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1 | AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 17-133 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (40 ILCS 5/17-133) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-133)
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7 | Sec. 17-133. Contributions for periods of outside and | ||||||
8 | other service.
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9 | Regularly certified and appointed teachers who desire to | ||||||
10 | have the following
described services credited for pension | ||||||
11 | purposes shall submit to the Board
evidence thereof and pay | ||||||
12 | into the Fund the amounts prescribed herein:
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13 | 1. For teaching service by a certified teacher in the | ||||||
14 | public
schools of the several states or in schools | ||||||
15 | operated by or under the
auspices of the United States, a | ||||||
16 | teacher shall pay the
contributions at the rates in force | ||||||
17 | (a) on the date of
appointment as a regularly certified | ||||||
18 | teacher after salary adjustments
are completed, or (b) at | ||||||
19 | the time of reappointment after salary
adjustments are | ||||||
20 | completed, whichever is later, but not less than $450
per | ||||||
21 | year of service. Upon the Board's approval of such service | ||||||
22 | and the
payment of the required contributions, service | ||||||
23 | credit of not more than
10 years shall be granted.
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1 | 2. For service as a playground instructor in public | ||||||
2 | school playgrounds,
teachers shall pay the contributions | ||||||
3 | prescribed in this Article (a) at
the time of appointment, | ||||||
4 | as a regularly certified teacher after salary
adjustments | ||||||
5 | are completed, or (b) on return to service as a full time
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6 | regularly certified teacher, as the case may be, provided | ||||||
7 | such rates or
amounts shall not be less than $450 per year.
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8 | 3. For service prior to September 1, 1955, in the | ||||||
9 | public schools of the
City as a substitute, evening school | ||||||
10 | or temporary teacher, or for service
as an Americanization | ||||||
11 | teacher prior to December 31, 1955, teachers shall pay
the | ||||||
12 | contributions prescribed in this Article (a) at the time | ||||||
13 | of appointment,
as a regularly certified teacher after | ||||||
14 | salary adjustments are completed,
(b) on return to service | ||||||
15 | as a full time regularly certified teacher, as
the case | ||||||
16 | may be, provided such rates or amounts shall not be less | ||||||
17 | than $450
per year; and provided further that for teachers | ||||||
18 | employed on or after September
1, 1953, rates shall not | ||||||
19 | include contributions for widows' pensions if the
service | ||||||
20 | described in this sub-paragraph 3 was rendered before that | ||||||
21 | date. Any
teacher entitled to repay a refund of | ||||||
22 | contributions under Section 17-126 may validate service | ||||||
23 | described in this paragraph by
payment of the amounts | ||||||
24 | prescribed herein, together with the repayment of the
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25 | refund, provided that if such creditable service was the | ||||||
26 | last service rendered
in the public schools of the City |
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1 | and is not automatically reinstated by
repayment of the | ||||||
2 | refund, the rates or amounts shall not be less than $450 | ||||||
3 | per
year.
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4 | 4. For service after June 30, 1982 as a member of the | ||||||
5 | Board of
Education, if required to resign from an | ||||||
6 | administrative or teaching position
in order to qualify as | ||||||
7 | a member of the Board of Education.
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8 | 5. For service during the 1986-87 school year as a | ||||||
9 | teacher on a special
leave of absence with full loss of | ||||||
10 | salary, teaching for an agency under
contract to the Board | ||||||
11 | of Education, if the teacher returned to employment in
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12 | September, 1987. For service under this item 5, the | ||||||
13 | teacher must pay the
contributions at the rates in force | ||||||
14 | at the completion of the leave period.
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15 | 6. For up to 2 years of service as a teacher or | ||||||
16 | administrator employed
by a private school registered with | ||||||
17 | or recognized by the Illinois State Board
of Education, | ||||||
18 | provided that the teacher (i) was certified under the law
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19 | governing the certification of teachers at the time the | ||||||
20 | service was rendered,
(ii) applies in writing no later | ||||||
21 | than 2 years after the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
22 | Act of the 102nd General Assembly on or after the | ||||||
23 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General | ||||||
24 | Assembly and on or before June 1,
2009 , (iii) supplies | ||||||
25 | satisfactory evidence of the employment, (iv) completes
at | ||||||
26 | least 10 years of contributing service as a teacher as |
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1 | defined in
Section 17-106, (v) pays the contribution | ||||||
2 | required in this Section, and (vi)
does not receive credit | ||||||
3 | for that service under any other provision of this
Code. | ||||||
4 | The member may apply for credit under this subsection and | ||||||
5 | pay the
required contribution before completing the 10 | ||||||
6 | years of contributing service
required under item (iv), | ||||||
7 | but the credit may not be used until the item (iv)
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8 | contributing service requirement has been met.
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9 | For each year of service credit to be established | ||||||
10 | under this
subparagraph 6, a member is required to | ||||||
11 | contribute to the System (i) the employee and employer | ||||||
12 | contribution that would have been required had such | ||||||
13 | service been rendered as a member based on 16.5%
of the | ||||||
14 | annual salary rate during the first year of full-time | ||||||
15 | employment
as a teacher under this Article following the | ||||||
16 | private school service, plus
(ii) interest thereon at the | ||||||
17 | actuarially assumed rate from the date of first full-time | ||||||
18 | employment as a teacher
under this Article following the | ||||||
19 | private school service to the date of payment,
compounded | ||||||
20 | annually, at a rate determined by the Board the rate of | ||||||
21 | 8.0% per year .
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22 | For service described in sub-paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this | ||||||
23 | Section, interest
shall be charged beginning one year after | ||||||
24 | the effective date of appointment or
reappointment.
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25 | Effective September 1, 1974, the interest rate to be | ||||||
26 | charged by the
Fund on contributions provided in |
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1 | sub-paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall
be 5% per annum compounded | ||||||
2 | annually.
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3 | (Source: P.A. 94-1111, eff. 2-27-07.)
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4 | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | ||||||
5 | Section 8.45 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (30 ILCS 805/8.45 new) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 8.45. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and | ||||||
8 | 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for | ||||||
9 | the implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory | ||||||
10 | Act of the 102nd General Assembly.
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11 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
12 | becoming law.
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