103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB3137

 

Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Katie Stuart

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/7-109.3  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3
30 ILCS 805/8.47 new

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Authorizes sheriff's law enforcement employee (SLEP) status for a person who is not eligible to participate in a downstate firefighter fund and is employed on a full-time basis by a participating municipality to perform duties as a paramedic, emergency medical technician (EMT), emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I), or advanced emergency medical technician (A-EMT); but only if the governing authority of that municipality has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee status for such employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. Provides that the resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be applicable to such employment occurring on or after the adoption of the resolution and that the resolution shall be irrevocable. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.


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STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
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
17    basis by a Forest Preserve District, provided that such
18    officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's law enforcement
19    employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
20    that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's
21    law enforcement employee, only if the board of
22    commissioners of the District have so elected by adoption
23    of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made,

 

 

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1    may not be rescinded.
2        (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund
3    established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed
4    on a full-time basis by a participating municipality or
5    participating instrumentality to perform police duties at
6    an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
7    employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee
8    status for its airport police employees by adoption of an
9    affirmative resolution. Such approval, once given, may not
10    be rescinded.
11        (5) A person first hired on or after January 1, 2011
12    who (i) is employed by a participating municipality that
13    has both 30 or more full-time police officers and 50 or
14    more full-time firefighters and has not established a fund
15    under Article 3 or Article 4 of this Code and (ii) is
16    employed on a full-time basis by that participating
17    municipality to perform police duties or firefighting and
18    EMS duties; but only if the governing authority of that
19    municipality has approved sheriff's law enforcement
20    employee status for its police officer or firefighter
21    employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. The
22    resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be
23    applicable to such employment occurring on or after the
24    adoption of the resolution. Such resolution shall be
25    irrevocable, but shall automatically terminate upon the
26    establishment of an Article 3 or 4 fund by the

 

 

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1    municipality.
2        (6) A person who is not eligible to participate in a
3    fund established under Article 4 and is employed on a
4    full-time basis by a participating municipality to perform
5    duties as a paramedic, emergency medical technician (EMT),
6    emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I), or
7    advanced emergency medical technician (A-EMT); but only if
8    the governing authority of that municipality has approved
9    sheriff's law enforcement employee status for such
10    employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. The
11    resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be
12    applicable to such employment occurring on or after the
13    adoption of the resolution. Such resolution shall be
14    irrevocable.
15    (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement
16employee and is granted military leave or authorized leave of
17absence shall receive service credit in that capacity.
18Sheriff's law enforcement employees shall not be entitled to
19out-of-State service credit under Section 7-139.
20(Source: P.A. 100-354, eff. 8-25-17; 100-1097, eff. 8-26-18.)
 
21    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
22Section 8.47 as follows:
 
23    (30 ILCS 805/8.47 new)
24    Sec. 8.47. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and

 

 

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18 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for
2the implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory
3Act of the 103rd General Assembly.
 
4    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5becoming law.