State of Illinois
91st General Assembly
Legislation

   [ Search ]   [ Legislation ]
[ Home ]   [ Back ]   [ Bottom ]



91_HB3833

 
                                               LRB9110445EGfg

 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois Pension Code.

 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 14-110 as follows:

 6        (40 ILCS 5/14-110) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-110)
 7        Sec. 14-110.  Alternative retirement annuity.
 8        (a)  Any member who has withdrawn from service  with  not
 9    less  than  20  years  of eligible creditable service and has
10    attained age 55,  and  any  member  who  has  withdrawn  from
11    service  with  not  less than 25 years of eligible creditable
12    service and has attained age 50, regardless  of  whether  the
13    attainment  of  either of the specified ages occurs while the
14    member is still in service, shall be entitled to  receive  at
15    the  option  of the member, in lieu of the regular or minimum
16    retirement  annuity,  a  retirement   annuity   computed   as
17    follows:
18             (i)  for   periods   of   service  as  a  noncovered
19        employee, 2 1/4% of final average compensation  for  each
20        of  the  first 10 years of creditable service, 2 1/2% for
21        each year above 10 years to and  including  20  years  of
22        creditable   service,   and  2  3/4%  for  each  year  of
23        creditable service above 20 years; and
24             (ii)  for periods of eligible creditable service  as
25        a  covered  employee, 1.67% of final average compensation
26        for each of the first 10 years of such service, 1.90% for
27        each of the next 10 years of such service, 2.10% for each
28        year of such service in excess of 20  but  not  exceeding
29        30, and 2.30% for each year in excess of 30.
30        Such  annuity  shall  be  subject  to a maximum of 75% of
31    final  average  compensation.   These  rates  shall  not   be
 
                            -2-                LRB9110445EGfg
 1    applicable  to any service performed by a member as a covered
 2    employee which is not eligible creditable service.    Service
 3    as  a  covered  employee  which  is  not  eligible creditable
 4    service shall be subject  to  the  rates  and  provisions  of
 5    Section 14-108.
 6        (b)  For   the   purpose   of   this  Section,  "eligible
 7    creditable service" means creditable service  resulting  from
 8    service in one or more of the following positions:
 9             (1)  State policeman;
10             (2)  fire  fighter in the fire protection service of
11        a department;
12             (3)  air pilot;
13             (4)  special agent;
14             (5)  investigator for the Secretary of State;
15             (6)  conservation police officer;
16             (7)  investigator for the Department of Revenue;
17             (8)  security employee of the  Department  of  Human
18        Services;
19             (9)  Central  Management  Services  security  police
20        officer;
21             (10)  security   employee   of   the  Department  of
22        Corrections;
23             (11)  dangerous drugs investigator;
24             (12)  investigator  for  the  Department  of   State
25        Police;
26             (13)  investigator  for  the  Office of the Attorney
27        General;
28             (14)  controlled substance inspector;
29             (15)  investigator for the  Office  of  the  State's
30        Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
31             (16)  Commerce Commission police officer;
32             (17)  arson investigator;
33             (18)  polygraph examiner.
34        A  person  employed  in one of the positions specified in
 
                            -3-                LRB9110445EGfg
 1    this subsection is entitled to  eligible  creditable  service
 2    for service credit earned under this Article while undergoing
 3    the basic police training course approved by the Illinois Law
 4    Enforcement  Training  Standards Board, if completion of that
 5    training is required of persons  serving  in  that  position.
 6    For  the  purposes  of this Code, service during the required
 7    basic police training course shall be deemed  performance  of
 8    the  duties of the specified position, even though the person
 9    is not a sworn peace officer at the time of the training.
10        (c)  For the purposes of this Section:
11             (1)  The term "State policeman" includes  any  title
12        or  position  in  the  Department of State Police that is
13        held by an individual employed  under  the  State  Police
14        Act.
15             (2)  The  term  "fire fighter in the fire protection
16        service of a department" includes all  officers  in  such
17        fire   protection   service  including  fire  chiefs  and
18        assistant fire chiefs.
19             (3)  The term  "air  pilot"  includes  any  employee
20        whose  official job description on file in the Department
21        of Central Management Services, or in the  department  by
22        which he is employed if that department is not covered by
23        the Personnel Code, states that his principal duty is the
24        operation  of  aircraft,  and  who  possesses  a  pilot's
25        license;  however,  the change in this definition made by
26        this amendatory Act of 1983 shall not operate to  exclude
27        any  noncovered  employee  who was an "air pilot" for the
28        purposes of this Section on January 1, 1984.
29             (4)  The term "special agent" means any  person  who
30        by  reason  of  employment  by  the  Division of Narcotic
31        Control, the Bureau of Investigation or,  after  July  1,
32        1977,   the   Division  of  Criminal  Investigation,  the
33        Division of Internal Investigation or any other  Division
34        or  organizational  entity  in  the  Department  of State
 
                            -4-                LRB9110445EGfg
 1        Police is vested by law with duties  to  maintain  public
 2        order, investigate violations of the criminal law of this
 3        State,  enforce  the laws of this State, make arrests and
 4        recover property.  The term "special agent" includes  any
 5        title  or position in the Department of State Police that
 6        is held by an individual employed under the State  Police
 7        Act.
 8             (5)  The  term  "investigator  for  the Secretary of
 9        State" means any person employed by  the  Office  of  the
10        Secretary  of  State  and  vested with such investigative
11        duties as render him ineligible for  coverage  under  the
12        Social  Security  Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
13        218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
14             A person who became employed as an investigator  for
15        the  Secretary  of  State  between  January  1,  1967 and
16        December 31, 1975, and  who  has  served  as  such  until
17        attainment  of  age  60,  either  continuously  or with a
18        single  break  in  service  of  not  more  than  3  years
19        duration, which break terminated before January 1,  1976,
20        shall   be   entitled  to  have  his  retirement  annuity
21        calculated    in   accordance   with   subsection    (a),
22        notwithstanding  that he has less than 20 years of credit
23        for such service.
24             (6)  The term "Conservation  Police  Officer"  means
25        any person employed by the Division of Law Enforcement of
26        the  Department of Natural Resources and vested with such
27        law enforcement  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
30        that   Act.    The  term  "Conservation  Police  Officer"
31        includes  the  positions  of  Chief  Conservation  Police
32        Administrator   and   Assistant    Conservation    Police
33        Administrator.
34             (7)  The  term  "investigator  for the Department of
 
                            -5-                LRB9110445EGfg
 1        Revenue" means any person employed by the  Department  of
 2        Revenue  and  vested  with  such  investigative duties as
 3        render him  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the  Social
 4        Security   Act   by   reason  of  Sections  218(d)(5)(A),
 5        218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
 6             (8)  The term "security employee of  the  Department
 7        of  Human  Services"  means  any  person  employed by the
 8        Department of Human  Services  who  is  employed  at  the
 9        Chester  Mental  Health Center and has daily contact with
10        the residents thereof, or who is a mental  health  police
11        officer.  "Mental health police officer" means any person
12        employed  by  the  Department  of  Human  Services  in  a
13        position pertaining to the Department's mental health and
14        developmental  disabilities  functions who is vested with
15        such  law  enforcement  duties  as  render   the   person
16        ineligible  for coverage under the Social Security Act by
17        reason  of  Sections   218(d)(5)(A),   218(d)(8)(D)   and
18        218(l)(1) of that Act.
19             (9)  "Central  Management  Services  security police
20        officer" means any person employed by the  Department  of
21        Central  Management  Services who is vested with such law
22        enforcement duties as render him ineligible for  coverage
23        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
24        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
25             (10)  The term "security employee of the  Department
26        of  Corrections"  means any employee of the Department of
27        Corrections or the former Department  of  Personnel,  and
28        any  member or employee of the Prisoner Review Board, who
29        has daily  contact  with  inmates  by  working  within  a
30        correctional  facility  or  who is a parole officer or an
31        employee who has direct contact with committed persons in
32        the performance of his or her job duties.
33             (11)  The term "dangerous drugs investigator"  means
34        any  person  who is employed as such by the Department of
 
                            -6-                LRB9110445EGfg
 1        Human Services.
 2             (12)  The term "investigator for the  Department  of
 3        State  Police"  means a person employed by the Department
 4        of State Police who is vested  under  Section  4  of  the
 5        Narcotic  Control  Division  Abolition  Act with such law
 6        enforcement powers as render him ineligible for  coverage
 7        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
 8        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
 9             (13)  "Investigator for the Office of  the  Attorney
10        General"  means any person who is employed as such by the
11        Office of the Attorney General and is  vested  with  such
12        investigative   duties   as  render  him  ineligible  for
13        coverage under the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason  of
14        Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that
15        Act.   For  the  period  before January 1, 1989, the term
16        includes all persons who were employed  as  investigators
17        by  the Office of the Attorney General, without regard to
18        social security status.
19             (14)  "Controlled  substance  inspector"  means  any
20        person who is employed  as  such  by  the  Department  of
21        Professional  Regulation  and  is  vested  with  such law
22        enforcement duties as render him ineligible for  coverage
23        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
24        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and  218(l)(1)  of  that  Act.
25        The  term  "controlled  substance inspector" includes the
26        Program  Executive  of  Enforcement  and  the   Assistant
27        Program Executive of Enforcement.
28             (15)  The  term  "investigator for the Office of the
29        State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor"  means  a  person
30        employed  in that capacity on a full time basis under the
31        authority  of  Section  7.06  of  the  State's  Attorneys
32        Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
33             (16)  "Commerce Commission police officer" means any
34        person employed by the Illinois Commerce  Commission  who
 
                            -7-                LRB9110445EGfg
 1        is  vested with such law enforcement duties as render him
 2        ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act  by
 3        reason   of   Sections  218(d)(5)(A),  218(d)(8)(D),  and
 4        218(l)(1) of that Act.
 5             (17)  "Arson investigator" means any person  who  is
 6        employed  as such by the Office of the State Fire Marshal
 7        and is vested with such law enforcement duties as  render
 8        the  person  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the Social
 9        Security  Act  by  reason   of   Sections   218(d)(5)(A),
10        218(d)(8)(D),  and  218(l)(1)  of that Act.  A person who
11        was employed as an arson investigator on January 1,  1995
12        and  is  no  longer  in  service  but not yet receiving a
13        retirement annuity may  convert  his  or  her  creditable
14        service  for  employment  as  an  arson investigator into
15        eligible creditable service by paying to the  System  the
16        difference  between  the  employee contributions actually
17        paid for that service and the  amounts  that  would  have
18        been  contributed  if  the applicant were contributing at
19        the rate applicable  to  persons  with  the  same  social
20        security  status  earning  eligible creditable service on
21        the date of application.
22             (18)  The term "polygraph examiner" means any member
23        who is employed as a polygraph examiner by the Department
24        of  State  Police,  has  elected  to   receive   eligible
25        creditable  service,  and has paid to the System, for his
26        or her previous service in that capacity, the  difference
27        between  the  employee contributions that would have been
28        required if that member had contributed at the rate  then
29        applicable to members earning eligible creditable service
30        and  the  employee  contributions  actually paid for that
31        service, plus regular interest.
32        (d)  A   security   employee   of   the   Department   of
33    Corrections, and a security employee  of  the  Department  of
34    Human  Services  who  is  not a mental health police officer,
 
                            -8-                LRB9110445EGfg
 1    shall not be eligible for the alternative retirement  annuity
 2    provided by this Section unless he or she meets the following
 3    minimum   age   and  service  requirements  at  the  time  of
 4    retirement:
 5             (i)  25 years of eligible creditable service and age
 6        55; or
 7             (ii)  beginning  January  1,  1987,  25   years   of
 8        eligible  creditable  service  and age 54, or 24 years of
 9        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
10             (iii)  beginning  January  1,  1988,  25  years   of
11        eligible  creditable  service  and age 53, or 23 years of
12        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
13             (iv)  beginning  January  1,  1989,  25   years   of
14        eligible  creditable  service  and age 52, or 22 years of
15        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
16             (v)  beginning January 1, 1990, 25 years of eligible
17        creditable service and age 51, or 21  years  of  eligible
18        creditable service and age 55; or
19             (vi)  beginning   January   1,  1991,  25  years  of
20        eligible creditable service and age 50, or  20  years  of
21        eligible creditable service and age 55.
22        Persons  who have service credit under Article 16 of this
23    Code for service as a security employee of the Department  of
24    Corrections  in  a  position  requiring  certification  as  a
25    teacher  may  count  such  service  toward establishing their
26    eligibility under the service requirements of  this  Section;
27    but  such  service  may  be  used  only for establishing such
28    eligibility,  and  not  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  or
29    calculating any benefit.
30        (e)  If a member enters military service while working in
31    a position  in  which  eligible  creditable  service  may  be
32    earned,  and  returns to State service in the same or another
33    such  position,  and  fulfills  in  all  other  respects  the
34    conditions prescribed in this Article for credit for military
 
                            -9-                LRB9110445EGfg
 1    service, such military service shall be credited as  eligible
 2    creditable service for the purposes of the retirement annuity
 3    prescribed in this Section.
 4        (f)  For  purposes  of  calculating  retirement annuities
 5    under  this  Section,  periods  of  service  rendered   after
 6    December  31,  1968  and  before October 1, 1975 as a covered
 7    employee in  the  position  of  special  agent,  conservation
 8    police officer, mental health police officer, or investigator
 9    for  the  Secretary  of  State,  shall be deemed to have been
10    service as a noncovered employee, provided that the  employee
11    pays to the System prior to retirement an amount equal to (1)
12    the  difference between the employee contributions that would
13    have been required for such service as a noncovered employee,
14    and the amount of employee contributions actually paid,  plus
15    (2)  if payment is made after July 31, 1987, regular interest
16    on the amount specified in item (1) from the date of  service
17    to the date of payment.
18        For  purposes  of  calculating retirement annuities under
19    this Section, periods of service rendered after December  31,
20    1968  and before January 1, 1982 as a covered employee in the
21    position of investigator for the Department of Revenue  shall
22    be  deemed  to  have  been  service as a noncovered employee,
23    provided that the  employee  pays  to  the  System  prior  to
24    retirement  an amount equal to (1) the difference between the
25    employee contributions that would have been required for such
26    service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of  employee
27    contributions  actually  paid,  plus  (2)  if payment is made
28    after  January  1,  1990,  regular  interest  on  the  amount
29    specified in item (1) from the date of service to the date of
30    payment.
31        (g)  A State policeman may elect, not later than  January
32    1,  1990,  to establish eligible creditable service for up to
33    10 years of his service as a policeman under  Article  3,  by
34    filing  a  written  election  with  the Board, accompanied by
 
                            -10-               LRB9110445EGfg
 1    payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal  to
 2    (i)  the  difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and
 3    employer   contributions  transferred  to  the  System  under
 4    Section  3-110.5,  and  the  amounts  that  would  have  been
 5    contributed had such contributions been  made  at  the  rates
 6    applicable  to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
 7    the effective rate for each year, compounded  annually,  from
 8    the date of service to the date of payment.
 9        Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), a State
10    policeman  may  elect,  not  later  than  July  1,  1993,  to
11    establish eligible creditable service for up to 10  years  of
12    his service as a member of the County Police Department under
13    Article  9,  by  filing  a  written  election with the Board,
14    accompanied by payment of an amount to be determined  by  the
15    Board,  equal  to  (i)  the  difference between the amount of
16    employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
17    under Section 9-121.10 and the amounts that would  have  been
18    contributed  had  those  contributions been made at the rates
19    applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon  at
20    the  effective  rate for each year, compounded annually, from
21    the date of service to the date of payment.
22        (h)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
23    policeman or investigator for  the  Secretary  of  State  may
24    elect  to  establish eligible creditable service for up to 12
25    years of his service as  a  policeman  under  Article  5,  by
26    filing a written election with the Board on or before January
27    31,  1992,  and  paying  to the System by January 31, 1994 an
28    amount to be determined  by  the  Board,  equal  to  (i)  the
29    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
30    contributions  transferred to the System under Section 5-236,
31    and the amounts that would have  been  contributed  had  such
32    contributions  been  made  at  the  rates applicable to State
33    policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the  effective  rate
34    for  each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
 
                            -11-               LRB9110445EGfg
 1    to the date of payment.
 2        Subject to the limitation  in  subsection  (i),  a  State
 3    policeman,  conservation  police officer, or investigator for
 4    the Secretary  of  State  may  elect  to  establish  eligible
 5    creditable  service  for  up  to  10  years  of  service as a
 6    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
 7    a written election with the Board on or  before  January  31,
 8    1993,  and paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount
 9    to be determined by the Board, equal to  (i)  the  difference
10    between  the  amount  of  employee and employer contributions
11    transferred to the System  under  Section  7-139.7,  and  the
12    amounts   that   would   have   been   contributed  had  such
13    contributions been made at  the  rates  applicable  to  State
14    policemen,  plus  (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
15    for each year, compounded annually, from the date of  service
16    to the date of payment.
17        (i)  The  total  amount  of  eligible  creditable service
18    established by any person under subsections  (g),  (h),  (j),
19    (k), and (l) of this Section shall not exceed 12 years.
20        (j)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), an
21    investigator  for  the  Office  of  the   State's   Attorneys
22    Appellate  Prosecutor or a controlled substance inspector may
23    elect to establish eligible creditable service for up  to  10
24    years  of  his  service  as  a policeman under Article 3 or a
25    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
26    a written election with the Board, accompanied by payment  of
27    an  amount  to  be  determined by the Board, equal to (1) the
28    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
29    contributions transferred to the System under Section 3-110.6
30    or 7-139.8, and the amounts that would have been  contributed
31    had  such  contributions been made at the rates applicable to
32    State policemen, plus (2) interest thereon at  the  effective
33    rate  for  each  year,  compounded annually, from the date of
34    service to the date of payment.
 
                            -12-               LRB9110445EGfg
 1        (k)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of  this
 2    Section,   an  alternative  formula  employee  may  elect  to
 3    establish eligible creditable service for periods spent as  a
 4    full-time  law  enforcement  officer or full-time corrections
 5    officer employed by the federal government or by a  state  or
 6    local  government  located  outside  of  Illinois,  for which
 7    credit is not held in any other public employee pension  fund
 8    or  retirement  system.  To obtain this credit, the applicant
 9    must file a written application with the Board by  March  31,
10    1998,  accompanied  by  evidence of eligibility acceptable to
11    the Board and payment of an amount to be  determined  by  the
12    Board,  equal  to  (1)  employee contributions for the credit
13    being established, based upon the applicant's salary  on  the
14    first  day  as  an  alternative  formula  employee  after the
15    employment for which credit  is  being  established  and  the
16    rates  then applicable to alternative formula employees, plus
17    (2) an amount determined by the Board to  be  the  employer's
18    normal  cost  of  the  benefits  accrued for the credit being
19    established, plus (3) regular  interest  on  the  amounts  in
20    items  (1)  and  (2)  from  the  first  day as an alternative
21    formula employee after the employment  for  which  credit  is
22    being established to the date of payment.
23        (l)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection  (i), a
24    security employee of the Department of Corrections may elect,
25    not later than July 1, 1998, to establish eligible creditable
26    service for up to 10  years  of  his  or  her  service  as  a
27    policeman  under Article 3, by filing a written election with
28    the  Board,  accompanied  by  payment  of  an  amount  to  be
29    determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference  between
30    the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
31    to  the  System  under  Section 3-110.5, and the amounts that
32    would have been contributed had such contributions been  made
33    at   the  rates  applicable  to  security  employees  of  the
34    Department of Corrections, plus (ii) interest thereon at  the
 
                            -13-               LRB9110445EGfg
 1    effective  rate  for each year, compounded annually, from the
 2    date of service to the date of payment.
 3    (Source: P.A. 90-32, eff. 6-27-97; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

 4        Section 99. Effective date.  This Act takes  effect  upon
 5    becoming law.

[ Top ]