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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 Sections 16-150.1 and 16-203 as follows:
 
6     (40 ILCS 5/16-150.1)
7     Sec. 16-150.1. Return to teaching in subject shortage area.
8     (a) As used in this Section, "eligible employment" means
9 employment beginning on or after July 1, 2003 and ending no
10 later than June 30, 2013 2008, in a subject shortage area at a
11 qualified school, in a position requiring certification under
12 the law governing the certification of teachers.
13     As used in this Section, "qualified school" means a public
14 elementary or secondary school that meets all of the following
15 requirements:
16         (1) At the time of hiring a retired teacher under this
17     Section, the school is experiencing a shortage of teachers
18     in the subject shortage area for which the teacher is
19     hired.
20         (2) The school district to which the school belongs has
21     complied with the requirements of subsection (e), and the
22     regional superintendent has certified that compliance to
23     the System.

 

 

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1         (3) If the school district to which the school belongs
2     provides group health benefits for its teachers generally,
3     substantially similar health benefits are made available
4     for teachers participating in the program under this
5     Section, without any limitations based on pre-existing
6     conditions.
7     (b) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity under this
8 Article (other than a disability retirement annuity) may engage
9 in eligible employment at a qualified school without impairing
10 his or her retirement status or retirement annuity, subject to
11 the following conditions:
12         (1) the eligible employment does not begin within the
13     school year during which service was terminated;
14         (2) the annuitant has not received any early retirement
15     incentive under Section 16-133.3, 16-133.4, or 16-133.5;
16         (3) if the annuitant retired before age 60 and with
17     less than 34 years of service, the eligible employment does
18     not begin within the year following the effective date of
19     the retirement annuity;
20         (4) if the annuitant retired at age 60 or above or with
21     34 or more years of service, the eligible employment does
22     not begin within the 90 days following the effective date
23     of the retirement annuity; and
24         (5) before the eligible employment begins, the
25     employer notifies the System in writing of the annuitant's
26     desire to participate in the program established under this

 

 

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1     Section.
2     (c) An annuitant engaged in eligible employment in
3 accordance with subsection (b) shall be deemed a participant in
4 the program established under this Section for so long as he or
5 she remains employed in eligible employment.
6     (d) A participant in the program established under this
7 Section continues to be a retirement annuitant, rather than an
8 active teacher, for all of the purposes of this Code, but shall
9 be deemed an active teacher for other purposes, such as
10 inclusion in a collective bargaining unit, eligibility for
11 group health benefits, and compliance with the laws governing
12 the employment, regulation, certification, treatment, and
13 conduct of teachers.
14     With respect to an annuitant's eligible employment under
15 this Section, neither employee nor employer contributions
16 shall be made to the System and no additional service credit
17 shall be earned. Eligible employment does not affect the
18 annuitant's final average salary or the amount of the
19 retirement annuity.
20     (e) Before hiring a teacher under this Section, the school
21 district to which the school belongs must do the following:
22         (1) If the school district to which the school belongs
23     has honorably dismissed, within the calendar year
24     preceding the beginning of the school term for which it
25     seeks to employ a retired teacher under the program
26     established in this Section, any teachers who are legally

 

 

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1     qualified to hold positions in the subject shortage area
2     and have not yet begun to receive their retirement
3     annuities under this Article, the vacant positions must
4     first be tendered to those teachers.
5         (2) For a period of at least 90 days during the 6
6     months preceding the beginning of either the fall or spring
7     term for which it seeks to employ a retired teacher under
8     the program established in this Section, the school
9     district must, on an ongoing basis, both (i) advertise its
10     vacancies in the subject shortage area in a newspaper of
11     general circulation in the area in which the school is
12     located and in employment bulletins published by college
13     and university placement offices located near the school;
14     and (ii) search for teachers legally qualified to fill
15     those vacancies through the Illinois Education Job Bank.
16     The school district must submit documentation of its
17 compliance with this subsection to the regional
18 superintendent. Upon receiving satisfactory documentation from
19 the school district, the regional superintendent shall certify
20 the district's compliance with this subsection to the System.
21     (f) This Section applies without regard to whether the
22 annuitant was in service on or after the effective date of this
23 amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
24 (Source: P.A. 93-320, eff. 7-23-03; 94-129, eff. 7-7-05.)
 
25     (40 ILCS 5/16-203)

 

 

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1     Sec. 16-203. Application and expiration of new benefit
2 increases.
3     (a) As used in this Section, "new benefit increase" means
4 an increase in the amount of any benefit provided under this
5 Article, or an expansion of the conditions of eligibility for
6 any benefit under this Article, that results from an amendment
7 to this Code that takes effect after June 1, 2005 (the
8 effective date of Public Act 94-4) this amendatory Act of the
9 94th General Assembly. "New benefit increase", however, does
10 not include any benefit increase resulting from the changes
11 made to this Article by this amendatory Act of the 95th General
12 Assembly.
13     (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code or any
14 subsequent amendment to this Code, every new benefit increase
15 is subject to this Section and shall be deemed to be granted
16 only in conformance with and contingent upon compliance with
17 the provisions of this Section.
18     (c) The Public Act enacting a new benefit increase must
19 identify and provide for payment to the System of additional
20 funding at least sufficient to fund the resulting annual
21 increase in cost to the System as it accrues.
22     Every new benefit increase is contingent upon the General
23 Assembly providing the additional funding required under this
24 subsection. The Commission on Government Forecasting and
25 Accountability shall analyze whether adequate additional
26 funding has been provided for the new benefit increase and

 

 

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1 shall report its analysis to the Public Pension Division of the
2 Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. A new
3 benefit increase created by a Public Act that does not include
4 the additional funding required under this subsection is null
5 and void. If the Public Pension Division determines that the
6 additional funding provided for a new benefit increase under
7 this subsection is or has become inadequate, it may so certify
8 to the Governor and the State Comptroller and, in the absence
9 of corrective action by the General Assembly, the new benefit
10 increase shall expire at the end of the fiscal year in which
11 the certification is made.
12     (d) Every new benefit increase shall expire 5 years after
13 its effective date or on such earlier date as may be specified
14 in the language enacting the new benefit increase or provided
15 under subsection (c). This does not prevent the General
16 Assembly from extending or re-creating a new benefit increase
17 by law.
18     (e) Except as otherwise provided in the language creating
19 the new benefit increase, a new benefit increase that expires
20 under this Section continues to apply to persons who applied
21 and qualified for the affected benefit while the new benefit
22 increase was in effect and to the affected beneficiaries and
23 alternate payees of such persons, but does not apply to any
24 other person, including without limitation a person who
25 continues in service after the expiration date and did not
26 apply and qualify for the affected benefit while the new

 

 

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1 benefit increase was in effect.
2 (Source: P.A. 94-4, eff. 6-1-05.)
 
3     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
4 Section 8.32 as follows:
 
5     (30 ILCS 805/8.32 new)
6     Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
7 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
8 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
9 the 95th General Assembly.
 
10     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law.