Full Text of HB4592 94th General Assembly
HB4592 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB4592
Introduced 01/11/06, by Rep. Angelo Saviano SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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40 ILCS 5/17-133 |
from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-133 |
30 ILCS 805/8.30 new |
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Amends the Chicago Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code.
Allows purchase of service credit for up to 2 years of employment by a
private school. Requires payment of a contribution plus interest.
Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without
reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY |
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY |
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT |
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section
17-133 as follows:
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| (40 ILCS 5/17-133) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-133)
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| Sec. 17-133. Contributions for periods of outside and other | 8 |
| service.
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| Regularly certified and appointed teachers who desire to | 10 |
| have the following
described services credited for pension | 11 |
| purposes shall submit to the Board
evidence thereof and pay | 12 |
| into the Fund the amounts prescribed herein:
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| 1. For teaching service by a certified teacher in the | 14 |
| public
schools of the several states or in schools operated | 15 |
| by or under the
auspices of the United States, a teacher | 16 |
| shall pay the
contributions at the rates in force (a) on | 17 |
| the date of
appointment as a regularly certified teacher | 18 |
| after salary adjustments
are completed, or (b) at the time | 19 |
| of reappointment after salary
adjustments are completed, | 20 |
| whichever is later, but not less than $450
per year of | 21 |
| service. Upon the Board's approval of such service and the
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| payment of the required contributions, service credit of | 23 |
| not more than
10 years shall be granted.
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| 2. For service as a playground instructor in public | 25 |
| school playgrounds,
teachers shall pay the contributions | 26 |
| prescribed in this Article (a) at
the time of appointment, | 27 |
| as a regularly certified teacher after salary
adjustments | 28 |
| are completed, or (b) on return to service as a full time
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| regularly certified teacher, as the case may be, provided | 30 |
| such rates or
amounts shall not be less than $450 per year.
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| 3. For service prior to September 1, 1955, in the | 32 |
| public schools of the
City as a substitute, evening school |
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| or temporary teacher, or for service
as an Americanization | 2 |
| teacher prior to December 31, 1955, teachers shall pay
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| contributions prescribed in this Article (a) at the time of | 4 |
| appointment,
as a regularly certified teacher after salary | 5 |
| adjustments are completed,
(b) on return to service as a | 6 |
| full time regularly certified teacher, as
the case may be, | 7 |
| provided such rates or amounts shall not be less than $450
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| per year; and provided further that for teachers employed | 9 |
| on or after September
1, 1953, rates shall not include | 10 |
| contributions for widows' pensions if the
service | 11 |
| described in this sub-paragraph 3 was rendered before that | 12 |
| date. Any
teacher entitled to repay a refund of | 13 |
| contributions under Section 17-126 may validate service | 14 |
| described in this paragraph by
payment of the amounts | 15 |
| prescribed herein, together with the repayment of the
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| refund, provided that if such creditable service was the | 17 |
| last service rendered
in the public schools of the City and | 18 |
| is not automatically reinstated by
repayment of the refund, | 19 |
| the rates or amounts shall not be less than $450 per
year.
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| 4. For service after June 30, 1982 as a member of the | 21 |
| Board of
Education, if required to resign from an | 22 |
| administrative or teaching position
in order to qualify as | 23 |
| a member of the Board of Education.
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| 5. For service during the 1986-87 school year as a | 25 |
| teacher on a special
leave of absence with full loss of | 26 |
| salary, teaching for an agency under
contract to the Board | 27 |
| of Education, if the teacher returned to employment in
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| September, 1987. For service under this item 5, the teacher | 29 |
| must pay the
contributions at the rates in force at the | 30 |
| completion of the leave period.
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| 6. For up to 2 years of service as a teacher or | 32 |
| administrator employed
by a private school registered with | 33 |
| or recognized by the Illinois State Board
of Education, | 34 |
| provided that the teacher (i) was certified under the law
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| governing the certification of teachers at the time the | 36 |
| service was rendered,
(ii) applies in writing on or after |
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| June 1, 2006 and on or before June 1,
2009, (iii) supplies | 2 |
| satisfactory evidence of the employment, (iv) completes
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| least 10 years of contributing service as a teacher as | 4 |
| defined in
Section 17-106, (v) pays the contribution | 5 |
| required in this Section, and (vi)
does not receive credit | 6 |
| for that service under any other provision of this
Code. | 7 |
| The member may apply for credit under this subsection and | 8 |
| pay the
required contribution before completing the 10 | 9 |
| years of contributing service
required under item (iv), but | 10 |
| the credit may not be used until the item (iv)
contributing | 11 |
| service requirement has been met.
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| For each year of service credit to be established under | 13 |
| this
subparagraph 6, a member is required to contribute to | 14 |
| the System (i) 16.5%
of the annual salary rate during the | 15 |
| first year of full-time employment
as a teacher under this | 16 |
| Article following the private school service, plus
(ii) | 17 |
| interest thereon from the date of first full-time | 18 |
| employment as a teacher
under this Article following the | 19 |
| private school service to the date of payment,
compounded | 20 |
| annually, at the rate of 8.0% per year.
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| For service described in sub-paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this | 22 |
| Section, interest
shall be charged beginning one year after the | 23 |
| effective date of appointment or
reappointment.
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| Effective September 1, 1974, the interest rate to be | 25 |
| charged by the
Fund on contributions provided in sub-paragraphs | 26 |
| 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall
be 5% per annum compounded annually.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-566, eff. 1-2-98; 91-887, eff. 7-6-00.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 29 |
| Section 8.30 as
follows:
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| (30 ILCS 805/8.30 new)
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| Sec. 8.30. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 32 |
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Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 33 |
| implementation of
any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 34 |
| the 94th General Assembly.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 2 |
| becoming law.
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