Full Text of SB0544 96th General Assembly
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Sen. Mattie Hunter
Filed: 3/13/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 544
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 544 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 17-131
as follows:
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| (40 ILCS 5/17-131) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-131)
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| Sec. 17-131. Administration of payroll deductions. During | 8 |
| any period on
or after July 1, 2009 in
which salaries are paid, | 9 |
| payroll
such deductions by an Employer or the
Board shall be | 10 |
| made for all salary paid
on the basis of the full salary
rates, | 11 |
| exclusive of salaries for overtime, special services or any | 12 |
| employment
on an optional basis, such as in summer school . If | 13 |
| salaries represent
adjustments on account of error, deductions | 14 |
| by the Employer or the Board shall
be at the rates in force | 15 |
| during the applicable payroll period. If teachers
receive | 16 |
| salaries for the school year, as established by an Employer, or |
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| if they
receive salaries for more than 10 calendar months, the | 2 |
| amount required for each
year of service shall be deducted by | 3 |
| such Employer in installments.
Beginning July 1, 2009, the | 4 |
| total amounts for each semimonthly payroll
period , or bi-weekly | 5 |
| payroll period, as the case may be, shall be deducted
for all | 6 |
| salary paid
only when salary payments represent 5 days' pay or
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| more . If , on or after July 1, 2009, an Employer or the Board
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| pays salaries to members of the teaching force for vacation | 9 |
| periods, the
salary shall be considered part of the teacher's | 10 |
| annual salary, shall be
subject to the standard deductions for | 11 |
| pension contributions, and shall be
considered to represent | 12 |
| additional service credit for each day paid
pay for 5 or more | 13 |
| days' employment in a bi-weekly or semi-monthly payroll
period | 14 |
| for purposes set forth in this Section . If deductions from | 15 |
| salaries
result in amounts of less than one cent, the | 16 |
| fractional sums shall be increased
to the next higher cent. Any | 17 |
| excess of these fractional increases over the
prescribed annual | 18 |
| contributions shall be credited to the teachers' accounts.
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| Any person who retires on or after July 1, 2009 and before | 20 |
| the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 21 |
| Assembly shall be paid a lump
sum equal to the amount of | 22 |
| pension that he or she would have received for that
period if | 23 |
| salary received for overtime, summer school, and other optional
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| service had been included in the calculation of salary for | 25 |
| pension purposes,
minus the amount of pension he or she | 26 |
| actually received for that period.
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| In the event that, pursuant to Section 17-130.1, employee | 2 |
| contributions
are picked up or made by the Board of Education | 3 |
| on behalf of its employees
from the proceeds of the tax levied | 4 |
| under Section 34-60 of the School Code,
then the amount of the | 5 |
| employee contributions which are picked up or made in
that | 6 |
| manner shall not be deducted from the salaries of such | 7 |
| employees.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 10 |
| Section 8.33 as follows: | 11 |
| (30 ILCS 805/8.33 new) | 12 |
| Sec. 8.33. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 13 |
| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 14 |
| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 15 |
| the 96th General Assembly. | 16 |
| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 17 |
| becoming law.".
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