103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1528

 

Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. Jil Tracy

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/16-118  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118

    Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that during the period between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2024 (instead of June 30, 2022) an additional 20 paid days or 100 paid hours shall be added to a provision that authorizes an annuitant to accept employment for a certain number of paid days or paid hours as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status. Removes a reference to the substitute teacher shortage being exacerbated by the ongoing global pandemic. Effective immediately.


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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
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;

 

 

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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        120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each school year,
6        but not more than 100 paid days in the same classroom;
7            (v) during the period between July 1, 2021 and
8        June 30, 2024 2022, an additional 20 paid days or 100
9        paid hours shall be added to item (iv) and item (vi) of
10        this paragraph (2) to assist with addressing the
11        substitute teacher shortage that has been exacerbated
12        by the ongoing global pandemic; and
13            (vi) beginning July 1, 2023, 100 paid days or 500
14        paid hours in each school year.
15    Where such permitted employment is partly on a daily and
16partly on an hourly basis, a day shall be considered as 5
17hours.
18    (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who
19returns to teaching under the program established in Section
2016-150.1, for the duration of his or her participation in that
21program.
22(Source: P.A. 101-645, eff. 6-26-20; 102-537, eff. 8-20-21;
23102-709, eff. 4-22-22.)
 
24    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25becoming law.