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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1779

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1779, AS  AMENDED,
 3    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 4    following:

 5        "Section 5.  The Illinois  Pension  Code  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 14-105 as follows:

 7        (40 ILCS 5/14-105) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-105)
 8        Sec.  14-105.  Service credit for which contributions are
 9    not required.
10        (a)  Each employee in service on December  31,  1943,  or
11    then  on  leave of absence not in conflict with Civil Service
12    rules, if such leave had not extended for more than one  year
13    continuously,  or  who is otherwise entitled to prior service
14    credit, who becomes a member shall file with the board  on  a
15    form  supplied  by  it,  a  detailed statement of all service
16    rendered prior  to January  1,  1944,  for  which  credit  is
17    claimed.
18        Upon  verification thereof, the board shall issue a prior
19    service certificate certifying length of  prior  service.   A
20    prior  service  certificate  shall  be  conclusive so long as
21    membership continues, provided, that a member may, within one
22    year from the date of original issuance of the certificate or
 
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 1    modification thereof, request the board to modify or  correct
 2    the certificate.
 3        When membership ceases, a prior service certificate shall
 4    become  void,  and shall be revived only under the conditions
 5    specified in this Article.
 6        In  the  computation  of  prior  service,  the  following
 7    schedule shall govern: 9 months of service or more during any
 8    fiscal year constitutes a year of service; 6 to 9 months, 3/4
 9    of a year; 3 to 6 months, 1/2 year; less than 3 months  shall
10    not  be  considered.   Credit  shall  not  be allowed for any
11    period of absence without compensation or for  less  than  15
12    days  service  in  any month, nor shall more than one year of
13    service be creditable for all service  rendered  in  any  one
14    fiscal year.
15        (b)  Any member shall receive credit for military service
16    provided all of the following conditions are met:
17             (1)  the member was a State employee within 6 months
18        immediately prior to entry into military service;
19             (2)  the  member  returns as a State employee within
20        15 months after his unconditional discharge other than by
21        dishonorable discharge; and
22             (3)  the member establishes creditable  service  for
23        State  employment  immediately prior to and following the
24        military service.
25        The total amount of creditable military service  for  any
26    member  during  his entire term of service shall not exceed 5
27    years in the aggregate, except that any member who on July 1,
28    1963, had accrued more than 5 years of such credit  shall  be
29    entitled to the total amount of such accrued credit.
30        (c)  Any  active member of the System who (1) was earning
31    eligible creditable  service  under  subdivision  (b)(12)  of
32    Section  14-110  on  January 1, 1992, and (2) has at least 17
33    years of creditable service  under  Article  5,  and  (3)  is
34    eligible  to  transfer that creditable service to this System
 
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 1    under subsection (c) of Section 5-236 of this Code,  and  (4)
 2    applies in writing for transfer of that creditable service to
 3    this  System  within 30 days after the effective date of this
 4    amendatory Act of 1993,  shall  receive  eligible  creditable
 5    service  in  this  System  for  that  creditable service upon
 6    receipt by this  System  of  the  amounts  transferred  under
 7    Section 5-236.  No additional contributions shall be required
 8    for the transferred service.
 9        (d)  Any  active member of the system who (1) was earning
10    eligible  creditable  service  under  subdivision  (b)(5)  of
11    Section 14-110 on January 1, 1992, and (2) has no more than 7
12    years of creditable service as a municipal conservator of the
13    peace under Article 7, and (3) is eligible to  transfer  that
14    creditable  service  to  this  System under subsection (a) of
15    Section  7-139.7  of  this  Code,  and  (4)   makes   written
16    notification  to  this  System  by  January  31,  1994, shall
17    receive eligible creditable service in this System  for  that
18    service   upon   receipt   by  this  System  of  the  amounts
19    transferred   under   Section   7-139.7.     No    additional
20    contributions shall be required for the transferred service.
21        (e)  Any  member  may  establish  creditable  service and
22    earnings credit for a  period  of  voluntary  or  involuntary
23    furlough, not exceeding 5 days, beginning on or after January
24    1, 2002 and ending before July 1, 2002, that is utilized as a
25    means  of  addressing  a  State fiscal emergency.  To receive
26    this credit, the member must apply in writing to  the  System
27    or  the member's employer before July 1, 2005.  No additional
28    contribution is required for this credit.
29    (Source: P.A. 87-1265.)

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

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