Sen. Emil Jones, III

Filed: 5/26/2020

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3866

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3866 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
5changing Section 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

 

 

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1    of the city, the department of the Port of Chicago or the
2    sanitary district in which the city is located.
3        (b) As a temporary police officer in the city or while
4    serving in the office of the mayor or in the office of the
5    corporation counsel, as a member of the city council of the
6    city, as an employee of the Policemen's Annuity and Benefit
7    Fund created by this Article, as the head of an
8    organization whose membership consists of members of the
9    police department, the Public Vehicle License Commission
10    and the board of election commissioners of the city,
11    provided that, in each of these cases and for all periods
12    specified in this item (b), including those beginning
13    before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
14    97th General Assembly, the police officer is on leave and
15    continues to remain in sworn status, subject to the
16    professional standards of the public employer or those
17    terms established in statute.
18        (c) While on leave of absence from the police
19    department of the city and assigned or detailed to perform:
20    (1) performing safety or investigative work as an employee
21    for the County of Cook, the State of Illinois, or the
22    federal government; or (2) county in which such city is
23    principally located or for the State of Illinois or for the
24    federal government, on leave of absence from the department
25    of police, or while performing investigative work for the
26    department while employed as a civilian employee of the

 

 

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1    police department of the city. Notwithstanding any other
2    provision of law, the board shall reconsider an application
3    for credit for service for any active policeman assigned or
4    detailed to perform safety or investigative work as an
5    employee for the County of Cook, if such application under
6    this item (c) that was submitted after January 1, 1992 and
7    before April 1, 2008 and was denied.
8        The changes made to this item (c) by this amendatory
9    Act of the 101st General Assembly requiring an applicant to
10    have been on a leave of absence from the police department
11    of the city in order to obtain the requested service credit
12    while assigned or detailed to perform safety or
13    investigative work as an employee for the County of Cook or
14    assigned or detailed to perform investigative work for the
15    department while employed as a civilian employee of the
16    police department of the city are operative beginning
17    January 1, 2021.
18        In this item (c), "investigative work" requires a
19    systematic inquiry into the obtainment and examination of
20    facts and evidence and does not include the simple
21    gathering of information.
22        (d) While on leave of absence from the police
23    department of the city and serving as the chief of police
24    of a police department outside the city.
25    No credit shall be granted in this fund, however, for this
26service if (1) the policeman has credit therefor in any other

 

 

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1annuity and benefit fund, or (2) the policeman has not, within
25 years after the date his application has been approved, but
3prior to his date of retirement, contributed unless he
4contributes to this fund the amount he would have contributed
5with interest had he remained an active member of the police
6department in the position he occupied as a result of a civil
7service competitive examination, certification and appointment
8by the Civil Service Board; or in the case of a city operating
9under the provisions of a personnel ordinance the position he
10occupied as a result of a personnel ordinance competitive
11examination certification and appointment under the authority
12of a Municipal Personnel ordinance.
13    Concurrently with such contributions, the city shall
14contribute the amounts provided by this Article. No credit
15shall be allowed for any period of time for which contributions
16by the policeman have not been paid. It is the sole
17responsibility of the policeman to ensure that all sums
18contributed by the policeman have been received by the fund for
19the service credit for which the policeman has applied. The
20period of service rendered by such policeman prior to the date
21he became a member of the police department of the city or
22while detailed, assigned or on leave of absence and employed in
23any of the departments set forth hereinabove in this Section
24for which such policeman has contributed to this fund shall be
25credited to him as service for all the purposes of this
26Article, except that he shall not have any of the rights

 

 

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1conferred by the provisions of Sections 5-127 and 5-162 of this
2Article.
3    The changes in this Section made by Public Act 86-273 shall
4apply to members of the fund who have not begun receiving a
5pension under this Article on August 23, 1989, without regard
6to whether employment is terminated before that date.
7(Source: P.A. 100-1173, eff. 6-1-19.)
 
8    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
9Section 8.44 as follows:
 
10    (30 ILCS 805/8.44 new)
11    Sec. 8.44. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
12of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
13implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
14the 101st General Assembly.
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16becoming law.".