103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1815

 

Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Linda Holmes

 

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 (instead of ordinary or duty disability benefits), shall not be entitled to receive any amount of such disability benefits which, when added to his or her compensation for such employment during disability, would exceed 125% (instead of 150%) of the rate of salary which would be paid to the policeman if he or she were working in his or her regularly appointed civil service position as a policeman. Provides that each policeman who is granted a disability benefit shall supply the Fund with a copy of his or her federal and state tax returns, along with all accompanying schedules, within 30 days after filing those returns. Provides that a policeman shall have no further right to receive the disability benefit if the policeman refuses to provide his or her filed tax returns. Provides that a policeman shall have an affirmative obligation to inform the fund when he or she has received a medical opinion that he or she no longer has a disability. Provides that when the disability ceases, the policeman shall have no further right to receive the benefit and he or she shall be returned to active service. Makes other changes. 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 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12    (b) A policeman who has withdrawn from service while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
21of an 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
7service position as a policeman. The changes made to this
8Section by Public Act 90-766 are not limited to persons in
9service on or after the effective date of that Act.
10    Each policeman who is granted a disability benefit shall
11supply the Fund with a copy of his or her federal and state tax
12returns, along with all accompanying schedules, within 30 days
13after filing those returns. A policeman shall have no further
14right to receive the disability benefit if the policeman
15refuses to provide his or her filed tax returns. The reduction
16of disability benefits due to compensation for employment made
17by the changes to this Section by this amendatory Act of the
18103rd General Assembly shall apply to all persons in receipt
19of disability benefits on or after the effective date of this
20amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.
21    Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of
22the 92nd General Assembly, the reduction of disability
23benefits due to compensation for employment previously imposed
24under this subsection (c) no longer applies to any person
25receiving a disability benefit under this Article, without
26regard to whether the person is in service on or after that

 

 

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1date. The removal of this limitation by this amendatory Act is
2not retroactive and does not entitle any person to the
3restoration of amounts previously reduced or withheld under
4this subsection.
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
11had at 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 shall have an affirmative obligation to
21inform the fund when he or she has received a medical opinion
22that he or she no longer has a disability, as defined in
23Section 5-115. When the disability ceases, the policeman shall
24have no further right to receive the benefit and he or she
25shall be returned to active service.
26    (g) If a policeman receives any compensation as temporary

 

 

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1total disability, permanent total disability, a lump sum
2settlement award, or other payment under the Workers'
3Compensation Act or the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act as
4a result of the policeman's secondary employment for any
5injury resulting in disability, any disability benefit
6provided to the policeman for such disability under this
7Article shall be reduced by any compensation amount so
8received, if that compensation amount is less than the amount
9of the disability benefit. If the amount received as
10compensation exceeds the amount of the disability benefit, the
11policeman shall not receive the disability benefit until the
12disability benefit payable equals the amount of the
13compensation received without consideration of interest. The
14calculation of compensation received by the policeman as
15provided in this Section shall not take into consideration any
16benefits received under the Line of Duty Compensation Act.
17    If the widow, child or children, or parent or parents of a
18policeman, or any of these persons, receives any compensation
19under the Workers' Compensation Act or the Workers'
20Occupational Diseases Act as a result of the policeman's
21secondary employment for any injury resulting in the
22policeman's death, the annuities provided under this Article
23for those beneficiaries shall be reduced by any compensation
24amount so received, if that compensation amount is less than
25the amount of the annuities. If the amount received as
26compensation exceeds the amount of the annuities for the

 

 

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1widow, child or children, or parent or parents, the annuities
2shall not be payable until the accumulated value of the
3annuities equals the amount of the compensation received
4without consideration of interest. In making the adjustment,
5the annuity to the widow shall first be reduced. The
6calculation of compensation received by the widow, child or
7children, or parent or parents of a policeman, or any of these
8persons, as provided in this Section shall not take into
9consideration any benefits received under the Line of Duty
10Compensation Act or the Public Safety Officers Benefits Act of
111976, 34 U.S.C. 10281 et seq.
12    (h) Any disability benefit paid in violation of this
13Section or of this Article shall be construed to have been paid
14in error, and the amounts so paid shall be charged as a debit
15in the account of any person to whom the same was paid and
16shall be deducted from any moneys thereafter payable to such
17person out of this fund, or to the widow, heirs or estate of
18such person.
19(Source: P.A. 102-806, eff. 5-13-22.)
 
20    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21becoming law.