Full Text of SB2199 97th General Assembly
SB2199 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
| | 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 SB2199 Introduced 2/10/2011, by Sen. Michael Noland SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 40 ILCS 5/4-108.4 | | 30 ILCS 805/8.35 new | |
| Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a firefighter employed by a village with a population on July 1, 2007 greater than 9,000 but less than 12,000 who was excluded
from participation in a downstate firefighter fund prior to January 1, 1996 because the firefighter earned credit for that service under the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Article for the same municipality may also elect to establish creditable service for
those periods of employment for that municipality's emergency services as a firefighter, EMT, or paramedic during which he or she was excluded from
participation in a downstate firefighter fund. 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 |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning 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 changing | 5 | | Section 4-108.4 as follows: | 6 | | (40 ILCS 5/4-108.4)
| 7 | | Sec. 4-108.4. Transfer of creditable service from Article 7 | 8 | | fund. | 9 | | (a) Any firefighter who was excluded
from participation in | 10 | | an Article
4 fund because the firefighter earned credit for | 11 | | that service under Article 7 of this Code and who is a | 12 | | participant in the Illinois
Municipal Retirement
Fund may | 13 | | become an active participant in that firefighter pension fund | 14 | | by
making a
written application to the Board. Persons so | 15 | | applying
shall begin
participation on the first day of the | 16 | | month following the month in which the
application is
received | 17 | | by the Board. An employee who makes application for
| 18 | | participation
shall not be deemed ineligible to participate in | 19 | | the firefighter pension fund
by reason of
having failed to | 20 | | apply within the 3-month period specified in subsection (b) of
| 21 | | Section 4-107.
| 22 | | (a-1) A firefighter employed by a village with a population | 23 | | on July 1, 2007 greater than 9,000 but less than 12,000 who was |
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| 1 | | excluded
from participation in an Article
4 fund prior to | 2 | | January 1, 1996 because the firefighter earned credit for that | 3 | | service under Article 7 of this Code for the same municipality | 4 | | may also elect to establish creditable service for
those | 5 | | periods of employment for that municipality's emergency | 6 | | services as a firefighter, EMT, or paramedic during which he or | 7 | | she was excluded from
participation in an
Article 4 fund by | 8 | | paying into the fund the amount that
the person
would have | 9 | | contributed had deductions from salary been made for this | 10 | | purpose at
the time the service was rendered, together with | 11 | | interest thereon at 6% per
annum, compounded annually, from the | 12 | | time the service was rendered until the
date of payment, less | 13 | | any amounts transferred from the Illinois Municipal
Retirement | 14 | | Fund under Section 7-139.10. | 15 | | (b) A firefighter who was excluded
from participation in an | 16 | | Article
4 fund because the firefighter earned credit for that | 17 | | service under Article 7 of this Code and who is a participant | 18 | | in the Illinois Municipal Retirement
Fund may also elect to | 19 | | establish creditable service for
those periods of employment as | 20 | | a firefighter during which he or she was excluded from
| 21 | | participation in an
Article 4 fund by paying into the fund the | 22 | | amount that
the person
would have contributed had deductions | 23 | | from salary been made for this purpose at
the time the service | 24 | | was rendered, together with interest thereon at 6% per
annum, | 25 | | compounded annually, from the time the service was rendered | 26 | | until the
date of payment, less any amounts transferred from |
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| 1 | | the Illinois Municipal
Retirement Fund under Section 7-139.10.
| 2 | | (c) In no event shall pension credit for the same service | 3 | | rendered by an
employee be accredited in more than one pension | 4 | | fund or retirement system under this Code. If an employee | 5 | | applies for service credit under subsection (a-1) or (b), then | 6 | | any creditable
service time accumulated in the Illinois | 7 | | Municipal Retirement Fund for the same
period must be | 8 | | transferred to the Article 4 fund under Section 7-139.10.
| 9 | | (Source: P.A. 93-689, eff. 7-1-04.) | 10 | | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 11 | | Section 8.35 as follows: | 12 | | (30 ILCS 805/8.35 new) | 13 | | Sec. 8.35. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 14 | | of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 15 | | implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 16 | | the 97th General Assembly.
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