HB4457 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB101 14740 RPS 63691 b

101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4457

Introduced 2/3/2020, by Rep. Carol Ammons

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

40 ILCS 5/7-175.1

from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-175.1

Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the counting of ballots for the election of employee and annuitant trustees shall be open to observers from associations that represent participating municipalities and instrumentalities and labor organizations that represent employees from participating municipalities and instrumentalities. Effective immediately.

PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing Section 7-175.1 as follows:

(40 ILCS 5/7-175.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-175.1)

Sec. 7-175.1. Election of employee and annuitant trustees.

(a) The board shall prepare and send ballots and ballot envelopes to the employees and annuitants eligible to vote as of September of that year. The ballots shall contain the names of all candidates in alphabetical order and an appropriate place where a name may be written in on the ballot. The ballot envelope shall have on the outside a form of certificate stating that the person voting the ballot is a participating employee or annuitant entitled to vote.

(b) Employees and annuitants, upon receipt of the ballot, shall vote the ballot and place it in the ballot envelope, seal the envelope, execute the certificate thereon and return the ballot to the Fund.

(c) The board shall set a final date for ballot return, and ballots received prior to that date in a ballot envelope with a properly executed certificate and properly voted, shall be valid ballots.

(d) The board shall set a day for counting the ballots and name judges and clerks of election to conduct the count of ballots, and shall make any rules and regulations necessary for the conduct of the count.

(d-5) The counting of ballots shall be open to observers from associations that represent participating municipalities and instrumentalities and labor organizations that represent employees from participating municipalities and instrumentalities.

(e) No election under this Section shall be required if a candidate is deemed the winner under subsection (g) of Section 7-175.

(f) Nothing in this Section shall preclude the Board from adopting rules that provide for Internet balloting or phone balloting in addition to election by mail under this Section. An Internet or phone ballot cast in accordance with rules adopted under this subsection shall be a valid ballot.

(Source: P.A. 100-935, eff. 1-1-19.)

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