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| 1 | AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 16-118 as follows:
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| 6 | (40 ILCS 5/16-118) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118)
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| 7 | Sec. 16-118. Retirement. "Retirement": Entry upon a | ||||||
| 8 | retirement annuity
or receipt of a single-sum retirement | ||||||
| 9 | benefit granted under this Article
after termination of active | ||||||
| 10 | service as a teacher.
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| 11 | (a) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than | ||||||
| 12 | a disability
retirement annuity may accept employment as a | ||||||
| 13 | teacher from a school board
or other employer specified in | ||||||
| 14 | Section 16-106 without impairing retirement
status, if that | ||||||
| 15 | employment: | ||||||
| 16 | (1) is not within the school year during which
service | ||||||
| 17 | was terminated; and | ||||||
| 18 | (2) does not exceed the following: | ||||||
| 19 | (i) before July 1, 2001, 100 paid days or 500 paid
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| 20 | hours in any school year; | ||||||
| 21 | (ii) during the period beginning July 1, 2001 | ||||||
| 22 | through
June 30, 2011, 120 paid days or 600 paid hours | ||||||
| 23 | in each school year; | ||||||
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| 1 | (iii) during the period beginning July 1, 2011 | ||||||
| 2 | through
June 30, 2018, 100 paid days or 500 paid hours | ||||||
| 3 | in each school year; | ||||||
| 4 | (iv) beginning July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2023 | ||||||
| 5 | 2021, 120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each school | ||||||
| 6 | year, but not more than 100 paid days in the same | ||||||
| 7 | classroom; and | ||||||
| 8 | (v) beginning July 1, 2023 2021, 100 paid days or | ||||||
| 9 | 500 paid hours in each school year. | ||||||
| 10 | Where
such permitted employment is partly on a daily and | ||||||
| 11 | partly on an hourly basis,
a day shall be considered as 5 | ||||||
| 12 | hours.
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| 13 | (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who | ||||||
| 14 | returns to teaching
under the program established in Section | ||||||
| 15 | 16-150.1, for the duration of his or
her participation in that | ||||||
| 16 | program.
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| 17 | (Source: P.A. 100-596, eff. 7-1-18; 101-645, eff. 6-26-20.)
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| 18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 19 | becoming law.
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