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90_HB2309

      30 ILCS 805/8.21 new
      40 ILCS 5/5-156.1 new
      65 ILCS 5/10-1-47.1 new
          Amends the State Mandates Act, the Pension Code, and  the
      Illinois  Municipal  Code.  Provides that a Chicago policeman
      disabled while performing his or her duties who is unable  to
      return  to  active duty but is able to perform limited duties
      for the police department shall be  employed  by  the  police
      department   to   perform   those   duties.    Provides  that
      limited-duty  employment  does   not   make   the   policeman
      ineligible  to continue to receive a duty disability benefit.
      Provides that the sum of the duty disability benefit and  the
      compensation  received  for limited-duty employment shall not
      exceed 100%  of  the  salary  that  the  policeman  would  be
      eligible to receive if the policeman returned to active duty.
      Amends  the  State  Mandates  Act  to  require implementation
      without reimbursement.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN  ACT  concerning  certain  disabled  law   enforcement
 2    officers, amending named Acts.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The State Mandates Act is amended  by  adding
 6    Section 8.21 as follows:
 7        (30 ILCS 805/8.21 new)
 8        Sec.  8.21.  Exempt  mandate.  Notwithstanding Sections 6
 9    and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is  required
10    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
11    amendatory Act of 1997.
12        Section  10.  The  Illinois  Pension  Code  is amended by
13    adding Section 5-156.1 as follows:
14        (40 ILCS 5/5-156.1 new)
15        Sec. 5-156.1.  Limited-duty  employment.  Notwithstanding
16    any  other  provision  of  law, beginning January 1, 1998 and
17    without regard to whether the  injury  occurred  before  that
18    date,  a  policeman receiving a duty disability benefit under
19    Section 5-154 who remains disabled and unable  to  return  to
20    full  active  duty  but is able to perform limited duties for
21    the police department shall, at the policeman's  request,  be
22    employed  by  the police department to perform some or all of
23    those limited duties.  This limited-duty employment does  not
24    make  the  policeman ineligible to continue to receive a duty
25    disability benefit for as long as he or she remains unable to
26    return  to  full  active  duty,  but  the  sum  of  the  duty
27    disability benefit and  the  compensation  received  for  the
28    limited-duty  employment  shall not exceed 100% of the salary
29    that the policeman would be eligible to receive if he or  she
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 1    were  able to return to full-time active duty.  The policeman
 2    shall not receive additional creditable  service  under  this
 3    Article for limited-duty employment during disability.
 4        Section  15.  The  Illinois  Municipal Code is amended by
 5    adding Section 10-1-47.1 as follows:
 6        (65 ILCS 5/10-1-47.1 new)
 7        Sec.  10-1-47.1.  Disability  leave;  return  to  limited
 8    duty.  Subject to the provisions of Section  5-156.1  of  the
 9    Pension  Code,  an  officer  of  the  police  department of a
10    municipality of 1,000,000  or  more  who  is  disabled  while
11    performing  his  or  her  duties  and  is unable to return to
12    active duty in his or her certified position but is  able  to
13    perform  limited  duties  for the police department shall, at
14    that officer's request, be employed by the police  department
15    to  perform  some  or  all  of  those  limited  duties.   The
16    provisions  of this Section are a limitation under subsection
17    (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois  Constitution
18    on  the  concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and
19    functions exercised by the State.
20        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
21    becoming law.

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