Sen. James A. DeLeo
Filed: 2/24/2006
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 789
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 789 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section
7-109.3 and adding Section 7-109.4 as follows:
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6 | (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
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7 | Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
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8 | (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
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9 | (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than | ||||||
10 | special deputies,
employed on a full time basis in the | ||||||
11 | office of the sheriff.
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12 | (2) A person who has elected to participate in this | ||||||
13 | Fund under Section
3-109.1 of this Code, and who is | ||||||
14 | employed by a participating municipality
to perform police | ||||||
15 | duties.
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16 | (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time | ||||||
17 | basis by a Forest
Preserve District, provided that such | ||||||
18 | officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's
law enforcement | ||||||
19 | employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
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20 | that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's | ||||||
21 | law enforcement
employee, only if the board of | ||||||
22 | commissioners of the District have so
elected by adoption | ||||||
23 | of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made,
may | ||||||
24 | not be rescinded.
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1 | (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund | ||||||
2 | established under
Article 3 of this Code who is employed on | ||||||
3 | a full-time basis by a
participating municipality or | ||||||
4 | participating instrumentality to perform
police duties at | ||||||
5 | an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
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6 | employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee | ||||||
7 | status for its
airport police employees by adoption of an | ||||||
8 | affirmative resolution. Such
approval, once given, may not | ||||||
9 | be rescinded.
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10 | (5) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to | ||||||
11 | participate in
this Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement | ||||||
12 | employee under Section 3-109.4.
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13 | (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee | ||||||
14 | and is granted
military leave or authorized leave of absence | ||||||
15 | shall receive service credit in
that capacity. Sheriff's law | ||||||
16 | enforcement employees shall not be entitled to
out-of-State | ||||||
17 | service credit under Section 7-139.
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18 | (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
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19 | (40 ILCS 5/7-109.4 new)
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20 | Sec. 7-109.4. SLEP credit for coroner.
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21 | (a) An elected or appointed coroner who participates in the | ||||||
22 | Fund may elect
to participate as a sheriff's law enforcement | ||||||
23 | employee.
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24 | (b) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to | ||||||
25 | participate in the
Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement employee | ||||||
26 | may have his or her service as a
coroner prior to the date of | ||||||
27 | that election deemed service as a sheriff's law
enforcement | ||||||
28 | employee by paying to the Fund the additional contribution | ||||||
29 | required
under Section 7-173.1, plus interest thereon at the | ||||||
30 | effective rate from the
date of the service to the date of | ||||||
31 | payment.
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32 | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding |
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1 | Section 8.30 as
follows:
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2 | (30 ILCS 805/8.30 new)
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3 | Sec. 8.30. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | ||||||
4 | of this
Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | ||||||
5 | implementation of
any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | ||||||
6 | the 94th General Assembly.
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7 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
8 | becoming law.".
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