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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 changing
5Sections 2-101, 2-105 and 14-103.05 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/2-101)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-101)
7    Sec. 2-101. Creation of system. A retirement system is
8created to provide retirement annuities, survivor's annuities
9and other benefits for certain members of the General Assembly,
10certain elected state officials, and their beneficiaries.
11    The system shall be known as the "General Assembly
12Retirement System". All its funds and property shall be a trust
13separate from all other entities, maintained for the purpose of
14securing payment of annuities and benefits under this Article.
15    Participation in the retirement system created under this
16Article is restricted to persons who become participants before
17the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General
18Assembly. Beginning on that date, the System shall not accept
19any new participants.
20(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)
 
21    (40 ILCS 5/2-105)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-105)
22    Sec. 2-105. Member. "Member": Members of the General

 

 

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1Assembly of this State, including persons who enter military
2service while a member of the General Assembly, and any person
3serving as Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State,
4Treasurer, Comptroller, or Attorney General for the period of
5service in such office.
6    Any person who has served for 10 or more years as Clerk or
7Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, Secretary or
8Assistant Secretary of the Senate, or any combination thereof,
9may elect to become a member of this system while thenceforth
10engaged in such service by filing a written election with the
11board. Any person so electing shall be deemed an active member
12of the General Assembly for the purpose of validating and
13transferring any service credits earned under any of the funds
14and systems established under Articles 3 through 18 of this
15Code.
16    However, notwithstanding any other provision of this
17Article, a person shall not be deemed a member for the purposes
18of this Article unless he or she became a participant of the
19System before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
2097th General Assembly.
21(Source: P.A. 85-1008.)
 
22    (40 ILCS 5/14-103.05)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-103.05)
23    Sec. 14-103.05. Employee.
24    (a) Any person employed by a Department who receives salary
25for personal services rendered to the Department on a warrant

 

 

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1issued pursuant to a payroll voucher certified by a Department
2and drawn by the State Comptroller upon the State Treasurer,
3including an elected official described in subparagraph (d) of
4Section 14-104, shall become an employee for purpose of
5membership in the Retirement System on the first day of such
6employment.
7    Any person who becomes a constitutional officer or member
8of the General Assembly on or after the effective date of this
9amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly and is not eligible
10to participate in the General Assembly Retirement System shall
11be deemed an employee for purposes of membership in this System
12beginning on the first day of such service.
13    A person entering service on or after January 1, 1972 and
14prior to January 1, 1984 shall become a member as a condition
15of employment and shall begin making contributions as of the
16first day of employment.
17    A person entering service on or after January 1, 1984
18shall, upon completion of 6 months of continuous service which
19is not interrupted by a break of more than 2 months, become a
20member as a condition of employment. Contributions shall begin
21the first of the month after completion of the qualifying
22period.
23    A person employed by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for
24Planning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
2595th General Assembly who was a member of this System as an
26employee of the Chicago Area Transportation Study and makes an

 

 

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1election under Section 14-104.13 to participate in this System
2for his or her employment with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency
3for Planning.
4    The qualifying period of 6 months of service is not
5applicable to: (1) a person who has been granted credit for
6service in a position covered by the State Universities
7Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of the State
8of Illinois, the General Assembly Retirement System, or the
9Judges Retirement System of Illinois unless that service has
10been forfeited under the laws of those systems; (2) a person
11entering service on or after July 1, 1991 in a noncovered
12position; (3) a person to whom Section 14-108.2a or 14-108.2b
13applies; or (4) a person to whom subsection (a-5) of this
14Section applies.
15    (a-5) A person entering service on or after December 1,
162010 shall become a member as a condition of employment and
17shall begin making contributions as of the first day of
18employment. A person serving in the qualifying period on
19December 1, 2010 will become a member on December 1, 2010 and
20shall begin making contributions as of December 1, 2010.
21    (b) The term "employee" does not include the following:
22        (1) members of the State Legislature, and persons
23    electing to become members of the General Assembly
24    Retirement System pursuant to Section 2-105;
25        (2) incumbents of offices normally filled by vote of
26    the people;

 

 

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1        (3) except as otherwise provided in this Section, any
2    person appointed by the Governor with the advice and
3    consent of the Senate unless that person elects to
4    participate in this system;
5        (3.1) any person serving as a commissioner of an ethics
6    commission created under the State Officials and Employees
7    Ethics Act unless that person elects to participate in this
8    system with respect to that service as a commissioner;
9        (3.2) any person serving as a part-time employee in any
10    of the following positions: Legislative Inspector General,
11    Special Legislative Inspector General, employee of the
12    Office of the Legislative Inspector General, Executive
13    Director of the Legislative Ethics Commission, or staff of
14    the Legislative Ethics Commission, regardless of whether
15    he or she is in active service on or after July 8, 2004
16    (the effective date of Public Act 93-685), unless that
17    person elects to participate in this System with respect to
18    that service; in this item (3.2), a "part-time employee" is
19    a person who is not required to work at least 35 hours per
20    week;
21        (3.3) any person who has made an election under Section
22    1-123 and who is serving either as legal counsel in the
23    Office of the Governor or as Chief Deputy Attorney General;
24        (4) except as provided in Section 14-108.2 or
25    14-108.2c, any person who is covered or eligible to be
26    covered by the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of

 

 

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1    Illinois, the State Universities Retirement System, or the
2    Judges Retirement System of Illinois;
3        (5) an employee of a municipality or any other
4    political subdivision of the State;
5        (6) any person who becomes an employee after June 30,
6    1979 as a public service employment program participant
7    under the Federal Comprehensive Employment and Training
8    Act and whose wages or fringe benefits are paid in whole or
9    in part by funds provided under such Act;
10        (7) enrollees of the Illinois Young Adult Conservation
11    Corps program, administered by the Department of Natural
12    Resources, authorized grantee pursuant to Title VIII of the
13    "Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973", 29 USC
14    993, as now or hereafter amended;
15        (8) enrollees and temporary staff of programs
16    administered by the Department of Natural Resources under
17    the Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1970;
18        (9) any person who is a member of any professional
19    licensing or disciplinary board created under an Act
20    administered by the Department of Professional Regulation
21    or a successor agency or created or re-created after the
22    effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, and who
23    receives per diem compensation rather than a salary,
24    notwithstanding that such per diem compensation is paid by
25    warrant issued pursuant to a payroll voucher; such persons
26    have never been included in the membership of this System,

 

 

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1    and this amendatory Act of 1987 (P.A. 84-1472) is not
2    intended to effect any change in the status of such
3    persons;
4        (10) any person who is a member of the Illinois Health
5    Care Cost Containment Council, and receives per diem
6    compensation rather than a salary, notwithstanding that
7    such per diem compensation is paid by warrant issued
8    pursuant to a payroll voucher; such persons have never been
9    included in the membership of this System, and this
10    amendatory Act of 1987 is not intended to effect any change
11    in the status of such persons;
12        (11) any person who is a member of the Oil and Gas
13    Board created by Section 1.2 of the Illinois Oil and Gas
14    Act, and receives per diem compensation rather than a
15    salary, notwithstanding that such per diem compensation is
16    paid by warrant issued pursuant to a payroll voucher; or
17        (12) a person employed by the State Board of Higher
18    Education in a position with the Illinois Century Network
19    as of June 30, 2004, who remains continuously employed
20    after that date by the Department of Central Management
21    Services in a position with the Illinois Century Network
22    and participates in the Article 15 system with respect to
23    that employment.
24    (c) An individual who represents or is employed as an
25officer or employee of a statewide labor organization that
26represents members of this System may participate in the System

 

 

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1and shall be deemed an employee, provided that (1) the
2individual has previously earned creditable service under this
3Article, (2) the individual files with the System an
4irrevocable election to become a participant within 6 months
5after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th
6General Assembly, and (3) the individual does not receive
7credit for that employment under any other provisions of this
8Code. An employee under this subsection (c) is responsible for
9paying to the System both (i) employee contributions based on
10the actual compensation received for service with the labor
11organization and (ii) employer contributions based on the
12percentage of payroll certified by the board; all or any part
13of these contributions may be paid on the employee's behalf or
14picked up for tax purposes (if authorized under federal law) by
15the labor organization.
16    A person who is an employee as defined in this subsection
17(c) may establish service credit for similar employment prior
18to becoming an employee under this subsection by paying to the
19System for that employment the contributions specified in this
20subsection, plus interest at the effective rate from the date
21of service to the date of payment. However, credit shall not be
22granted under this subsection (c) for any such prior employment
23for which the applicant received credit under any other
24provision of this Code or during which the applicant was on a
25leave of absence.
26(Source: P.A. 95-677, eff. 10-11-07; 96-1490, eff. 1-1-11.)
 

 

 

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