Full Text of HB1223 95th General Assembly
HB1223eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 3-114.1 as follows:
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| (40 ILCS 5/3-114.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-114.1)
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| Sec. 3-114.1. Disability pension - Line of duty.
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| (a) If a police officer as the result of sickness, accident | 9 |
| or injury
incurred in or resulting from the performance of an | 10 |
| act of duty, is found to be
physically or mentally disabled for | 11 |
| service in the police department, so as to
render necessary his | 12 |
| or her suspension or retirement from the police service,
the | 13 |
| police officer shall be entitled to a disability retirement | 14 |
| pension equal
to the greatest of (1) 65% of the salary attached | 15 |
| to the rank on the
police force held by the officer at the date | 16 |
| of suspension of duty or
retirement, (2) the retirement pension | 17 |
| that the police officer would be
eligible to receive if he or | 18 |
| she retired (but not including any automatic
annual increase in | 19 |
| that retirement pension), or (3) the pension provided
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| subsection (d), if applicable.
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| A police officer shall be considered "on duty" while on any | 22 |
| assignment
approved by the chief of the police department of | 23 |
| the municipality he or she
serves, whether the assignment is |
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| within or outside the municipality.
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| (b) If a police officer on disability pension dies while | 3 |
| still disabled,
the disability pension shall continue to be | 4 |
| paid to his or her survivors in the
sequence provided in | 5 |
| Section 3-112.
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| (c) From and after July 1, 1987, any pension payable under | 7 |
| this
Section shall be at least $400 per month, without regard | 8 |
| to the fact that
the disability or death of the police officer | 9 |
| occurred prior to that date.
If the minimum pension established | 10 |
| in Section 3-113.1 is greater than the
minimum provided in this | 11 |
| Section, the Section 3-113.1 minimum controls.
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| (d) A disabled police officer who (1) is receiving a | 13 |
| pension under this
Section
on the effective date of this | 14 |
| amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, (2)
files with the | 15 |
| Fund, within 30 days after that effective date and annually
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| thereafter while the pension remains payable, a written | 17 |
| application for the
benefits of this subsection, including an | 18 |
| affidavit stating that the applicant
has not earned any income | 19 |
| from gainful employment during the most recently
concluded tax | 20 |
| year and a copy of his or her most recent Illinois income tax
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| return, (3) has service credit in the Fund for at least 7 years | 22 |
| of active duty,
and (4) has been receiving the pension under | 23 |
| this Section for a period which,
when added to the officer's | 24 |
| total service credit in the Fund, equals at least
20 years, | 25 |
| shall be eligible to receive an annual noncompounded increase | 26 |
| in his
or her pension under this Section, equal to 3% of the |
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| original pension.
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| The Fund may take appropriate steps to verify the | 3 |
| applicant's disability
and earnings status, and for this | 4 |
| purpose may request from the Department of
Revenue a certified | 5 |
| copy of the applicant's Illinois income tax return for any
year | 6 |
| for which a benefit under this Section is payable or has been | 7 |
| paid.
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| The annual increase shall accrue on each anniversary of the | 9 |
| initial pension
payment date, for so long as the pension | 10 |
| remains payable to the disabled police
officer and the required | 11 |
| annual application is made, except that the annual
increases | 12 |
| under this subsection shall cease if the disabled police | 13 |
| officer
earns income from gainful employment. Within 60 days | 14 |
| after accepting an
initial application under this subsection, | 15 |
| the Fund shall pay to the disabled
police officer, in a lump | 16 |
| sum without interest, the amounts resulting from the
annual | 17 |
| increases that have accrued retroactively.
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| This subsection is not limited to persons in active service | 19 |
| on or after its
effective date, but it applies only to a | 20 |
| pension that is payable under this
Section to a disabled police | 21 |
| officer (rather than a survivor). Upon the death
of the | 22 |
| disabled police officer, the annuity payable under this Section | 23 |
| to his
or her survivors shall include any annual increases | 24 |
| previously received, but no
additional increases shall accrue | 25 |
| under this subsection.
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| (e) The monthly pension of a police officer who receives a |
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| line of duty pension under this Section who was hired on or | 2 |
| before January 1, 1979, who received a line of duty benefit on | 3 |
| or after January 1, 1993 with at least 14 years of service, and | 4 |
| who applies within 6 months after the effective date of this | 5 |
| amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be increased | 6 |
| in January of the year following the year he or she attains age | 7 |
| 50 by 3% of the original grant of pension for each year he or | 8 |
| she received pension payments. In each January thereafter, the | 9 |
| police officer shall receive an additional increase of 3% of | 10 |
| the original pension.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-939, eff. 2-1-01.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 13 |
| Section 8.32 as follows: | 14 |
| (30 ILCS 805/8.32 new) | 15 |
| Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 16 |
| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 17 |
| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 18 |
| the 95th General Assembly.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 |
| becoming law. |
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