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| 1 | AN ACT concerning 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 16-118 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (40 ILCS 5/16-118) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 16-118. Retirement. "Retirement": Entry upon a | ||||||
| 8 | retirement annuity or receipt of a single-sum retirement | ||||||
| 9 | benefit granted under this Article after termination of active | ||||||
| 10 | service as a teacher. | ||||||
| 11 | (a) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than | ||||||
| 12 | a disability retirement annuity may accept employment as a | ||||||
| 13 | teacher from a school board or other employer specified in | ||||||
| 14 | Section 16-106 without impairing retirement status, if that | ||||||
| 15 | employment: | ||||||
| 16 | (1) is not within the school year during which service | ||||||
| 17 | was terminated; and | ||||||
| 18 | (2) does not exceed the following: | ||||||
| 19 | (i) before July 1, 2001, 100 paid days or 500 paid | ||||||
| 20 | hours in any school year; | ||||||
| 21 | (ii) during the period beginning July 1, 2001 | ||||||
| 22 | through June 30, 2011, 120 paid days or 600 paid hours | ||||||
| 23 | in each school year; | ||||||
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| 1 | (iii) during the period beginning July 1, 2011 | ||||||
| 2 | through June 30, 2018, 100 paid days or 500 paid hours | ||||||
| 3 | in each school year; | ||||||
| 4 | (iv) beginning July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2029 | ||||||
| 5 | 2026, 120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each school | ||||||
| 6 | year, but not more than 100 paid days in the same | ||||||
| 7 | classroom; | ||||||
| 8 | (v) (blank); and | ||||||
| 9 | (vi) beginning July 1, 2029 2026, 100 paid days or | ||||||
| 10 | 500 paid hours in each school year. | ||||||
| 11 | Where such permitted employment is partly on a daily and | ||||||
| 12 | partly on an hourly basis, a day shall be considered as 5 | ||||||
| 13 | hours. | ||||||
| 14 | (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who | ||||||
| 15 | returns to teaching under the program established in Section | ||||||
| 16 | 16-150.1, for the duration of his or her participation in that | ||||||
| 17 | program. | ||||||
| 18 | (Source: P.A. 102-537, eff. 8-20-21; 102-709, eff. 4-22-22; | ||||||
| 19 | 103-88, eff. 6-9-23; 103-525, eff. 8-11-23.) | ||||||
| 20 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 21 | becoming law. | ||||||