Full Text of HB3137 103rd General Assembly
HB3137 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 HB3137 Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Katie Stuart SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 40 ILCS 5/7-109.3 | from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3 | 30 ILCS 805/8.47 new | |
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Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Authorizes sheriff's law enforcement employee (SLEP) status for a person who is not eligible to participate in a downstate firefighter fund and is employed on a full-time basis by a participating municipality to perform duties as a paramedic, emergency medical technician (EMT), emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I), or advanced emergency medical technician (A-EMT); but only if the governing authority of that municipality has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee status for such employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. Provides that the resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be applicable to such employment occurring on or after the adoption of the resolution and that the resolution shall be irrevocable. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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| | | STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT MAY APPLY
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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 | 5 | | changing Section 7-109.3 as follows:
| 6 | | (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
| 7 | | Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
| 8 | | (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
| 9 | | (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than | 10 | | special deputies,
employed on a full time basis in the | 11 | | office of the sheriff.
| 12 | | (2) A person who has elected to participate in this | 13 | | Fund under Section
3-109.1 of this Code, and who is | 14 | | employed by a participating municipality
to perform police | 15 | | duties.
| 16 | | (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time | 17 | | basis by a Forest
Preserve District, provided that such | 18 | | officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's
law enforcement | 19 | | employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
| 20 | | that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's | 21 | | law enforcement
employee, only if the board of | 22 | | commissioners of the District have so
elected by adoption | 23 | | of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made,
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| 1 | | may not be rescinded.
| 2 | | (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund | 3 | | established under
Article 3 of this Code who is employed | 4 | | on a full-time basis by a
participating municipality or | 5 | | participating instrumentality to perform
police duties at | 6 | | an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
| 7 | | employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee | 8 | | status for its
airport police employees by adoption of an | 9 | | affirmative resolution. Such
approval, once given, may not | 10 | | be rescinded.
| 11 | | (5) A person first hired on or after January 1, 2011 | 12 | | who (i) is employed by a participating municipality that | 13 | | has both 30 or more full-time police officers and 50 or | 14 | | more full-time firefighters and has not established a fund | 15 | | under
Article 3 or Article 4 of this Code and (ii) is | 16 | | employed on a full-time basis by that
participating | 17 | | municipality to perform
police duties or firefighting and | 18 | | EMS duties; but only if the governing authority of that | 19 | | municipality has approved sheriff's law enforcement | 20 | | employee status for its
police officer or firefighter | 21 | | employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. The | 22 | | resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be | 23 | | applicable to such employment occurring on or after the | 24 | | adoption of the resolution. Such resolution shall be | 25 | | irrevocable, but shall automatically terminate upon the | 26 | | establishment of an Article 3 or 4 fund by the |
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| 1 | | municipality. | 2 | | (6) A person who is not eligible to participate in a | 3 | | fund established under Article 4 and is employed on a | 4 | | full-time basis by a participating municipality to perform | 5 | | duties as a paramedic, emergency medical technician (EMT), | 6 | | emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I), or | 7 | | advanced emergency medical technician (A-EMT); but only if | 8 | | the governing authority of that municipality has approved | 9 | | sheriff's law enforcement employee status for such | 10 | | employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. The | 11 | | resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be | 12 | | applicable to such employment occurring on or after the | 13 | | adoption of the resolution. Such resolution shall be | 14 | | irrevocable. | 15 | | (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement | 16 | | employee and is granted
military leave or authorized leave of | 17 | | absence shall receive service credit in
that capacity. | 18 | | Sheriff's law enforcement employees shall not be entitled to
| 19 | | out-of-State service credit under Section 7-139.
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 100-354, eff. 8-25-17; 100-1097, eff. 8-26-18.)
| 21 | | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 22 | | Section 8.47 as follows: | 23 | | (30 ILCS 805/8.47 new) | 24 | | Sec. 8.47. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and |
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| 1 | | 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for | 2 | | the implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory | 3 | | Act of the 103rd General Assembly.
| 4 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 | | becoming law.
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