HB0692 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB095 04384 AMC 24429 b

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0692

Introduced 2/6/2007, by Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe - Angelo Saviano - John D'Amico - Joseph M. Lyons

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

40 ILCS 5/8-164.1

from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-164.1

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in Section concerning payments to the City of Chicago for participation in the City of Chicago's health care plans.

PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing Section 8-164.1 as follows:

(40 ILCS 5/8-164.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-164.1)

Sec. 8-164.1. Payments to city.

(a) For the the purposes of this Section, "city annuitant" means a person receiving an age and service annuity, a widow's annuity, a child's annuity, or a minimum annuity under this Article as a direct result of previous employment by the City of Chicago ("the city").

(b) The board shall pay to the city, on behalf of the board's city annuitants who participate in any of the city's health care plans, the following amounts:

(1) From July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2008, $85 per month for each such annuitant who is not eligible to receive Medicare benefits and $55 per month for each such annuitant who is eligible to receive Medicare benefits.

(2) From July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2013, $95 per month for each such annuitant who is not eligible to receive Medicare benefits and $65 per month for each such annuitant who is eligible to receive Medicare benefits.

The payments described in this subsection shall be paid from the tax levy authorized under Section 8-173; such amounts shall be credited to the reserve for group hospital care and group medical and surgical plan benefits, and all payments to the city required under this subsection shall be charged against it.

(c) The city health care plans referred to in this Section and the board's payments to the city under this Section are not and shall not be construed to be pension or retirement benefits for the purposes of Section 5 of Article XIII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970.

(Source: P.A. 92-599, eff. 6-28-02; 93-42, eff. 7-1-03.)