Public Act 096-1466
 
SB1642 EnrolledLRB096 08015 AMC 18120 b

    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
Sections 6-210, 9-157, and 12-190.3 as follows:
 
    (40 ILCS 5/6-210)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 6-210)
    Sec. 6-210. Credit allowed for service in police
department. Service rendered by a fireman, as a regularly
appointed and sworn policeman of the city shall be included,
for the purposes of this Article, as if such service were
rendered as a fireman of the city. Salary received by a fireman
for any such service as a policeman shall be considered, for
the purposes of this Article, as salary received as a fireman.
Any annuity payable to a fireman under this Article shall be
reduced by any pension or annuity payable to him from any
policemen's other pension fund or annuity and benefit fund in
operation in the city, and any member entering service after
January 1, 2011 shall not be given service credit in this fund
for any period of time in which the member is in receipt of
retirement benefits from any annuity and benefit fund in
operation in the city.
    Any policeman who becomes a fireman, subsequent to July 1,
1935, may contribute to the fund an amount equal to the sum
which would have accumulated to his credit from deductions from
salary for annuity purposes if he had been contributing to the
fund such sums as he contributed for annuity purposes to the
policemen's annuity and benefit fund, and no credit for periods
of service rendered by him in the police department shall be
allowed, under this Article, except as to such periods for
which he made contributions to the policemen's annuity and
benefit fund, provided he has made the payments required by
this Article.
(Source: P.A. 81-1536.)
 
    (40 ILCS 5/9-157)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 9-157)
    Sec. 9-157. Ordinary disability benefit. An employee while
under age 65 and prior to January 1, 1979, or while under age
70 and after January 1, 1979, but prior to January 1, 1987, and
regardless of age on or after January 1, 1987, who becomes
disabled after becoming a contributor to the fund as the result
of any cause other than injury incurred in the performance of
an act of duty is entitled to ordinary disability benefit
during such disability, after the first 30 days thereof.
    No employee who becomes disabled and whose disability
commences during any period of absence from duty without pay
other than on paid vacation may receive ordinary disability
benefit until he recovers from such disability and performs the
duties of his position in the service for at least 15
consecutive days, Sundays and holidays excepted, after his
recovery from such disability.
    The benefit shall not be allowed unless application
therefor is made while the disability exists, nor for any
period of disability before 30 days before the application for
such benefit is made. The foregoing limitations do not apply if
the board finds from satisfactory evidence presented to it that
there was reasonable cause for delay in filing such application
within such periods of time.
    The first payment shall be made not later than one month
after the benefit is granted and each subsequent payment shall
be made not later than one month after the last preceding
payment.
    The disability benefit prescribed herein shall cease when
the first of the following dates shall occur and the employee,
if still disabled, shall thereafter be entitled to such annuity
as is otherwise provided in this Article:
    (a) the date disability ceases.
    (b) the date the disabled employee attains age 65 for
disability commencing prior to January 1, 1979.
    (c) the date the disabled employee attains 65 for
disability commencing prior to attainment of age 60 in the
service and after January 1, 1979.
    (d) the date the disabled employee attains the age of 70
for disability commencing after attainment of age 60 in the
service and after January 1, 1979.
    (e) the date the payments of the benefit shall exceed in
the aggregate, throughout the employee's service, a period
equal to 1/4 of the total service rendered prior to the date of
disability but in no event more than 5 years. In computing such
total service any period during which the employee received
ordinary disability benefit and any period of absence from duty
other than paid vacation shall be excluded.
    Any employee whose duty disability benefit was terminated
on or after January 1, 1979 by reason of his attainment of age
65 and who continues to be disabled after age 65 may elect
before July 1, 1986 to have such benefits resumed beginning at
the time of such termination and continuing until termination
is required under this Section as amended by this amendatory
Act of 1985. The amount payable to any employee for such
resumed benefit for any period shall be reduced by the amount
of any retirement annuity paid to such employee under this
Article for the same period of time or by any refund paid in
lieu of annuity.
    Any employee whose disability benefit was terminated on or
after January 1, 1987 by reason of his attainment of age 70,
and who continues to be disabled after age 70, may elect before
March 31, 1988, to have such benefits resumed beginning at the
time of such termination and continuing until termination is
required under this Section as amended by this amendatory Act
of 1987. The amount payable to any employee for such resumed
benefit for any period shall be reduced by the amount of any
retirement annuity paid to such employee under this Article for
the same period of time or by any refund paid in lieu of
annuity.
    Ordinary disability benefit shall be 50% of the employee's
salary at the date of disability. Instead of all amounts
ordinarily contributed by an employee and by the county for age
and service annuity and widow's annuity based on the salary at
date of disability, the county shall contribute sums equal to
such amounts for any period during which the employee receives
ordinary disability and such is deemed for annuity and refund
purposes as amounts contributed by him. The county shall also
contribute 1/2 of 1% salary deductions required as a
contribution from the employee under Section 9-133.
    An employee who has withdrawn from service or was laid off
for any reason, who is absent from service thereafter for 60
days or more who re-enters the service subsequent to such
absence is not entitled to ordinary disability benefit unless
he renders at least 6 months of service subsequent to the date
of such last re-entry.
(Source: P.A. 85-964.)
 
    (40 ILCS 5/12-190.3)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 12-190.3)
    Sec. 12-190.3. Fraud. Any person who knowingly makes any
false statement or falsifies or permits to be falsified any
record of this Fund in any attempt to defraud the Fund is
guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
    None of the benefits provided for in this Article shall be
paid to any person who is convicted of any misdemeanor or
felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with any
attempt to defraud the Fund.
    This Section shall not operate to impair any contract or
vested right previously acquired under any law or laws
continued in this Article, nor to preclude the right to a
refund.
(Source: P.A. 86-1488.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.