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91_HB0685

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Illinois Pension Code by changing
 2    Section 14-110.

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

 5        Section  5.   The  Illinois  Pension  Code  is amended by
 6    changing Section 14-110 as follows:

 7        (40 ILCS 5/14-110) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-110)
 8        Sec. 14-110.  Alternative retirement annuity.
 9        (a)  Any member who has withdrawn from service  with  not
10    less  than  20  years  of eligible creditable service and has
11    attained age 55,  and  any  member  who  has  withdrawn  from
12    service  with  not  less than 25 years of eligible creditable
13    service and has attained age 50, regardless  of  whether  the
14    attainment  of  either of the specified ages occurs while the
15    member is still in service, and any member who has  withdrawn
16    from  service  with  at least 25 years of eligible creditable
17    service as a State policeman, regardless  of  age,  shall  be
18    entitled  to  receive at the option of the member, in lieu of
19    the regular  or  minimum  retirement  annuity,  a  retirement
20    annuity computed as follows:
21             (i)  for   periods   of   service  as  a  noncovered
22        employee, 2 1/4% of final average compensation  for  each
23        of  the  first 10 years of creditable service, 2 1/2% for
24        each year above 10 years to and  including  20  years  of
25        creditable   service,   and  2  3/4%  for  each  year  of
26        creditable service above 20 years; and
27             (ii)  for periods of eligible creditable service  as
28        a  covered  employee, 1.67% of final average compensation
29        for each of the first 10 years of such service, 1.90% for
30        each of the next 10 years of such service, 2.10% for each
31        year of such service in excess of 20  but  not  exceeding
 
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 1        30, and 2.30% for each year in excess of 30.
 2        Such  annuity  shall  be  subject  to a maximum of 75% of
 3    final  average  compensation.   These  rates  shall  not   be
 4    applicable  to any service performed by a member as a covered
 5    employee which is not eligible creditable service.    Service
 6    as  a  covered  employee  which  is  not  eligible creditable
 7    service shall be subject  to  the  rates  and  provisions  of
 8    Section 14-108.
 9        (b)  For   the   purpose   of   this  Section,  "eligible
10    creditable service" means creditable service  resulting  from
11    service in one or more of the following positions:
12             (1)  State policeman;
13             (2)  fire  fighter in the fire protection service of
14        a department;
15             (3)  air pilot;
16             (4)  special agent;
17             (5)  investigator for the Secretary of State;
18             (6)  conservation police officer;
19             (7)  investigator for the Department of Revenue;
20             (8)  security employee of the  Department  of  Human
21        Services;
22             (9)  Central  Management  Services  security  police
23        officer;
24             (10)  security   employee   of   the  Department  of
25        Corrections;
26             (11)  dangerous drugs investigator;
27             (12)  investigator  for  the  Department  of   State
28        Police;
29             (13)  investigator  for  the  Office of the Attorney
30        General;
31             (14)  controlled substance inspector;
32             (15)  investigator for the  Office  of  the  State's
33        Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
34             (16)  Commerce Commission police officer;
 
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 1             (17)  arson investigator.
 2        A  person  employed  in one of the positions specified in
 3    this subsection is entitled to  eligible  creditable  service
 4    for service credit earned under this Article while undergoing
 5    the  basic  police  training  course approved by the Illinois
 6    Local  Governmental   Law   Enforcement   Officers   Training
 7    Standards  Board,  if completion of that training is required
 8    of persons serving in that position.   For  the  purposes  of
 9    this  Code, service during the required basic police training
10    course shall be deemed  performance  of  the  duties  of  the
11    specified  position,  even  though  the person is not a sworn
12    peace officer at the time of the training.
13        (c)  For the purposes of this Section:
14             (1)  The term "state policeman" includes  any  title
15        or  position  in  the  Department of State Police that is
16        held by an individual employed  under  the  State  Police
17        Act.
18             (2)  The  term  "fire fighter in the fire protection
19        service of a department" includes all  officers  in  such
20        fire   protection   service  including  fire  chiefs  and
21        assistant fire chiefs.
22             (3)  The term  "air  pilot"  includes  any  employee
23        whose  official job description on file in the Department
24        of Central Management Services, or in the  department  by
25        which he is employed if that department is not covered by
26        the Personnel Code, states that his principal duty is the
27        operation  of  aircraft,  and  who  possesses  a  pilot's
28        license;  however,  the change in this definition made by
29        this amendatory Act of 1983 shall not operate to  exclude
30        any  noncovered  employee  who was an "air pilot" for the
31        purposes of this Section on January 1, 1984.
32             (4)  The term "special agent" means any  person  who
33        by  reason  of  employment  by  the  Division of Narcotic
34        Control, the Bureau of Investigation or,  after  July  1,
 
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 1        1977,   the   Division  of  Criminal  Investigation,  the
 2        Division of Internal Investigation or any other  Division
 3        or  organizational  entity  in  the  Department  of State
 4        Police is vested by law with duties  to  maintain  public
 5        order, investigate violations of the criminal law of this
 6        State,  enforce  the laws of this State, make arrests and
 7        recover property.  The term "special agent" includes  any
 8        title  or position in the Department of State Police that
 9        is held by an individual employed under the State  Police
10        Act.
11             (5)  The  term  "investigator  for  the Secretary of
12        State" means any person employed by  the  Office  of  the
13        Secretary  of  State  and  vested with such investigative
14        duties as render him ineligible for  coverage  under  the
15        Social  Security  Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
16        218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
17             A person who became employed as an investigator  for
18        the  Secretary  of  State  between  January  1,  1967 and
19        December 31, 1975, and  who  has  served  as  such  until
20        attainment  of  age  60,  either  continuously  or with a
21        single  break  in  service  of  not  more  than  3  years
22        duration, which break terminated before January 1,  1976,
23        shall   be   entitled  to  have  his  retirement  annuity
24        calculated    in   accordance   with   subsection    (a),
25        notwithstanding  that he has less than 20 years of credit
26        for such service.
27             (6)  The term "Conservation  Police  Officer"  means
28        any person employed by the Division of Law Enforcement of
29        the  Department of Natural Resources and vested with such
30        law enforcement  duties  as  render  him  ineligible  for
31        coverage  under  the  Social  Security  Act  by reason of
32        Sections 218(d)(5)(A),  218(d)(8)(D),  and  218(l)(1)  of
33        that   Act.    The  term  "Conservation  Police  Officer"
34        includes  the  positions  of  Chief  Conservation  Police
 
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 1        Administrator   and   Assistant    Conservation    Police
 2        Administrator.
 3             (7)  The  term  "investigator  for the Department of
 4        Revenue" means any person employed by the  Department  of
 5        Revenue  and  vested  with  such  investigative duties as
 6        render him  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the  Social
 7        Security   Act   by   reason  of  Sections  218(d)(5)(A),
 8        218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
 9             (8)  The term "security employee of  the  Department
10        of  Human  Services"  means  any  person  employed by the
11        Department of Human  Services  who  is  employed  at  the
12        Chester  Mental  Health Center and has daily contact with
13        the residents thereof, or who is a mental  health  police
14        officer.  "Mental health police officer" means any person
15        employed  by  the  Department  of  Human  Services  in  a
16        position pertaining to the Department's mental health and
17        developmental  disabilities  functions who is vested with
18        such  law  enforcement  duties  as  render   the   person
19        ineligible  for coverage under the Social Security Act by
20        reason  of  Sections   218(d)(5)(A),   218(d)(8)(D)   and
21        218(l)(1) of that Act.
22             (9)  "Central  Management  Services  security police
23        officer" means any person employed by the  Department  of
24        Central  Management  Services who is vested with such law
25        enforcement duties as render him ineligible for  coverage
26        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
27        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
28             (10)  The term "security employee of the  Department
29        of  Corrections"  means any employee of the Department of
30        Corrections or the former Department  of  Personnel,  and
31        any  member or employee of the Prisoner Review Board, who
32        has daily  contact  with  inmates  by  working  within  a
33        correctional  facility  or  who is a parole officer or an
34        employee who has direct contact with committed persons in
 
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 1        the performance of his or her job duties.
 2             (11)  The term "dangerous drugs investigator"  means
 3        any  person  who is employed as such by the Department of
 4        Human Services.
 5             (12)  The term "investigator for the  Department  of
 6        State  Police"  means a person employed by the Department
 7        of State Police who is vested  under  Section  4  of  the
 8        Narcotic  Control  Division  Abolition  Act with such law
 9        enforcement powers as render him ineligible for  coverage
10        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
11        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
12             (13)  "Investigator for the Office of  the  Attorney
13        General"  means any person who is employed as such by the
14        Office of the Attorney General and is  vested  with  such
15        investigative   duties   as  render  him  ineligible  for
16        coverage under the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason  of
17        Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that
18        Act.   For  the  period  before January 1, 1989, the term
19        includes all persons who were employed  as  investigators
20        by  the Office of the Attorney General, without regard to
21        social security status.
22             (14)  "Controlled  substance  inspector"  means  any
23        person who is employed  as  such  by  the  Department  of
24        Professional  Regulation  and  is  vested  with  such law
25        enforcement duties as render him ineligible for  coverage
26        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
27        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and  218(l)(1)  of  that  Act.
28        The  term  "controlled  substance inspector" includes the
29        Program  Executive  of  Enforcement  and  the   Assistant
30        Program Executive of Enforcement.
31             (15)  The  term  "investigator for the Office of the
32        State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor"  means  a  person
33        employed  in that capacity on a full time basis under the
34        authority  of  Section  7.06  of  the  State's  Attorneys
 
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 1        Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
 2             (16)  "Commerce Commission police officer" means any
 3        person employed by the Illinois Commerce  Commission  who
 4        is  vested with such law enforcement duties as render him
 5        ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act  by
 6        reason   of   Sections  218(d)(5)(A),  218(d)(8)(D),  and
 7        218(l)(1) of that Act.
 8             (17)  "Arson investigator" means any person  who  is
 9        employed  as such by the Office of the State Fire Marshal
10        and is vested with such law enforcement duties as  render
11        the  person  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the Social
12        Security  Act  by  reason   of   Sections   218(d)(5)(A),
13        218(d)(8)(D),  and  218(l)(1)  of that Act.  A person who
14        was employed as an arson investigator on January 1,  1995
15        and  is  no  longer  in  service  but not yet receiving a
16        retirement annuity may  convert  his  or  her  creditable
17        service  for  employment  as  an  arson investigator into
18        eligible creditable service by paying to the  System  the
19        difference  between  the  employee contributions actually
20        paid for that service and the  amounts  that  would  have
21        been  contributed  if  the applicant were contributing at
22        the rate applicable  to  persons  with  the  same  social
23        security  status  earning  eligible creditable service on
24        the date of application.
25        (d)  A   security   employee   of   the   Department   of
26    Corrections, and a security employee  of  the  Department  of
27    Human  Services  who  is  not a mental health police officer,
28    shall not be eligible for the alternative retirement  annuity
29    provided by this Section unless he or she meets the following
30    minimum   age   and  service  requirements  at  the  time  of
31    retirement:
32             (i)  25 years of eligible creditable service and age
33        55; or
34             (ii)  beginning  January  1,  1987,  25   years   of
 
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 1        eligible  creditable  service  and age 54, or 24 years of
 2        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
 3             (iii)  beginning  January  1,  1988,  25  years   of
 4        eligible  creditable  service  and age 53, or 23 years of
 5        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
 6             (iv)  beginning  January  1,  1989,  25   years   of
 7        eligible  creditable  service  and age 52, or 22 years of
 8        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
 9             (v)  beginning January 1, 1990, 25 years of eligible
10        creditable service and age 51, or 21  years  of  eligible
11        creditable service and age 55; or
12             (vi)  beginning   January   1,  1991,  25  years  of
13        eligible creditable service and age 50, or  20  years  of
14        eligible creditable service and age 55.
15        Persons  who have service credit under Article 16 of this
16    Code for service as a security employee of the Department  of
17    Corrections  in  a  position  requiring  certification  as  a
18    teacher  may  count  such  service  toward establishing their
19    eligibility under the service requirements of  this  Section;
20    but  such  service  may  be  used  only for establishing such
21    eligibility,  and  not  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  or
22    calculating any benefit.
23        (e)  If a member enters military service while working in
24    a position  in  which  eligible  creditable  service  may  be
25    earned,  and  returns to State service in the same or another
26    such  position,  and  fulfills  in  all  other  respects  the
27    conditions prescribed in this Article for credit for military
28    service, such military service shall be credited as  eligible
29    creditable service for the purposes of the retirement annuity
30    prescribed in this Section.
31        (f)  For  purposes  of  calculating  retirement annuities
32    under  this  Section,  periods  of  service  rendered   after
33    December  31,  1968  and  before October 1, 1975 as a covered
34    employee in  the  position  of  special  agent,  conservation
 
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 1    police officer, mental health police officer, or investigator
 2    for  the  Secretary  of  State,  shall be deemed to have been
 3    service as a noncovered employee, provided that the  employee
 4    pays to the System prior to retirement an amount equal to (1)
 5    the  difference between the employee contributions that would
 6    have been required for such service as a noncovered employee,
 7    and the amount of employee contributions actually paid,  plus
 8    (2)  if payment is made after July 31, 1987, regular interest
 9    on the amount specified in item (1) from the date of  service
10    to the date of payment.
11        For  purposes  of  calculating retirement annuities under
12    this Section, periods of service rendered after December  31,
13    1968  and before January 1, 1982 as a covered employee in the
14    position of investigator for the Department of Revenue  shall
15    be  deemed  to  have  been  service as a noncovered employee,
16    provided that the  employee  pays  to  the  System  prior  to
17    retirement  an amount equal to (1) the difference between the
18    employee contributions that would have been required for such
19    service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of  employee
20    contributions  actually  paid,  plus  (2)  if payment is made
21    after  January  1,  1990,  regular  interest  on  the  amount
22    specified in item (1) from the date of service to the date of
23    payment.
24        (g)  A State policeman may elect, not later than  January
25    1,  1990,  to establish eligible creditable service for up to
26    10 years of his service as a policeman under  Article  3,  by
27    filing  a  written  election  with  the Board, accompanied by
28    payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal  to
29    (i)  the  difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and
30    employer   contributions  transferred  to  the  System  under
31    Section  3-110.5,  and  the  amounts  that  would  have  been
32    contributed had such contributions been  made  at  the  rates
33    applicable  to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
34    the effective rate for each year, compounded  annually,  from
 
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 1    the date of service to the date of payment.
 2        Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), a State
 3    policeman  may  elect,  not  later  than  July  1,  1993,  to
 4    establish eligible creditable service for up to 10  years  of
 5    his service as a member of the County Police Department under
 6    Article  9,  by  filing  a  written  election with the Board,
 7    accompanied by payment of an amount to be determined  by  the
 8    Board,  equal  to  (i)  the  difference between the amount of
 9    employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
10    under Section 9-121.10 and the amounts that would  have  been
11    contributed  had  those  contributions been made at the rates
12    applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon  at
13    the  effective  rate for each year, compounded annually, from
14    the date of service to the date of payment.
15        (h)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
16    policeman or investigator for  the  Secretary  of  State  may
17    elect  to  establish eligible creditable service for up to 12
18    years of his service as  a  policeman  under  Article  5,  by
19    filing a written election with the Board on or before January
20    31,  1992,  and  paying  to the System by January 31, 1994 an
21    amount to be determined  by  the  Board,  equal  to  (i)  the
22    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
23    contributions  transferred to the System under Section 5-236,
24    and the amounts that would have  been  contributed  had  such
25    contributions  been  made  at  the  rates applicable to State
26    policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the  effective  rate
27    for  each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
28    to the date of payment.
29        Subject to the limitation  in  subsection  (i),  a  State
30    policeman,  conservation  police officer, or investigator for
31    the Secretary  of  State  may  elect  to  establish  eligible
32    creditable  service  for  up  to  10  years  of  service as a
33    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
34    a written election with the Board on or  before  January  31,
 
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 1    1993,  and paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount
 2    to be determined by the Board, equal to  (i)  the  difference
 3    between  the  amount  of  employee and employer contributions
 4    transferred to the System  under  Section  7-139.7,  and  the
 5    amounts   that   would   have   been   contributed  had  such
 6    contributions been made at  the  rates  applicable  to  State
 7    policemen,  plus  (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
 8    for each year, compounded annually, from the date of  service
 9    to the date of payment.
10        (i)  The  total  amount  of  eligible  creditable service
11    established by any person under subsections  (g),  (h),  (j),
12    (k), and (l) of this Section shall not exceed 12 years.
13        (j)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), an
14    investigator  for  the  Office  of  the   State's   Attorneys
15    Appellate  Prosecutor or a controlled substance inspector may
16    elect to establish eligible creditable service for up  to  10
17    years  of  his  service  as  a policeman under Article 3 or a
18    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
19    a written election with the Board, accompanied by payment  of
20    an  amount  to  be  determined by the Board, equal to (1) the
21    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
22    contributions transferred to the System under Section 3-110.6
23    or 7-139.8, and the amounts that would have been  contributed
24    had  such  contributions been made at the rates applicable to
25    State policemen, plus (2) interest thereon at  the  effective
26    rate  for  each  year,  compounded annually, from the date of
27    service to the date of payment.
28        (k)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of  this
29    Section,   an  alternative  formula  employee  may  elect  to
30    establish eligible creditable service for periods spent as  a
31    full-time  law  enforcement  officer or full-time corrections
32    officer employed by the federal government or by a  state  or
33    local  government  located  outside  of  Illinois,  for which
34    credit is not held in any other public employee pension  fund
 
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 1    or  retirement  system.  To obtain this credit, the applicant
 2    must file a written application with the Board by  March  31,
 3    1998,  accompanied  by  evidence of eligibility acceptable to
 4    the Board and payment of an amount to be  determined  by  the
 5    Board,  equal  to  (1)  employee contributions for the credit
 6    being established, based upon the applicant's salary  on  the
 7    first  day  as  an  alternative  formula  employee  after the
 8    employment for which credit  is  being  established  and  the
 9    rates  then applicable to alternative formula employees, plus
10    (2) an amount determined by the Board to  be  the  employer's
11    normal  cost  of  the  benefits  accrued for the credit being
12    established, plus (3) regular  interest  on  the  amounts  in
13    items  (1)  and  (2)  from  the  first  day as an alternative
14    formula employee after the employment  for  which  credit  is
15    being established to the date of payment.
16        (l)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection  (i), a
17    security employee of the Department of Corrections may elect,
18    not later than July 1, 1998, to establish eligible creditable
19    service for up to 10  years  of  his  or  her  service  as  a
20    policeman  under Article 3, by filing a written election with
21    the  Board,  accompanied  by  payment  of  an  amount  to  be
22    determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference  between
23    the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
24    to  the  System  under  Section 3-110.5, and the amounts that
25    would have been contributed had such contributions been  made
26    at   the  rates  applicable  to  security  employees  of  the
27    Department of Corrections, plus (ii) interest thereon at  the
28    effective  rate  for each year, compounded annually, from the
29    date of service to the date of payment.
30    (Source: P.A. 89-136,  eff.  7-14-95;  89-445,  eff.  2-7-96;
31    89-507, eff. 7-1-97; 90-32, eff. 6-27-97; revised 7-10-98.)

32        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
33    becoming law.

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