101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB3519

 

Introduced , by Rep. Mark Batinick

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/3-103  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-103
40 ILCS 5/3-145  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-145
40 ILCS 5/4-103  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-103
40 ILCS 5/4-141  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-141

    Amends the Downstate Police and Downstate Firefighter Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. In the definition of "municipality", removes a provision requiring the establishment of a police or firefighter pension fund for any city, village, or incorporated town of 5,000 or more inhabitants. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
5Sections 3-103, 3-145, 4-103, and 4-141 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/3-103)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-103)
7    Sec. 3-103. Municipality. "Municipality": (1) Any city,
8village or incorporated town of 5,000 or more but less than
9500,000 inhabitants, as determined from the United States
10Government statistics or a census taken at any time by the
11city, village or incorporated town that established a fund
12under this Article before the effective date of this amendatory
13Act of the 101st General Assembly and (2) any city, village or
14incorporated town of less than 500,000 5,000 inhabitants which,
15by referendum held under Section 3-145 adopts this Article.
16(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)
 
17    (40 ILCS 5/3-145)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-145)
18    Sec. 3-145. Referendum in municipalities less than 5,000.
19    (a) This Article shall not be effective in any municipality
20having a population of less than 5,000 unless the proposition
21to adopt the Article is submitted to and approved by the voters
22of the municipality in the manner herein provided.

 

 

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1    Whenever the electors of the municipality, equal in number
2to 5% of the number of legal votes cast at the last preceding
3general municipal election, petition the city, village or town
4clerk to submit the proposition whether that municipality shall
5adopt this Article, the officer to whom the petition is
6addressed shall certify the proposition to the proper election
7officials who shall submit the proposition in accordance with
8the general election law at a regular election in the
9municipality provided that notice of the referendum, if held
10before July 1, 1999, has been given in accordance with the
11provisions of Section 12-5 of the Election Code in effect at
12the time of the bond referendum, at least 10 and not more than
1345 days before the date of the election, notwithstanding the
14time for publication otherwise imposed by Section 12-5. Notices
15required in connection with the submission of public questions
16on or after July 1, 1999 shall be as set forth in Section 12-5
17of the Election Code. If the proposition is not adopted at that
18election, it may be submitted in like manner at any regular
19election thereafter. The proposition shall be substantially in
20the following form:
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22    Shall the city (or village or
23incorporated town) of.... adopt           YES
24Article 3 of the "Illinois Pension    -----------------------
25Code", pertaining to the creation         NO
26of a police pension fund?

 

 

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2If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition is for the
3proposition, this Article is adopted in that municipality.
4    (b) For a period of 60 days after the effective date of
5this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, if a
6municipality having a population of less than 5,000 has adopted
7this Article in accordance with the provisions of subsection
8(a), the municipality may elect to terminate participation
9under this Article if all of the following conditions are met:
10        (1) An independent auditor certifies that the fund
11    created under this Article has no liabilities and there are
12    no members or participants in the fund and no beneficiaries
13    entitled to benefits under the fund.
14        (2) The corporate authorities of the municipality, by
15    ordinance, approve the closing of the fund.
16    If the conditions of this subsection (b) are met and the
17closed fund contains assets, those assets shall be transferred
18to the municipality for its general corporate purposes.
19    If a municipality that terminates participation under this
20Article in accordance with this subsection (b) wants to
21reinstate the fund, then the proposition to re-adopt the
22Article must be submitted to and approved by the voters of the
23municipality in the manner provided in subsection (a).
24(Source: P.A. 96-216, eff. 8-10-09.)
 
25    (40 ILCS 5/4-103)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-103)

 

 

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1    Sec. 4-103. Municipality. "Municipality": (1) Any city,
2township, village or incorporated town of 5,000 or more but
3less than 500,000 inhabitants that established a fund under
4this Article before the effective date of this amendatory Act
5of the 101st General Assembly, and any fire protection district
6having any full-time paid firefighters, and (2) any city,
7village, incorporated town or township of less than 500,000
85,000 inhabitants having a full-time paid fire department which
9adopts the provisions of this article pursuant to the
10provisions of Section 4-141. The term "city council" or "board
11of trustees" includes the board of trustees of a fire
12protection district and the board of town trustees or other
13persons empowered to draft the tentative budget and
14appropriation ordinance and the electors of such a township
15acting at the annual or special meeting of town electors.
16(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)
 
17    (40 ILCS 5/4-141)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-141)
18    Sec. 4-141. Referendum in municipalities less than 5,000.
19This Article shall become effective in any municipality of less
20than 5,000, population if the proposition to adopt the Article
21is submitted to and approved by the voters of the municipality
22in the manner herein provided.
23    Whenever the electors of the municipality equal in number
24to 5% of the number of legal votes cast at the last preceding
25general municipal election for mayor or president, as the case

 

 

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1may be, petition the corporate authorities of the municipality
2to submit the proposition whether that municipality shall adopt
3this Article, the municipal clerk shall certify the proposition
4to the proper election official who shall submit it to the
5electors in accordance with the general election law at the
6next succeeding regular election in the municipality. If the
7proposition is not adopted at that election, it may be
8submitted in like manner at any regular election thereafter.
9    The proposition shall be substantially in the following
10form:
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12    Shall the city (or village or
13incorporated town as the case may be)          YES
14of.... adopt Article 4 of the
15"Illinois Pension Code",                   ------------------
16providing for a Firefighters'                   NO
17Pension Fund and the levying
18of an annual tax therefor?
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20    If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition is for
21the proposition, this Article is adopted in that municipality.
22(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)
 
23    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24becoming law.