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Sen. James A. DeLeo
Filed: 2/24/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 789
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 789 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by |
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| changing Section
7-109.3 and adding Section 7-109.4 as follows:
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| (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
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| Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
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| (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
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| (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than |
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| special deputies,
employed on a full time basis in the |
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| office of the sheriff.
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| (2) A person who has elected to participate in this |
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| Fund under Section
3-109.1 of this Code, and who is |
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| employed by a participating municipality
to perform police |
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| duties.
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| (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time |
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| basis by a Forest
Preserve District, provided that such |
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| officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's
law enforcement |
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| employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
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| that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's |
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| law enforcement
employee, only if the board of |
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| commissioners of the District have so
elected by adoption |
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| of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made,
may |
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| not be rescinded.
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| (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund |
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| established under
Article 3 of this Code who is employed on |
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| a full-time basis by a
participating municipality or |
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| participating instrumentality to perform
police duties at |
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| an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
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| employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee |
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| status for its
airport police employees by adoption of an |
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| affirmative resolution. Such
approval, once given, may not |
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| be rescinded.
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| (5) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to |
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| participate in
this Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement |
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| employee under Section 3-109.4.
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| (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee |
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| and is granted
military leave or authorized leave of absence |
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| shall receive service credit in
that capacity. Sheriff's law |
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| enforcement employees shall not be entitled to
out-of-State |
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| service credit under Section 7-139.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
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| (40 ILCS 5/7-109.4 new)
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| Sec. 7-109.4. SLEP credit for coroner.
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| (a) An elected or appointed coroner who participates in the |
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| Fund may elect
to participate as a sheriff's law enforcement |
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| employee.
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| (b) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to |
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| participate in the
Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement employee |
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| may have his or her service as a
coroner prior to the date of |
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| that election deemed service as a sheriff's law
enforcement |
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| employee by paying to the Fund the additional contribution |
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| required
under Section 7-173.1, plus interest thereon at the |
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| effective rate from the
date of the service to the date of |
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| payment.
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding |