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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 
5Section 7-155 as follows:
 



6    (40 ILCS 5/7-155)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-155)



7    Sec. 7-155. Surviving spouse annuities-commencement. 
8    (a) A surviving spouse annuity shall begin on the 1st day 
9of the month
next following the month in which the 
10participating employee, or the
employee annuitant or such 
11person entitled to a retirement annuity died,
upon a written 
12application therefor, provided:

13        1.    Any such annuity payments payable for periods 
14    beginning Such date is not more than one year prior to the 
15    date the
application was received by the Board shall not 
16    include interest based on late payment; and

17        2.  The amount of surviving spouse annuity before the 
18    application of
paragraph 3 of Section 7-158, is at least $5 
19    per month, beginning on
such date.

20    (b) A person receiving a surviving spouse annuity whose 
21annuity  was granted but limited to one year prior to the 
22application date under the former provisions of this Section 
23may reapply for annuity payments for the period denied due to 
 
 
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1the one-year limitation.   Such annuity payments shall not 
2include interest based on late payment. 
3    (c) The changes to this Section made by this amendatory Act 
4of the 99th General Assembly apply without regard to whether 
5the deceased spouse was in service on or after the effective 
6date of this amendatory Act. 
7(Source: P.A. 80-653.)

 
 
8    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
9becoming law.