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91_HB0334

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois  Pension  Code  by  changing
 2    Sections 5-236 and 14-110.

 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 Sections 5-236 and 14-110 as follows:

 7        (40 ILCS 5/5-236) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-236)
 8        Sec. 5-236.  Transfer to Article 14.
 9        (a)  Until  January  31,  1994,  any active member of the
10    State Employees' Retirement System who is a  State  policeman
11    or  investigator  for  the Secretary of State, and until June
12    30,  2000,  any  active  member  of  the   State   Employees'
13    Retirement  System  who  is a controlled substance inspector,
14    may apply for transfer of his creditable service  accumulated
15    under this Article to the State Employees' Retirement System.
16    At  the  time of the transfer the Fund shall pay to the State
17    Employees' Retirement System an amount equal to:
18             (1)  the amounts accumulated to the  credit  of  the
19        applicant  on  the  books  of  the  Fund  on  the date of
20        transfer; and
21             (2)  the   corresponding    municipality    credits,
22        including  interest, on the books of the Fund on the date
23        of transfer; and
24             (3)  any interest paid by the applicant in order  to
25        reinstate service.
26    Participation  in  this  Fund  shall terminate on the date of
27    transfer.
28        (b)  Until January 31, 1994, any such State policeman  or
29    investigator  for  the Secretary of State, and until June 30,
30    2000, any such controlled substance inspector, may  reinstate
31    service that was terminated by receipt of a refund, by paying
 
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 1    to the Fund the amount of the refund with interest thereon at
 2    the  rate  of 6% per year, compounded annually, from the date
 3    of refund to the date of payment.
 4        (c)  Within 30 days after  the  effective  date  of  this
 5    amendatory  Act  of  1993,  any  active  member  of the State
 6    Employees'  Retirement  System  who  was   earning   eligible
 7    creditable  service  under  subdivision  (b)(12)  of  Section
 8    14-110  on  January  1, 1992 and who has at least 17 years of
 9    creditable service under this Article may apply for  transfer
10    of  his  creditable service accumulated under this Article to
11    the State Employees' Retirement System.  At the time  of  the
12    transfer   the   Fund  shall  pay  to  the  State  Employees'
13    Retirement System an amount equal to:
14             (1)  the amounts accumulated to the  credit  of  the
15        applicant  on  the  books  of  the  Fund  on  the date of
16        transfer; and
17             (2)  the   corresponding    municipality    credits,
18        including  interest, on the books of the Fund on the date
19        of transfer.
20    Participation in this Fund shall terminate  on  the  date  of
21    transfer.
22    (Source: P.A. 86-1488; 87-1265.)

23        (40 ILCS 5/14-110) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-110)
24        Sec. 14-110.  Alternative retirement annuity.
25        (a)  Any  member  who has withdrawn from service with not
26    less than 20 years of eligible  creditable  service  and  has
27    attained  age  55,  and  any  member  who  has withdrawn from
28    service with not less than 25 years  of  eligible  creditable
29    service  and  has  attained age 50, regardless of whether the
30    attainment of either of the specified ages occurs  while  the
31    member  is  still in service, shall be entitled to receive at
32    the option of the member, in lieu of the regular  or  minimum
33    retirement   annuity,   a  retirement   annuity  computed  as
 
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 1    follows:
 2             (i)  for  periods  of  service   as   a   noncovered
 3        employee,  2  1/4% of final average compensation for each
 4        of the first 10 years of creditable service, 2  1/2%  for
 5        each  year  above  10  years to and including 20 years of
 6        creditable  service,  and  2  3/4%  for  each   year   of
 7        creditable service above 20 years; and
 8             (ii)  for  periods of eligible creditable service as
 9        a covered employee, 1.67% of final  average  compensation
10        for each of the first 10 years of such service, 1.90% for
11        each of the next 10 years of such service, 2.10% for each
12        year  of  such  service in excess of 20 but not exceeding
13        30, and 2.30% for each year in excess of 30.
14        Such annuity shall be subject to  a  maximum  of  75%  of
15    final   average  compensation.   These  rates  shall  not  be
16    applicable to any service performed by a member as a  covered
17    employee  which  is not eligible creditable service.  Service
18    as a  covered  employee  which  is  not  eligible  creditable
19    service  shall  be  subject  to  the  rates and provisions of
20    Section 14-108.
21        (b)  For  the  purpose   of   this   Section,   "eligible
22    creditable  service"  means creditable service resulting from
23    service in one or more of the following positions:
24             (1)  State policeman;
25             (2)  fire fighter in the fire protection service  of
26        a department;
27             (3)  air pilot;
28             (4)  special agent;
29             (5)  investigator for the Secretary of State;
30             (6)  conservation police officer;
31             (7)  investigator for the Department of Revenue;
32             (8)  security  employee  of  the Department of Human
33        Services;
34             (9)  Central  Management  Services  security  police
 
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 1        officer;
 2             (10)  security  employee  of   the   Department   of
 3        Corrections;
 4             (11)  dangerous drugs investigator;
 5             (12)  investigator   for  the  Department  of  State
 6        Police;
 7             (13)  investigator for the Office  of  the  Attorney
 8        General;
 9             (14)  controlled substance inspector;
10             (15)  investigator  for  the  Office  of the State's
11        Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
12             (16)  Commerce Commission police officer;
13             (17)  arson investigator.
14        A person employed in one of the  positions  specified  in
15    this  subsection  is  entitled to eligible creditable service
16    for service credit earned under this Article while undergoing
17    the basic police training course  approved  by  the  Illinois
18    Local   Governmental   Law   Enforcement   Officers  Training
19    Standards Board, if completion of that training  is  required
20    of  persons  serving  in  that position.  For the purposes of
21    this Code, service during the required basic police  training
22    course  shall  be  deemed  performance  of  the duties of the
23    specified position, even though the person  is  not  a  sworn
24    peace officer at the time of the training.
25        (c)  For the purposes of this Section:
26             (1)  The  term  "state policeman" includes any title
27        or position in the Department of  State  Police  that  is
28        held  by  an  individual  employed under the State Police
29        Act.
30             (2)  The term "fire fighter in the  fire  protection
31        service  of  a  department" includes all officers in such
32        fire  protection  service  including  fire   chiefs   and
33        assistant fire chiefs.
34             (3)  The  term  "air  pilot"  includes  any employee
 
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 1        whose official job description on file in the  Department
 2        of  Central  Management Services, or in the department by
 3        which he is employed if that department is not covered by
 4        the Personnel Code, states that his principal duty is the
 5        operation  of  aircraft,  and  who  possesses  a  pilot's
 6        license; however, the change in this definition  made  by
 7        this  amendatory Act of 1983 shall not operate to exclude
 8        any noncovered employee who was an "air  pilot"  for  the
 9        purposes of this Section on January 1, 1984.
10             (4)  The  term  "special agent" means any person who
11        by reason of  employment  by  the  Division  of  Narcotic
12        Control,  the  Bureau  of Investigation or, after July 1,
13        1977,  the  Division  of  Criminal   Investigation,   the
14        Division  of Internal Investigation or any other Division
15        or organizational  entity  in  the  Department  of  State
16        Police  is  vested  by law with duties to maintain public
17        order, investigate violations of the criminal law of this
18        State, enforce the laws of this State, make  arrests  and
19        recover  property.  The term "special agent" includes any
20        title or position in the Department of State Police  that
21        is  held by an individual employed under the State Police
22        Act.
23             (5)  The term "investigator  for  the  Secretary  of
24        State"  means  any  person  employed by the Office of the
25        Secretary of State and  vested  with  such  investigative
26        duties  as  render  him ineligible for coverage under the
27        Social Security Act by reason of  Sections  218(d)(5)(A),
28        218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
29             A  person who became employed as an investigator for
30        the Secretary  of  State  between  January  1,  1967  and
31        December  31,  1975,  and  who  has  served as such until
32        attainment of age  60,  either  continuously  or  with  a
33        single  break  in  service  of  not  more  than  3  years
34        duration,  which break terminated before January 1, 1976,
 
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 1        shall  be  entitled  to  have  his   retirement   annuity
 2        calculated     in   accordance   with   subsection   (a),
 3        notwithstanding that he has less than 20 years of  credit
 4        for such service.
 5             (6)  The  term  "Conservation  Police Officer" means
 6        any person employed by the Division of Law Enforcement of
 7        the Department of Natural Resources and vested with  such
 8        law  enforcement  duties  as  render  him  ineligible for
 9        coverage under the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason  of
10        Sections  218(d)(5)(A),  218(d)(8)(D),  and  218(l)(1) of
11        that  Act.   The  term  "Conservation   Police   Officer"
12        includes  the  positions  of  Chief  Conservation  Police
13        Administrator    and    Assistant   Conservation   Police
14        Administrator.
15             (7)  The term "investigator for  the  Department  of
16        Revenue"  means  any person employed by the Department of
17        Revenue and vested  with  such  investigative  duties  as
18        render  him  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the Social
19        Security  Act  by  reason   of   Sections   218(d)(5)(A),
20        218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
21             (8)  The  term  "security employee of the Department
22        of Human Services"  means  any  person  employed  by  the
23        Department  of  Human  Services  who  is  employed at the
24        Chester Mental Health Center and has daily  contact  with
25        the  residents  thereof, or who is a mental health police
26        officer.  "Mental health police officer" means any person
27        employed  by  the  Department  of  Human  Services  in  a
28        position pertaining to the Department's mental health and
29        developmental disabilities functions who is  vested  with
30        such   law   enforcement  duties  as  render  the  person
31        ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act  by
32        reason   of   Sections   218(d)(5)(A),  218(d)(8)(D)  and
33        218(l)(1) of that Act.
34             (9)  "Central Management  Services  security  police
 
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 1        officer"  means  any person employed by the Department of
 2        Central Management Services who is vested with  such  law
 3        enforcement  duties as render him ineligible for coverage
 4        under the Social  Security  Act  by  reason  of  Sections
 5        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
 6             (10)  The  term "security employee of the Department
 7        of Corrections" means any employee of the  Department  of
 8        Corrections  or  the  former Department of Personnel, and
 9        any member or employee of the Prisoner Review Board,  who
10        has  daily  contact  with  inmates  by  working  within a
11        correctional facility or who is a parole  officer  or  an
12        employee who has direct contact with committed persons in
13        the performance of his or her job duties.
14             (11)  The  term "dangerous drugs investigator" means
15        any person who is employed as such by the  Department  of
16        Human Services.
17             (12)  The  term  "investigator for the Department of
18        State Police" means a person employed by  the  Department
19        of  State  Police  who  is  vested under Section 4 of the
20        Narcotic Control Division Abolition  Act  with  such  law
21        enforcement  powers as render him ineligible for coverage
22        under the Social  Security  Act  by  reason  of  Sections
23        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
24             (13)  "Investigator  for  the Office of the Attorney
25        General" means any person who is employed as such by  the
26        Office  of  the  Attorney General and is vested with such
27        investigative  duties  as  render  him   ineligible   for
28        coverage  under  the  Social  Security  Act  by reason of
29        Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that
30        Act.  For the period before January  1,  1989,  the  term
31        includes  all  persons who were employed as investigators
32        by the Office of the Attorney General, without regard  to
33        social security status.
34             (14)  "Controlled  substance  inspector"  means  any
 
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 1        person  who  is  employed  as  such  by the Department of
 2        Professional Regulation  and  is  vested  with  such  law
 3        enforcement  duties as render him ineligible for coverage
 4        under the Social  Security  Act  by  reason  of  Sections
 5        218(d)(5)(A),  218(d)(8)(D)  and  218(l)(1)  of that Act.
 6        The term "controlled substance  inspector"  includes  the
 7        Program   Executive  of  Enforcement  and  the  Assistant
 8        Program Executive of Enforcement.
 9             (15)  The term "investigator for the Office  of  the
10        State's  Attorneys  Appellate  Prosecutor" means a person
11        employed in that capacity on a full time basis under  the
12        authority  of  Section  7.06  of  the  State's  Attorneys
13        Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
14             (16)  "Commerce Commission police officer" means any
15        person  employed  by the Illinois Commerce Commission who
16        is vested with such law enforcement duties as render  him
17        ineligible  for coverage under the Social Security Act by
18        reason  of  Sections  218(d)(5)(A),   218(d)(8)(D),   and
19        218(l)(1) of that Act.
20             (17)  "Arson  investigator"  means any person who is
21        employed as such by the Office of the State Fire  Marshal
22        and  is vested with such law enforcement duties as render
23        the person  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the  Social
24        Security   Act   by   reason  of  Sections  218(d)(5)(A),
25        218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act.   A  person  who
26        was  employed as an arson investigator on January 1, 1995
27        and is no longer in  service  but  not  yet  receiving  a
28        retirement  annuity  may  convert  his  or her creditable
29        service for employment  as  an  arson  investigator  into
30        eligible  creditable  service by paying to the System the
31        difference between the  employee  contributions  actually
32        paid  for  that  service  and the amounts that would have
33        been contributed if the applicant  were  contributing  at
34        the  rate  applicable  to  persons  with  the same social
 
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 1        security status earning eligible  creditable  service  on
 2        the date of application.
 3        (d)  A   security   employee   of   the   Department   of
 4    Corrections,  and  a  security  employee of the Department of
 5    Human Services who is not a  mental  health  police  officer,
 6    shall  not be eligible for the alternative retirement annuity
 7    provided by this Section unless he or she meets the following
 8    minimum  age  and  service  requirements  at  the   time   of
 9    retirement:
10             (i)  25 years of eligible creditable service and age
11        55; or
12             (ii)  beginning   January   1,  1987,  25  years  of
13        eligible creditable service and age 54, or  24  years  of
14        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
15             (iii)  beginning   January  1,  1988,  25  years  of
16        eligible creditable service and age 53, or  23  years  of
17        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
18             (iv)  beginning   January   1,  1989,  25  years  of
19        eligible creditable service and age 52, or  22  years  of
20        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
21             (v)  beginning January 1, 1990, 25 years of eligible
22        creditable  service  and  age 51, or 21 years of eligible
23        creditable service and age 55; or
24             (vi)  beginning  January  1,  1991,  25   years   of
25        eligible  creditable  service  and age 50, or 20 years of
26        eligible creditable service and age 55.
27        Persons who have service credit under Article 16 of  this
28    Code  for service as a security employee of the Department of
29    Corrections  in  a  position  requiring  certification  as  a
30    teacher may count  such  service  toward  establishing  their
31    eligibility  under  the service requirements of this Section;
32    but such service may  be  used  only  for  establishing  such
33    eligibility,  and  not  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  or
34    calculating any benefit.
 
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 1        (e)  If a member enters military service while working in
 2    a  position  in  which  eligible  creditable  service  may be
 3    earned, and returns to State service in the same  or  another
 4    such  position,  and  fulfills  in  all  other  respects  the
 5    conditions prescribed in this Article for credit for military
 6    service,  such military service shall be credited as eligible
 7    creditable service for the purposes of the retirement annuity
 8    prescribed in this Section.
 9        (f)  For purposes  of  calculating  retirement  annuities
10    under   this  Section,  periods  of  service  rendered  after
11    December 31, 1968 and before October 1,  1975  as  a  covered
12    employee  in  the  position  of  special  agent, conservation
13    police officer, mental health police officer, or investigator
14    for the Secretary of State, shall  be  deemed  to  have  been
15    service  as a noncovered employee, provided that the employee
16    pays to the System prior to retirement an amount equal to (1)
17    the difference between the employee contributions that  would
18    have been required for such service as a noncovered employee,
19    and  the amount of employee contributions actually paid, plus
20    (2) if payment is made after July 31, 1987, regular  interest
21    on  the amount specified in item (1) from the date of service
22    to the date of payment.
23        For purposes of calculating  retirement  annuities  under
24    this  Section, periods of service rendered after December 31,
25    1968 and before January 1, 1982 as a covered employee in  the
26    position  of investigator for the Department of Revenue shall
27    be deemed to have been  service  as  a  noncovered  employee,
28    provided  that  the  employee  pays  to  the  System prior to
29    retirement an amount equal to (1) the difference between  the
30    employee contributions that would have been required for such
31    service  as a noncovered employee, and the amount of employee
32    contributions actually paid, plus  (2)  if  payment  is  made
33    after  January  1,  1990,  regular  interest  on  the  amount
34    specified in item (1) from the date of service to the date of
 
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 1    payment.
 2        (g)  A  State policeman may elect, not later than January
 3    1, 1990, to establish eligible creditable service for  up  to
 4    10  years  of  his service as a policeman under Article 3, by
 5    filing a written election  with  the  Board,  accompanied  by
 6    payment  of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal to
 7    (i)  the  difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and
 8    employer  contributions  transferred  to  the  System   under
 9    Section  3-110.5,  and  the  amounts  that  would  have  been
10    contributed  had  such  contributions  been made at the rates
11    applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon  at
12    the  effective  rate for each year, compounded annually, from
13    the date of service to the date of payment.
14        Subject to the limitation  in  subsection  (i),  a  State
15    policeman  may  elect,  not  later  than  July  1,  1993,  to
16    establish  eligible  creditable service for up to 10 years of
17    his service as a member of the County Police Department under
18    Article 9, by filing  a  written  election  with  the  Board,
19    accompanied  by  payment of an amount to be determined by the
20    Board, equal to (i) the  difference  between  the  amount  of
21    employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
22    under  Section  9-121.10 and the amounts that would have been
23    contributed had those contributions been made  at  the  rates
24    applicable  to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
25    the effective rate for each year, compounded  annually,  from
26    the date of service to the date of payment.
27        (h)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
28    policeman  or  investigator  for  the  Secretary of State may
29    elect to establish eligible creditable service for up  to  12
30    years  of  his  service  as  a  policeman under Article 5, by
31    filing a written election with the Board on or before January
32    31, 1992, and paying to the System by  January  31,  1994  an
33    amount  to  be  determined  by  the  Board,  equal to (i) the
34    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
 
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 1    contributions transferred to the System under Section  5-236,
 2    and  the  amounts  that  would have been contributed had such
 3    contributions been made at  the  rates  applicable  to  State
 4    policemen,  plus  (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
 5    for each year, compounded annually, from the date of  service
 6    to the date of payment.
 7        Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a controlled
 8    substance   inspector   may   elect   to  establish  eligible
 9    creditable service for up to 12 years of  his  service  as  a
10    policeman  under Article 5, by filing a written election with
11    the Board on or before June 30, 2000 and paying to the System
12    by June 30, 2001 an amount to be  determined  by  the  Board,
13    equal  to  (i)  the difference between the amount of employee
14    and employer contributions transferred to  the  System  under
15    Section   5-236   and   the  amounts  that  would  have  been
16    contributed had such contributions been  made  at  the  rates
17    applicable  to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
18    the effective rate for each year, compounded  annually,  from
19    the date of service to the date of payment.
20        Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), a State
21    policeman, conservation police officer, or  investigator  for
22    the  Secretary  of  State  may  elect  to  establish eligible
23    creditable service for  up  to  10  years  of  service  as  a
24    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
25    a  written  election  with the Board on or before January 31,
26    1993, and paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an  amount
27    to  be  determined  by the Board, equal to (i) the difference
28    between the amount of  employee  and  employer  contributions
29    transferred  to  the  System  under  Section 7-139.7, and the
30    amounts  that  would   have   been   contributed   had   such
31    contributions  been  made  at  the  rates applicable to State
32    policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the  effective  rate
33    for  each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
34    to the date of payment.
 
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 1        (i)  The total  amount  of  eligible  creditable  service
 2    established  by  any  person under subsections (g), (h), (j),
 3    (k), and (l) of this Section shall not exceed 12 years.
 4        (j)  Subject to the  limitation  in  subsection  (i),  an
 5    investigator   for   the  Office  of  the  State's  Attorneys
 6    Appellate Prosecutor or a controlled substance inspector  may
 7    elect  to  establish eligible creditable service for up to 10
 8    years of his service as a policeman  under  Article  3  or  a
 9    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
10    a  written election with the Board, accompanied by payment of
11    an amount to be determined by the Board,  equal  to  (1)  the
12    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
13    contributions transferred to the System under Section 3-110.6
14    or  7-139.8, and the amounts that would have been contributed
15    had such contributions been made at the rates  applicable  to
16    State  policemen,  plus (2) interest thereon at the effective
17    rate for each year, compounded annually,  from  the  date  of
18    service to the date of payment.
19        (k)  Subject  to the limitation in subsection (i) of this
20    Section,  an  alternative  formula  employee  may  elect   to
21    establish  eligible creditable service for periods spent as a
22    full-time law enforcement officer  or  full-time  corrections
23    officer  employed  by the federal government or by a state or
24    local government  located  outside  of  Illinois,  for  which
25    credit  is not held in any other public employee pension fund
26    or retirement system.  To obtain this credit,  the  applicant
27    must  file  a written application with the Board by March 31,
28    1998, accompanied by evidence of  eligibility  acceptable  to
29    the  Board  and  payment of an amount to be determined by the
30    Board, equal to (1) employee  contributions  for  the  credit
31    being  established,  based upon the applicant's salary on the
32    first day  as  an  alternative  formula  employee  after  the
33    employment  for  which  credit  is  being established and the
34    rates then applicable to alternative formula employees,  plus
 
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 1    (2)  an  amount  determined by the Board to be the employer's
 2    normal cost of the benefits  accrued  for  the  credit  being
 3    established,  plus  (3)  regular  interest  on the amounts in
 4    items (1) and (2)  from  the  first  day  as  an  alternative
 5    formula  employee  after  the  employment for which credit is
 6    being established to the date of payment.
 7        (l)  Subject to  the  limitation  in  subsection  (i),  a
 8    security employee of the Department of Corrections may elect,
 9    not later than July 1, 1998, to establish eligible creditable
10    service  for  up  to  10  years  of  his  or her service as a
11    policeman under Article 3, by filing a written election  with
12    the  Board,  accompanied  by  payment  of  an  amount  to  be
13    determined  by the Board, equal to (i) the difference between
14    the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
15    to the System under Section 3-110.5,  and  the  amounts  that
16    would  have been contributed had such contributions been made
17    at  the  rates  applicable  to  security  employees  of   the
18    Department  of Corrections, plus (ii) interest thereon at the
19    effective rate for each year, compounded annually,  from  the
20    date of service to the date of payment.
21    (Source: P.A.  89-136,  eff.  7-14-95;  89-445,  eff. 2-7-96;
22    89-507, eff. 7-1-97; 90-32, eff. 6-27-97; revised 7-10-98.)

23        Section 99. Effective date.  This Act takes  effect  upon
24    becoming law.

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