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 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 Sections 5-154 and 5-154.1 as follows:

 6        (40 ILCS 5/5-154) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-154)
 7        Sec.  5-154.  Duty disability benefit; child's disability
 8    benefit.
 9        (a)  An active policeman who becomes disabled on or after
10    the effective date as the result of  injury  incurred  on  or
11    after  such  date in the performance of an act of duty, has a
12    right to receive duty disability benefit during any period of
13    such disability for which he does not have a right to receive
14    salary, equal to 75% of his salary, as salary is  defined  in
15    this  Article,  at  the time the disability is allowed; or in
16    the case of a policeman on duty  disability  who  returns  to
17    active  employment  at  any  time  for a period of at least 2
18    years and is again disabled from the same  cause  or  causes,
19    75%  of  his salary, as salary is defined in this Article, at
20    the  time  disability  is  allowed;  provided,  that  if  the
21    disability  resulted  from  any  physical  defect  or  mental
22    disorder or any disease which existed at the time the  injury
23    was sustained, or if the disability is less than 50% of total
24    disability  for  any service of a remunerative character, the
25    duty disability benefit shall be 50% of salary as defined  in
26    this  Article.   However,  beginning January 1, 1996, no duty
27    disability benefit that has been payable under  this  Section
28    for  at  least 10 years shall be less than 50% of the current
29    salary attached from time to time to the  rank  held  by  the
30    policeman  at  the time of removal from the police department
31    payroll.  In the case of a person receiving a duty disability
 
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 1    benefit under this Section on  the  effective  date  of  this
 2    amendatory  Act of the 92nd General Assembly, the increase in
 3    benefit provided by this amendatory Act, if any, shall  begin
 4    to  accrue on January 1, 2001, regardless of whether the that
 5    removal from payroll occurred before the  effective  date  of
 6    this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly 1995.
 7        (b)  The  policeman  shall  also  have a right to child's
 8    disability benefit of $100 $30 per month for  each  unmarried
 9    child,  the issue of the policeman, less than age 18, but the
10    total amount of child's disability benefit shall  not  exceed
11    25%  of  his salary as defined in this Article.  The increase
12    in child's disability benefit provided by this amendatory Act
13    of the 92nd General Assembly  applies  beginning  January  1,
14    2000  to  all  such  benefits  payable on or after that date,
15    regardless of whether the disabled  policeman  is  in  active
16    service  on  or  after  the effective date of this amendatory
17    Act.
18        (c)  Duty disability benefit shall be payable  until  the
19    policeman  becomes  age  63  or  would  have  been retired by
20    operation of law, whichever is later, and child's  disability
21    benefit  shall  be  paid during any such period of disability
22    until the child attains age  18.   Thereafter  the  policeman
23    shall  receive  the  annuity  provided in accordance with the
24    other provisions of this Article.
25        (d)  A policeman who suffers a heart  attack  during  the
26    performance and discharge of his or her duties as a policeman
27    shall  be  considered injured in the performance of an act of
28    duty and shall be eligible for all  benefits  that  the  City
29    provides for police officers injured in the performance of an
30    act  of  duty.   This  subsection  (d)  is  a  restatement of
31    existing law  and  applies  without  regard  to  whether  the
32    policeman  is  in  service  on or after the effective date of
33    Public Act 89-12 or this amendatory Act of 1996.
34    (Source: P.A. 89-12, eff. 4-20-95; 89-643, eff. 8-9-96.)
 
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 1        (40 ILCS 5/5-154.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-154.1)
 2        Sec. 5-154.1. Occupational disease disability benefit.
 3        (a)  The General  Assembly  finds  that  service  in  the
 4    police department requires police officers in times of stress
 5    and danger to perform unusual tasks; that police officers are
 6    subject  to  exposure  to  extreme  heat  or  extreme cold in
 7    certain seasons while performing their duties; and that these
 8    conditions exist and  arise  out  of  or  in  the  course  of
 9    employment.
10        (b)  Any police officer with at least 10 years of service
11    who  suffers  a  heart  attack  or  any other disabling heart
12    disease but is not entitled to a benefit under Section  5-154
13    is  entitled  to  receive  an occupational disease disability
14    benefit  under  this  Section.   The   occupational   disease
15    disability benefit shall be 65% of the salary attached to the
16    rank  held by the police officer in the police service at the
17    time of  his  or  her  removal  from  the  police  department
18    payroll.  However, no occupational disease disability benefit
19    that  has  been  payable  under  this Section for at least 10
20    years shall be less than 50% of the current  salary  attached
21    from  time  to time to the rank held by the police officer at
22    the time of his or her removal  from  the  police  department
23    payroll.
24        The   police  officer  is  also  entitled  to  a  child's
25    disability benefit of $100 $50 per month for each natural  or
26    legally  adopted  unmarried  child less than age 18 dependent
27    upon the police  officer  for  support.   The  total  child's
28    disability  benefit  shall  not  exceed  10%  of  the  police
29    officer's  salary  at  the  time  of  removal from the police
30    department  payroll.   The  increase  in  child's  disability
31    benefit provided by this amendatory Act of the  92nd  General
32    Assembly  applies  beginning  January  1,  2000  to  all such
33    benefits payable on or after that date, regardless of whether
34    the disabled policeman is in active service on or  after  the
 
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 1    effective date of this amendatory Act.
 2        The  occupational  disease  disability benefit is payable
 3    during the period of  disability  until  the  police  officer
 4    attains age 63 or compulsory retirement age, whichever occurs
 5    later;  thereafter  the  police  officer  shall  receive  the
 6    benefits provided under the other provisions of this Article.
 7    If the police officer ceases to be disabled, the occupational
 8    disease disability benefit shall cease.
 9        The  child's  disability  benefit  is  payable during the
10    period of disability  until  the  child  attains  age  18  or
11    marries,  whichever event occurs first, except that a benefit
12    payable on account of a child under this Section shall not be
13    reduced or terminated by reason of the child's attainment  of
14    age 18 if he or she is then dependent by reason of a physical
15    or  mental  disability, but shall continue to be paid as long
16    as the child's dependency and disability continue.
17    (Source: P.A. 89-12, eff. 4-20-95; 89-643, eff. 8-9-96.)

18        Section 90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by  adding
19    Section 8.25 as follows:

20        (30 ILCS 805/8.25 new)
21        Sec.  8.25.  Exempt  mandate.  Notwithstanding Sections 6
22    and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is  required
23    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
24    amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly.

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

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