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92_SB1085

 
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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 8        (a)  Any member who has withdrawn from service  with  not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10    attained age 55,  and  any  member  who  has  withdrawn  from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  or  the  former Department of Personnel, and
27        any member or employee of the Prisoner Review Board,  who
28        has  daily  contact  with  inmates  by  working  within a
29        correctional facility or who is a parole  officer  or  an
30        employee who has direct contact with committed persons in
31        the performance of his or her job duties.
32             (11)  The  term "dangerous drugs investigator" means
33        any person who is employed as such by the  Department  of
34        Human Services.
 
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 1             (12)  The  term  "investigator for the Department of
 2        State Police" means a person employed by  the  Department
 3        of  State  Police  who  is  vested under Section 4 of the
 4        Narcotic Control Division Abolition  Act  with  such  law
 5        enforcement  powers as render him ineligible for coverage
 6        under the Social  Security  Act  by  reason  of  Sections
 7        218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
 8             (13)  "Investigator  for  the Office of the Attorney
 9        General" means any person who is employed as such by  the
10        Office  of  the  Attorney General and is vested with such
11        investigative  duties  as  render  him   ineligible   for
12        coverage  under  the  Social  Security  Act  by reason of
13        Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that
14        Act.  For the period before January  1,  1989,  the  term
15        includes  all  persons who were employed as investigators
16        by the Office of the Attorney General, without regard  to
17        social security status.
18             (14)  "Controlled  substance  inspector"  means  any
19        person  who  is  employed  as  such  by the Department of
20        Professional Regulation  and  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        The term "controlled substance  inspector"  includes  the
25        Program   Executive  of  Enforcement  and  the  Assistant
26        Program Executive of Enforcement.
27             (15)  The term "investigator for the Office  of  the
28        State's  Attorneys  Appellate  Prosecutor" means a person
29        employed in that capacity on a full time basis under  the
30        authority  of  Section  7.06  of  the  State's  Attorneys
31        Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
32             (16)  "Commerce Commission police officer" means any
33        person  employed  by the Illinois Commerce Commission who
34        is vested with such law enforcement duties as render  him
 
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 1        ineligible  for coverage under the Social Security Act by
 2        reason  of  Sections  218(d)(5)(A),   218(d)(8)(D),   and
 3        218(l)(1) of that Act.
 4             (17)  "Arson  investigator"  means any person who is
 5        employed as such by the Office of the State Fire  Marshal
 6        and  is vested with such law enforcement duties as render
 7        the person  ineligible  for  coverage  under  the  Social
 8        Security   Act   by   reason  of  Sections  218(d)(5)(A),
 9        218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act.   A  person  who
10        was  employed as an arson investigator on January 1, 1995
11        and is no longer in  service  but  not  yet  receiving  a
12        retirement  annuity  may  convert  his  or her creditable
13        service for employment  as  an  arson  investigator  into
14        eligible  creditable  service by paying to the System the
15        difference between the  employee  contributions  actually
16        paid  for  that  service  and the amounts that would have
17        been contributed if the applicant  were  contributing  at
18        the  rate  applicable  to  persons  with  the same social
19        security status earning eligible  creditable  service  on
20        the date of application.
21        (d)  A   security   employee   of   the   Department   of
22    Corrections,  and  a  security  employee of the Department of
23    Human Services who is not a  mental  health  police  officer,
24    shall  not be eligible for the alternative retirement annuity
25    provided by this Section unless he or she meets the following
26    minimum  age  and  service  requirements  at  the   time   of
27    retirement:
28             (i)  25 years of eligible creditable service and age
29        55; or
30             (ii)  beginning   January   1,  1987,  25  years  of
31        eligible creditable service and age 54, or  24  years  of
32        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
33             (iii)  beginning   January  1,  1988,  25  years  of
34        eligible creditable service and age 53, or  23  years  of
 
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 1        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
 2             (iv)  beginning   January   1,  1989,  25  years  of
 3        eligible creditable service and age 52, or  22  years  of
 4        eligible creditable service and age 55; or
 5             (v)  beginning January 1, 1990, 25 years of eligible
 6        creditable  service  and  age 51, or 21 years of eligible
 7        creditable service and age 55; or
 8             (vi)  beginning  January  1,  1991,  25   years   of
 9        eligible  creditable  service  and age 50, or 20 years of
10        eligible creditable service and age 55.
11        Persons who have service credit under Article 16 of  this
12    Code  for service as a security employee of the Department of
13    Corrections  in  a  position  requiring  certification  as  a
14    teacher may count  such  service  toward  establishing  their
15    eligibility  under  the service requirements of this Section;
16    but such service may  be  used  only  for  establishing  such
17    eligibility,  and  not  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  or
18    calculating any benefit.
19        (e)  If a member enters military service while working in
20    a  position  in  which  eligible  creditable  service  may be
21    earned, and returns to State service in the same  or  another
22    such  position,  and  fulfills  in  all  other  respects  the
23    conditions prescribed in this Article for credit for military
24    service,  such military service shall be credited as eligible
25    creditable service for the purposes of the retirement annuity
26    prescribed in this Section.
27        (f)  For purposes  of  calculating  retirement  annuities
28    under   this  Section,  periods  of  service  rendered  after
29    December 31, 1968 and before October 1,  1975  as  a  covered
30    employee  in  the  position  of  special  agent, conservation
31    police officer, mental health police officer, or investigator
32    for the Secretary of State, shall  be  deemed  to  have  been
33    service  as a noncovered employee, provided that the employee
34    pays to the System prior to retirement an amount equal to (1)
 
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 1    the difference between the employee contributions that  would
 2    have been required for such service as a noncovered employee,
 3    and  the amount of employee contributions actually paid, plus
 4    (2) if payment is made after July 31, 1987, regular  interest
 5    on  the amount specified in item (1) from the date of service
 6    to the date of payment.
 7        For purposes of calculating  retirement  annuities  under
 8    this  Section, periods of service rendered after December 31,
 9    1968 and before January 1, 1982 as a covered employee in  the
10    position  of investigator for the Department of Revenue shall
11    be deemed to have been  service  as  a  noncovered  employee,
12    provided  that  the  employee  pays  to  the  System prior to
13    retirement an amount equal to (1) the difference between  the
14    employee contributions that would have been required for such
15    service  as a noncovered employee, and the amount of employee
16    contributions actually paid, plus  (2)  if  payment  is  made
17    after  January  1,  1990,  regular  interest  on  the  amount
18    specified in item (1) from the date of service to the date of
19    payment.
20        For  purposes  of  calculating retirement annuities under
21    this Section,  periods  of  service  rendered  as  a  covered
22    employee  of  the  Office  of  the  State Fire Marshal in the
23    position of arson investigator shall be deemed to  have  been
24    service  as a noncovered employee, provided that the employee
25    pays to the System prior to retirement an amount equal to (1)
26    the difference between the employee contributions that  would
27    have  been required for such service as a noncovered employee
28    and the amount of employee contributions actually paid,  plus
29    (2)  if  payment  is  made  after  January  1,  2003, regular
30    interest on the amount specified in item (1) from the date of
31    service to the date of payment.
32        (g)  A State policeman may elect, not later than  January
33    1,  1990,  to establish eligible creditable service for up to
34    10 years of his service as a policeman under  Article  3,  by
 
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 1    filing  a  written  election  with  the Board, accompanied by
 2    payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal  to
 3    (i)  the  difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and
 4    employer   contributions  transferred  to  the  System  under
 5    Section  3-110.5,  and  the  amounts  that  would  have  been
 6    contributed had such contributions been  made  at  the  rates
 7    applicable  to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
 8    the effective rate for each year, compounded  annually,  from
 9    the date of service to the date of payment.
10        Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), a State
11    policeman  may  elect,  not  later  than  July  1,  1993,  to
12    establish eligible creditable service for up to 10  years  of
13    his service as a member of the County Police Department under
14    Article  9,  by  filing  a  written  election with the Board,
15    accompanied by payment of an amount to be determined  by  the
16    Board,  equal  to  (i)  the  difference between the amount of
17    employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
18    under Section 9-121.10 and the amounts that would  have  been
19    contributed  had  those  contributions been made at the rates
20    applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon  at
21    the  effective  rate for each year, compounded annually, from
22    the date of service to the date of payment.
23        (h)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
24    policeman or investigator for  the  Secretary  of  State  may
25    elect  to  establish eligible creditable service for up to 12
26    years of his service as  a  policeman  under  Article  5,  by
27    filing a written election with the Board on or before January
28    31,  1992,  and  paying  to the System by January 31, 1994 an
29    amount to be determined  by  the  Board,  equal  to  (i)  the
30    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
31    contributions  transferred to the System under Section 5-236,
32    and the amounts that would have  been  contributed  had  such
33    contributions  been  made  at  the  rates applicable to State
34    policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the  effective  rate
 
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 1    for  each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
 2    to the date of payment.
 3        Subject to the limitation  in  subsection  (i),  a  State
 4    policeman,  conservation  police officer, or investigator for
 5    the Secretary  of  State  may  elect  to  establish  eligible
 6    creditable  service  for  up  to  10  years  of  service as a
 7    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
 8    a written election with the Board on or  before  January  31,
 9    1993,  and paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount
10    to be determined by the Board, equal to  (i)  the  difference
11    between  the  amount  of  employee and employer contributions
12    transferred to the System  under  Section  7-139.7,  and  the
13    amounts   that   would   have   been   contributed  had  such
14    contributions been made at  the  rates  applicable  to  State
15    policemen,  plus  (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
16    for each year, compounded annually, from the date of  service
17    to the date of payment.
18        (i)  The  total  amount  of  eligible  creditable service
19    established by any person under subsections  (g),  (h),  (j),
20    (k), and (l) of this Section shall not exceed 12 years.
21        (j)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection (i), an
22    investigator  for  the  Office  of  the   State's   Attorneys
23    Appellate  Prosecutor or a controlled substance inspector may
24    elect to establish eligible creditable service for up  to  10
25    years  of  his  service  as  a policeman under Article 3 or a
26    sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing
27    a written election with the Board, accompanied by payment  of
28    an  amount  to  be  determined by the Board, equal to (1) the
29    difference  between  the  amount  of  employee  and  employer
30    contributions transferred to the System under Section 3-110.6
31    or 7-139.8, and the amounts that would have been  contributed
32    had  such  contributions been made at the rates applicable to
33    State policemen, plus (2) interest thereon at  the  effective
34    rate  for  each  year,  compounded annually, from the date of
 
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 1    service to the date of payment.
 2        (k)  Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of  this
 3    Section,   an  alternative  formula  employee  may  elect  to
 4    establish eligible creditable service for periods spent as  a
 5    full-time  law  enforcement  officer or full-time corrections
 6    officer employed by the federal government or by a  state  or
 7    local  government  located  outside  of  Illinois,  for which
 8    credit is not held in any other public employee pension  fund
 9    or  retirement  system.  To obtain this credit, the applicant
10    must file a written application with the Board by  March  31,
11    1998,  accompanied  by  evidence of eligibility acceptable to
12    the Board and payment of an amount to be  determined  by  the
13    Board,  equal  to  (1)  employee contributions for the credit
14    being established, based upon the applicant's salary  on  the
15    first  day  as  an  alternative  formula  employee  after the
16    employment for which credit  is  being  established  and  the
17    rates  then applicable to alternative formula employees, plus
18    (2) an amount determined by the Board to  be  the  employer's
19    normal  cost  of  the  benefits  accrued for the credit being
20    established, plus (3) regular  interest  on  the  amounts  in
21    items  (1)  and  (2)  from  the  first  day as an alternative
22    formula employee after the employment  for  which  credit  is
23    being established to the date of payment.
24        (l)  Subject  to  the  limitation  in  subsection  (i), a
25    security employee of the Department of Corrections may elect,
26    not later than July 1, 1998, to establish eligible creditable
27    service for up to 10  years  of  his  or  her  service  as  a
28    policeman  under Article 3, by filing a written election with
29    the  Board,  accompanied  by  payment  of  an  amount  to  be
30    determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference  between
31    the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
32    to  the  System  under  Section 3-110.5, and the amounts that
33    would have been contributed had such contributions been  made
34    at   the  rates  applicable  to  security  employees  of  the
 
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 1    Department of Corrections, plus (ii) interest thereon at  the
 2    effective  rate  for each year, compounded annually, from the
 3    date of service to the date of payment.
 4    (Source: P.A. 90-32,  eff.  6-27-97;  91-357,  eff.  7-29-99;
 5    91-760, eff. 1-1-01.)

 6        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 7    becoming law.

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