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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 8-243.2 as follows:

 6        (40 ILCS 5/8-243.2) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-243.2)
 7        Sec. 8-243.2.  Alternative annuity for city officers.
 8        (a)  For  the  purposes  of  this  Section  and  Sections
 9    8-243.1 and 8-243.3, "city officer" means the city clerk, the
10    city treasurer, or an alderman of the city elected by vote of
11    the  people, while serving in that capacity or as provided in
12    subsection (f), who has elected to participate in the Fund.
13        (b)  Any elected city  officer,  while  serving  in  that
14    capacity  or  as  provided  in  subsection  (f), may elect to
15    establish alternative credits for an alternative  annuity  by
16    electing    in   writing   to    make   additional   optional
17    contributions  in  accordance  with  this  Section  and   the
18    procedures  established  by  the  board.   Such  elected city
19    officer  may  discontinue  making  the  additional   optional
20    contributions  by notifying the Fund in writing in accordance
21    with this Section and procedures established by the board.
22        Additional optional  contributions  for  the  alternative
23    annuity shall be as follows:
24             (1)  For  service  after  the  option is elected, an
25        additional  contribution  of  3%  of  salary   shall   be
26        contributed  to  the Fund on the same basis and under the
27        same conditions as contributions required under  Sections
28        8-174 and 8-182.
29             (2)  For  service  before  the option is elected, an
30        additional contribution of  3%  of  the  salary  for  the
31        applicable  period  of  service,  plus  interest  at  the
 
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 1        effective  rate  from  the date of service to the date of
 2        payment.  All payments for past service must be  paid  in
 3        full  before  credit  is  given.   No additional optional
 4        contributions may be made for any period of  service  for
 5        which  credit has been previously forfeited by acceptance
 6        of a refund, unless the refund is  repaid  in  full  with
 7        interest at the effective rate from the date of refund to
 8        the date of repayment.
 9        (c)  In  lieu of the retirement annuity otherwise payable
10    under this Article, any city officer elected by vote  of  the
11    people  who  (1)  has  elected to participate in the Fund and
12    make additional optional  contributions  in  accordance  with
13    this Section, and (2) has attained age 55 60 with at least 10
14    years  of  service  credit, or has attained age 60 65 with at
15    least 8 years of  service  credit,  may  elect  to  have  his
16    retirement   annuity   computed   as   follows:   3%  of  the
17    participant's salary at the time of  termination  of  service
18    for  each  of the first 8 years of service credit, plus 4% of
19    such salary for each of the next 4 years of  service  credit,
20    plus  5%  of  such  salary for each year of service credit in
21    excess of 12 years, subject to  a  maximum  of  80%  of  such
22    salary.   To  the  extent  such elected city officer has made
23    additional optional contributions  with  respect  to  only  a
24    portion  of  his  years  of  service  credit,  his retirement
25    annuity will first be  determined  in  accordance  with  this
26    Section  to the extent such additional optional contributions
27    were made, and then in accordance with the remaining Sections
28    of this Article to the extent of years of service credit with
29    respect to which additional optional contributions  were  not
30    made.
31        (d)  In lieu of the disability benefits otherwise payable
32    under  this  Article, any city officer elected by vote of the
33    people who (1) has elected to participate in  the  Fund,  and
34    (2)  has  become permanently disabled and as a consequence is
 
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 1    unable to perform the duties  of  his  office,  and  (3)  was
 2    making optional contributions in accordance with this Section
 3    at the time the disability was incurred, may elect to receive
 4    a  disability  annuity  calculated  in  accordance  with  the
 5    formula   in  subsection  (c).   For  the  purposes  of  this
 6    subsection, such elected city  officer  shall  be  considered
 7    permanently disabled only if:  (i) disability occurs while in
 8    service as an elected city officer and is of such a nature as
 9    to  prevent  him from reasonably performing the duties of his
10    office at the time; and (ii) the board has received a written
11    certification by at least 2 licensed physicians appointed  by
12    it  stating  that  such  officer  is  disabled  and  that the
13    disability is likely to be permanent.
14        (e)  Refunds of additional optional  contributions  shall
15    be  made  on  the same basis and under the same conditions as
16    provided under Sections  8-168,  8-170  and  8-171.  Interest
17    shall be credited at the effective rate on the same basis and
18    under   the  same  conditions  as  for  other  contributions.
19    Optional contributions shall be accounted for in  a  separate
20    Elected City Officer Optional Contribution Reserve.  Optional
21    contributions  under  this  Section  shall be included in the
22    amount of employee contributions used to compute the tax levy
23    under Section 8-173.
24        (f)  The  effective  date  of  this  plan   of   optional
25    alternative benefits and contributions shall be July 1, 1990,
26    or  the  date  upon  which approval is received from the U.S.
27    Internal Revenue Service, whichever is later.
28        The   plan   of   optional   alternative   benefits   and
29    contributions shall not  be  available  to  any  former  city
30    officer or employee receiving an annuity from the Fund on the
31    effective date of the plan, unless he re-enters service as an
32    elected  city  officer  and  renders  at  least  3  years  of
33    additional  service  after  the date of re-entry.  However, a
34    person who holds office as a city officer  on  June  1,  1995
 
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 1    April  30,  1991  may  elect  to  participate in the plan, to
 2    transfer credits into the Fund from other  Articles  of  this
 3    Code,  and  to  make  the  contributions  required  for prior
 4    service, until 30 days  after  the  effective  date  of  this
 5    amendatory  Act  of  the 92nd General Assembly the plan takes
 6    effect, notwithstanding the ending  of  his  term  of  office
 7    prior to that effective date; in the event that the person is
 8    already  receiving  an  annuity  from  this Fund or any other
 9    Article of this Code at the time of making this election, the
10    annuity  shall  be  recalculated  to  include  any   increase
11    resulting  from participation in the plan, with such increase
12    taking effect on the effective date of the election plan.
13    (Source: P.A. 86-1488; 87-794.)

14        Section 90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by  adding
15    Section 8.25 as follows:

16        (30 ILCS 805/8.25 new)
17        Sec.  8.25.  Exempt  mandate.  Notwithstanding Sections 6
18    and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is  required
19    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
20    amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly.

21        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
22    becoming law.

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