94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB2749

 

Introduced 1/20/2006, by Sen. James A. DeLeo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/7-109.3   from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3
40 ILCS 5/7-109.4 new
30 ILCS 805/8.30 new

    Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an elected or appointed coroner may elect to participate in the Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement employee (SLEP). Allows conversion of prior service. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.


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

 

 

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 Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
5 Section 7-109.3 and adding Section 7-109.4 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24     not be rescinded.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) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to
3     participate in this Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement
4     employee under Section 3-109.4.
5     (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee
6 and is granted military leave or authorized leave of absence
7 shall receive service credit in that capacity. Sheriff's law
8 enforcement employees shall not be entitled to out-of-State
9 service credit under Section 7-139.
10 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
 
11     (40 ILCS 5/7-109.4 new)
12     Sec. 7-109.4. SLEP credit for coroner.
13     (a) An elected or appointed coroner who participates in the
14 Fund may elect to participate as a sheriff's law enforcement
15 employee.
16     (b) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to
17 participate in the Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement employee
18 may have his or her service as a coroner prior to the date of
19 that election deemed service as a sheriff's law enforcement
20 employee by paying to the Fund the additional contribution
21 required under Section 7-173.1, plus interest thereon at the
22 effective rate from the date of the service to the date of
23 payment.
 
24     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
25 Section 8.30 as follows:
 
26     (30 ILCS 805/8.30 new)
27     Sec. 8.30. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
28 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
29 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
30 the 94th General Assembly.
 
31     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
32 becoming law.