97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB0206

 

Introduced 01/21/11, by Rep. Jack McGuire

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/3-114.1  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-114.1
30 ILCS 805/8.35 new

    Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Pension Code. Provides that the monthly pension of a police officer who receives a line of duty disability pension who was hired on or before January 1, 1979, who received a line of duty benefit on or after January 1, 1993 with at least 14 years of service, and who applies within 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall be increased in January of the year following the year he or she attains age 50 by 3% of the original grant of pension for each year he or she received pension payments, and, in each January thereafter, the police officer shall receive an additional increase of 3% of the original pension. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
5Section 3-114.1 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/3-114.1)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-114.1)
7    Sec. 3-114.1. Disability pension - Line of duty.
8    (a) If a police officer as the result of sickness, accident
9or injury incurred in or resulting from the performance of an
10act of duty, is found to be physically or mentally disabled for
11service in the police department, so as to render necessary his
12or her suspension or retirement from the police service, the
13police officer shall be entitled to a disability retirement
14pension equal to the greatest of (1) 65% of the salary attached
15to the rank on the police force held by the officer at the date
16of suspension of duty or retirement, (2) the retirement pension
17that the police officer would be eligible to receive if he or
18she retired (but not including any automatic annual increase in
19that retirement pension), or (3) the pension provided under
20subsection (d), if applicable.
21    A police officer shall be considered "on duty" while on any
22assignment approved by the chief of the police department of
23the municipality he or she serves, whether the assignment is

 

 

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1within or outside the municipality.
2    (b) If a police officer on disability pension dies while
3still disabled, the disability pension shall continue to be
4paid to his or her survivors in the sequence provided in
5Section 3-112.
6    (c) From and after July 1, 1987, any pension payable under
7this Section shall be at least $400 per month, without regard
8to the fact that the disability or death of the police officer
9occurred prior to that date. If the minimum pension established
10in Section 3-113.1 is greater than the minimum provided in this
11Section, the Section 3-113.1 minimum controls.
12    (d) A disabled police officer who (1) is receiving a
13pension under this Section on the effective date of this
14amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, (2) files with the
15Fund, within 30 days after that effective date and annually
16thereafter while the pension remains payable, a written
17application for the benefits of this subsection, including an
18affidavit stating that the applicant has not earned any income
19from gainful employment during the most recently concluded tax
20year and a copy of his or her most recent Illinois income tax
21return, (3) has service credit in the Fund for at least 7 years
22of active duty, and (4) has been receiving the pension under
23this Section for a period which, when added to the officer's
24total service credit in the Fund, equals at least 20 years,
25shall be eligible to receive an annual noncompounded increase
26in his or her pension under this Section, equal to 3% of the

 

 

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1original pension.
2    The Fund may take appropriate steps to verify the
3applicant's disability and earnings status, and for this
4purpose may request from the Department of Revenue a certified
5copy of the applicant's Illinois income tax return for any year
6for which a benefit under this Section is payable or has been
7paid.
8    The annual increase shall accrue on each anniversary of the
9initial pension payment date, for so long as the pension
10remains payable to the disabled police officer and the required
11annual application is made, except that the annual increases
12under this subsection shall cease if the disabled police
13officer earns income from gainful employment. Within 60 days
14after accepting an initial application under this subsection,
15the Fund shall pay to the disabled police officer, in a lump
16sum without interest, the amounts resulting from the annual
17increases that have accrued retroactively.
18    This subsection is not limited to persons in active service
19on or after its effective date, but it applies only to a
20pension that is payable under this Section to a disabled police
21officer (rather than a survivor). Upon the death of the
22disabled police officer, the annuity payable under this Section
23to his or her survivors shall include any annual increases
24previously received, but no additional increases shall accrue
25under this subsection.
26    (e) The monthly pension of a police officer who receives a

 

 

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1line of duty pension under this Section who was hired on or
2before January 1, 1979, who received a line of duty benefit on
3or after January 1, 1993 with at least 14 years of service, and
4who applies within 6 months after the effective date of this
5amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly shall be increased
6in January of the year following the year he or she attains age
750 by 3% of the original grant of pension for each year he or
8she received pension payments. In each January thereafter, the
9police officer shall receive an additional increase of 3% of
10the original pension.
11(Source: P.A. 91-939, eff. 2-1-01.)
 
12    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
13Section 8.35 as follows:
 
14    (30 ILCS 805/8.35 new)
15    Sec. 8.35. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
16of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
17implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
18the 97th General Assembly.
 
19    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20becoming law.