SB1989 EnrolledLRB102 11438 RPS 16771 b

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
5changing Section 16-118 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/16-118)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118)
7    Sec. 16-118. Retirement. "Retirement": Entry upon a
8retirement annuity or receipt of a single-sum retirement
9benefit granted under this Article after termination of active
10service as a teacher.
11    (a) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than
12a disability retirement annuity may accept employment as a
13teacher from a school board or other employer specified in
14Section 16-106 without impairing retirement status, if that
15employment:
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
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;

 

 

SB1989 Enrolled- 2 -LRB102 11438 RPS 16771 b

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
11partly on an hourly basis, a day shall be considered as 5
12hours.
13    (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who
14returns to teaching under the program established in Section
1516-150.1, for the duration of his or her participation in that
16program.
17(Source: P.A. 100-596, eff. 7-1-18; 101-645, eff. 6-26-20.)
 
18    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19becoming law.