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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 316
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 316 on page 1,
3 line 2, by replacing "Section 25" with "Sections 25 and 55";
4 and
5 on page 1, line 6, by replacing "Section 25" with "Sections
6 25 and 55"; and
7 on page 1, after line 28, by inserting the following:
8 "(225 ILCS 46/55)
9 Sec. 55. Immunity from liability. A health care
10 employer shall not be liable for the failure to hire or to
11 retain an applicant or employee who has been convicted of
12 committing or attempting to commit one or more of the
13 offenses enumerated in Section 25 of the Act. However, if a
14 health care worker is suspended from employment based on the
15 results of a criminal background check conducted under this
16 Act and the results prompting the suspension are subsequently
17 found to be inaccurate, the health care worker is entitled to
18 recover backpay from his or her health care employer for the
19 suspension period provided that the employer is the cause of
20 the inaccuracy.
21 No health care employer shall be chargeable for any
22 benefit charges that result from the payment of unemployment
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1 benefits to any claimant when the claimant's separation from
2 that employer occurred because the claimant's criminal
3 background included an offense enumerated in Section 25, or
4 the claimant's separation from that health care employer
5 occurred as a result of the claimant violating a policy that
6 the employer was required to maintain pursuant to the Drug
7 Free Workplace Act.
8 (Source: P.A. 89-197, eff. 7-21-95; 89-674, eff. 8-14-96.)".