Full Text of HB0275 102nd General Assembly
HB0275sam001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Robert F. Martwick Filed: 5/27/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 275
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 275 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by adding | 5 | | Section 3-110.11a and by changing Section 8-151 as follows: | 6 | | (40 ILCS 5/3-110.11a new) | 7 | | Sec. 3-110.11a. Optional credit under Article 5. A police | 8 | | officer may establish optional credit for up to 5 years of | 9 | | service as a participant under Article 5, provided that the | 10 | | police officer (i) was certified under the law governing the | 11 | | certification of police officers at the time the service was | 12 | | rendered, (ii) applies in writing on or before December 31, | 13 | | 2023, (iii) supplies satisfactory evidence of the employment, | 14 | | (iv) completes 10 years of contributing service as a police | 15 | | officer as defined in Section 3-106, and (v) pays into the fund | 16 | | the amount the police officer would have contributed if he or |
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| 1 | | she had been a regular contributor during such period, plus an | 2 | | amount determined by the Board to be equal to the | 3 | | municipality's normal cost of the benefit, plus interest at | 4 | | the actuarially assumed rate calculated from the date the | 5 | | employee last became a police officer under this Article. | 6 | | A police officer may not establish credit under this | 7 | | Section for any service for which the police officer is | 8 | | eligible to receive benefits under Article 5 of this Code.
| 9 | | (40 ILCS 5/8-151) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-151)
| 10 | | Sec. 8-151. Compensation annuity and supplemental annuity.
| 11 | | When annuity otherwise provided in this Article for the | 12 | | widow of an
employee whose death results solely from injury | 13 | | incurred in the performance
of an act of duty is less than 60% | 14 | | of his salary in effect at the time of
the injury, | 15 | | "Compensation Annuity" equal to the difference between such
| 16 | | annuity and 60% of such salary, shall be payable to her until | 17 | | the date when
the employee, if alive, would have attained age | 18 | | 65; and in any case where
the employee's death is only partly | 19 | | due to the duty incurred injury, the
"Compensation Annuity" | 20 | | shall be based on an amount equal to 40% of such
salary.
| 21 | | Thereafter, the widow shall be entitled to "Supplemental | 22 | | Annuity" equal
to the difference between the annuity otherwise | 23 | | provided in this Article
and the annuity to which she would be | 24 | | entitled if the employee had lived
and continued in the | 25 | | service at the salary in effect at the date of the
injury until |
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| 1 | | he attained age 65, and based upon her age as it would be on
| 2 | | the date he would have attained 65.
| 3 | | "Compensation" or "Supplemental Annuity" shall not be | 4 | | payable unless the
widow was the wife of the employee when the | 5 | | injury was incurred.
| 6 | | The city shall contribute to the fund each year the amount | 7 | | required for
all compensation annuities payable during any | 8 | | such year. Supplemental
Annuity shall be provided from city | 9 | | contributions after the date of the
employee's death of such | 10 | | equal sums annually which when improved by
interest at the | 11 | | effective rate, will be sufficient, at the time payment of
| 12 | | Compensation Annuity to the widow ceases to provide | 13 | | Supplemental Annuity,
as stated, for the widow throughout her | 14 | | life thereafter.
| 15 | | Unless the performance of an act or acts of duty results | 16 | | solely in the death of the employee, the annuity provided in | 17 | | this Section shall not be paid. For the purposes of this | 18 | | Section only, the death of any employee as a result of the | 19 | | exposure to and contraction of COVID-19, as evidenced by | 20 | | either (i) a confirmed positive laboratory test for COVID-19 | 21 | | or COVID-19 antibodies or (ii) a confirmed diagnosis of | 22 | | COVID-19 from a licensed medical professional, shall be | 23 | | rebuttably presumed to have been contracted while in the | 24 | | performance of an act or acts of duty and the employee shall be | 25 | | rebuttably presumed to have been fatally injured while in | 26 | | active service. The presumption shall apply to any employee |
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| 1 | | who was exposed to and contracted COVID-19 on or after March 9, | 2 | | 2020 and on or before June 30, 2021; except that the | 3 | | presumption shall not apply if the employee was on a leave of | 4 | | absence from his or her employment or otherwise not required | 5 | | to report for duty at the physical work space generally | 6 | | assigned to the employee, including, but not limited to, | 7 | | working remotely, for a period of 14 or more consecutive days | 8 | | immediately prior to the date of contraction of COVID-19. For | 9 | | the purposes of determining when an employee contracted | 10 | | COVID-19 under this paragraph, the date of contraction is | 11 | | either the date that the employee was diagnosed with COVID-19 | 12 | | or was unable to work due to symptoms that were later diagnosed | 13 | | as COVID-19, whichever occurred first. | 14 | | (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
| 15 | | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 16 | | Section 8.45 as follows: | 17 | | (30 ILCS 805/8.45 new) | 18 | | Sec. 8.45. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and | 19 | | 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for | 20 | | the implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory | 21 | | Act of the 102nd General Assembly. ". | 22 | | Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 23 | | becoming law.".
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