97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB2958

 

Introduced 2/23/2011, by Rep. Lisa M. Dugan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/7-109.3  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3
40 ILCS 5/7-142.1  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-142.1
40 ILCS 5/7-150  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-150
40 ILCS 5/7-156  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-156
30 ILCS 805/8.35 new

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if a full-time firefighter or firefighter/paramedic employed by a city, village, incorporated town, or township that meets certain requirements is not eligible to participate in a retirement fund created under the Downstate Firefighters Article of the Code, then he or she is eligible to participate, as a sheriff's law enforcement employee, under the IMRF Article of the Code. Specifies survivor and occupational disease disability benefits that are available to the qualifying firefighters. 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
5Sections 7-109.3, 7-142.1, 7-150, and 7-156 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
7    Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
8    (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
9        (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than
10    special deputies, employed on a full time basis in the
11    office of the sheriff.
12        (2) A person who has elected to participate in this
13    Fund under Section 3-109.1 of this Code, and who is
14    employed by a participating municipality to perform police
15    duties.
16        (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time
17    basis by a Forest Preserve District, provided that such
18    officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's law enforcement
19    employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
20    that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's
21    law enforcement employee, only if the board of
22    commissioners of the District have so elected by adoption
23    of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made, may

 

 

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1    not be rescinded.
2        (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund
3    established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed on
4    a full-time basis by a participating municipality or
5    participating instrumentality to perform police duties at
6    an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
7    employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee
8    status for its airport police employees by adoption of an
9    affirmative resolution. Such approval, once given, may not
10    be rescinded.
11        (5) Any full-time firefighter or firefighter/paramedic
12    employed by a city, village, incorporated town, or township
13    that has a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants, is
14    located in a county of more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, and
15    employs 40 or more full-time paid firefighters or
16    firefighter/paramedics who are subject to a collective
17    bargaining agreement, provided that such a person is not
18    eligible to participate in a fund established under Article
19    4 of this Code.
20    (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee
21and is granted military leave or authorized leave of absence
22shall receive service credit in that capacity. Sheriff's law
23enforcement employees shall not be entitled to out-of-State
24service credit under Section 7-139.
25(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
 

 

 

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1    (40 ILCS 5/7-142.1)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-142.1)
2    Sec. 7-142.1. Sheriff's law enforcement employees.
3    (a) In lieu of the retirement annuity provided by
4subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of Section 7-142:
5    Any sheriff's law enforcement employee who has 20 or more
6years of service in that capacity and who terminates service
7prior to January 1, 1988 shall be entitled at his option to
8receive a monthly retirement annuity for his service as a
9sheriff's law enforcement employee computed by multiplying 2%
10for each year of such service up to 10 years, 2 1/4% for each
11year of such service above 10 years and up to 20 years, and 2
121/2% for each year of such service above 20 years, by his
13annual final rate of earnings and dividing by 12.
14    Any sheriff's law enforcement employee who has 20 or more
15years of service in that capacity and who terminates service on
16or after January 1, 1988 and before July 1, 2004 shall be
17entitled at his option to receive a monthly retirement annuity
18for his service as a sheriff's law enforcement employee
19computed by multiplying 2.5% for each year of such service up
20to 20 years, 2% for each year of such service above 20 years
21and up to 30 years, and 1% for each year of such service above
2230 years, by his annual final rate of earnings and dividing by
2312.
24    Any sheriff's law enforcement employee who has 20 or more
25years of service in that capacity and who terminates service on
26or after July 1, 2004 shall be entitled at his or her option to

 

 

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1receive a monthly retirement annuity for service as a sheriff's
2law enforcement employee computed by multiplying 2.5% for each
3year of such service by his annual final rate of earnings and
4dividing by 12.
5    If a sheriff's law enforcement employee has service in any
6other capacity, his retirement annuity for service as a
7sheriff's law enforcement employee may be computed under this
8Section and the retirement annuity for his other service under
9Section 7-142.
10    In no case shall the total monthly retirement annuity for
11persons who retire before July 1, 2004 exceed 75% of the
12monthly final rate of earnings. In no case shall the total
13monthly retirement annuity for persons who retire on or after
14July 1, 2004 exceed 80% of the monthly final rate of earnings.
15    (b) Whenever continued group insurance coverage is elected
16in accordance with the provisions of Section 367h of the
17Illinois Insurance Code, as now or hereafter amended, the total
18monthly premium for such continued group insurance coverage or
19such portion thereof as is not paid by the municipality shall,
20upon request of the person electing such continued group
21insurance coverage, be deducted from any monthly pension
22benefit otherwise payable to such person pursuant to this
23Section, to be remitted by the Fund to the insurance company or
24other entity providing the group insurance coverage.
25    (c) A sheriff's law enforcement employee who has service in
26any other capacity may convert up to 10 years of that service

 

 

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1into service as a sheriff's law enforcement employee by paying
2to the Fund an amount equal to (1) the additional employee
3contribution required under Section 7-173.1, plus (2) the
4additional employer contribution required under Section 7-172,
5plus (3) interest on items (1) and (2) at the prescribed rate
6from the date of the service to the date of payment.
7    (d) The changes to subsections (a) and (b) of this Section
8made by this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly apply
9only to persons in service on or after July 1, 2004. In the
10case of such a person who begins to receive a retirement
11annuity before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
1294th General Assembly, the annuity shall be recalculated
13prospectively to reflect those changes, with the resulting
14increase beginning to accrue on the first annuity payment date
15following the effective date of this amendatory Act.
16    (e) Any elected county officer who was entitled to receive
17a stipend from the State on or after July 1, 2009 and on or
18before June 30, 2010 may establish earnings credit for the
19amount of stipend not received, if the elected county official
20applies in writing to the fund within 6 months after the
21effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
22Assembly and pays to the fund an amount equal to (i) employee
23contributions on the amount of stipend not received, (ii)
24employer contributions determined by the Board equal to the
25employer's normal cost of the benefit on the amount of stipend
26not received, plus (iii) interest on items (i) and (ii) at the

 

 

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1actuarially assumed rate.
2    (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article,
3the provisions of this subsection (f) apply to a person who
4first becomes a sheriff's law enforcement employee under this
5Article on or after January 1, 2011, except any person employed
6as a firefighter or firefighter/paramedic before January 1,
72011, who, after that date, first becomes a sheriff's law
8enforcement employee under this Article by operation of
9paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of Section 7-109.3.
10    A sheriff's law enforcement employee age 55 or more who has
1110 or more years of service in that capacity shall be entitled
12at his option to receive a monthly retirement annuity for his
13or her service as a sheriff's law enforcement employee computed
14by multiplying 2.5% for each year of such service by his or her
15final rate of earnings.
16    The retirement annuity of a sheriff's law enforcement
17employee who is retiring after attaining age 50 with 10 or more
18years of creditable service shall be reduced by one-half of 1%
19for each month that the sheriff's law enforcement employee's
20age is under age 55.
21    The maximum retirement annuity under this subsection (f)
22shall be 75% of final rate of earnings.
23    For the purposes of this subsection (f), "final rate of
24earnings" means the average monthly earnings obtained by
25dividing the total salary of the sheriff's law enforcement
26employee during the 96 consecutive months of service within the

 

 

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1last 120 months of service in which the total earnings was the
2highest by the number of months of service in that period.
3    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article,
4beginning on January 1, 2011, for all purposes under this Code
5(including without limitation the calculation of benefits and
6employee contributions), except with regard to any person
7employed as a firefighter or firefighter/paramedic before
8January 1, 2011, who, after that date, first becomes a
9sheriff's law enforcement employee under this Article by
10operation of paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of Section
117-109.3, the annual earnings of a sheriff's law enforcement
12employee to whom this Section applies shall not include
13overtime and shall not exceed $106,800; however, that amount
14shall annually thereafter be increased by the lesser of (i) 3%
15of that amount, including all previous adjustments, or (ii)
16one-half the annual unadjusted percentage increase (but not
17less than zero) in the consumer price index-u for the 12 months
18ending with the September preceding each November 1, including
19all previous adjustments.
20    (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article,
21the monthly annuity of a person who first becomes a sheriff's
22law enforcement employee under this Article on or after January
231, 2011, except any person employed as a firefighter or
24firefighter/paramedic before January 1, 2011, who, after that
25date, first becomes a sheriff's law enforcement employee under
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1Section 7-109.3, shall be increased on the January 1 occurring
2either on or after the attainment of age 60 or the first
3anniversary of the annuity start date, whichever is later. Each
4annual increase shall be calculated at 3% or one-half the
5annual unadjusted percentage increase (but not less than zero)
6in the consumer price index-u for the 12 months ending with the
7September preceding each November 1, whichever is less, of the
8originally granted retirement annuity. If the annual
9unadjusted percentage change in the consumer price index-u for
10a 12-month period ending in September is zero or, when compared
11with the preceding period, decreases, then the annuity shall
12not be increased.
13    (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article,
14for a person who first becomes a sheriff's law enforcement
15employee under this Article on or after January 1, 2011, except
16any person employed as a firefighter or firefighter/paramedic
17before January 1, 2011, who, after that date, first becomes a
18sheriff's law enforcement employee under this Article by
19operation of paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of Section
207-109.3, the annuity to which the surviving spouse, children,
21or parents are entitled under this subsection (h) shall be in
22the amount of 66 2/3% of the sheriff's law enforcement
23employee's earned annuity at the date of death.
24    (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article,
25the monthly annuity of a survivor of a person who first becomes
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1after January 1, 2011, except any person employed as a
2firefighter or firefighter/paramedic before January 1, 2011,
3who, after that date, first becomes a sheriff's law enforcement
4employee under this Article by operation of paragraph (5) of
5subsection (a) of Section 7-109.3, shall be increased on the
6January 1 after attainment of age 60 by the recipient of the
7survivor's annuity and each January 1 thereafter by 3% or
8one-half the annual unadjusted percentage increase in the
9consumer price index-u for the 12 months ending with the
10September preceding each November 1, whichever is less, of the
11originally granted pension. If the annual unadjusted
12percentage change in the consumer price index-u for a 12-month
13period ending in September is zero or, when compared with the
14preceding period, decreases, then the annuity shall not be
15increased.
16    (j) For the purposes of this Section, "consumer price
17index-u" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor
18Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that
19measures the average change in prices of goods and services
20purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average,
21all items, 1982-84 = 100. The new amount resulting from each
22annual adjustment shall be determined by the Public Pension
23Division of the Department of Insurance and made available to
24the boards of the pension funds.
25(Source: P.A. 96-961, eff. 7-2-10; 96-1495, eff. 1-1-11.)
 

 

 

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1    (40 ILCS 5/7-150)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-150)
2    Sec. 7-150. Total and permanent disability benefits -
3Eligibility. Total and permanent disability benefits shall be
4payable to participating employees as hereinafter provided,
5including those employees receiving disability benefit on July
61, 1962.
7    (a) A participating employee shall be considered totally
8and permanently disabled if:
9        1. He is unable to engage in any gainful activity
10    because of any medically determinable physical or mental
11    impairment which can be expected to result in death or be
12    of a long continued and indefinite duration, other than as
13    a result of self-inflicted injury or addiction to narcotic
14    drugs;
15        2. The Board has received a written certification by at
16    least 1 licensed and practicing physician stating that the
17    employee meets the qualifications of subparagraph 1 of this
18    paragraph (a).
19    (b) A totally and permanently disabled employee is entitled
20to a permanent disability benefit provided:
21        1. He has exhausted his temporary disability benefits.
22        2. He:
23            (i) has at least one year of service immediately
24        preceding the date the disability was incurred and has
25        made contributions to the fund for at least the number
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1        during a 12 month period, or has at least 5 years of
2        service credit, the last year of which immediately
3        preceded the date the disability was incurred; or
4            (ii) had qualified under clause (i) above, but had
5        an interruption in service with the same participating
6        municipality or participating instrumentality of not
7        more than 3 months in the 12 months preceding the date
8        the temporary disability was incurred and was not paid
9        a separation benefit; or
10            (iii) had qualified under clause (i) above, but had
11        an interruption after 20 or more years of creditable
12        service, was not paid a separation benefit, and
13        returned to service prior to the date the disability
14        was incurred.
15        Item (iii) of this subdivision shall apply to all
16    employees whose disabilities were incurred on or after July
17    1, 1985, and any such employee who becomes eligible for a
18    disability benefit under item (iii) shall be entitled to
19    receive a lump sum payment of any accumulated disability
20    benefits which may accrue from the date the disability was
21    incurred until the effective date of this amendatory Act of
22    1987.
23        Periods of qualified leave granted in compliance with
24    the federal Family and Medical Leave Act shall be ignored
25    for purposes of determining the number of consecutive
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1        3. He is receiving no earnings from a participating
2    municipality or instrumentality thereof or participating
3    instrumentality, except as allowed under subsection (f) of
4    Section 7-152.
5        4. He has not refused to submit to a reasonable
6    physical examination by a physician appointed by the Board.
7        5. His disability is not the result of a mental or
8    physical condition which existed on the earliest date of
9    service from which he has uninterrupted service, including
10    prior service, at the date of his disability, provided that
11    this limitation shall not be applicable to a participating
12    employee who, without receiving a disability benefit,
13    receives 5 years of creditable service.
14        6. He is not separated from the service of his
15    employing participating municipality or instrumentality
16    thereof or participating instrumentality on the date his
17    temporary disability was incurred; for the purposes of
18    payment of total and permanent disability benefits, a
19    participating employee, whose employment relationship is
20    terminated by his employing municipality, shall be deemed
21    not to be separated from the service of his employing
22    municipality or participating instrumentality if he
23    continues disabled by the same condition and so long as he
24    is otherwise entitled to such disability benefit.
25        7. He has not refused to apply for a disability benefit
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1    Board.
2    (c) A participating employee shall remain eligible and may
3make application for a total and permanent disability benefit
4within 90 days after the termination of his temporary
5disability benefits or within such longer period terminating at
6the end of the period during which his employing municipality
7is prevented from employing him by reason of any statutory
8prohibition.
9    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, a
10firefighter or firefighter/paramedic who qualifies as a
11sheriff's law enforcement employee under paragraph (5) of
12subsection (a) of Section 7-109.3, has 5 or more years of
13creditable service, and is found unable to perform his or her
14duties in the fire department by reason of heart disease,
15stroke, tuberculosis, or any disease of the lungs or
16respiratory tract, resulting from service as a firefighter, is
17entitled to an occupational disease disability pension during
18any period of such disability for which he or she has no right
19to receive salary.
20    Any active firefighter who qualifies as a sheriff's law
21enforcement employee under paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of
22Section 7-109.3, has completed 5 or more years of service, and
23is unable to perform his or her duties in the fire department
24by reason of a disabling cancer, which develops or manifests
25itself during a period while the firefighter is in the service
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1occupational disease disability benefit during any period of
2such disability for which he or she does not have a right to
3receive salary. In order to receive this occupational disease
4disability benefit, (i) the type of cancer involved must be a
5type that may be caused by exposure to heat, radiation, or a
6known carcinogen, as defined by the International Agency for
7Research on Cancer, and (ii) the cancer must (and is rebuttably
8presumed to) arise as a result of service as a firefighter.
9    A firefighter who qualifies as a sheriff's law enforcement
10employee under paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of Section
117-109.3 and who enters the service after August 27, 1971 shall
12be examined by one or more practicing physicians appointed by
13the Board. If the examination discloses impairment of the
14heart, lungs, or respiratory tract, or the existence of any
15cancer, the firefighter who qualifies as a sheriff's law
16enforcement employee under paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of
17Section 7-109.3 shall not be entitled to the occupational
18disease disability pension unless and until a subsequent
19examination reveals no such impairment or cancer.
20    The occupational disease disability pension shall be equal
21to the greater of (1) 65% of the salary attached to the rank
22held by the firefighter in the fire service at the time of his
23or her removal from the municipality's fire department payroll
24or (2) the retirement pension that the firefighter would be
25eligible to receive if he or she retired (but not including any
26automatic annual increase in that retirement pension).

 

 

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1    The firefighter who qualifies as a sheriff's law
2enforcement employee under paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of
3Section 7-109.3 is also entitled to a child's disability
4benefit of $20 a month for each natural or legally adopted
5unmarried child less than age 18 who is dependent upon the
6firefighter for support. The total child's disability benefit
7when added to the occupational disease disability pension shall
8not exceed 75% of the firefighter's salary at the time of the
9grant of occupational disease disability pension.
10    The occupational disease disability pension is payable to
11the firefighter during the period of the disability. If the
12disability ceases before the death of the firefighter, the
13disability pension payable under this Section shall also cease,
14and the firefighter thereafter shall receive such pension
15benefits as are provided in accordance with other provisions of
16this Article.
17    If a firefighter who qualifies as a sheriff's law
18enforcement employee under paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of
19Section 7-109.3 dies while still disabled and receiving a
20disability pension under this Section, the disability pension
21shall continue to be paid to the firefighter's survivors. A
22pension previously granted under this Section to a firefighter
23who died while receiving a disability pension under this
24Section shall be deemed to be a continuation of the pension
25provided under this Section and shall be deemed to be in the
26nature of worker's occupational disease compensation payments.

 

 

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1The changes to this Section made by this amendatory Act of the
297th General Assembly are intended to be retroactive and are
3not limited to persons in service on or after the effective
4date.
5    The child's disability benefit shall terminate if the
6disability ceases while the firefighter is alive or when the
7child or children attain age 18 or marry, whichever event
8occurs first, except that benefits payable on account of a
9child under this Section shall not be reduced or terminated by
10reason of the child's attainment of age 18 if he or she is then
11dependent by reason of a physical or mental disability but
12shall continue to be paid as long as such dependency continues.
13Individuals over the age of 18 and adjudged as a disabled
14person pursuant to Article XIa of the Probate Act of 1975,
15except for persons receiving benefits under Article III of the
16Illinois Public Aid Code, shall be eligible to receive benefits
17under this Act.
18(Source: P.A. 90-766, eff. 8-14-98.)
 
19    (40 ILCS 5/7-156)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-156)
20    Sec. 7-156. Surviving spouse annuities - amount.
21    (a) The amount of surviving spouse annuity shall be:
22    1. Upon the death of an employee annuitant or such person
23entitled, upon application, to a retirement annuity at date of
24death, (i) an amount equal to 1/2 of the retirement annuity
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1payable which was provided from additional credits, and
2disregarding any election made under paragraph (b) of Section
37-142, plus (ii) an annuity which could be provided at the then
4attained age of the surviving spouse and under actuarial tables
5then in effect, from the excess of the additional credits,
6(excluding any such credits used to create a reversionary
7annuity) used to provide the annuity granted pursuant to
8paragraph (a) (2) of Section 7-142 of this article over the
9total annuity payments made pursuant thereto.
10    2. Upon the death of a participating employee on or after
11attainment of age 55, an amount equal to 1/2 of the retirement
12annuity which he could have had as of the date of death had he
13then retired and applied for annuity, exclusive of the portion
14thereof which could have been provided from additional credits,
15and disregarding paragraph (b) of Section 7-142, plus an amount
16equal to the annuity which could be provided from the total of
17his accumulated additional credits at date of death, on the
18basis of the attained age of the surviving spouse on such date.
19    3. Upon the death of a participating employee before age
2055, an amount equal to 1/2 of the retirement annuity which he
21could have had as of his attained age on the date of death, had
22he then retired and applied for annuity, and the provisions of
23this Article that no such annuity shall begin until the
24employee has attained at least age 55 were not applicable,
25exclusive of the portion thereof which could have been provided
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1Section 7-142, plus an amount equal to the annuity which could
2be provided from the total of his accumulated additional
3credits at date of death, on the basis of the attained age of
4the surviving spouse on such date.
5    In the case of the surviving spouse of a person who dies
6before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th
7General Assembly, if the surviving spouse is more than 5 years
8younger than the deceased, that portion of the annuity which is
9not based on additional credits shall be reduced in the ratio
10of the value of a life annuity of $1 per year at an age of 5
11years less than the attained age of the deceased, at the
12earlier of the date of the death or the date his retirement
13annuity begins, to the value of a life annuity of $1 per year
14at the attained age of the surviving spouse on such date,
15according to actuarial tables approved by the Board. This
16reduction does not apply to the surviving spouse of a person
17who dies on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act
18of the 94th General Assembly.
19    In computing the amount of a surviving spouse annuity,
20incremental increases of retirement annuities to the date of
21death of the employee annuitant shall be considered.
22    (b) Each surviving spouse annuity payable on January 1,
231988 shall be increased on that date by 3% of the original
24amount of the annuity. Each surviving spouse annuity that
25begins after January 1, 1988 shall be increased on the January
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1to (i) 3% of the original amount thereof if the deceased
2employee was receiving a retirement annuity at the time of his
3death; otherwise (ii) 0.167% of the original amount thereof for
4each complete month which has elapsed since the date the
5annuity began.
6    On each January 1 after the date of the initial increase
7under this subsection, each surviving spouse annuity shall be
8increased by 3% of the originally granted amount of the
9annuity.
10    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article,
11the pension of the surviving spouse of a firefighter who
12qualifies as a sheriff's law enforcement employee under
13paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of Section 7-109.3 and dies on
14or after January 1, 1988 as a result of sickness, accident, or
15injury incurred in or resulting from the performance of an act
16of duty or from the cumulative effects of acts of duty shall
17not be less than 100% of the salary attached to the rank held
18by the deceased firefighter on the last day of service.
19(Source: P.A. 94-712, eff. 6-1-06.)
 
20    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
21Section 8.35 as follows:
 
22    (30 ILCS 805/8.35 new)
23    Sec. 8.35. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
24of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the

 

 

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1implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
2the 97th General Assembly.
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.