SB0763eng 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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 7-109.3 as follows:

(40 ILCS 5/7-109.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)

Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".

(a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:

(1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than special deputies, employed on a full time basis in the office of the sheriff.

(2) A person who has elected to participate in this Fund under Section 3-109.1 of this Code, and who is employed by a participating municipality to perform police duties.

(3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time basis by a Forest Preserve District, provided that such officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's law enforcement employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's law enforcement employee, only if the board of commissioners of the District have so elected by adoption of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made, may not be rescinded.

(4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed on a full-time basis by a participating municipality or participating instrumentality to perform police duties at an airport, but only if the governing authority of the employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee status for its airport police employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. Such approval, once given, may not be rescinded.

(5) A person employed by a participating municipality with at least 50 full-time firefighters that has not established a fund under Article 4 of this Code and who is employed on a full-time basis by that participating municipality to perform firefighting and EMS duties, but only if the governing authority of the employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee status for its firefighting employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. The resolution may specify that SLEP status be applicable to such employment occurring on or after January 1, 2011. Such approval shall be revocable only upon the establishment of an Article 4 fund by such municipality.

(b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee and is granted military leave or authorized leave of absence shall receive service credit in that capacity. Sheriff's law enforcement employees shall not be entitled to out-of-State service credit under Section 7-139.

(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.