101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4638

 

Introduced 2/5/2020, by Rep. William Davis

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/5-157  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-157

    Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a policeman who assumes regular employment for compensation, while in receipt of disability benefits, shall not be entitled to receive any amount of such disability benefits which, when added to his compensation for such employment during disability, would exceed 125% of the rate of salary which would be paid to him if he were working in his regularly appointed civil service position as a policeman. Provides that the reduction in disability benefits due to compensation for employment shall apply to all persons in receipt of disability benefits on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Makes a conforming change. Provides that a policeman who is granted a disability benefit shall supply the fund with a copy of his federal and state tax returns, along with all accompanying schedules, within 30 days after filing those returns and that the refusal to provide those tax returns terminates the right to a disability benefit. Provides that a policeman has an affirmative obligation to inform the fund if he has received a medical opinion that he is no longer disabled. Provides that when the disability ceases, the policeman shall have no further right to receive the benefit and he shall be returned to active service.


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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
5Section 5-157 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/5-157)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-157)
7    Sec. 5-157. Administration of disability benefits.
8    (a) If a policeman who is granted duty or ordinary
9disability benefit refuses to submit to examination by a
10physician appointed by the board, he shall have no further
11right to receive the benefit.
12    (b) A policeman who has withdrawn from service while
13disabled and entered upon annuity prior to the effective date,
14and who has thereafter been reinstated as a policeman, shall
15have no right to ordinary disability benefit in excess of the
16amount previously received unless he serves at least one year
17after such reinstatement. This provision shall apply
18throughout the duration of any disability incurred by the
19policeman within one year after his reinstatement resulting
20from any cause other than injury incurred in the performance of
21an act of duty.
22    (c) A Until the effective date of this amendatory Act of
23the 92nd General Assembly, a policeman who assumes regular

 

 

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1employment for compensation, while in receipt of ordinary or
2duty disability benefits, shall not be entitled to receive any
3amount of such disability benefits which, when added to his
4compensation for such employment during disability, would
5exceed 125% 150% of the rate of salary which would be paid to
6him if he were working in his regularly appointed civil service
7position as a policeman. Each policeman who is granted a
8disability benefit shall supply the fund with a copy of his
9federal and state tax returns, along with all accompanying
10schedules, within 30 days after filing those tax returns. A
11policeman shall have no further right to receive the disability
12benefit if he refuses to provide his filed tax returns. The
13reduction of disability benefits due to compensation for
14employment made by the changes to this Section by this
15amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly shall apply to all
16persons in receipt of disability benefits on or after the
17effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General
18Assembly. The changes made to this Section by Public Act 90-766
19are not limited to persons in service on or after the effective
20date of that Act.
21    Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of
22the 92nd General Assembly, the reduction of disability benefits
23due to compensation for employment previously imposed under
24this subsection (c) no longer applies to any person receiving a
25disability benefit under this Article, without regard to
26whether the person is in service on or after that date. The

 

 

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1removal of this limitation by this amendatory Act is not
2retroactive and does not entitle any person to the restoration
3of amounts previously reduced or withheld under this
4subsection.
5    (d) Disability benefit shall not be paid for any part of
6time for which a disabled policeman shall receive any part of
7his salary.
8    (e) Except as herein otherwise provided, disability
9benefit shall not be paid for any disability based upon or
10caused by any mental or physical defect which the policeman had
11at the time he entered the police service.
12    (f) Disability benefit shall not be allowed to any
13policeman who re-enters the public service in any capacity
14where his salary is payable in whole or in part by taxes levied
15upon taxable property in the city in which this Article is in
16effect, or out of special revenues of any department of the
17city. The disability benefit shall be suspended during the
18period he is in the public service for compensation, and shall
19be resumed when he withdraws from such service.
20    (f-5) A policeman has an affirmative obligation to inform
21the fund if he has received a medical opinion that he is no
22longer disabled, as "disability" is defined in Section 5-115.
23When the disability ceases, the policeman shall have no further
24right to receive the benefit and he shall be returned to active
25service.
26    (g) Any disability benefit paid in violation of this

 

 

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1Section or of this Article shall be construed to have been paid
2in error, and the amounts so paid shall be charged as a debit
3in the account of any person to whom the same was paid and
4shall be deducted from any moneys thereafter payable to such
5person out of this fund, or to the widow, heirs or estate of
6such person.
7(Source: P.A. 92-52, eff. 7-12-01.)