The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Illinois
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, 820 ILCS 310
- Issued
- 2026-09-28 Sept. 28, 2026
- Effective
- 2020-06-05 (diagnoses from March 9, 2020) (read as 2020-06-05)
- End
- presumption window closed for diagnoses after June 30, 2021 (read as 2021-06-30)
- In force
- June 5, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding dutyOperating condition
- Addressees
- employers of essential-business employees with public contact or at locations of more than fifteen employees; health care, first-responder and corrections employers
- Character
- liability shield condition
- Collection
- Standing duties: Illinois DUT-IL
Operative words
any individuals employed by essential businesses and operations as defined in Executive Order 2020-10 dated March 20, 2020, as long as individuals employed by essential businesses and operations are required by their employment to encounter members of the general public or to work in employment locations of more than 15 employees.
Penalty
Occupational-disease liability unless rebutted
What it required
Codifies the presumption and the rebuttal; subsection (g)(3)(B) defines 'personal protective equipment' to include 'face coverings, gloves, safety glasses, safety face shields, barriers' and defines 'updated' guidance as that 'in effect at least 14 days prior to the COVID-19 diagnosis.'
Retrieval noteThe compiled section shows the June 30, 2021 date inserted by P.A. 101-653 (DUT-IL-012).