Full Text of HB4638 101st General Assembly
HB4638 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2019 and 2020 HB4638 Introduced 2/5/2020, by Rep. William Davis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 40 ILCS 5/5-157 | from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-157 |
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Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a policeman who assumes regular employment for compensation, while in receipt of disability benefits, shall not be entitled to receive any amount of such disability benefits which, when added to his compensation for such employment during disability, would exceed 125% of the rate of salary which would be paid to him if he were working in his regularly appointed civil service position as a policeman. Provides that the reduction in disability benefits due to compensation for employment shall apply to all persons in receipt of disability benefits on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Makes a conforming change. Provides that a policeman who is granted a disability benefit shall supply the fund with a copy of his federal and state tax returns, along with all accompanying schedules, within 30 days after filing those returns and that the refusal to provide those tax returns terminates the right to a disability benefit. Provides that a policeman has an affirmative obligation to inform the fund if he has received a medical opinion that he is no longer disabled. Provides that when the disability ceases, the policeman shall have no further right to receive the benefit and he shall be returned to active service.
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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 5-157 as follows:
| 6 | | (40 ILCS 5/5-157) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-157)
| 7 | | Sec. 5-157. Administration of disability benefits.
| 8 | | (a) If a policeman who is granted duty or ordinary | 9 | | disability benefit
refuses to submit to examination by a | 10 | | physician appointed by the board, he
shall have no further | 11 | | right to receive the benefit.
| 12 | | (b) A policeman who has withdrawn from service while | 13 | | disabled and
entered upon annuity prior to the effective date, | 14 | | and who has thereafter been
reinstated as a policeman, shall | 15 | | have no right to ordinary disability
benefit in excess of the | 16 | | amount previously received unless he serves at
least one year | 17 | | after such reinstatement. This provision shall apply
| 18 | | throughout the duration of any disability incurred by the | 19 | | policeman within
one year after his reinstatement resulting | 20 | | from any cause other than injury
incurred in the performance of | 21 | | an act of duty.
| 22 | | (c) A Until the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 23 | | the
92nd General Assembly, a policeman who assumes regular |
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| 1 | | employment
for compensation, while in receipt of ordinary or | 2 | | duty disability benefits,
shall not be entitled to receive any | 3 | | amount of such disability benefits which,
when added to his | 4 | | compensation for such employment during disability, would
| 5 | | exceed 125% 150% of the rate of salary which would be paid to | 6 | | him if he were working
in his regularly appointed civil service | 7 | | position as a policeman. Each policeman who is granted a | 8 | | disability benefit shall supply the fund with a copy of his | 9 | | federal and state tax returns, along with all accompanying | 10 | | schedules, within 30 days after filing those tax returns. A | 11 | | policeman shall have no further right to receive the disability | 12 | | benefit if he refuses to provide his filed tax returns. The | 13 | | reduction of disability benefits due to compensation for | 14 | | employment made by the changes to this Section by this | 15 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly shall apply to all | 16 | | persons in receipt of disability benefits on or after the | 17 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General | 18 | | Assembly. The changes
made to this Section by Public Act 90-766 | 19 | | are not limited to persons in service on or after the effective
| 20 | | date of that Act.
| 21 | | Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 22 | | the 92nd
General Assembly, the reduction of disability benefits | 23 | | due to compensation for
employment previously imposed under | 24 | | this subsection (c) no longer applies to
any person receiving a | 25 | | disability benefit under this Article, without regard to
| 26 | | whether the person is in service on or after that date. The |
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| 1 | | removal of this
limitation by this amendatory Act is not | 2 | | retroactive and does not entitle any
person to the restoration | 3 | | of amounts previously reduced or withheld under this
| 4 | | subsection.
| 5 | | (d) Disability benefit shall not be paid for any part of | 6 | | time for which
a disabled policeman shall receive any part of | 7 | | his salary.
| 8 | | (e) Except as herein otherwise provided, disability | 9 | | benefit shall not
be paid for any disability based upon or | 10 | | caused by any mental or physical
defect which the policeman had | 11 | | at the time he entered the police service.
| 12 | | (f) Disability benefit shall not be allowed to any | 13 | | policeman who
re-enters the public service in any capacity | 14 | | where his salary is payable in
whole or in part by taxes levied | 15 | | upon taxable property in the city in which
this Article is in | 16 | | effect, or out of special revenues of any department of the
| 17 | | city. The disability benefit shall be suspended during the | 18 | | period he is in
the public service for compensation, and shall | 19 | | be resumed when he withdraws
from such service.
| 20 | | (f-5) A policeman has an affirmative obligation to inform | 21 | | the fund if he has received a medical opinion that he is no | 22 | | longer disabled, as "disability" is defined in Section 5-115. | 23 | | When the disability ceases, the policeman shall have no further | 24 | | right to receive the benefit and he shall be returned to active | 25 | | service. | 26 | | (g) Any disability benefit paid in violation of this |
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| 1 | | Section or of this
Article shall be construed to have been paid | 2 | | in error, and the amounts so
paid shall be charged as a debit | 3 | | in the account of any person to whom the
same was paid and | 4 | | shall be deducted from any moneys thereafter payable to
such | 5 | | person out of this fund, or to the widow, heirs or estate of | 6 | | such
person.
| 7 | | (Source: P.A. 92-52, eff. 7-12-01.)
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