FIRE MARSHAL-TRACK DEATHS, the official text

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1  AN ACT concerning State government.

2  Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3 represented in the General Assembly:

4  Section 5. The State Fire Marshal Act is amended by

5 changing Section 5 as follows:

6  (20 ILCS 2905/5)

7  (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a

8 delayed effective date)

9  Sec. 5. Tracking firefighter mortality. Beginning no later

10 than 6 months after January 1, 2026 (the effective date of

11 Public Act 104-102) this amendatory Act of the 104th General

12 Assembly, all fire departments and units of local government

13 that provide fire protection services in this State shall

14 report the death of any firefighter employed by the fire

15 department or unit of local government to the Office of the

16 State Fire Marshal. The information reported to the Office

17 shall include the cause and manner of death, including, but

18 not limited to, any deaths resulting from suicide and the

19 various types of cancer. If a firefighter separates from a

20 fire department or unit of local government with a known

21 cancer diagnosis and succumbs to that cancer within 12 months

22 after separation, the fire department or unit of local

23 government shall report the death to the Office. The the
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1 Office of the State Fire Marshal shall receive, track, and
2 record all reported firefighter deaths, including the cause
3 and the manner of death, as reported under this Section for all
4 firefighters in Illinois, including suicide and the various
5 types of cancer. The Office shall publish an annual report
6 concerning the information reported under this Section and
7 shall make the report available to the public no later than 90
8 days after the end of each calendar year.
9 (Source: P.A. 104-102, eff. 1-1-26.)

10  Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

11 becoming law.