101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB3687

 

Introduced 2/14/2020, by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
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    Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an eligible police officer may elect to receive a retirement pension from each pension fund under the Article in which the police officer has at least one year of service credit, but has not received a refund, by applying in writing and paying a specified contribution. Provides that from each such pension fund other than the last pension fund, in lieu of any retirement pension otherwise payable, an eligible police officer may elect to receive a monthly pension of 1/12th of 2.5% of his or her final monthly salary under that fund for each month of service in that fund, subject to a maximum of 75% of that final monthly salary. Provides that the retirement pension from the last pension fund shall be the retirement pension that would be payable to the police officer if he or she had participated in that last pension fund for his or her entire period of service under all pension funds, minus the amounts of the retirement pensions payable to the police officer by all other pension funds. Provides that a police officer must pay to each pension fund from which he or she has elected to receive a pension a contribution equal to 1% of monthly salary for each month of service credit that the police officer has in that fund (other than service credit for which the police officer has already paid a specified additional contribution), together with interest thereon at the rate of 6% per annum, compounded annually. Contains provisions concerning eligibility for the benefit; contributions; refunds; reinstatement of terminated credits; automatic annual increases; and occupational disease disability pensions. Makes conforming and other changes. 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 adding
5Section 3-111.2 and changing Sections 3-125.1 and 3-144.6 as
6follows:
 
7    (40 ILCS 5/3-111.2 new)
8    Sec. 3-111.2. Employee creditable service.
9    (a) As used in this Section:
10    "Final monthly salary" means the monthly salary attached to
11the rank held by the police officer at the time of his or her
12last withdrawal from service under a particular pension fund.
13    "Last pension fund" means the pension fund in which the
14police officer was participating at the time of his or her last
15withdrawal from service.
16    (b) The benefits provided under this Section are available
17only to a police officer who:
18        (1) is a police officer at the time of withdrawal from
19    the last pension fund and for at least the final 3 years of
20    employment prior to that withdrawal;
21        (2) has established service credit with at least one
22    pension fund established under this Article other than the
23    last pension fund;

 

 

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1        (3) has a total of at least 20 years of service under
2    the various pension funds established under this Article
3    and has attained age 50; and
4        (4) is in service on or after the effective date of
5    this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly.
6    (c) A police officer who is eligible for benefits under
7this Section may elect to receive a retirement pension from
8each pension fund under this Article in which the police
9officer has at least one year of service credit, but has not
10received a refund under Section 3-124 (unless the police
11officer repays that refund under subsection (g)) or subsection
12(b) of Section 3-125.1, by applying in writing and paying the
13contribution required under subsection (i).
14    (d) From each such pension fund other than the last pension
15fund, in lieu of any retirement pension otherwise payable under
16this Article, a police officer to whom this Section applies may
17elect to receive a monthly pension of 1/12th of 2.5% of his or
18her final monthly salary under that fund for each month of
19service in that fund, subject to a maximum of 75% of that final
20monthly salary.
21    (e) From the last pension fund, in lieu of any retirement
22pension otherwise payable under this Article, a police officer
23to whom this Section applies may elect to receive a monthly
24pension calculated as follows:
25    The last pension fund shall calculate the retirement
26pension that would be payable to the police officer under

 

 

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1Section 3-111 as if he or she had participated in that last
2pension fund during his or her entire period of service under
3all pension funds established under this Article (excluding any
4period of service for which the police officer has received a
5refund under Section 3-124, unless the police officer repays
6that refund under subsection (g), or for which the police
7officer has received a refund under subsection (b) of Section
83-125.1). From this hypothetical pension there shall be
9subtracted the original amounts of the retirement pensions
10payable to the police officer by all other pension funds under
11subsection (d). The remainder is the retirement pension payable
12to the police officer by the last pension fund under this
13subsection (e).
14    (f) Pensions elected under this Section shall be subject to
15increases as provided in Section 3-111.1.
16    (g) A current police officer may reinstate creditable
17service in a pension fund established under this Article that
18was terminated upon receipt of a refund, by payment to that
19pension fund of the amount of the refund together with interest
20thereon at the rate of 6% per year, compounded annually, from
21the date of the refund to the date of payment. A repayment of a
22refund under this Section may be made in equal installments
23over a period of up to 10 years, but must be paid in full prior
24to retirement.
25    (h) As a condition of being eligible for the benefits
26provided in this Section, a person who is hired to a position

 

 

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1as a police officer on or after July 1, 2021 must, within 21
2months after being hired, notify the new employer, all of his
3or her previous employers under this Article, and the Public
4Pension Division of the Department of Insurance of his or her
5intent to receive the benefits provided under this Section.
6    (i) In order to receive a pension under this Section or an
7occupational disease disability pension for which he or she
8becomes eligible due to the application of subsection (m) of
9this Section, a police officer must pay to each pension fund
10from which he or she has elected to receive a pension under
11this Section a contribution equal to 1% of monthly salary for
12each month of service credit that the police officer has in
13that fund (other than service credit for which the police
14officer has already paid the additional contribution required
15under subsection (b) of Section 3-125.1), together with
16interest thereon at the rate of 6% per annum, compounded
17annually, from the police officer's first day of employment
18with that fund or the first day of the fiscal year of that fund
19that immediately precedes the police officer's first day of
20employment with that fund, whichever is earlier.
21    (j) A retired police officer who is receiving pension
22payments under Section 3-111 may reenter active service under
23this Article. Subject to the provisions of Section 3-124.1, the
24police officer may receive credit for service performed after
25the reentry if the police officer (1) applies to receive credit
26for that service, (2) suspends his or her pensions under this

 

 

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1Section, and (3) makes the contributions required under
2subsection (i).
3    (k) A police officer who is newly hired or promoted to a
4position as a police officer shall not be denied participation
5in a fund under this Article based on his or her age.
6    (l) If a police officer who elects to make contributions
7under subsection (b) of Section 3-125.1 for the pension
8benefits provided under this Section becomes entitled to a
9disability pension under Section 3-114.1, the last pension fund
10is responsible for paying that disability pension and the
11amount of that disability pension shall be based only on the
12police officer's service with the last pension fund.
13    (m) Notwithstanding any provision in Section 3-114.6 to the
14contrary, if a police officer who elects to make contributions
15under subsection (b) of Section 3-125.1 for the pension
16benefits provided under this Section becomes entitled to an
17occupational disease disability pension under Section 3-114.6,
18each pension fund to which the police officer has made
19contributions under subsection (b) of Section 3-125.1 must pay
20a portion of that occupational disease disability pension equal
21to the proportion that the police officer's service credit with
22that pension fund for which the contributions under subsection
23(b) of Section 3-125.1 have been made bears to the police
24officer's total service credit with all of the pension funds
25for which the contributions under subsection (b) of Section
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1contributions under subsection (b) of Section 3-125.1 for at
2least 5 years of creditable service shall be deemed to have met
3the 5-year creditable service requirement under Section
43-114.6, regardless of whether the police officer has 5 years
5of creditable service with the last pension fund.
6    (n) If a police officer who elects to make contributions
7under subsection (b) of Section 3-125.1 for the pension
8benefits provided under this Section becomes entitled to a
9disability pension under Section 3-114.2, the last pension fund
10is responsible for paying that disability pension if the police
11officer has at least 7 years of creditable service with the
12last pension fund. If a police officer began employment with a
13new employer as a result of an intergovernmental agreement that
14resulted in the elimination of the previous employer's police
15department, the police officer shall not be required to have 7
16years of creditable service with the last pension fund to
17qualify for a disability pension under Section 3-114.2. Under
18this circumstance, a police officer shall be required to have 7
19years of total combined creditable service time to qualify for
20a disability pension under Section 3-114.2. The disability
21pension received pursuant to this Section shall be paid by the
22previous employer and new employer in proportion to the police
23officer's years of service with each employer.
 
24    (40 ILCS 5/3-125.1)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-125.1)
25    Sec. 3-125.1. Contributions by police officers.

 

 

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1    (a) Each police officer shall contribute to the pension
2fund the following percentages of salary for the periods
3stated: Beginning July 1, 1909 and prior to July 23, 1943, 1%
4(except that prior to July 1, 1921 not more than one dollar per
5month shall be deducted, and except that beginning July 1, 1921
6and prior to July 1, 1927 not more than $2 per month shall be
7deducted); beginning July 23, 1943 and prior to July 20, 1949,
83%; beginning July 20, 1949 and prior to July 17, 1959, 5%;
9beginning July 17, 1959 and prior to July 1, 1971, 7%;
10beginning July 1, 1971 and prior to July 1, 1975, 7 1/2%;
11beginning July 1, 1975 and prior to January 1, 1987, 8 1/2%;
12beginning January 1, 1987 and prior to January 1, 2001, 9%; and
13beginning January 1, 2001, 9.91%. Such sums shall be paid or
14deducted monthly. Contribution to the self-managed plan shall
15be no less than 10% of salary.
16    (b) Each police officer who elects to receive a pension
17under Section 3-111.2 and who has participated in at least one
18other pension fund under this Article for a period of at least
19one year shall contribute an additional 1% of salary toward the
20cost of the increase in pensions provided in Section 3-111.2.
21    If a police officer does not elect to receive a retirement
22pension provided under Section 3-111.2 from one or more of the
23pension funds in which the police officer has credit, he or she
24shall, upon withdrawal from the last pension fund as defined in
25Section 3-111.2, be entitled to receive, from each such fund to
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1subsection (b) and from which he or she does not receive a
2refund under Section 3-124, a refund of those contributions
3without interest.
4    A refund of total contributions to a particular police
5officer pension fund under Section 3-124 shall include any
6refund of additional contributions paid to that fund under this
7subsection (b), but a police officer who accepts a refund from
8a pension fund under Section 3-124 is thereafter ineligible to
9receive a pension provided under Section 3-111.2 from that
10fund. A police officer who meets the eligibility requirements
11of Section 3-111.2 may receive a pension under Section 3-111.2
12from any pension fund from which the police officer has not
13received a refund under Section 3-124 or under this subsection
14(b).
15    (c) "Salary" means the annual salary, including longevity,
16attached to the police officer's rank, as established by the
17municipality's appropriation ordinance, including any
18compensation for overtime which is included in the salary so
19established, but excluding any "overtime pay", "holiday pay",
20"bonus pay", "merit pay", or any other cash benefit not
21included in the salary so established.
22(Source: P.A. 91-939, eff. 2-1-01.)
 
23    (40 ILCS 5/3-144.6)
24    Sec. 3-144.6. Dissolution and reestablishment of inactive
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1municipality for which a pension fund has been established
2under this Article may, by resolution or ordinance, dissolve
3the fund if an independent auditor has certified to the
4authorities that the fund has no liabilities, participants, or
5beneficiaries entitled to benefits, and the authorities shall
6reestablish the fund if a police officer of the municipality
7seeks to establish service credit in the fund or if
8reestablishment of the fund is required upon a former police
9officer's reinstatement of creditable service under subsection
10(b) of Section 3-110.7 or subsection (g) of Section 3-111.2 of
11this Code.
12    The Public Pension Division of the Department of Insurance
13shall adopt rules regarding the process and procedures for (i)
14dissolving a pension fund under this Section and (ii)
15redistributing assets and reestablishing the fund if
16reestablishment of the fund is necessary.
17(Source: P.A. 97-99, eff. 1-1-12.)
 
18    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
19Section 8.44 as follows:
 
20    (30 ILCS 805/8.44 new)
21    Sec. 8.44. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
22of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
23implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
24the 101st General Assembly.

 

 

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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance
3    40 ILCS 5/3-111.2 new
4    40 ILCS 5/3-125.1from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-125.1
5    40 ILCS 5/3-144.6
6    30 ILCS 805/8.44 new