Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

Filed: 2/28/2018

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3119

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3119 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
5changing Section 7-109 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/7-109)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109)
7    Sec. 7-109. Employee.
8    (1) "Employee" means any person who:
9        (a) 1. Receives earnings as payment for the performance
10    of personal services or official duties out of the general
11    fund of a municipality, or out of any special fund or funds
12    controlled by a municipality, or by an instrumentality
13    thereof, or a participating instrumentality, including, in
14    counties, the fees or earnings of any county fee office;
15    and
16        2. Under the usual common law rules applicable in

 

 

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1    determining the employer-employee relationship, has the
2    status of an employee with a municipality, or any
3    instrumentality thereof, or a participating
4    instrumentality, including aldermen, county supervisors
5    and other persons (excepting those employed as independent
6    contractors) who are paid compensation, fees, allowances
7    or other emolument for official duties, and, in counties,
8    the several county fee offices.
9        (b) Serves as a township treasurer appointed under the
10    School Code, as heretofore or hereafter amended, and who
11    receives for such services regular compensation as
12    distinguished from per diem compensation, and any regular
13    employee in the office of any township treasurer whether or
14    not his earnings are paid from the income of the permanent
15    township fund or from funds subject to distribution to the
16    several school districts and parts of school districts as
17    provided in the School Code, or from both such sources; or
18    is the chief executive officer, chief educational officer,
19    chief fiscal officer, or other employee of a Financial
20    Oversight Panel established pursuant to Article 1H of the
21    School Code, other than a superintendent or certified
22    school business official, except that such person shall not
23    be treated as an employee under this Section if that person
24    has negotiated with the Financial Oversight Panel, in
25    conjunction with the school district, a contractual
26    agreement for exclusion from this Section.

 

 

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1        (c) Holds an elective office in a municipality,
2    instrumentality thereof or participating instrumentality.
3    (2) "Employee" does not include persons who:
4        (a) Are eligible for inclusion under any of the
5    following laws:
6            1. "An Act in relation to an Illinois State
7        Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund", approved May
8        27, 1915, as amended;
9            2. Articles 15 and 16 of this Code.
10        However, such persons shall be included as employees to
11    the extent of earnings that are not eligible for inclusion
12    under the foregoing laws for services not of an
13    instructional nature of any kind.
14        However, any member of the armed forces who is employed
15    as a teacher of subjects in the Reserve Officers Training
16    Corps of any school and who is not certified under the law
17    governing the certification of teachers shall be included
18    as an employee.
19        (b) Are designated by the governing body of a
20    municipality in which a pension fund is required by law to
21    be established for policemen or firemen, respectively, as
22    performing police or fire protection duties, except that
23    when such persons are the heads of the police or fire
24    department and are not eligible to be included within any
25    such pension fund, they shall be included within this
26    Article; provided, that such persons shall not be excluded

 

 

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1    to the extent of concurrent service and earnings not
2    designated as being for police or fire protection duties.
3    However, (i) any head of a police department who was a
4    participant under this Article immediately before October
5    1, 1977 and did not elect, under Section 3-109 of this Act,
6    to participate in a police pension fund shall be an
7    "employee", and (ii) any chief of police who became a
8    participating employee under this Article before January
9    1, 2019 and who elects to participate in this Fund under
10    Section 3-109.1 of this Code, regardless of whether such
11    person continues to be employed as chief of police or is
12    employed in some other rank or capacity within the police
13    department, shall be an employee under this Article for so
14    long as such person is employed to perform police duties by
15    a participating municipality and has not lawfully
16    rescinded that election.
17        (b-5) Were not participating employees under this
18    Article before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
19    the 100th General Assembly and participated as a chief of
20    police in a fund under Article 3 and return to work in any
21    capacity with the police department, with any oversight of
22    the police department, or in an advisory capacity for the
23    police department with the same municipality with which
24    that pension was earned, regardless of whether they are
25    considered an employee of the police department or are
26    eligible for inclusion in the municipality's Article 3

 

 

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1    fund.
2        (c) Are contributors to or eligible to contribute to a
3    Taft-Hartley pension plan to which the participating
4    municipality is required to contribute as the person's
5    employer based on earnings from the municipality. Nothing
6    in this paragraph shall affect service credit or creditable
7    service for any period of service prior to the effective
8    date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly,
9    and this paragraph shall not apply to individuals who are
10    participating in the Fund prior to the effective date of
11    this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.
12        (d) Become an employee of any of the following
13    participating instrumentalities on or after the effective
14    date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly:
15    the Illinois Municipal League; the Illinois Association of
16    Park Districts; the Illinois Supervisors, County
17    Commissioners and Superintendents of Highways Association;
18    an association, or not-for-profit corporation, membership
19    in which is authorized under Section 85-15 of the Township
20    Code; the United Counties Council; or the Will County
21    Governmental League.
22    (3) All persons, including, without limitation, public
23defenders and probation officers, who receive earnings from
24general or special funds of a county for performance of
25personal services or official duties within the territorial
26limits of the county, are employees of the county (unless

 

 

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1excluded by subsection (2) of this Section) notwithstanding
2that they may be appointed by and are subject to the direction
3of a person or persons other than a county board or a county
4officer. It is hereby established that an employer-employee
5relationship under the usual common law rules exists between
6such employees and the county paying their salaries by reason
7of the fact that the county boards fix their rates of
8compensation, appropriate funds for payment of their earnings
9and otherwise exercise control over them. This finding and this
10amendatory Act shall apply to all such employees from the date
11of appointment whether such date is prior to or after the
12effective date of this amendatory Act and is intended to
13clarify existing law pertaining to their status as
14participating employees in the Fund.
15(Source: P.A. 99-830, eff. 1-1-17; 100-281, eff. 8-24-17.)
 
16    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
171, 2019.".