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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 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
 8    in  this  fund (other than a member of the fire department of
 9    the city) who has rendered service as a member of the  police
10    department  of  the  city  for a period of 3 years or more is
11    entitled to credit for the various purposes of  this  Article
12    for service rendered prior to becoming a member or subsequent
13    thereto 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
20        while serving in the office of the mayor or in the office
21        of the corporation counsel,  as  a  member  of  the  city
22        council  of  the  city, as an employee of the Policemen's
23        Annuity and Benefit Fund created by this Article, as  the
24        head  of  an  organization  whose  membership consists of
25        members of the  police  department,  the  Public  Vehicle
26        License    Commission   and   the   board   of   election
27        commissioners of the city.
28             (c)  While performing safety or  investigative  work
29        for  the county in which such city is principally located
30        or  for  the  State  of  Illinois  or  for  the   federal
31        government,  on  leave  of absence from the department of
 
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 1        police, or while performing investigative  work  for  the
 2        department as a civilian employee of the department.
 3             (d)  While  on  leave  of  absence  from  the police
 4        department of the city and serving as the chief of police
 5        of a police department outside the city.
 6             (e)  While  an  employee   of   the   Chicago   Fire
 7        Department  during  any portion of the years 1975 through
 8        1979, provided that the policeman did not participate  in
 9        any other annuity and benefit fund established under this
10        Code  with  respect  to that employment and credit is not
11        available to the  policeman  for  that  employment  under
12        Section 5-213 or any other provision of this Article.
13        No  credit  shall  be  granted in this fund, however, for
14    this service if the policeman  has  credit  therefor  in  any
15    other  annuity  and benefit fund, or unless he contributes to
16    this fund the amount he would have contributed with  interest
17    had  he remained an active member of the police department in
18    the position he occupied as  a  result  of  a  civil  service
19    competitive examination, certification and appointment by the
20    Civil Service Board; or in the case of a city operating under
21    the  provisions  of  a  personnel  ordinance  the position he
22    occupied as a result of  a  personnel  ordinance  competitive
23    examination certification and appointment under the authority
24    of a Municipal Personnel ordinance.
25        Concurrently  with  such  contributions,  the  city shall
26    contribute the amounts provided by this Article.   No  credit
27    shall   be   allowed   for  any  period  of  time  for  which
28    contributions by the  policeman  have  not  been  paid.   The
29    period  of  service  rendered  by such policeman prior to the
30    date he became a member of the police department of the  city
31    or  while  detailed,  assigned  or  on  leave  of absence and
32    employed in any of the departments set forth  hereinabove  in
33    this Section for which such policeman has contributed to this
34    fund shall be credited to him as service for all the purposes
 
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 1    of  this  Article,  except  that he shall not have any of the
 2    rights conferred by the  provisions  of  Sections  5-127  and
 3    5-162 of this Article.
 4        The  changes  in  this  Section made by Public Act 86-273
 5    shall apply to  members  of  the  fund  who  have  not  begun
 6    receiving  a  pension  under this Article on August 23, 1989,
 7    without regard to whether  employment  is  terminated  before
 8    that date.
 9    (Source: P.A. 86-273; 87-1265.)

10        Section  90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
11    Section 8.27 as follows:

12        (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
13        Sec. 8.27. Exempt mandate.   Notwithstanding  Sections  6
14    and  8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
15    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
16    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

17        Section 99. Effective date.  This Act takes  effect  upon
18    becoming law.