Sen. Martin A. Sandoval
Filed: 3/5/2015
 
 

 

 

 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 763 




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 763 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:


 
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended  by 
5changing Section 7-109.3 as follows:
 



6    (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)



7    Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees". 

8    (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:


9        (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than 
10    special deputies,
employed on a full time basis in the 
11    office of the sheriff.


12        (2) A person who has elected to participate in this 
13    Fund under Section
3-109.1 of this Code, and who is 
14    employed by a participating municipality
to perform police 
15    duties.


16        (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time 
 
 
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1    basis by a Forest
Preserve District, provided that such 
2    officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's
law enforcement 
3    employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in

4    that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's 
5    law enforcement
employee, only if the board of 
6    commissioners of the District have so
elected by adoption 
7    of an affirmative resolution.  Such election, once made,
may 
8    not be rescinded.


9        (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund 
10    established under
Article 3 of this Code who is employed on 
11    a full-time basis by a
participating municipality or 
12    participating instrumentality to perform
police duties at 
13    an airport, but only if the governing authority of the

14    employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee 
15    status for its
airport police employees by adoption of an 
16    affirmative resolution.  Such
approval, once given, may not 
17    be rescinded.

18        (5) A person employed by a participating municipality 
19    with at least 50 full-time firefighters that has not 
20    established a fund under
Article 4 of this Code and who is 
21    employed on a full-time basis by that
participating 
22    municipality to perform
firefighting and EMS duties, but 
23    only if the governing authority of the
employer has 
24    approved sheriff's law enforcement employee status for its

25    firefighting employees by adoption of an affirmative 
26    resolution. The resolution  may specify that SLEP status be 
 
 
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1    applicable   to such employment occurring on or after January 
2    1, 2011.  Such approval shall be revocable only upon the 
3    establishment of an Article 4 fund by such municipality. 
4    (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee 
5and is granted
military leave or authorized leave of absence 
6shall receive service credit in
that capacity.  Sheriff's law 
7enforcement employees shall not be entitled to
out-of-State 
8service credit under Section 7-139.

9(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)

 
 
10    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
11becoming law.".