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92_HB0193 LRB9200764LDpr 1 AN ACT in relation to 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 7-144.3 as follows: 6 (40 ILCS 5/7-144.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-144.3) 7 Sec. 7-144.3. Supplemental benefit payment. 8 (a) A supplemental benefit payment, consisting of a sum 9 calculated as provided in subsection (c), shall be payable to 10 each eligible retirement annuitant and surviving spouse 11 annuitant on July 1, 1993, and on each subsequent July 1; 12 except that if this Code is amended to change the 13 uncompounded annual increase in retirement annuity granted in 14 subsection (c) of Section 7-142 to a compounded annual 15 increase, no supplemental benefit shall be paid under this 16 Section on any July 1 occurring on or after the effective 17 date of that amendment. The amount of the supplemental 18 benefit payment, and a person's eligibility to receive the 19 supplemental benefit payment, shall be redetermined for each 20 year in which the benefit is payable. 21 (b) To be eligible to receive a supplemental benefit 22 payment, a person must be entitled to receive a retirement 23 annuity or surviving spouse annuity from the Fund on the July 24 1 supplemental benefit payment date, and must have been 25 receiving that annuity during each of the 12 months 26 immediately preceding that date; except that a surviving 27 spouse annuitant whose surviving spouse annuity began less 28 than one year before the July 1 supplemental benefit payment 29 date shall be eligible if the deceased spouse received a 30 retirement annuity from the Fund during the period from the 31 previous July 1 until the start of the surviving spouse -2- LRB9200764LDpr 1 annuity. 2 (c) The amount of the supplemental benefit payment shall 3 be determined by the Board as follows: 4 (1) The total amount available for the payment of 5 supplemental benefit payments under this Section in any 6 year before the year 2002 shall be 0.62% of the last 7 annual participating payroll for all participating 8 municipalities and participating instrumentalities in the 9 Fund, as determined and reconciled by the Fund. The 10 total amount available for the payment of supplemental 11 benefit payments under this Section in the year 2002 and 12 in each year thereafter shall be 0.80% of the last annual 13 participating payroll for all participating 14 municipalities and participating instrumentalities in the 15 Fund, as determined and reconciled by the Fund. 16 (2) The amount of the supplemental benefit payment 17 to each eligible person shall be a portion of the total 18 amount available under paragraph (1), equal to that 19 portion of the total amount payable by the Fund to all 20 eligible persons for retirement and surviving spouse 21 annuities in the June preceding the July 1 supplemental 22 benefit payment date, that is payable to the eligible 23 person in that month. 24 (3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the amount of 25 any supplemental benefit payment paid to an annuitant 26 under this Section shall not exceed any benefit 27 limitations established by the federal government for 28 qualified public pension plans. 29 (Source: P.A. 87-850.) 30 Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding 31 Section 8.25 as follows: 32 (30 ILCS 805/8.25 new) -3- LRB9200764LDpr 1 Sec. 8.25. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 2 and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required 3 for the implementation of any mandate created by this 4 amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly. 5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 6 becoming law.