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92_HB0153eng
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1 AN ACT to amend the Religious and Charitable Risk Pooling
2 Trust Act by changing Sections 2, 6, and 15.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Religious and Charitable Risk Pooling
6 Trust Act is amended by changing Sections 2, 6, and 15 as
7 follows:
8 (215 ILCS 150/2) (from Ch. 148, par. 202)
9 Sec. 2. Authorized organizations; purpose. Any number
10 of organizations which are all exempt from taxation under
11 paragraph (3) subsection 3 of subsection paragraph (c) of
12 Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended
13 or as it may be amended hereafter are authorized to establish
14 and become beneficiaries of a trust fund for the purpose of:
15 (1) providing protection for themselves against the risk of
16 financial loss due to damage, destruction or loss to property
17 or the imposition of legal liability; or (2) providing
18 protection for their employees or full-time students, but not
19 dependents, against the risk of financial loss due to
20 accident, sickness, or disablement. Any of such
21 organizations' affiliated title holding corporations that are
22 exempt from taxation under paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of
23 Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended
24 or as it may be amended hereafter, are authorized to
25 establish or become beneficiaries of a trust for the purpose
26 of providing protection for themselves against the risk of
27 financial loss due to damage, destruction, or loss to
28 property or the imposition of legal liability.
29 A hospital or long-term care facility owned and operated
30 by a tax exempt unit of local government and such unit of
31 local government, in relation to and to the extent of its
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1 liabilities arising from the ownership or operation of such
2 hospital or long-term care facility, may participate in the
3 establishment of and may become beneficiaries of a trust fund
4 established under this Act for the purpose of providing
5 protection against the risk of financial loss due to the
6 imposition of legal liability.
7 (Source: P.A. 88-364.)
8 (215 ILCS 150/6) (from Ch. 148, par. 206)
9 Sec. 6. Risk pools; risk retention groups.
10 (a) A trust fund may enter into written agreements with
11 other trust funds established under this Act whereby the
12 risks assumed by any such trust fund may be pooled and shared
13 with such other trust funds.
14 (b) A trust fund may enter into written agreements for
15 the purpose of assuming risks from (i) risk pools or risk
16 retention groups established or organized pursuant to the
17 laws of any other state exclusively to provide protections,
18 as described in this Act, to organizations which are exempt
19 from taxation under paragraph subsection (3) of subsection
20 paragraph (c) of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, as
21 amended from time to time, and their affiliated title holding
22 corporations that are exempt from taxation under paragraph
23 (2) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue
24 Code of 1954, as amended from time to time, or (ii) insurance
25 companies with regard to protections, as described in this
26 Act, exclusively for organizations which are exempt from
27 taxation, as aforesaid. As a condition to such authority,
28 any trust fund so assuming risk from any risk pool, risk
29 retention group or insurance company, shall, directly or
30 through an underwriting manager controlled by it, underwrite
31 risks assumed by it either on a facultative basis or on a
32 primary basis pursuant to an underwriting management
33 agreement with the entity from which risk is being assumed.
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1 Such underwriting management agreement shall provide for
2 underwriting risks assumed on behalf of both the ceding
3 entity and the assuming trust fund. For purposes of this
4 subsection (b), the term "underwrite" shall include, but not
5 be limited to, classification, selection and pricing of
6 risks.
7 (Source: P.A. 85-131; 85-329.)
8 (215 ILCS 150/15) (from Ch. 148, par. 215)
9 Sec. 15. Ineligible beneficiaries. A beneficiary is
10 ineligible (1) if it is not exempt from taxation under
11 paragraph (3) subsection 3 of subsection (c) paragraph (C) of
12 Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended,
13 or an affiliate of a corporation exempt from taxation under
14 paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the
15 Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and exempt from taxation
16 under paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the
17 Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, or tax exempt as a
18 unit of local government or as a hospital owned and operated
19 by a unit of local government or; (2) if a corporation, it is
20 not incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation; or; (3) if
21 a foreign or alien corporation, it no longer has a
22 Certificate of Authority issued by the Secretary of State.
23 (Source: P.A. 81-602.)
24 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.
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