Full Text of HB2289 97th General Assembly
HB2289ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. David R. Leitch Filed: 4/5/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2289
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2289 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by | 5 | | changing Sections 3-125 and 4-118 as follows:
| 6 | | (40 ILCS 5/3-125) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-125)
| 7 | | Sec. 3-125. Financing. | 8 | | (a) The city council or the board of trustees of
the | 9 | | municipality shall annually levy a tax upon all
the taxable | 10 | | property of the municipality at the rate on the dollar which
| 11 | | will produce an amount which, when added to the deductions from | 12 | | the salaries
or wages of police officers, and revenues
| 13 | | available from other
sources, will equal a sum sufficient to | 14 | | meet
the annual requirements of the police pension fund. The | 15 | | annual
requirements to be provided by such tax levy are equal
| 16 | | to (1) the normal cost of the pension fund for the year |
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| 1 | | involved, plus
(2) an amount sufficient to bring the total | 2 | | assets of the pension fund up to 90% of the total actuarial | 3 | | liabilities of the pension fund within 30 years by the end of | 4 | | municipal fiscal year 2040 , as annually updated and determined | 5 | | by an enrolled actuary employed by the Illinois Department of | 6 | | Insurance or by an enrolled actuary retained by the pension | 7 | | fund or the municipality. In making these determinations, the | 8 | | required minimum employer contribution shall be calculated | 9 | | each year as a level percentage of payroll over the years | 10 | | remaining up to and including fiscal year 2040 and shall be | 11 | | determined under the projected unit credit actuarial cost | 12 | | method. The tax shall be levied and
collected in the same | 13 | | manner as the general taxes
of the municipality, and in | 14 | | addition to all other taxes now or hereafter authorized to
be | 15 | | levied upon all property within the municipality, and shall be | 16 | | in
addition to the amount authorized to be levied for general | 17 | | purposes as
provided by Section 8-3-1 of the Illinois Municipal | 18 | | Code, approved May
29, 1961, as amended. The tax shall be | 19 | | forwarded directly to the treasurer of the board within 30 | 20 | | business days after receipt by the county.
| 21 | | (b) For purposes of determining the required employer | 22 | | contribution to a pension fund, the value of the pension fund's | 23 | | assets shall be equal to the actuarial value of the pension | 24 | | fund's assets, which shall be calculated as follows: | 25 | | (1) On March 30, 2011, the actuarial value of a pension | 26 | | fund's assets shall be equal to the market value of the |
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| 1 | | assets as of that date. | 2 | | (2) In determining the actuarial value of the System's | 3 | | assets for fiscal years after March 30, 2011, any actuarial | 4 | | gains or losses from investment return incurred in a fiscal | 5 | | year shall be recognized in equal annual amounts over the | 6 | | 5-year period following that fiscal year. | 7 | | (c) If a participating municipality fails to transmit to | 8 | | the fund contributions required of it under this Article for | 9 | | more than 90 days after the payment of those contributions is | 10 | | due, the fund may, after giving notice to the municipality, | 11 | | certify to the State Comptroller the amounts of the delinquent | 12 | | payments, and the Comptroller must, beginning in fiscal year | 13 | | 2016, deduct and deposit into the fund the certified amounts or | 14 | | a portion of those amounts from the following proportions of | 15 | | grants of State funds to the municipality: | 16 | | (1) in fiscal year 2016, one-third of the total amount | 17 | | of any grants of State funds to the municipality; | 18 | | (2) in fiscal year 2017, two-thirds of the total amount | 19 | | of any grants of State funds to the municipality; and | 20 | | (3) in fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year | 21 | | thereafter, the total amount of any grants of State funds | 22 | | to the municipality. | 23 | | The State Comptroller may not deduct from any grants of | 24 | | State funds to the municipality more than the amount of | 25 | | delinquent payments certified to the State Comptroller by the | 26 | | fund. |
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| 1 | | (d) The police pension fund shall consist of the following | 2 | | moneys which
shall be set apart by the treasurer of the | 3 | | municipality:
| 4 | | (1) All moneys derived from the taxes levied hereunder;
| 5 | | (2) Contributions by police officers under Section | 6 | | 3-125.1;
| 7 | | (3) All moneys accumulated by the municipality under | 8 | | any previous
legislation establishing a fund for the | 9 | | benefit of disabled or retired
police officers;
| 10 | | (4) Donations, gifts or other transfers authorized by | 11 | | this
Article.
| 12 | | (e) The Commission on Government Forecasting and
| 13 | | Accountability shall conduct a study of all funds established
| 14 | | under this Article and shall report its findings to the General
| 15 | | Assembly on or before January 1, 2013. To the fullest extent | 16 | | possible, the study shall include, but not be limited to, the | 17 | | following: | 18 | | (1) fund balances; | 19 | | (2) historical employer contribution rates for each
| 20 | | fund; | 21 | | (3) the actuarial formulas used as a basis for employer
| 22 | | contributions, including the actual assumed rate of return
| 23 | | for each year, for each fund; | 24 | | (4) available contribution funding sources; | 25 | | (5) the impact of any revenue limitations caused by
| 26 | | PTELL and employer home rule or non-home rule status; and |
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| 1 | | (6) existing statutory funding compliance procedures
| 2 | | and funding enforcement mechanisms for all municipal
| 3 | | pension funds. | 4 | | (Source: P.A. 95-530, eff. 8-28-07; 96-1495, eff. 1-1-11.)
| 5 | | (40 ILCS 5/4-118) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-118)
| 6 | | Sec. 4-118. Financing.
| 7 | | (a) The city council or the board of trustees
of the | 8 | | municipality shall annually levy a tax upon all the taxable | 9 | | property
of the municipality at the rate on the dollar which | 10 | | will produce an amount
which, when added to the deductions from | 11 | | the salaries or wages of
firefighters and revenues available | 12 | | from other sources, will equal a sum
sufficient to meet the | 13 | | annual actuarial requirements of the pension fund,
as | 14 | | determined by an enrolled actuary employed by the Illinois | 15 | | Department of
Insurance or by an enrolled actuary retained by | 16 | | the pension fund or
municipality. For the purposes of this | 17 | | Section, the annual actuarial
requirements of the pension fund | 18 | | are equal to (1) the normal cost of the
pension fund, or 17.5% | 19 | | of the salaries and wages to be paid to firefighters
for the | 20 | | year involved, whichever is greater, plus (2) an annual amount
| 21 | | sufficient to bring the total assets of the pension fund up to | 22 | | 90% of the total actuarial liabilities of the pension fund | 23 | | within 30 years by the end of municipal fiscal year 2040 , as | 24 | | annually updated and determined by an enrolled actuary employed | 25 | | by the Illinois Department of Insurance or by an enrolled |
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| 1 | | actuary retained by the pension fund or the municipality. In | 2 | | making these determinations, the required minimum employer | 3 | | contribution shall be calculated each year as a level | 4 | | percentage of payroll over the years remaining up to and | 5 | | including fiscal year 2040 and shall be determined under the | 6 | | projected unit credit actuarial cost method. The amount
to be | 7 | | applied towards the amortization of the unfunded accrued | 8 | | liability in any
year shall not be less than the annual amount | 9 | | required to amortize the unfunded
accrued liability, including | 10 | | interest, as a level percentage of payroll over
the number of | 11 | | years remaining in the 40 year amortization period .
| 12 | | (a-5) For purposes of determining the required employer | 13 | | contribution to a pension fund, the value of the pension fund's | 14 | | assets shall be equal to the actuarial value of the pension | 15 | | fund's assets, which shall be calculated as follows: | 16 | | (1) On March 30, 2011, the actuarial value of a pension | 17 | | fund's assets shall be equal to the market value of the | 18 | | assets as of that date. | 19 | | (2) In determining the actuarial value of the pension | 20 | | fund's assets for fiscal years after March 30, 2011, any | 21 | | actuarial gains or losses from investment return incurred | 22 | | in a fiscal year shall be recognized in equal annual | 23 | | amounts over the 5-year period following that fiscal year. | 24 | | (b) The tax shall be levied and collected in the same | 25 | | manner
as the general taxes of the municipality, and shall be | 26 | | in addition
to all other taxes now or hereafter authorized to |
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| 1 | | be levied upon all
property within the municipality, and in | 2 | | addition to the amount authorized
to be levied for general | 3 | | purposes, under Section 8-3-1 of the Illinois
Municipal Code or | 4 | | under Section 14 of the Fire Protection District Act. The
tax | 5 | | shall be forwarded directly to the treasurer of the board | 6 | | within 30
business days of receipt by the county
(or, in the | 7 | | case of amounts
added to the tax levy under subsection (f), | 8 | | used by the municipality to pay the
employer contributions | 9 | | required under subsection (b-1) of Section 15-155 of
this | 10 | | Code).
| 11 | | (b-5) If a participating municipality fails to transmit to | 12 | | the fund contributions required of it under this Article for | 13 | | more than 90 days after the payment of those contributions is | 14 | | due, the fund may, after giving notice to the municipality, | 15 | | certify to the State Comptroller the amounts of the delinquent | 16 | | payments, and the Comptroller must, beginning in fiscal year | 17 | | 2016, deduct and deposit into the fund the certified amounts or | 18 | | a portion of those amounts from the following proportions of | 19 | | grants of State funds to the municipality: | 20 | | (1) in fiscal year 2016, one-third of the total amount | 21 | | of any grants of State funds to the municipality; | 22 | | (2) in fiscal year 2017, two-thirds of the total amount | 23 | | of any grants of State funds to the municipality; and | 24 | | (3) in fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year | 25 | | thereafter, the total amount of any grants of State funds | 26 | | to the municipality. |
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| 1 | | The State Comptroller may not deduct from any grants of | 2 | | State funds to the municipality more than the amount of | 3 | | delinquent payments certified to the State Comptroller by the | 4 | | fund. | 5 | | (c) The board shall make available to the membership and | 6 | | the general public
for inspection and copying at reasonable | 7 | | times the most recent Actuarial
Valuation Balance Sheet and Tax | 8 | | Levy Requirement issued to the fund by the
Department of | 9 | | Insurance.
| 10 | | (d) The firefighters' pension fund shall consist of the | 11 | | following moneys
which shall be set apart by the treasurer of | 12 | | the municipality: (1) all
moneys derived from the taxes levied | 13 | | hereunder; (2) contributions
by firefighters as provided under | 14 | | Section 4-118.1; (3) all
rewards in money, fees, gifts, and | 15 | | emoluments that may be paid or given
for or on account of | 16 | | extraordinary service by the fire department or any
member | 17 | | thereof, except when allowed to be retained by competitive | 18 | | awards;
and (4) any money, real estate or personal property | 19 | | received by the board.
| 20 | | (e) For the purposes of this Section, "enrolled actuary" | 21 | | means an actuary:
(1) who is a member of the Society of | 22 | | Actuaries or the American
Academy of Actuaries; and (2) who is | 23 | | enrolled under Subtitle
C of Title III of the Employee | 24 | | Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or
who has been engaged | 25 | | in providing actuarial services to one or more public
| 26 | | retirement systems for a period of at least 3 years as of July |
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| 1 | | 1, 1983.
| 2 | | (f) The corporate authorities of a municipality that | 3 | | employs a person
who is described in subdivision (d) of Section | 4 | | 4-106 may add to the tax levy
otherwise provided for in this | 5 | | Section an amount equal to the projected cost of
the employer | 6 | | contributions required to be paid by the municipality to the | 7 | | State
Universities Retirement System under subsection (b-1) of | 8 | | Section 15-155 of this
Code. | 9 | | (g) The Commission on Government Forecasting and
| 10 | | Accountability shall conduct a study of all funds established
| 11 | | under this Article and shall report its findings to the General
| 12 | | Assembly on or before January 1, 2013. To the fullest extent | 13 | | possible, the study shall include, but not be limited to, the | 14 | | following: | 15 | | (1) fund balances; | 16 | | (2) historical employer contribution rates for each
| 17 | | fund; | 18 | | (3) the actuarial formulas used as a basis for employer
| 19 | | contributions, including the actual assumed rate of return
| 20 | | for each year, for each fund; | 21 | | (4) available contribution funding sources; | 22 | | (5) the impact of any revenue limitations caused by
| 23 | | PTELL and employer home rule or non-home rule status; and | 24 | | (6) existing statutory funding compliance procedures
| 25 | | and funding enforcement mechanisms for all municipal
| 26 | | pension funds.
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1495, eff. 1-1-11.)".
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