Full Text of HB3258 94th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Sections
16-163 and 16-165 as follows:
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| (40 ILCS 5/16-163) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-163)
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| Sec. 16-163. Board created. A board of 11 members | 8 |
| constitutes the
a
board of trustees authorized to carry out the | 9 |
| provisions of this Article and is
responsible for the general | 10 |
| administration of the System. The board shall
be
is known as | 11 |
| the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System
of the | 12 |
| State of Illinois. The board shall be
is composed of the
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| Superintendent of Education, ex officio, who shall be the | 14 |
| president of the
board; 4 persons, not members of the System, | 15 |
| to be appointed by the Governor,
who shall hold no elected | 16 |
| State office; 4 persons who, at the time of their
election, are
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| teachers , as defined in Section 16-106, elected by the
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| contributing members; and 2 annuitant members elected by the | 19 |
| annuitants of the
System, as provided in Section 16-165.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-511, eff. 8-22-97; 91-941, eff. 2-6-01.)
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| (40 ILCS 5/16-165) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-165)
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| Sec. 16-165. Board; elected members; vacancies.
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| (a) In each odd-numbered year, there shall be elected 2 | 24 |
| teachers who
shall hold office for a term of 4 years beginning | 25 |
| July 15 next following their
election, in the manner provided | 26 |
| under this Section. An elected teacher
member of the board who | 27 |
| ceases to be a teacher as defined in Section 16-106 may
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| continue to serve on the board for the remainder of the term to | 29 |
| which he or she
was elected.
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| (b) One elected annuitant trustee shall first be elected in
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| 1987, and in every fourth year thereafter, for a
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| years beginning July 15 next following his or her election.
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| (c) The elected annuitant position created by this | 3 |
| amendatory Act of
the 91st General Assembly shall be filled as | 4 |
| soon as possible in the manner
provided for vacancies, for an | 5 |
| initial term ending July 15, 2001. One
elected annuitant | 6 |
| trustee shall be elected in 2001, and in every fourth year
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| thereafter, for a term of 4 years beginning July 15 next | 8 |
| following his or her
election.
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| (d) Elections shall be held on May 1, unless May 1 falls on | 10 |
| a Saturday
or Sunday, in which event the election shall be | 11 |
| conducted on the
following Monday. Candidates shall be | 12 |
| nominated by petitions in writing,
signed by not less than 500 | 13 |
| teachers or annuitants, as the case may be, with
their | 14 |
| addresses shown opposite their names. The petitions shall be | 15 |
| filed with
the board's Secretary not less than 90 nor more than | 16 |
| 120 days prior to May 1.
The Secretary shall determine their | 17 |
| validity not less than 75 days before the
election.
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| (e) If, for either teacher or annuitant members, the number | 19 |
| of qualified
nominees exceeds the number of available | 20 |
| positions,
the system shall prepare an appropriate ballot with | 21 |
| the names of the candidates
in alphabetical order and shall | 22 |
| mail one copy thereof, at least 10 days prior
to the election | 23 |
| day, to each teacher or annuitant of this system as of the
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| latest date practicable, at the latest known address, together | 25 |
| with a return
envelope addressed to the board and also a | 26 |
| smaller envelope marked "For Ballot
Only", and a slip for | 27 |
| signature. Each voter, upon marking his ballot with a
cross | 28 |
| mark in the square before the name of the person voted for, | 29 |
| shall place
the ballot in the envelope marked "For Ballot | 30 |
| Only", seal the envelope, write
on the slip provided therefor | 31 |
| his signature and address, enclose both the slip
and sealed | 32 |
| envelope containing the marked ballot in the return envelope
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| addressed to the board, and mail it. Whether a person is | 34 |
| eligible to vote for
the teacher nominees or the annuitant | 35 |
| nominees shall be
determined from system payroll records as of | 36 |
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| Upon receipt of the return envelopes, the system shall open | 2 |
| them and set
aside unopened the envelopes marked "For Ballot | 3 |
| Only". On election day ballots
shall be publicly opened and | 4 |
| counted by the trustees or canvassers appointed
therefor. Each | 5 |
| vote cast for a candidate represents one vote only. No ballot
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| arriving after 10 o'clock a.m. on election day shall be | 7 |
| counted. The 2 teacher
candidates and the annuitant candidate | 8 |
| receiving the highest number of votes
shall be elected. The | 9 |
| board shall declare the results of the election, keep a
record | 10 |
| thereof, and notify the candidates of the results thereof | 11 |
| within 30 days
after the election.
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| If, for either class of members, there are only as many
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| qualified nominees as there are positions available, the | 14 |
| balloting as described
in this
Section shall not be conducted | 15 |
| for those nominees,
and the board shall declare them duly | 16 |
| elected.
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| (f) A vacancy occurring in the elective membership of
on
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| the board
shall be filled for the unexpired term by the board | 19 |
| with a person qualified
for the vacant position , selected by | 20 |
| the remaining elected members of the
board .
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| (Source: P.A. 91-941, eff. 2-6-01.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 23 |
| becoming law. |
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