Full Text of SB1959 95th General Assembly
SB1959eng 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 |
| Sections 7-144.3 and 7-172 as follows:
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| (40 ILCS 5/7-144.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-144.3)
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| Sec. 7-144.3. Supplemental benefit payment.
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| (a) A supplemental benefit payment, consisting of a sum | 9 |
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provided in subsection (c), shall be payable to | 10 |
| each eligible retirement
annuitant and surviving spouse | 11 |
| annuitant on July 1, 1993, and on each
subsequent July 1; | 12 |
| except that if this Code is amended to change the
uncompounded | 13 |
| annual increase in retirement annuity granted in subsection
(c) | 14 |
| of Section 7-142 to a compounded annual increase, no | 15 |
| supplemental
benefit shall be paid under this Section on any | 16 |
| July 1 occurring on or
after the effective date of that | 17 |
| amendment. The amount of the supplemental
benefit payment, and | 18 |
| a person's eligibility to receive the supplemental
benefit | 19 |
| payment, shall be redetermined for each year in which the | 20 |
| benefit
is payable.
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| (b) To be eligible to receive a supplemental benefit | 22 |
| payment, a person
must be entitled to receive a retirement | 23 |
| annuity or surviving spouse
annuity from the Fund on the July 1 |
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| supplemental benefit payment date, and
must have been receiving | 2 |
| that annuity during each of the 12 months
immediately preceding | 3 |
| that date; except that a surviving spouse annuitant
whose | 4 |
| surviving spouse annuity began less than one year before the | 5 |
| July 1
supplemental benefit payment date shall be eligible if | 6 |
| the deceased spouse
received a retirement annuity from the Fund | 7 |
| during the period from the
previous July 1 until the start of | 8 |
| the surviving spouse annuity.
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| (c) The amount of the supplemental benefit payment to each | 10 |
| eligible person shall be 75% of the monthly retirement or | 11 |
| surviving spouse annuity payable to that person in June | 12 |
| preceding the July 1 supplemental benefit payment date. shall | 13 |
| be determined
by the Board as follows:
(1) The total amount | 14 |
| available for the payment of supplemental benefit
payments | 15 |
| under this Section in any year shall be 0.62% of the last | 16 |
| annual
participating payroll for all participating | 17 |
| municipalities and participating
instrumentalities in the | 18 |
| Fund, as determined and reconciled by the Fund.
(2) The amount | 19 |
| of the supplemental benefit payment to each eligible
person | 20 |
| shall be a portion of the total amount available under | 21 |
| paragraph
(1), equal to that portion of the total amount | 22 |
| payable by the Fund to all
eligible persons for retirement and | 23 |
| surviving spouse annuities in the June
preceding the July 1 | 24 |
| supplemental benefit payment date, that is payable to
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| eligible person in that month.
(3) Notwithstanding the | 26 |
| provisions of this subsection (c) paragraph (2) , the amount of |
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| any supplemental
benefit payment paid to an annuitant under | 2 |
| this Section shall not
exceed any benefit limitations | 3 |
| established by the federal government for
qualified public | 4 |
| pension plans.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-850.)
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| (40 ILCS 5/7-172) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-172)
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| Sec. 7-172. Contributions by participating municipalities | 8 |
| and
participating instrumentalities.
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| (a) Each participating municipality and each participating
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| instrumentality shall make payment to the fund as follows:
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| 1. municipality contributions in an amount determined | 12 |
| by applying
the municipality contribution rate to each | 13 |
| payment of earnings paid to
each of its participating | 14 |
| employees;
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| 2. an amount equal to the employee contributions | 16 |
| provided by paragraphs
(a) and (b) of Section 7-173, | 17 |
| whether or not the employee contributions are
withheld as | 18 |
| permitted by that Section;
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| 3. all accounts receivable, together with interest | 20 |
| charged thereon,
as provided in Section 7-209;
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| 4. if it has no participating employees with current | 22 |
| earnings, an
amount payable which, over a period of 20 | 23 |
| years beginning with the year
following an award of | 24 |
| benefit, will amortize, at the effective rate for
that | 25 |
| year, any negative balance in its municipality reserve |
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| resulting
from the award. This amount when established will | 2 |
| be payable as a
separate contribution whether or not it | 3 |
| later has participating employees.
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| (b) A separate municipality contribution rate shall be | 5 |
| determined
for each calendar year for all participating | 6 |
| municipalities together
with all instrumentalities thereof. | 7 |
| The municipality contribution rate
shall be determined for | 8 |
| participating instrumentalities as if they were
participating | 9 |
| municipalities. The municipality contribution rate shall
be | 10 |
| the sum of the following percentages:
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| 1. The percentage of earnings of all the participating | 12 |
| employees of all
participating municipalities and | 13 |
| participating instrumentalities which, if paid
over the | 14 |
| entire period of their service, will be sufficient when | 15 |
| combined with
all employee contributions available for the | 16 |
| payment of benefits, to provide
all annuities for | 17 |
| participating employees, and the $3,000 death benefit
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| payable under Sections 7-158 and 7-164, such percentage to | 19 |
| be known as the
normal cost rate.
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| 2. The percentage of earnings of the participating | 21 |
| employees of each
participating municipality and | 22 |
| participating instrumentalities necessary
to adjust for | 23 |
| the difference between the present value of all benefits,
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| excluding temporary and total and permanent disability and | 25 |
| death benefits, to
be provided for its participating | 26 |
| employees and the sum of its accumulated
municipality |
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| contributions and the accumulated employee contributions | 2 |
| and the
present value of expected future employee and | 3 |
| municipality contributions
pursuant to subparagraph 1 of | 4 |
| this paragraph (b). This adjustment shall be
spread over | 5 |
| the remainder of the period that is allowable under | 6 |
| generally
accepted accounting principles.
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| 3. The percentage of earnings of the participating | 8 |
| employees of all
municipalities and participating | 9 |
| instrumentalities necessary to provide
the present value | 10 |
| of all temporary and total and permanent disability
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| benefits granted during the most recent year for which | 12 |
| information is
available.
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| 4. The percentage of earnings of the participating | 14 |
| employees of all
participating municipalities and | 15 |
| participating instrumentalities
necessary to provide the | 16 |
| present value of the net single sum death
benefits expected | 17 |
| to become payable from the reserve established under
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| Section 7-206 during the year for which this rate is fixed.
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| 5. The percentage of earnings necessary to meet any | 20 |
| deficiency
arising in the Terminated Municipality Reserve.
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| 6. The percentage of earnings of the participating | 22 |
| employees of all participating municipalities and | 23 |
| participating instrumentalities necessary to provide that | 24 |
| year's supplemental benefit payment under Section 7-144.3. | 25 |
| (c) A separate municipality contribution rate shall be | 26 |
| computed for
each participating municipality or participating |
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| instrumentality
for its sheriff's law enforcement employees.
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| A separate municipality contribution rate shall be | 3 |
| computed for the
sheriff's law enforcement employees of each | 4 |
| forest preserve district that
elects to have such employees. | 5 |
| For the period from January 1, 1986 to
December 31, 1986, such | 6 |
| rate shall be the forest preserve district's regular
rate plus | 7 |
| 2%.
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| In the event that the Board determines that there is an | 9 |
| actuarial
deficiency in the account of any municipality with | 10 |
| respect to a person who
has elected to participate in the Fund | 11 |
| under Section 3-109.1 of this Code,
the Board may adjust the | 12 |
| municipality's contribution rate so as to make up
that | 13 |
| deficiency over such reasonable period of time as the Board may | 14 |
| determine.
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| (d) The Board may establish a separate municipality | 16 |
| contribution
rate for all employees who are program | 17 |
| participants employed under the
federal Comprehensive | 18 |
| Employment Training Act by all of the
participating | 19 |
| municipalities and instrumentalities. The Board may also
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| provide that, in lieu of a separate municipality rate for these
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| employees, a portion of the municipality contributions for such | 22 |
| program
participants shall be refunded or an extra charge | 23 |
| assessed so that the
amount of municipality contributions | 24 |
| retained or received by the fund
for all CETA program | 25 |
| participants shall be an amount equal to that which
would be | 26 |
| provided by the separate municipality contribution rate for all
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| such program participants. Refunds shall be made to prime | 2 |
| sponsors of
programs upon submission of a claim therefor and | 3 |
| extra charges shall be
assessed to participating | 4 |
| municipalities and instrumentalities. In
establishing the | 5 |
| municipality contribution rate as provided in paragraph
(b) of | 6 |
| this Section, the use of a separate municipality contribution
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| rate for program participants or the refund of a portion of the
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| municipality contributions, as the case may be, may be | 9 |
| considered.
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| (e) Computations of municipality contribution rates for | 11 |
| the
following calendar year shall be made prior to the | 12 |
| beginning of each
year, from the information available at the | 13 |
| time the computations are
made, and on the assumption that the | 14 |
| employees in each participating
municipality or participating | 15 |
| instrumentality at such time will continue
in service until the | 16 |
| end of such calendar year at their respective rates
of earnings | 17 |
| at such time.
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| (f) Any municipality which is the recipient of State | 19 |
| allocations
representing that municipality's contributions for | 20 |
| retirement annuity
purposes on behalf of its employees as | 21 |
| provided in Section 12-21.16 of
the Illinois Public Aid Code | 22 |
| shall pay the allocations so
received to the Board for such | 23 |
| purpose. Estimates of State allocations to
be received during | 24 |
| any taxable year shall be considered in the
determination of | 25 |
| the municipality's tax rate for that year under Section
7-171. | 26 |
| If a special tax is levied under Section 7-171, none of the
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| proceeds may be used to reimburse the municipality for the | 2 |
| amount of State
allocations received and paid to the Board. Any | 3 |
| multiple-county or
consolidated health department which | 4 |
| receives contributions from a county
under Section 11.2 of "An | 5 |
| Act in relation to establishment and maintenance
of county and | 6 |
| multiple-county health departments", approved July 9, 1943,
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| amended, or distributions under Section 3 of the Department of | 8 |
| Public
Health Act, shall use these only for municipality | 9 |
| contributions by the
health department.
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| (g) Municipality contributions for the several purposes | 11 |
| specified
shall, for township treasurers and employees in the | 12 |
| offices of the
township treasurers who meet the qualifying | 13 |
| conditions for coverage
hereunder, be allocated among the | 14 |
| several school districts and parts of
school districts serviced | 15 |
| by such treasurers and employees in the
proportion which the | 16 |
| amount of school funds of each district or part of
a district | 17 |
| handled by the treasurer bears to the total amount of all
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| school funds handled by the treasurer.
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| From the funds subject to allocation among districts and | 20 |
| parts of
districts pursuant to the School Code, the trustees | 21 |
| shall withhold the
proportionate share of the liability for | 22 |
| municipality contributions imposed
upon such districts by this | 23 |
| Section, in respect to such township treasurers
and employees | 24 |
| and remit the same to the Board.
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| The municipality contribution rate for an educational | 26 |
| service center shall
initially be the same rate for each year |
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| as the regional office of
education or school district
which | 2 |
| serves as its administrative agent. When actuarial data become
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| available, a separate rate shall be established as provided in | 4 |
| subparagraph
(i) of this Section.
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| The municipality contribution rate for a public agency, | 6 |
| other than a
vocational education cooperative, formed under the | 7 |
| Intergovernmental
Cooperation Act shall initially be the | 8 |
| average rate for the municipalities
which are parties to the | 9 |
| intergovernmental agreement. When actuarial data
become | 10 |
| available, a separate rate shall be established as provided in
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| subparagraph (i) of this Section.
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| (h) Each participating municipality and participating
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| instrumentality shall make the contributions in the amounts | 14 |
| provided in
this Section in the manner prescribed from time to | 15 |
| time by the Board and
all such contributions shall be | 16 |
| obligations of the respective
participating municipalities and | 17 |
| participating instrumentalities to this
fund. The failure to | 18 |
| deduct any employee contributions shall not
relieve the | 19 |
| participating municipality or participating instrumentality
of | 20 |
| its obligation to this fund. Delinquent payments of | 21 |
| contributions
due under this Section may, with interest, be | 22 |
| recovered by civil action
against the participating | 23 |
| municipalities or participating
instrumentalities. | 24 |
| Municipality contributions, other than the amount
necessary | 25 |
| for employee contributions and Social Security contributions, | 26 |
| for
periods of service by employees from whose earnings no |
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| deductions were made
for employee contributions to the fund, | 2 |
| may be charged to the municipality
reserve for the municipality | 3 |
| or participating instrumentality.
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| (i) Contributions by participating instrumentalities shall | 5 |
| be
determined as provided herein except that the percentage | 6 |
| derived under
subparagraph 2 of paragraph (b) of this Section, | 7 |
| and the amount payable
under subparagraph 5 of paragraph (a) of | 8 |
| this Section, shall be based on
an amortization period of 10 | 9 |
| years.
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| (j) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, | 11 |
| the additional unfunded liability accruing as a result of this | 12 |
| amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly
shall be amortized | 13 |
| over a period of 30 years beginning on January 1 of the
second | 14 |
| calendar year following the calendar year in which this | 15 |
| amendatory Act takes effect, except that the employer may | 16 |
| provide for a longer amortization period by adopting a | 17 |
| resolution or ordinance specifying a 35-year or 40-year period | 18 |
| and submitting a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution | 19 |
| to the fund no later than June 1 of the calendar year following | 20 |
| the calendar year in which this amendatory Act takes effect.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-712, eff. 6-1-06 .)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 23 |
| Section 8.32 as follows: | 24 |
| (30 ILCS 805/8.32 new) |
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| Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 2 |
| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 3 |
| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 4 |
| the 95th General Assembly.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 6 |
| becoming law.
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