{"id":"DUT-IL-005","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Illinois","state":"IL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Illinois General Assembly; Governor JB Pritzker (approved June 5, 2020)","authority":"Workers\u0027 Occupational Diseases Act, 820 ILCS 310, as amended","instrument":"Public Act 101-0633 (House Bill 2455), amending 820 ILCS 310/1 to add subsection (g)","title":"COVID-19 rebuttable presumption of occupational disease for first responders and front-line workers, including employees of essential businesses under Executive Order 2020-10; employer\u0027s rebuttal conditioned on applying CDC or IDPH guidance","dateIssued":"2020-06-05","effective":"2020-06-05 (applies to diagnoses on or after March 9, 2020 and on or before December 31, 2020, as enacted)","end":"2020-12-31 as enacted; extended to diagnoses through June 30, 2021 by Pub. Act 101-0653 (DUT-IL-012)","startDate":"2020-06-05","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["EMP","COND","DUTY"],"addressees":["employers of first responders, health care workers, corrections officers and employees of every essential business under EO 2020-10 meeting the public-contact or fifteen-employee condition"],"clause":"the employer was engaging in and applying to the fullest extent possible or enforcing to the best of its ability industry-specific workplace sanitation, social distancing, and health and safety practices based on updated guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or Illinois Department of Public Health","enforcement":"Liability for occupational-disease benefits under the Workers\u0027 Occupational Diseases Act unless the presumption is rebutted","functions":[],"notes":"For every \u0027COVID-19 first responder or front-line worker,\u0027 defined to include \u0027any individuals employed by essential businesses and operations as defined in Executive Order 2020-10\u0027 who were \u0027required by their employment to encounter members of the general public or to work in employment locations of more than 15 employees,\u0027 the exposure and contraction of COVID-19 \u0027shall be rebuttably presumed to have arisen out of and in the course of\u0027 employment; the employer may rebut only by evidence such as fourteen consecutive days of remote work or leave, or that the employer applied the CDC or IDPH workplace sanitation, distancing and health and safety practices, or engineering and administrative controls and PPE, \u0027for at least 14 consecutive days prior to\u0027 the injury.","sourceUrl":"https://www.ilga.gov/Documents/legislation/publicacts/101/PDF/101-0633.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":234274,"grade":"primary","character":"liability_shield_condition","description":"","collection":"DUT-IL","url":"/library/DUT-IL-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-IL-005","citation":"Illinois General Assembly; Governor JB Pritzker (approved June 5, 2020), Public Act 101-0633 (House Bill 2455), amending 820 ILCS 310/1 to add subsection (g) (June 5, 2020) (Ex. DUT-IL-005)","stateName":"Illinois","related":["DUT-IL-012"]}