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90_SB1907

      30 ILCS 105/14a           from Ch. 127, par. 150a
          Amends  the  State  Finance  Act.   For  members  of  the
      Illinois State Police only, allows compensation  for  50%  of
      unused  sick  leave  accumulated on or after January 1, 1998.
      Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the State Finance Act by changing Section
 2    14a.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The State Finance Act is amended by changing
 6    Section 14a as follows:
 7        (30 ILCS 105/14a) (from Ch. 127, par. 150a)
 8        Sec. 14a.  Payments for  unused  benefits;  use  of  sick
 9    leave.
10        (a)  Upon  the  death  of  a  State  employee, his or her
11    estate is entitled to  receive  from  the  appropriation  for
12    personal  services  available  for  payment  of  his  or  her
13    compensation  such  sum  for accrued vacation period, accrued
14    overtime, and accrued qualifying sick  leave  as  would  have
15    been  paid or allowed to such employee had he or she survived
16    and terminated his or her employment.
17        The State Comptroller shall draw a  warrant  or  warrants
18    against  the  appropriation,  upon  receipt of a proper death
19    certificate, payable to decedent's estate, or if no estate is
20    opened, to the  person  or  persons  entitled  thereto  under
21    Section  25-1  of the Probate Act of 1975 upon receipt of the
22    affidavit referred to in that Section, for the sum due.
23        (b)  The Department of Central Management Services  shall
24    prescribe  by  rule  the  method  of  computing  the  accrued
25    vacation  period  and  accrued  overtime  for  all employees,
26    including those not otherwise subject  to  its  jurisdiction,
27    and  for  the  purposes of this Act the Department of Central
28    Management Services may require  such  reports  as  it  deems
29    necessary.   Accrued sick leave shall be computed as provided
30    in subsection (f).
31        (c)  Upon  the  retirement  or  resignation  of  a  State
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 1    employee from State service, his  or  her  accrued  vacation,
 2    overtime  and  qualifying  sick leave shall be payable to the
 3    employee in a single lump  sum  payment.    However,  if  the
 4    employee  returns to employment in any capacity with the same
 5    agency or department within 30 days of the termination of his
 6    or her previous State employment, the  employee  must,  as  a
 7    condition  of his or her new State employment, repay the lump
 8    sum amount  within  30  days  after  his  or  her  new  State
 9    employment  commences.   The amount repaid shall be deposited
10    into the fund from which the payment was made or the  General
11    Revenue  Fund,  and  the  accrued vacation, overtime and sick
12    leave upon which the lump sum  payment  was  based  shall  be
13    credited  to  the  account of the employee in accordance with
14    the rules of the  jurisdiction  under  which  he  or  she  is
15    employed.
16        (d)  Upon  the  movement  of  a  State  employee  from  a
17    position  subject  to  the  Personnel  Code  to another State
18    position not subject to the Personnel Code, or to a  position
19    subject  to  the  Personnel  Code  from  a State position not
20    subject to the Personnel Code, or  upon  the  movement  of  a
21    State  employee  of  an  institution or agency subject to the
22    State  Universities  Civil  Service  System  from  one   such
23    institution  or agency to another such institution or agency,
24    his or her accrued vacation, overtime and sick leave shall be
25    credited to the employee's account  in  accordance  with  the
26    rules  of the jurisdiction to which the State employee moved.
27    However, if the rules preclude crediting the State employee's
28    total accrued vacation, overtime or sick leave to his or  her
29    account  at  the  jurisdiction to which he or she is to move,
30    the   nontransferable   accrued   vacation,   overtime,   and
31    qualifying sick leave shall be payable to the employee  in  a
32    single  lump sum payment by the jurisdiction from which he or
33    she moved.
34        (e)  Upon  the  death  of  a  State   employee   or   the
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 1    retirement,  indeterminate  layoff  or resignation of a State
 2    employee from State service,  the  employee's  retirement  or
 3    disability  benefits shall be computed as if the employee had
 4    remained in the State employment at his or  her  most  recent
 5    rate  of  compensation  until  his  or her accumulated unused
 6    leave for vacation, overtime, sickness and personal  business
 7    would  have  been  exhausted.   The  employing  agency  shall
 8    certify,  in  writing  to the employee, the unused leaves the
 9    employee has accrued.  This certification may be held by  the
10    employee  or  forwarded  to  the  retirement fund.  Employing
11    agencies not covered by the Personnel Code shall certify,  in
12    writing  to  the employee, the unused leaves the employee has
13    accrued.
14        (f)  Accrued sick leave shall be computed by  multiplying
15    1/2  of  the  number of days of accumulated sick leave by the
16    daily rate of compensation applicable to the employee at  the
17    time  of  his or her death, retirement, resignation, or other
18    termination of service described in this Section.
19        The payment for qualifying accrued sick leave  after  the
20    employee's   death,   retirement,   resignation,   or   other
21    termination of service provided by Public Act 83-976 shall be
22    for  sick  leave days earned on or after January 1, 1984 and,
23    except for members  of  the  Illinois  State  Police,  before
24    January  1, 1998.  Sick leave accumulated on or after January
25    1, 1998 by an employee other than a member  of  the  Illinois
26    State  Police  is  not  compensable under this Section at the
27    time of the employee's  death,  retirement,  resignation,  or
28    other  termination  of  service, but may be used to establish
29    retirement system service credit as provided in the  Illinois
30    Pension Code.
31        The  Department  of  Central  Management  Services  shall
32    prescribe  by  rule  the method of computing the accrued sick
33    leave days for all employees, including those  not  otherwise
34    subject to its jurisdiction.  Beginning January 1, 1998, sick
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 1    leave used by an employee shall be charged against his or her
 2    accumulated  sick  leave in the following order:  first, sick
 3    leave accumulated before January 1,  1984;  then  sick  leave
 4    accumulated  on  or  after  January 1, 1998; and finally sick
 5    leave accumulated on or after  January  1,  1984  but  before
 6    January 1, 1998.
 7    (Source: P.A. 90-65, eff. 7-7-97.)
 8        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 9    becoming law.

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