(40 ILCS 5/2-108) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-108)
    (Text of Section WITH the changes made by P.A. 98-599, which has been held unconstitutional)
    Sec. 2-108. Salary. "Salary":
    (1) For members of the General Assembly, the total compensation paid to the member by the State for one year of service, including the additional amounts, if any, paid to the member as an officer pursuant to Section 1 of "An Act in relation to the compensation and emoluments of the members of the General Assembly", approved December 6, 1907, as now or hereafter amended.
    (2) For the State executive officers specified in Section 2-105, the total compensation paid to the member for one year of service.
    (3) For members of the System who are participants under Section 2-117.1, or who are serving as Clerk or Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives or Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Senate, the total compensation paid to the member for one year of service, but not to exceed the salary of the highest salaried officer of the General Assembly.
    However, in the event that federal law results in any participant receiving imputed income based on the value of group term life insurance provided by the State, such imputed income shall not be included in salary for the purposes of this Article.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the annual salary of a Tier 1 participant for the purposes of this Code shall not exceed, for periods of service in a term of office beginning on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, the greater of (i) the annual limitation determined from time to time under subsection (b-5) of Section 1-160 of this Code or (ii) the annualized salary of the participant on the last day of that participant's last term of office beginning before that effective date.
(Source: P.A. 98-599, eff. 6-1-14.)
 
    (Text of Section WITHOUT the changes made by P.A. 98-599, which has been held unconstitutional)
    Sec. 2-108. Salary. "Salary":
    (1) For members of the General Assembly, the total compensation paid to the member by the State for one year of service, including the additional amounts, if any, paid to the member as an officer pursuant to Section 1 of "An Act in relation to the compensation and emoluments of the members of the General Assembly", approved December 6, 1907, as now or hereafter amended.
    (2) For the State executive officers specified in Section 2-105, the total compensation paid to the member for one year of service.
    (3) For members of the System who are participants under Section 2-117.1, or who are serving as Clerk or Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives or Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Senate, the total compensation paid to the member for one year of service, but not to exceed the salary of the highest salaried officer of the General Assembly.
    However, in the event that federal law results in any participant receiving imputed income based on the value of group term life insurance provided by the State, such imputed income shall not be included in salary for the purposes of this Article.
(Source: P.A. 86-27; 86-273; 86-1028; 86-1488.)