093_SB0599

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Pension  Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 17-133 as follows:

 6        (40 ILCS 5/17-133) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-133)
 7        Sec.  17-133.  Contributions  for  periods of outside and
 8    other service.
 9        Regularly certified and appointed teachers who desire  to
10    have  the  following  described services credited for pension
11    purposes shall submit to the Board evidence thereof  and  pay
12    into the Fund the amounts prescribed herein:
13             1.  For  teaching  service by a certified teacher in
14        the public schools of the several states  or  in  schools
15        operated by or under the auspices of the United States, a
16        teacher shall pay the contributions at the rates in force
17        (a)  on  the date of appointment as a regularly certified
18        teacher after salary adjustments are completed, or (b) at
19        the time of reappointment after  salary  adjustments  are
20        completed, whichever is later, but not less than $450 per
21        year  of  service.   Upon  the  Board's  approval of such
22        service and the payment of  the  required  contributions,
23        service  credit  of  not  more  than  10  years  shall be
24        granted.
25             2.  For service as a playground instructor in public
26        school playgrounds, teachers shall pay the  contributions
27        prescribed   in   this   Article   (a)  at  the  time  of
28        appointment,  as  a  regularly  certified  teacher  after
29        salary adjustments are completed, or  (b)  on  return  to
30        service  as  a  full time regularly certified teacher, as
31        the case may be, provided such rates or amounts shall not
 
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 1        be less than $450 per year.
 2             3.  For service prior to September 1, 1955,  in  the
 3        public  schools  of  the  City  as  a substitute, evening
 4        school  or  temporary  teacher,  or  for  service  as  an
 5        Americanization  teacher  prior  to  December  31,  1955,
 6        teachers  shall pay the contributions prescribed in  this
 7        Article  (a)  at  the time of appointment, as a regularly
 8        certified teacher after salary adjustments are completed,
 9        (b) on  return  to  service  as  a  full  time  regularly
10        certified  teacher,  as  the  case  may be, provided such
11        rates or amounts shall not be less than  $450  per  year;
12        and  provided  further  that  for teachers employed on or
13        after  September  1,  1953,  rates  shall   not   include
14        contributions   for   widows'  pensions  if  the  service
15        described in this sub-paragraph  3  was  rendered  before
16        that  date.   Any  teacher  entitled to repay a refund of
17        contributions under Section 17-126 may  validate  service
18        described  in  this  paragraph  by payment of the amounts
19        prescribed herein, together with  the  repayment  of  the
20        refund,  provided that if such creditable service was the
21        last service rendered in the public schools of  the  City
22        and  is  not automatically reinstated by repayment of the
23        refund, the rates or amounts shall not be less than  $450
24        per year.
25             4.  For  service  after June 30, 1982 as a member of
26        the Board of Education, if required  to  resign  from  an
27        administrative  or  teaching position in order to qualify
28        as a member of the Board of Education.
29             5.  For service during the 1986-87 school year as  a
30        teacher  on  a special leave of absence with full loss of
31        salary, teaching for an  agency  under  contract  to  the
32        Board of Education, if the teacher returned to employment
33        in  September,  1987.  For service under this item 5, the
34        teacher must pay the contributions at the rates in  force
 
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 1        at the completion of the leave period.
 2             6.  For  up  to  2  years of service as a teacher or
 3        administrator employed by  a  private  school  registered
 4        with  or  recognized  by  the  Illinois  State  Board  of
 5        Education,  provided  that  the teacher (i) was certified
 6        under the law governing the certification of teachers  at
 7        the  time  the  service  was  rendered,  (ii)  applies in
 8        writing on or after June 1, 2003 and on or before June 1,
 9        2006,  (iii)  supplies  satisfactory  evidence   of   the
10        employment,   (iv)   completes   at  least  10  years  of
11        contributing service as a teacher as defined  in  Section
12        17-106,  (v)  pays  the  contribution  required  in  this
13        Section,  and  (vi)  does  not  receive  credit  for that
14        service under any other  provision  of  this  Code.   The
15        member may apply for credit under this subsection and pay
16        the  required contribution before completing the 10 years
17        of contributing service required under item (iv), but the
18        credit may not be used until the item  (iv)  contributing
19        service requirement has been met.
20             For  each  year  of service credit to be established
21        under this  subparagraph  6,  a  member  is  required  to
22        contribute  to  the System (i) 16.5% of the annual salary
23        rate during the first year of full-time employment  as  a
24        teacher  under  this Article following the private school
25        service, plus (ii) interest  thereon  from  the  date  of
26        first  full-time  employment  as  a  teacher  under  this
27        Article  following the private school service to the date
28        of payment, compounded annually, at the rate of 8.0%  per
29        year.
30        For  service  described  in  sub-paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of
31    this Section, interest shall be charged  beginning  one  year
32    after the effective date of appointment or reappointment.
33        Effective  September  1,  1974,  the  interest rate to be
34    charged  by   the   Fund   on   contributions   provided   in
 
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 1    sub-paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall be 5% per annum compounded
 2    annually.
 3    (Source: P.A. 90-566, eff. 1-2-98; 91-887, eff. 7-6-00.)

 4        Section  90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
 5    Section 8.27 as follows:

 6        (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
 7        Sec. 8.27. Exempt mandate.   Notwithstanding  Sections  6
 8    and  8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
 9    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
10    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

11        Section 99. Effective date.  This Act takes  effect  upon
12    becoming law.