31    death  of  the law enforcement officer, civil defense worker,
 
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 1    civil air patrol member,  paramedic,  fireman,  chaplain,  or
 2    State  employee  killed in the line of duty, the compensation
 3    shall be paid as follows:
 4        (a)  when there is a surviving  spouse,  the  entire  sum
 5    shall be paid to the spouse;
 6        (b)  when  there  is no surviving spouse, but a surviving
 7    descendant of the decedent, the entire sum shall be  paid  to
 8    the decedent's descendants per stirpes;
 9        (c)  when  there  is  neither  a  surviving  spouse nor a
10    surviving descendant, the entire sum shall  be  paid  to  the
11    parents  of  the  decedent  in  equal  parts, allowing to the
12    surviving parent, if one is dead, the entire sum.
13        (d)  when there is no  surviving  spouse,  descendant  or
14    parent  of  the decedent, but there are surviving brothers or
15    sisters, or descendants of a  brother  or  sister,  who  were
16    receiving  their  principal  support from the decedent at his
17    death, the entire sum shall be paid, in equal parts,  to  the
18    dependent  brothers  or  sisters or dependent descendant of a
19    brother or sister.  Dependency shall  be  determined  by  the
20    Court  of  Claims  based upon the investigation and report of
21    the Attorney General.
22        When there is no beneficiary designated or  surviving  at
23    the  death  of  the  law  enforcement  officer, civil defense
24    worker,  civil  air  patrol  member,   paramedic,    fireman,
25    chaplain, or State employee killed in the line of duty and no
26    surviving spouse, descendant, parent nor dependent brother or
27    sister,  or  dependent  descendant of a brother or sister, no
28    compensation shall be payable under this Act.
29        No part of such compensation may be  paid  to  any  other
30    person for any efforts in securing such compensation.
31    (Source: P.A. 89-323, eff. 1-1-96.)

32        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
33    becoming law.

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