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92_HB3190

 
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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 Section 14-110 as follows:

 6        (40 ILCS 5/14-110) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-110)
 7        Sec. 14-110.  Alternative retirement annuity.
 8        (a)  Any  member  who has withdrawn from service with not
 9    less than 20 years of eligible  creditable  service  and  has
10    attained  age  55,  and  any  member  who  has withdrawn from
11    service with not less than 25 years  of  eligible  creditable
12    service  and  has  attained age 50, regardless of whether the
13    attainment of either of the specified ages occurs  while  the
14    member  is  still in service, shall be entitled to receive at
15    the option of the member, in lieu of the regular  or  minimum
16    retirement   annuity,   a  retirement   annuity  computed  as
17    follows:
18             (i)  for  periods  of  service   as   a   noncovered
19        employee,  2  1/4% of final average compensation for each
20        of the first 10 years of creditable service, 2  1/2%  for
21        each  year  above  10  years to and including 20 years of
22        creditable  service,  and  2  3/4%  for  each   year   of
23        creditable service above 20 years; and
24             (ii)  for  periods of eligible creditable service as
25        a covered employee, 1.67% of final  average  compensation
26        for each of the first 10 years of such service, 1.90% for
27        each of the next 10 years of such service, 2.10% for each
28        year  of  such  service in excess of 20 but not exceeding
29        30, and 2.30% for each year in excess of 30.
30        Such annuity shall be subject to  a  maximum  of  75%  of
31    final   average  compensation.   These  rates  shall  not  be
 
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 1    applicable to any service performed by a member as a  covered
 2    employee  which  is not eligible creditable service.  Service
 3    as a  covered  employee  which  is  not  eligible  creditable
 4    service  shall  be  subject  to  the  rates and provisions of
 5    Section 14-108.
 6        (b)  For  the  purpose   of   this   Section,   "eligible
 7    creditable  service"  means creditable service resulting from
 8    service in one or more of the following positions:
 9             (1)  State policeman;
10             (2)  fire fighter in the fire protection service  of
11        a department;
12             (3)  air pilot;
13             (4)  special agent;
14             (5)  investigator for the Secretary of State;
15             (6)  conservation police officer;
16             (7)  investigator for the Department of Revenue;
17             (8)  security  employee  of  the Department of Human
18        Services;
19             (9)  Central  Management  Services  security  police
20        officer;
21             (10)  security  employee  of   the   Department   of
22        Corrections;
23             (11)  dangerous drugs investigator;
24             (12)  investigator   for  the  Department  of  State
25        Police;
26             (13)  investigator for the Office  of  the  Attorney
27        General;
28             (14)  controlled substance inspector;
29             (15)  investigator  for  the  Office  of the State's
30        Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
31             (16)  Commerce Commission police officer;
32             (17)  arson investigator.
33        A person employed in one of the  positions  specified  in
34    this  subsection  is  entitled to eligible creditable service
 
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 1    for service credit earned under this Article while undergoing
 2    the basic police training course approved by the Illinois Law
 3    Enforcement Training Standards Board, if completion  of  that
 4    training  is  required  of  persons serving in that position.
 5    For the purposes of this Code, service  during  the  required
 6    basic  police  training course shall be deemed performance of
 7    the duties of the specified position, even though the  person
 8    is not a sworn peace officer at the time of the training.
 9        (c)  For the purposes of this Section:
10             (1)  The  term  "state policeman" includes any title
11        or position in the Department of  State  Police  that  is
12        held  by  an  individual  employed under the State Police
13        Act.
14             (2)  The term "fire fighter in the  fire  protection
15        service  of  a  department" includes all officers in such
16        fire  protection  service  including  fire   chiefs   and
17        assistant fire chiefs.
18             (3)  The  term  "air  pilot"  includes  any employee
19        whose official job description on file in the  Department
20        of  Central  Management Services, or in the department by
21        which he is employed if that department is not covered by
22        the Personnel Code, states that his principal duty is the
23        operation  of  aircraft,  and  who  possesses  a  pilot's
24        license; however, the change in this definition  made  by
25        this  amendatory Act of 1983 shall not operate to exclude
26        any noncovered employee who was an "air  pilot"  for  the
27        purposes of this Section on January 1, 1984.
28             (4)  The  term  "special agent" means any person who
29        by reason of  employment  by  the  Division  of  Narcotic
30        Control,  the  Bureau  of Investigation or, after July 1,
31        1977,  the  Division  of  Criminal   Investigation,   the
32        Division  of  Internal  Investigation,  the  Division  of
33        Operations,  or  any  other  Division  or  organizational
34        entity in the Department of State Police is vested by law
 
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 1        with   duties   to  maintain  public  order,  investigate
 2        violations of the criminal law of this State, enforce the
 3        laws of this State, make arrests  and  recover  property.
 4        The  term  "special agent" includes any title or position
 5        in the Department of State Police  that  is  held  by  an
 6        individual employed under the State Police Act.
 7             (5)  The  term  "investigator  for  the Secretary of
 8        State" means any person employed by  the  Office  of  the
 9        Secretary  of  State  and  vested with such investigative
10        duties as render him ineligible for  coverage  under  the
11        Social  Security  Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
12        218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
13             A person who became employed as an investigator  for
14        the  Secretary  of  State  between  January  1,  1967 and
15        December 31, 1975, and  who  has  served  as  such  until
16        attainment  of  age  60,  either  continuously  or with a
17        single  break  in  service  of  not  more  than  3  years
18        duration, which break terminated before January 1,  1976,
19        shall   be   entitled  to  have  his  retirement  annuity
20        calculated    in   accordance   with   subsection    (a),
21        notwithstanding  that he has less than 20 years of credit
22        for such service.
23             (6)  The term "Conservation  Police  Officer"  means
24        any person employed by the Division of Law Enforcement of
25        the  Department of Natural Resources and vested with such
26        law enforcement  duties  as  render  him  ineligible  for
27        coverage  under  the  Social  Security  Act  by reason of
28        Sections 218(d)(5)(A),  218(d)(8)(D),  and  218(l)(1)  of
29        that   Act.    The  term  "Conservation  Police  Officer"
30        includes  the  positions  of  Chief  Conservation  Police
31        Administrator   and   Assistant    Conservation    Police
32        Administrator.
33             (7)  The  term  "investigator  for the Department of
34        Revenue" means any person employed by the  Department  of
 
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 1        Revenue  and  vested  with  such  investigative duties as
 2        render him  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the  Social
 3        Security   Act   by   reason  of  Sections  218(d)(5)(A),
 4        218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
 5             (8)  The term "security employee of  the  Department
 6        of  Human  Services"  means  any  person  employed by the
 7        Department of Human  Services  who  is  employed  at  the
 8        Chester  Mental  Health Center and has daily contact with
 9        the residents thereof, or who is a mental  health  police
10        officer.  "Mental health police officer" means any person
11        employed  by  the  Department  of  Human  Services  in  a
12        position pertaining to the Department's mental health and
13        developmental  disabilities  functions who is vested with
14        such  law  enforcement  duties  as  render   the   person
15        ineligible  for coverage under the Social Security Act by
16        reason  of  Sections   218(d)(5)(A),   218(d)(8)(D)   and
17        218(l)(1) of that Act.
18             (9)  "Central  Management  Services  security police
19        officer" means any person employed by the  Department  of
20        Central  Management  Services who is vested with such law
21        enforcement duties as render him ineligible for  coverage
22        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
23        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
24             (10)  The term "security employee of the  Department
25        of  Corrections"  means any employee of the Department of
26        Corrections, the  Department  of  State  Police,  or  the
27        former   Department  of  Personnel,  and  any  member  or
28        employee of the Prisoner  Review  Board,  who  has  daily
29        contact  with  inmates  by  working within a correctional
30        facility or who is a parole officer or  an  employee  who
31        has   direct   contact  with  committed  persons  in  the
32        performance of his or her job duties.
33             (11)  The term "dangerous drugs investigator"  means
34        any  person  who is employed as such by the Department of
 
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 1        Human Services.
 2             (12)  The term "investigator for the  Department  of
 3        State  Police"  means a person employed by the Department
 4        of State Police who is vested  under  Section  4  of  the
 5        Narcotic  Control  Division  Abolition  Act with such law
 6        enforcement powers as render him ineligible for  coverage
 7        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
 8        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
 9             (13)  "Investigator for the Office of  the  Attorney
10        General"  means any person who is employed as such by the
11        Office of the Attorney General and is  vested  with  such
12        investigative   duties   as  render  him  ineligible  for
13        coverage under the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason  of
14        Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that
15        Act.   For  the  period  before January 1, 1989, the term
16        includes all persons who were employed  as  investigators
17        by  the Office of the Attorney General, without regard to
18        social security status.
19             (14)  "Controlled  substance  inspector"  means  any
20        person who is employed  as  such  by  the  Department  of
21        Professional  Regulation  and  is  vested  with  such law
22        enforcement duties as render him ineligible for  coverage
23        under  the  Social  Security  Act  by  reason of Sections
24        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and  218(l)(1)  of  that  Act.
25        The  term  "controlled  substance inspector" includes the
26        Program  Executive  of  Enforcement  and  the   Assistant
27        Program Executive of Enforcement.
28             (15)  The  term  "investigator for the Office of the
29        State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor"  means  a  person
30        employed  in that capacity on a full time basis under the
31        authority  of  Section  7.06  of  the  State's  Attorneys
32        Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
33             (16)  "Commerce Commission police officer" means any
34        person employed by the Illinois Commerce  Commission  who
 
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 1        is  vested with such law enforcement duties as render him
 2        ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act  by
 3        reason   of   Sections  218(d)(5)(A),  218(d)(8)(D),  and
 4        218(l)(1) of that Act.
 5             (17)  "Arson investigator" means any person  who  is
 6        employed  as such by the Office of the State Fire Marshal
 7        and is vested with such law enforcement duties as  render
 8        the  person  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the Social
 9        Security  Act  by  reason   of   Sections   218(d)(5)(A),
10        218(d)(8)(D),  and  218(l)(1)  of that Act.  A person who
11        was employed as an arson investigator on January 1,  1995
12        and  is  no  longer  in  service  but not yet receiving a
13        retirement annuity may  convert  his  or  her  creditable
14        service  for  employment  as  an  arson investigator into
15        eligible creditable service by paying to the  System  the
16        difference  between  the  employee contributions actually
17        paid for that service and the  amounts  that  would  have
18        been  contributed  if  the applicant were contributing at
19        the rate applicable  to  persons  with  the  same  social
20        security  status  earning  eligible creditable service on
21        the date of application.
22        (d)  A   security   employee   of   the   Department   of
23    Corrections, and a security employee  of  the  Department  of
24    Human  Services  who  is  not a mental health police officer,
25    shall not be eligible for the alternative retirement  annuity
26    provided by this Section unless he or she meets the following
27    minimum   age   and  service  requirements  at  the  time  of
28    retirement:
29             (i)  25 years of eligible creditable service and age
30        55; or
31             (ii)  beginning  January  1,  1987,  25   years   of
32        eligible  creditable  service  and age 54, or 24 years of
33        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
34             (iii)  beginning  January  1,  1988,  25  years   of
 
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 1        eligible  creditable  service  and age 53, or 23 years of
 2        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
 3             (iv)  beginning  January  1,  1989,  25   years   of
 4        eligible  creditable  service  and age 52, or 22 years of
 5        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
 6             (v)  beginning January 1, 1990, 25 years of eligible
 7        creditable service and age 51, or 21  years  of  eligible
 8        creditable service and age 55; or
 9             (vi)  beginning   January   1,  1991,  25  years  of
10        eligible creditable service and age 50, or  20  years  of
11        eligible creditable service and age 55.
12        Persons  who have service credit under Article 16 of this
13    Code for service as a security employee of the Department  of
14    Corrections  in  a  position  requiring  certification  as  a
15    teacher  may  count  such  service  toward establishing their
16    eligibility under the service requirements of  this  Section;
17    but  such  service  may  be  used  only for establishing such
18    eligibility,  and  not  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  or
19    calculating any benefit.
20        (e)  If a member enters military service while working in
21    a position  in  which  eligible  creditable  service  may  be
22    earned,  and  returns to State service in the same or another
23    such  position,  and  fulfills  in  all  other  respects  the
24    conditions prescribed in this Article for credit for military
25    service, such military service shall be credited as  eligible
26    creditable service for the purposes of the retirement annuity
27    prescribed in this Section.
28        (f)  For  purposes  of  calculating  retirement annuities
29    under  this  Section,  periods  of  service  rendered   after
30    December  31,  1968  and  before October 1, 1975 as a covered
31    employee in  the  position  of  special  agent,  conservation
32    police officer, mental health police officer, or investigator
33    for  the  Secretary  of  State,  shall be deemed to have been
34    service as a noncovered employee, provided that the  employee
 
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 1    pays to the System prior to retirement an amount equal to (1)
 2    the  difference between the employee contributions that would
 3    have been required for such service as a noncovered employee,
 4    and the amount of employee contributions actually paid,  plus
 5    (2)  if payment is made after July 31, 1987, regular interest
 6    on the amount specified in item (1) from the date of  service
 7    to the date of payment.
 8        For  purposes  of  calculating retirement annuities under
 9    this Section, periods of service rendered after December  31,
10    1968  and before January 1, 1982 as a covered employee in the
11    position of investigator for the Department of Revenue  shall
12    be  deemed  to  have  been  service as a noncovered employee,
13    provided that the  employee  pays  to  the  System  prior  to
14    retirement  an amount equal to (1) the difference between the
15    employee contributions that would have been required for such
16    service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of  employee
17    contributions  actually  paid,  plus  (2)  if payment is made
18    after  January  1,  1990,  regular  interest  on  the  amount
19    specified in item (1) from the date of service to the date of
20    payment.
21        (g)  A State policeman may elect, not later than  January
22    1,  1990,  to establish eligible creditable service for up to
23    10 years of his service as a policeman under  Article  3,  by
24    filing  a  written  election  with  the Board, accompanied by
25    payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal  to
26    (i)  the  difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and
27    employer   contributions  transferred  to  the  System  under
28    Section  3-110.5,  and  the  amounts  that  would  have  been
29    contributed had such contributions been  made  at  the  rates
30    applicable  to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
31    the effective rate for each year, compounded  annually,  from
32    the date of service to the date of payment.
33        Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), a State
34    policeman  may  elect,  not  later  than  July  1,  1993,  to
 
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 1    establish eligible creditable service for up to 10  years  of
 2    his service as a member of the County Police Department under
 3    Article  9,  by  filing  a  written  election with the Board,
 4    accompanied by payment of an amount to be determined  by  the
 5    Board,  equal  to  (i)  the  difference between the amount of
 6    employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
 7    under Section 9-121.10 and the amounts that would  have  been
 8    contributed  had  those  contributions been made at the rates
 9    applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon  at
10    the  effective  rate for each year, compounded annually, from
11    the date of service to the date of payment.
12        (h)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
13    policeman or investigator for  the  Secretary  of  State  may
14    elect  to  establish eligible creditable service for up to 12
15    years of his service as  a  policeman  under  Article  5,  by
16    filing a written election with the Board on or before January
17    31,  1992,  and  paying  to the System by January 31, 1994 an
18    amount to be determined  by  the  Board,  equal  to  (i)  the
19    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
20    contributions  transferred to the System under Section 5-236,
21    and the amounts that would have  been  contributed  had  such
22    contributions  been  made  at  the  rates applicable to State
23    policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the  effective  rate
24    for  each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
25    to the date of payment.
26        Subject to the limitation  in  subsection  (i),  a  State
27    policeman,  conservation  police officer, or investigator for
28    the Secretary  of  State  may  elect  to  establish  eligible
29    creditable  service  for  up  to  10  years  of  service as a
30    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
31    a written election with the Board on or  before  January  31,
32    1993,  and paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount
33    to be determined by the Board, equal to  (i)  the  difference
34    between  the  amount  of  employee and employer contributions
 
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 1    transferred to the System  under  Section  7-139.7,  and  the
 2    amounts   that   would   have   been   contributed  had  such
 3    contributions been made at  the  rates  applicable  to  State
 4    policemen,  plus  (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
 5    for each year, compounded annually, from the date of  service
 6    to the date of payment.
 7        (i)  The  total  amount  of  eligible  creditable service
 8    established by any person under subsections  (g),  (h),  (j),
 9    (k), and (l) of this Section shall not exceed 12 years.
10        (j)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), an
11    investigator  for  the  Office  of  the   State's   Attorneys
12    Appellate  Prosecutor or a controlled substance inspector may
13    elect to establish eligible creditable service for up  to  10
14    years  of  his  service  as  a policeman under Article 3 or a
15    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
16    a written election with the Board, accompanied by payment  of
17    an  amount  to  be  determined by the Board, equal to (1) the
18    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
19    contributions transferred to the System under Section 3-110.6
20    or 7-139.8, and the amounts that would have been  contributed
21    had  such  contributions been made at the rates applicable to
22    State policemen, plus (2) interest thereon at  the  effective
23    rate  for  each  year,  compounded annually, from the date of
24    service to the date of payment.
25        (k)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of  this
26    Section,   an  alternative  formula  employee  may  elect  to
27    establish eligible creditable service for periods spent as  a
28    full-time  law  enforcement  officer or full-time corrections
29    officer employed by the federal government or by a  state  or
30    local  government  located  outside  of  Illinois,  for which
31    credit is not held in any other public employee pension  fund
32    or  retirement  system.  To obtain this credit, the applicant
33    must file a written application with the Board by  March  31,
34    1998,  accompanied  by  evidence of eligibility acceptable to
 
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 1    the Board and payment of an amount to be  determined  by  the
 2    Board,  equal  to  (1)  employee contributions for the credit
 3    being established, based upon the applicant's salary  on  the
 4    first  day  as  an  alternative  formula  employee  after the
 5    employment for which credit  is  being  established  and  the
 6    rates  then applicable to alternative formula employees, plus
 7    (2) an amount determined by the Board to  be  the  employer's
 8    normal  cost  of  the  benefits  accrued for the credit being
 9    established, plus (3) regular  interest  on  the  amounts  in
10    items  (1)  and  (2)  from  the  first  day as an alternative
11    formula employee after the employment  for  which  credit  is
12    being established to the date of payment.
13        (l)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection  (i), a
14    security employee of the Department of Corrections may elect,
15    not later than July 1, 1998, to establish eligible creditable
16    service for up to 10  years  of  his  or  her  service  as  a
17    policeman  under Article 3, by filing a written election with
18    the  Board,  accompanied  by  payment  of  an  amount  to  be
19    determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference  between
20    the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
21    to  the  System  under  Section 3-110.5, and the amounts that
22    would have been contributed had such contributions been  made
23    at   the  rates  applicable  to  security  employees  of  the
24    Department of Corrections, plus (ii) interest thereon at  the
25    effective  rate  for each year, compounded annually, from the
26    date of service to the date of payment.
27    (Source: P.A. 90-32,  eff.  6-27-97;  91-357,  eff.  7-29-99;
28    91-760, eff. 1-1-01.)

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

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