97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB6140

 

Introduced , by Rep. Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/15-107  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 15-107
40 ILCS 5/16-106  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-106

    Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Limits participation in the Teachers' Retirement System after the effective date by employees of a school board association operating in compliance with Article 23 of the School Code. Limits participation in the State Universities Retirement System after the effective date by employees of the Illinois Association of School Administrators, the Illinois Principals Association, Special Olympics Illinois, the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, the Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center, and the Association of Illinois Middle Grade Schools. Does not exclude from participation a person so employed on the effective date, for the duration of that employment. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

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
5Sections 15-107 and 16-106 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/15-107)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 15-107)
7    Sec. 15-107. Employee.
8    (a) "Employee" means any member of the educational,
9administrative, secretarial, clerical, mechanical, labor or
10other staff of an employer whose employment is permanent and
11continuous or who is employed in a position in which services
12are expected to be rendered on a continuous basis for at least
134 months or one academic term, whichever is less, who (A)
14receives payment for personal services on a warrant issued
15pursuant to a payroll voucher certified by an employer and
16drawn by the State Comptroller upon the State Treasurer or by
17an employer upon trust, federal or other funds, or (B) is on a
18leave of absence without pay. Employment which is irregular,
19intermittent or temporary shall not be considered continuous
20for purposes of this paragraph.
21    However, a person is not an "employee" if he or she:
22        (1) is a student enrolled in and regularly attending
23    classes in a college or university which is an employer,

 

 

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1    and is employed on a temporary basis at less than full
2    time;
3        (2) is currently receiving a retirement annuity or a
4    disability retirement annuity under Section 15-153.2 from
5    this System;
6        (3) is on a military leave of absence;
7        (4) is eligible to participate in the Federal Civil
8    Service Retirement System and is currently making
9    contributions to that system based upon earnings paid by an
10    employer;
11        (5) is on leave of absence without pay for more than 60
12    days immediately following termination of disability
13    benefits under this Article;
14        (6) is hired after June 30, 1979 as a public service
15    employment program participant under the Federal
16    Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and receives
17    earnings in whole or in part from funds provided under that
18    Act; or
19        (7) is employed on or after July 1, 1991 to perform
20    services that are excluded by subdivision (a)(7)(f) or
21    (a)(19) of Section 210 of the federal Social Security Act
22    from the definition of employment given in that Section (42
23    U.S.C. 410); or .
24        (8) becomes employed after the effective date of this
25    amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly by the Illinois
26    Association of School Administrators, the Illinois

 

 

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1    Principals Association, Special Olympics Illinois, the
2    Illinois Association of School Business Officials, the
3    Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum
4    Development, the Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center,
5    or the Association of Illinois Middle Grade Schools, with
6    respect to that employment, but this does not exclude
7    participation in the System by a person so employed on that
8    effective date for the duration of that employment.
9    (b) Any employer may, by filing a written notice with the
10board, exclude from the definition of "employee" all persons
11employed pursuant to a federally funded contract entered into
12after July 1, 1982 with a federal military department in a
13program providing training in military courses to federal
14military personnel on a military site owned by the United
15States Government, if this exclusion is not prohibited by the
16federally funded contract or federal laws or rules governing
17the administration of the contract.
18    (c) Any person appointed by the Governor under the Civil
19Administrative Code of the State is an employee, if he or she
20is a participant in this system on the effective date of the
21appointment.
22    (d) A participant on lay-off status under civil service
23rules is considered an employee for not more than 120 days from
24the date of the lay-off.
25    (e) A participant is considered an employee during (1) the
26first 60 days of disability leave, (2) the period, not to

 

 

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1exceed one year, in which his or her eligibility for disability
2benefits is being considered by the board or reviewed by the
3courts, and (3) the period he or she receives disability
4benefits under the provisions of Section 15-152, workers'
5compensation or occupational disease benefits, or disability
6income under an insurance contract financed wholly or partially
7by the employer.
8    (f) Absences without pay, other than formal leaves of
9absence, of less than 30 calendar days, are not considered as
10an interruption of a person's status as an employee. If such
11absences during any period of 12 months exceed 30 work days,
12the employee status of the person is considered as interrupted
13as of the 31st work day.
14    (g) A staff member whose employment contract requires
15services during an academic term is to be considered an
16employee during the summer and other vacation periods, unless
17he or she declines an employment contract for the succeeding
18academic term or his or her employment status is otherwise
19terminated, and he or she receives no earnings during these
20periods.
21    (h) An individual who was a participating employee employed
22in the fire department of the University of Illinois's
23Champaign-Urbana campus immediately prior to the elimination
24of that fire department and who immediately after the
25elimination of that fire department became employed by the fire
26department of the City of Urbana or the City of Champaign shall

 

 

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1continue to be considered as an employee for purposes of this
2Article for so long as the individual remains employed as a
3firefighter by the City of Urbana or the City of Champaign. The
4individual shall cease to be considered an employee under this
5subsection (h) upon the first termination of the individual's
6employment as a firefighter by the City of Urbana or the City
7of Champaign.
8    (i) An individual who is employed on a full-time basis as
9an officer or employee of a statewide teacher organization that
10serves System participants or an officer of a national teacher
11organization that serves System participants may participate
12in the System and shall be deemed an employee, provided that
13(1) the individual has previously earned creditable service
14under this Article, (2) the individual files with the System an
15irrevocable election to become a participant before the
16effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General
17Assembly, (3) the individual does not receive credit for that
18employment under any other Article of this Code, and (4) the
19individual first became a full-time employee of the teacher
20organization and becomes a participant before the effective
21date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. An
22employee under this subsection (i) is responsible for paying to
23the System both (A) employee contributions based on the actual
24compensation received for service with the teacher
25organization and (B) employer contributions equal to the normal
26costs (as defined in Section 15-155) resulting from that

 

 

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1service; all or any part of these contributions may be paid on
2the employee's behalf or picked up for tax purposes (if
3authorized under federal law) by the teacher organization.
4    A person who is an employee as defined in this subsection
5(i) may establish service credit for similar employment prior
6to becoming an employee under this subsection by paying to the
7System for that employment the contributions specified in this
8subsection, plus interest at the effective rate from the date
9of service to the date of payment. However, credit shall not be
10granted under this subsection for any such prior employment for
11which the applicant received credit under any other provision
12of this Code, or during which the applicant was on a leave of
13absence under Section 15-113.2.
14    (j) A person employed by the State Board of Higher
15Education in a position with the Illinois Century Network as of
16June 30, 2004 shall be considered to be an employee for so long
17as he or she remains continuously employed after that date by
18the Department of Central Management Services in a position
19with the Illinois Century Network, the Bureau of Communication
20and Computer Services, or, if applicable, any successor bureau
21and meets the requirements of subsection (a).
22(Source: P.A. 97-651, eff. 1-5-12.)
 
23    (40 ILCS 5/16-106)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-106)
24    Sec. 16-106. Teacher. "Teacher": The following
25individuals, provided that, for employment prior to July 1,

 

 

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11990, they are employed on a full-time basis, or if not
2full-time, on a permanent and continuous basis in a position in
3which services are expected to be rendered for at least one
4school term:
5        (1) Any educational, administrative, professional or
6    other staff employed in the public common schools included
7    within this system in a position requiring certification
8    under the law governing the certification of teachers;
9        (2) Any educational, administrative, professional or
10    other staff employed in any facility of the Department of
11    Children and Family Services or the Department of Human
12    Services, in a position requiring certification under the
13    law governing the certification of teachers, and any person
14    who (i) works in such a position for the Department of
15    Corrections, (ii) was a member of this System on May 31,
16    1987, and (iii) did not elect to become a member of the
17    State Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section
18    14-108.2 of this Code; except that "teacher" does not
19    include any person who (A) becomes a security employee of
20    the Department of Human Services, as defined in Section
21    14-110, after June 28, 2001 (the effective date of Public
22    Act 92-14), or (B) becomes a member of the State Employees'
23    Retirement System pursuant to Section 14-108.2c of this
24    Code;
25        (3) Any regional superintendent of schools, assistant
26    regional superintendent of schools, State Superintendent

 

 

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1    of Education; any person employed by the State Board of
2    Education as an executive; any executive of the boards
3    engaged in the service of public common school education in
4    school districts covered under this system of which the
5    State Superintendent of Education is an ex-officio member;
6        (4) Any person participating in the System on the
7    effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General
8    Assembly as an employee of a school board association
9    operating in compliance with Article 23 of the School Code
10    who is certificated under the law governing the
11    certification of teachers, for the duration of that
12    employment, but not a person who becomes so employed after
13    that date;
14        (5) Any person employed by the retirement system who:
15            (i) was an employee of and a participant in the
16        system on August 17, 2001 (the effective date of Public
17        Act 92-416), or
18            (ii) becomes an employee of the system on or after
19        August 17, 2001;
20        (6) Any educational, administrative, professional or
21    other staff employed by and under the supervision and
22    control of a regional superintendent of schools, provided
23    such employment position requires the person to be
24    certificated under the law governing the certification of
25    teachers and is in an educational program serving 2 or more
26    districts in accordance with a joint agreement authorized

 

 

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1    by the School Code or by federal legislation;
2        (7) Any educational, administrative, professional or
3    other staff employed in an educational program serving 2 or
4    more school districts in accordance with a joint agreement
5    authorized by the School Code or by federal legislation and
6    in a position requiring certification under the laws
7    governing the certification of teachers;
8        (8) Any officer or employee of a statewide teacher
9    organization or officer of a national teacher organization
10    who is certified under the law governing certification of
11    teachers, provided: (i) the individual had previously
12    established creditable service under this Article, (ii)
13    the individual files with the system an irrevocable
14    election to become a member before the effective date of
15    this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, (iii) the
16    individual does not receive credit for such service under
17    any other Article of this Code, and (iv) the individual
18    first became an officer or employee of the teacher
19    organization and becomes a member before the effective date
20    of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly;
21        (9) Any educational, administrative, professional, or
22    other staff employed in a charter school operating in
23    compliance with the Charter Schools Law who is certificated
24    under the law governing the certification of teachers.
25        (10) Any person employed, on the effective date of this
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1    Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education in a
2    birth-through-age-three pilot program receiving funds
3    under Section 2-389 of the School Code who is required by
4    the Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education to hold a
5    teaching certificate, provided that the Macon-Piatt
6    Regional Office of Education makes an election, within 6
7    months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
8    the 94th General Assembly, to have the person participate
9    in the system. Any service established prior to the
10    effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
11    Assembly for service as an employee of the Macon-Piatt
12    Regional Office of Education in a birth-through-age-three
13    pilot program receiving funds under Section 2-389 of the
14    School Code shall be considered service as a teacher if
15    employee and employer contributions have been received by
16    the system and the system has not refunded those
17    contributions.
18    An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity under this
19Article or under Article 17 of this Code who is employed by a
20board of education or other employer as permitted under Section
2116-118 or 16-150.1 is not a "teacher" for purposes of this
22Article. A person who has received a single-sum retirement
23benefit under Section 16-136.4 of this Article is not a
24"teacher" for purposes of this Article.
25(Source: P.A. 97-651, eff. 1-5-12.)
 
26    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1becoming law.