Rep. Janet Yang Rohr

Filed: 2/15/2022

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5472

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5472 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
5changing 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
8retirement annuity or receipt of a single-sum retirement
9benefit granted under this Article after termination of active
10service as a teacher.
11    (a) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than
12a disability retirement annuity may accept employment as a
13teacher from a school board or other employer specified in
14Section 16-106 without impairing retirement status, if that
15employment:
16        (1) is not within the school year during which service

 

 

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1    was terminated; and
2        (2) does not exceed the following:
3            (i) before July 1, 2001, 100 paid days or 500 paid
4        hours in any school year;
5            (ii) during the period beginning July 1, 2001
6        through June 30, 2011, 120 paid days or 600 paid hours
7        in each school year;
8            (iii) during the period beginning July 1, 2011
9        through June 30, 2018, 100 paid days or 500 paid hours
10        in each school year;
11            (iv) beginning July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2023,
12        120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each school year,
13        but not more than 100 paid days in the same classroom;
14        and
15            (v) during the period between July 1, 2021 and
16        June 30, 2022, an additional 20 paid days or 100 paid
17        hours shall be added to item (iv) of this paragraph (2)
18        to assist with addressing the substitute teacher
19        shortage that has been exacerbated by the ongoing
20        global pandemic; and
21            (vi) (v) beginning July 1, 2023, 100 paid days or
22        500 paid hours in each school year.
23    Where such permitted employment is partly on a daily and
24partly on an hourly basis, a day shall be considered as 5
25hours.
26    (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who

 

 

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1returns to teaching under the program established in Section
216-150.1, for the duration of his or her participation in that
3program.
4(Source: P.A. 101-645, eff. 6-26-20; 102-537, eff. 8-20-21.)
 
5    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6becoming law.".