96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2755


 
Introduced 1/28/2010, by Sen. John J. Cullerton
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		







  



820 ILCS 160/2
  from Ch. 48, par. 39x








    Amends the Employee Benefit Contribution Act.  Makes a technical change in
a Section concerning the failure to make payments to an employee health
insurance plan.
















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SB2755

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    AN ACT concerning employment.

 
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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 Employee Benefit Contribution Act is amended 
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by changing Section 2 as follows:
 



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    (820 ILCS 160/2)  (from Ch. 48, par. 39x)



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    Sec. 2. 
Any employer who has agreed to make payments to an 
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employee
health insurance plan shall notify its employees of 
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any failure to make
such payments where such failure shall 
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result in the
the total
loss of insurance coverage
so as to 
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provide its employees a reasonable opportunity to replace such

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coverage at the time the employee health insurance plan 
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terminates.
The employer must provide written notification 
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directly to each of its
employees who
are covered under the 
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plan.  Any employer who fails to provide timely notice of a

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prospective
termination of a health insurance plan, which 
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failure results in the
deprivation
of the opportunity to 
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replace such coverage and which further results in
damages to 
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one or more employees arising from the loss of coverage,
shall 
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be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. 
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(Source: P.A. 92-126, eff. 1-1-02.)