94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB0371

 

Introduced 2/15/2005, by Sen. James A. DeLeo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/5-167.5   from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-167.5
30 ILCS 805/8.29 new

    Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that retiree members of the city health care plans shall pay no higher premium, and shall receive no lower level of benefits, than the active employee members with the same Medicare status. Pre-empts home rule. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
5 Section 5-167.5 as follows:
 
6     (40 ILCS 5/5-167.5)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-167.5)
7     Sec. 5-167.5. Payments to city for annuitant health care;
8 equality of coverage.
9     (a) For the purposes of this Section, "city annuitant"
10 means a person receiving an age and service annuity, a widow's
11 annuity, a child's annuity, or a minimum annuity under this
12 Article as a direct result of previous employment by the City
13 of Chicago ("the city").
14     (b) The board shall pay to the city, on behalf of the
15 board's city annuitants who participate in any of the city's
16 health care plans, the following amounts:
17         (1) From July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2008, $85 per
18     month for each such annuitant who is not eligible to
19     receive Medicare benefits and $55 per month for each such
20     annuitant who is eligible to receive Medicare benefits.
21         (2) From July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2013, $95 per
22     month for each such annuitant who is not eligible to
23     receive Medicare benefits and $65 per month for each such
24     annuitant who is eligible to receive Medicare benefits.
25     The payments described in this subsection shall be paid
26 from the tax levy authorized under Section 5-168; such amounts
27 shall be credited to the reserve for group hospital care and
28 group medical and surgical plan benefits, and all payments to
29 the city required under this subsection shall be charged
30 against it.
31     (c) The city health care plans referred to in this Section
32 and the board's payments to the city under this Section are not

 

 

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1 and shall not be construed to be pension or retirement benefits
2 for the purposes of Section 5 of Article XIII of the Illinois
3 Constitution of 1970.
4     (d) Beginning January 1, 2006, retirees under this Article
5 who participate in the city health care plans shall pay no
6 higher premium or other cost, and shall receive no lower level
7 of benefits, than the corresponding active employee
8 participants in those plans with the same Medicare status. The
9 city, a home rule unit, may not create or maintain any
10 inequality in benefits or costs for retired and active
11 participants in the city health care plans in a manner
12 inconsistent with this subsection. This subsection is a
13 limitation on the concurrent exercise of home rule power under
14 subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois
15 Constitution.
16 (Source: P.A. 92-599, eff. 6-28-02; 93-42, eff. 7-1-03.)
 
17     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
18 Section 8.29 as follows:
 
19     (30 ILCS 805/8.29 new)
20     Sec. 8.29. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
21 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
22 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
23 the 94th General Assembly.
 
24     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.