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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1814

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1814  on  page  1,
 3    immediately below line 3, by inserting the following:

 4        "Section   3.   The  Local  Government  Disaster  Service
 5    Volunteer Act is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:

 6        (50 ILCS 122/15)
 7        Sec. 15.  Local  government  disaster  service  volunteer
 8    leave.  An  employee  of  a  local  agency who is a certified
 9    disaster service volunteer  of  the  American  Red  Cross  or
10    assigned  to  the  Illinois  Emergency  Management  Agency in
11    accordance with the Illinois Emergency  Management  Act,  the
12    Emergency   Management   Assistance  Compact  Act,  or  other
13    applicable administrative rules may be granted leave from his
14    or her work with pay for not more than 20 working days in any
15    12-month period to participate in specialized disaster relief
16    services for the American  Red  Cross  or  for  the  Illinois
17    Emergency  Management  Agency,  as  the case may be, upon the
18    request of the American Red Cross or the  Illinois  Emergency
19    Management  Agency for the services of that employee and upon
20    the approval of  that  employee's  agency,  without  loss  of
21    seniority,  pay,  vacation  time, compensatory time, personal
22    days, sick time, or earned overtime accumulation. The  agency
 
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 1    must  compensate an employee granted leave under this Section
 2    at his or her regular rate of  pay  for  those  regular  work
 3    hours  during  which  the employee is absent from work. Leave
 4    under this Act shall not be unreasonably denied for  services
 5    related  to  a  disaster  within  the  United  States  or its
 6    territories may be granted only for  services  related  to  a
 7    disaster occurring within the State of Illinois.
 8    (Source: P.A. 92-95, eff. 7-18-01.)

 9        (50 ILCS 122/5 rep.)
10        Section   4.    The  Local  Government  Disaster  Service
11    Volunteer Act is amended by repealing Section 5.".

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