100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5177

 

Introduced , by Rep. Kelly M. Burke

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/5-214  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-214
30 ILCS 805/8.42 new

    Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In provisions concerning the establishment of credit for other service, provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board shall reconsider an application for credit for performing specified safety or investigatory work that was submitted before April 1, 2008 and was denied. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
5Section 5-214 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/5-214)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-214)
7    Sec. 5-214. Credit for other service. Any participant in
8this fund (other than a member of the fire department of the
9city) who has rendered service as a member of the police
10department of the city for a period of 3 years or more is
11entitled to credit for the various purposes of this Article for
12service rendered prior to becoming a member or subsequent
13thereto for the following periods:
14        (a) While on leave of absence from the police
15    department assigned or detailed to investigative,
16    protective, security or police work for the park district
17    of the city, the department of the Port of Chicago or the
18    sanitary district in which the city is located.
19        (b) As a temporary police officer in the city or while
20    serving in the office of the mayor or in the office of the
21    corporation counsel, as a member of the city council of the
22    city, as an employee of the Policemen's Annuity and Benefit
23    Fund created by this Article, as the head of an

 

 

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1    organization whose membership consists of members of the
2    police department, the Public Vehicle License Commission
3    and the board of election commissioners of the city,
4    provided that, in each of these cases and for all periods
5    specified in this item (b), including those beginning
6    before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
7    97th General Assembly, the police officer is on leave and
8    continues to remain in sworn status, subject to the
9    professional standards of the public employer or those
10    terms established in statute.
11        (c) While performing safety or investigative work for
12    the county in which such city is principally located or for
13    the State of Illinois or for the federal government, on
14    leave of absence from the department of police, or while
15    performing investigative work for the department as a
16    civilian employee of the department. Notwithstanding any
17    other provision of law, the board shall reconsider an
18    application for credit for service under this item (c) that
19    was submitted before April 1, 2008 and was denied.
20        (d) While on leave of absence from the police
21    department of the city and serving as the chief of police
22    of a police department outside the city.
23    No credit shall be granted in this fund, however, for this
24service if the policeman has credit therefor in any other
25annuity and benefit fund, or unless he contributes to this fund
26the amount he would have contributed with interest had he

 

 

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1remained an active member of the police department in the
2position he occupied as a result of a civil service competitive
3examination, certification and appointment by the Civil
4Service Board; or in the case of a city operating under the
5provisions of a personnel ordinance the position he occupied as
6a result of a personnel ordinance competitive examination
7certification and appointment under the authority of a
8Municipal Personnel ordinance.
9    Concurrently with such contributions, the city shall
10contribute the amounts provided by this Article. No credit
11shall be allowed for any period of time for which contributions
12by the policeman have not been paid. The period of service
13rendered by such policeman prior to the date he became a member
14of the police department of the city or while detailed,
15assigned or on leave of absence and employed in any of the
16departments set forth hereinabove in this Section for which
17such policeman has contributed to this fund shall be credited
18to him as service for all the purposes of this Article, except
19that he shall not have any of the rights conferred by the
20provisions of Sections 5-127 and 5-162 of this Article.
21    The changes in this Section made by Public Act 86-273 shall
22apply to members of the fund who have not begun receiving a
23pension under this Article on August 23, 1989, without regard
24to whether employment is terminated before that date.
25(Source: P.A. 97-651, eff. 1-5-12.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
2Section 8.42 as follows:
 
3    (30 ILCS 805/8.42 new)
4    Sec. 8.42. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
5of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
6implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
7the 100th General Assembly.