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90_HB3373

      40 ILCS 5/3-114.2         from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-114.2
          Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Pension  Code.
      Provides  that  nonduty disability benefits are not available
      to a police officer who first becomes a member of the fund on
      or after the effective date of this amendatory Act  of  1998,
      until  the officer has at least 7 years of creditable service
      in the fund.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois  Pension  Code  by  changing
 2    Section 3-114.2.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Pension  Code  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 3-114.2 as follows:
 7        (40 ILCS 5/3-114.2) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-114.2)
 8        Sec. 3-114.2.  Disability pension - Not on duty.
 9        (a)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection  (d), a
10    police officer who becomes disabled as a result of any  cause
11    other  than  the  performance  of  an act of duty, and who is
12    found to be physically or mentally disabled so as  to  render
13    necessary  his  or  her  suspension or retirement from police
14    service in the police department,  shall  be  entitled  to  a
15    disability  pension  of  50%  of  the  salary attached to the
16    officer's rank on the police force at the date of  suspension
17    of duty or retirement.
18        (b)  If a police officer on disability pension dies while
19    still  disabled,  the disability pension shall continue to be
20    paid to the officer's survivors in the sequence  provided  in
21    Section 3-112.
22        (c)  From  and  after  July  1, 1987, any pension payable
23    under this Section shall be at least $400 per month,  without
24    regard to the fact that the disability or death of the police
25    officer occurred prior to that date.
26        (d)  The  benefits  provided  under  this Section are not
27    available to a police officer who first becomes a  member  of
28    the  fund  on  or after the effective date of this amendatory
29    Act of 1998, until the  officer  has  at  least  7  years  of
30    creditable service in the fund.
31    (Source: P.A. 85-941.)

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