94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1692

 

Introduced 2/24/2005, by Sen. Terry Link

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/7-109.3   from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3
40 ILCS 5/7-132  from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-132
30 ILCS 805/8.29 new

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Pension Code. Requires participation by all full-time municipal police officers who do not participate in an Article 3 police pension fund. Makes these police officers eligible for the sheriff's law enforcement (SLEP) formula. Excludes Chicago. Pre-empts home rule powers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of
3 Illinois,represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
5 Sections 7-109.3 and 7-132 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, may
24     not be rescinded.
25         (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund
26     established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed on
27     a full-time basis by a participating municipality or
28     participating instrumentality to perform police duties at
29     an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
30     employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee
31     status for its airport police employees by adoption of an
32     affirmative resolution. Such approval, once given, may not

 

 

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1     be rescinded.
2         (5) A person not eligible to participate in a fund
3     established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed on
4     a full-time basis by a participating city, village, or
5     incorporated town to perform police duties.
6     (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee
7 and is granted military leave or authorized leave of absence
8 shall receive service credit in that capacity. Sheriff's law
9 enforcement employees shall not be entitled to out-of-State
10 service credit under Section 7-139.
11 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
 
12     (40 ILCS 5/7-132)   (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-132)
13     Sec. 7-132. Municipalities, instrumentalities and
14 participating instrumentalities included and effective dates.
 
15 (A) Municipalities and their instrumentalities.
16     (a) The following described municipalities, but not
17 including any with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, and the
18 instrumentalities thereof, shall be included within and be
19 subject to this Article beginning upon the effective dates
20 specified by the Board:
21         (1) Except as to the municipalities and
22     instrumentalities thereof specifically excluded under this
23     Article, every county shall be subject to this Article, and
24     all cities, villages and incorporated towns having a
25     population in excess of 5,000 inhabitants as determined by
26     the last preceding decennial or subsequent federal census,
27     shall be subject to this Article following publication of
28     the census by the Bureau of the Census. Within 90 days
29     after publication of the census, the Board shall notify any
30     municipality that has become subject to this Article as a
31     result of that census, and shall provide information to the
32     corporate authorities of the municipality explaining the
33     duties and consequences of participation. The notification
34     shall also include a proposed date upon which participation

 

 

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1     by the municipality will commence.
2         However, for any city, village or incorporated town
3     that attains a population over 5,000 inhabitants after
4     having provided social security coverage for its employees
5     under the Social Security Enabling Act, participation
6     under this Article shall not be mandatory (except as
7     provided in subdivision (A)(a-5) of this Section) but may
8     be elected in accordance with subparagraph (3) or (4) of
9     this paragraph (a), whichever is applicable.
10         (2) School districts, other than those specifically
11     excluded under this Article, shall be subject to this
12     Article, without election, with respect to all employees
13     thereof.
14         (3) Towns and all other bodies politic and corporate
15     which are formed by vote of, or are subject to control by,
16     the electors in towns and are located in towns which are
17     not participating municipalities on the effective date of
18     this Act, may become subject to this Article by election
19     pursuant to Section 7-132.1.
20         (4) Any other municipality (together with its
21     instrumentalities), other than those specifically excluded
22     from participation and those described in paragraph (3)
23     above, may elect to be included either by referendum under
24     Section 7-134 or by the adoption of a resolution or
25     ordinance by its governing body. A copy of such resolution
26     or ordinance duly authenticated and certified by the clerk
27     of the municipality or other appropriate official of its
28     governing body shall constitute the required notice to the
29     board of such action.
30     (a-5) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this
31 Section, a city, village, or incorporated town with a
32 population of less than 1,000,000 that (i) does not otherwise
33 participate in the Fund and (ii) employs one or more full-time
34 police officers who do not participate in an Article 3 police
35 pension fund shall begin to participate in this Fund with
36 respect to those police officers no later than 6 months after

 

 

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1 the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
2 Assembly. A city, village, or incorporated town required to
3 participate in the Fund with respect to its full-time police
4 officers under this subdivision (a-5) need not participate in
5 the Fund with respect to its other officers and employees.
6 Participation in this Fund by a city, village, or incorporated
7 town with a population of less than 1,000,000 with respect to
8 its full-time police officers who do not participate in an
9 Article 3 police pension fund is a matter of exclusive State
10 power; this subdivision (a-5) is a denial and limitation of
11 home rule power under subsection (h) of Section 6 of Article
12 VII of the Illinois Constitution.
13     (b) A municipality that is about to begin participation
14 shall submit to the Board an application to participate, in a
15 form acceptable to the Board, not later than 90 days prior to
16 the proposed effective date of participation. The Board shall
17 act upon the application within 90 days, and if it finds that
18 the application is in conformity with its requirements and the
19 requirements of this Article, participation by the applicant
20 shall commence on a date acceptable to the municipality and
21 specified by the Board, but in no event more than one year from
22 the date of application.
23     (c) A participating municipality which succeeds to the
24 functions of a participating municipality which is dissolved or
25 terminates its existence shall assume and be transferred the
26 net accumulation balance in the municipality reserve and the
27 municipality account receivable balance of the terminated
28 municipality.
29     (d) In the case of a Veterans Assistance Commission whose
30 employees were being treated by the Fund on January 1, 1990 as
31 employees of the county served by the Commission, the Fund may
32 continue to treat the employees of the Veterans Assistance
33 Commission as county employees for the purposes of this
34 Article, unless the Commission becomes a participating
35 instrumentality in accordance with subsection (B) of this
36 Section.
 

 

 

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1 (B) Participating instrumentalities.
2     (a) The participating instrumentalities designated in
3 paragraph (b) of this subsection shall be included within and
4 be subject to this Article if:
5         (1) an application to participate, in a form acceptable
6     to the Board and adopted by a two-thirds vote of the
7     governing body, is presented to the Board not later than 90
8     days prior to the proposed effective date; and
9         (2) the Board finds that the application is in
10     conformity with its requirements, that the applicant has
11     reasonable expectation to continue as a political entity
12     for a period of at least 10 years and has the prospective
13     financial capacity to meet its current and future
14     obligations to the Fund, and that the actuarial soundness
15     of the Fund may be reasonably expected to be unimpaired by
16     approval of participation by the applicant.
17     The Board shall notify the applicant of its findings within
18 90 days after receiving the application, and if the Board
19 approves the application, participation by the applicant shall
20 commence on the effective date specified by the Board.
21     (b) The following participating instrumentalities, so long
22 as they meet the requirements of Section 7-108 and the area
23 served by them or within their jurisdiction is not located
24 entirely within a municipality having more than one million
25 inhabitants, may be included hereunder:
26         i. Township School District Trustees.
27         ii. Multiple County and Consolidated Health
28     Departments created under Division 5-25 of the Counties
29     Code or its predecessor law.
30         iii. Public Building Commissions created under the
31     Public Building Commission Act, and located in counties of
32     less than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
33         iv. A multitype, consolidated or cooperative library
34     system created under the Illinois Library System Act. Any
35     library system created under the Illinois Library System

 

 

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1     Act that has one or more predecessors that participated in
2     the Fund may participate in the Fund upon application. The
3     Board shall establish procedures for implementing the
4     transfer of rights and obligations from the predecessor
5     system to the successor system.
6         v. Regional Planning Commissions created under
7     Division 5-14 of the Counties Code or its predecessor law.
8         vi. Local Public Housing Authorities created under the
9     Housing Authorities Act, located in counties of less than
10     1,000,000 inhabitants.
11         vii. Illinois Municipal League.
12         viii. Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning
13     Commission.
14         ix. Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning
15     Commission.
16         x. Illinois Association of Park Districts.
17         xi. Illinois Supervisors, County Commissioners and
18     Superintendents of Highways Association.
19         xii. Tri-City Regional Port District.
20         xiii. An association, or not-for-profit corporation,
21     membership in which is authorized under Section 85-15 of
22     the Township Code.
23         xiv. Drainage Districts operating under the Illinois
24     Drainage Code.
25         xv. Local mass transit districts created under the
26     Local Mass Transit District Act.
27         xvi. Soil and water conservation districts created
28     under the Soil and Water Conservation Districts Law.
29         xvii. Commissions created to provide water supply or
30     sewer services or both under Division 135 or Division 136
31     of Article 11 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
32         xviii. Public water districts created under the Public
33     Water District Act.
34         xix. Veterans Assistance Commissions established under
35     Section 9 of the Military Veterans Assistance Act that
36     serve counties with a population of less than 1,000,000.

 

 

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1         xx. The governing body of an entity, other than a
2     vocational education cooperative, created under an
3     intergovernmental cooperative agreement established
4     between participating municipalities under the
5     Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, which by the terms of
6     the agreement is the employer of the persons performing
7     services under the agreement under the usual common law
8     rules determining the employer-employee relationship. The
9     governing body of such an intergovernmental cooperative
10     entity established prior to July 1, 1988 may make
11     participation retroactive to the effective date of the
12     agreement and, if so, the effective date of participation
13     shall be the date the required application is filed with
14     the fund. If any such entity is unable to pay the required
15     employer contributions to the fund, then the participating
16     municipalities shall make payment of the required
17     contributions and the payments shall be allocated as
18     provided in the agreement or, if not so provided, equally
19     among them.
20         xxi. The Illinois Municipal Electric Agency.
21         xxii. The Waukegan Port District.
22         xxiii. The Fox Waterway Agency created under the Fox
23     Waterway Agency Act.
24         xxiv. The Illinois Municipal Gas Agency.
25         xxv. The Kaskaskia Regional Port District.
26         xxvi. The Southwestern Illinois Development Authority.
27         xxvii. The Cairo Public Utility Company.
28     (c) The governing boards of special education joint
29 agreements created under Section 10-22.31 of the School Code
30 without designation of an administrative district shall be
31 included within and be subject to this Article as participating
32 instrumentalities when the joint agreement becomes effective.
33 However, the governing board of any such special education
34 joint agreement in effect before September 5, 1975 shall not be
35 subject to this Article unless the joint agreement is modified
36 by the school districts to provide that the governing board is

 

 

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1 subject to this Article, except as otherwise provided by this
2 Section.
3     The governing board of the Special Education District of
4 Lake County shall become subject to this Article as a
5 participating instrumentality on July 1, 1997. Notwithstanding
6 subdivision (a)1 of Section 7-139, on the effective date of
7 participation, employees of the governing board of the Special
8 Education District of Lake County shall receive creditable
9 service for their prior service with that employer, up to a
10 maximum of 5 years, without any employee contribution.
11 Employees may establish creditable service for the remainder of
12 their prior service with that employer, if any, by applying in
13 writing and paying an employee contribution in an amount
14 determined by the Fund, based on the employee contribution
15 rates in effect at the time of application for the creditable
16 service and the employee's salary rate on the effective date of
17 participation for that employer, plus interest at the effective
18 rate from the date of the prior service to the date of payment.
19 Application for this creditable service must be made before
20 July 1, 1998; the payment may be made at any time while the
21 employee is still in service. The employer may elect to make
22 the required contribution on behalf of the employee.
23     The governing board of a special education joint agreement
24 created under Section 10-22.31 of the School Code for which an
25 administrative district has been designated, if there are
26 employees of the cooperative educational entity who are not
27 employees of the administrative district, may elect to
28 participate in the Fund and be included within this Article as
29 a participating instrumentality, subject to such application
30 procedures and rules as the Board may prescribe.
31     The Boards of Control of cooperative or joint educational
32 programs or projects created and administered under Section
33 3-15.14 of the School Code, whether or not the Boards act as
34 their own administrative district, shall be included within and
35 be subject to this Article as participating instrumentalities
36 when the agreement establishing the cooperative or joint

 

 

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1 educational program or project becomes effective.
2     The governing board of a special education joint agreement
3 entered into after June 30, 1984 and prior to September 17,
4 1985 which provides for representation on the governing board
5 by less than all the participating districts shall be included
6 within and subject to this Article as a participating
7 instrumentality. Such participation shall be effective as of
8 the date the joint agreement becomes effective.
9     The governing boards of educational service centers
10 established under Section 2-3.62 of the School Code shall be
11 included within and subject to this Article as participating
12 instrumentalities. The governing boards of vocational
13 education cooperative agreements created under the
14 Intergovernmental Cooperation Act and approved by the State
15 Board of Education shall be included within and be subject to
16 this Article as participating instrumentalities. If any such
17 governing boards or boards of control are unable to pay the
18 required employer contributions to the fund, then the school
19 districts served by such boards shall make payment of required
20 contributions as provided in Section 7-172. The payments shall
21 be allocated among the several school districts in proportion
22 to the number of students in average daily attendance for the
23 last full school year for each district in relation to the
24 total number of students in average attendance for such period
25 for all districts served. If such educational service centers,
26 vocational education cooperatives or cooperative or joint
27 educational programs or projects created and administered
28 under Section 3-15.14 of the School Code are dissolved, the
29 assets and obligations shall be distributed among the districts
30 in the same proportions unless otherwise provided.
31     (d) The governing boards of special recreation joint
32 agreements created under Section 8-10b of the Park District
33 Code, operating without designation of an administrative
34 district or an administrative municipality appointed to
35 administer the program operating under the authority of such
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1 Article as participating instrumentalities when the joint
2 agreement becomes effective. However, the governing board of
3 any such special recreation joint agreement in effect before
4 January 1, 1980 shall not be subject to this Article unless the
5 joint agreement is modified, by the districts and
6 municipalities which are parties to the agreement, to provide
7 that the governing board is subject to this Article.
8     If the Board returns any employer and employee
9 contributions to any employer which erroneously submitted such
10 contributions on behalf of a special recreation joint
11 agreement, the Board shall include interest computed from the
12 end of each year to the date of payment, not compounded, at the
13 rate of 7% per annum.
14     (e) Each multi-township assessment district, the board of
15 trustees of which has adopted this Article by ordinance prior
16 to April 1, 1982, shall be a participating instrumentality
17 included within and subject to this Article effective December
18 1, 1981. The contributions required under Section 7-172 shall
19 be included in the budget prepared under and allocated in
20 accordance with Section 2-30 of the Property Tax Code.
21     (f) Beginning January 1, 1992, each prospective
22 participating municipality or participating instrumentality
23 shall pay to the Fund the cost, as determined by the Board, of
24 a study prepared by the Fund or its actuary, detailing the
25 prospective costs of participation in the Fund to be expected
26 by the municipality or instrumentality.
27 (Source: P.A. 92-424, eff. 8-17-01; 93-777, eff. 7-21-04.)
 
28     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
29 Section 8.29 as follows:
 
30     (30 ILCS 805/8.29 new)
31     Sec. 8.29. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
32 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
33 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
34 the 94th General Assembly.
 

 

 

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1     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law.