Full Text of HB5643 095th General Assembly
HB5643 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB5643
Introduced , by Rep. Frank J. Mautino SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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40 ILCS 5/16-106 |
from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-106 |
40 ILCS 5/16-133.2 |
from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-133.2 |
40 ILCS 5/16-136.4 |
from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-136.4 |
40 ILCS 5/16-158.1 |
from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-158.1 |
40 ILCS 5/16-165 |
from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-165 |
40 ILCS 5/16-203.1 new |
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30 ILCS 805/8.32 new |
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Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Makes changes in the definition of "teacher". In provisions concerning early retirement without discount, provides that certain employer contributions shall be payable to the System within 30 days after receipt of the bill. Increases the single-sum retirement benefit from 1.67% of the member's
final average salary for each year of creditable service to 2.2% of the member's
final average salary for each year of creditable service. Provides that the System may charge interest at a rate equal to the System's annual actuarially assumed rate of return on investment compounded annually from the 91st day after a school district receives a bill for contributions required of
it under the Article or contributions required of teachers. In provisions concerning vacancies on the Board of Trustees, provides that if the Board's secretary determines there is inadequate time to hold a special election so as to allow the newly elected trustee to participate in at least one regularly scheduled Board meeting, then no special election shall be held and the vacancy shall remain until the next regular election. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Includes new benefit increase language. 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 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 16-106, 16-133.2, 16-136.4, 16-158.1, and 16-165 and | 6 |
| by adding Section 16-203.1 as follows:
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| (40 ILCS 5/16-106) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-106)
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| Sec. 16-106. Teacher. "Teacher": The following | 9 |
| individuals, provided
that, for employment prior to July 1, | 10 |
| 1990, they are employed on a
full-time basis, or if not | 11 |
| full-time, on a permanent and continuous basis
in a position in | 12 |
| which services are expected to be rendered for at least
one | 13 |
| school term:
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| (1) Any educational, administrative, professional or | 15 |
| other staff employed
in the public common schools included | 16 |
| within this system in a position
requiring certification | 17 |
| under the law governing the certification of
teachers;
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| (2) Any educational, administrative, professional or | 19 |
| other staff employed
in any facility of the Department of | 20 |
| Children and Family Services or the
Department of Human | 21 |
| Services, in a position requiring certification under
the | 22 |
| law governing the certification of teachers, and any person | 23 |
| who (i)
works in such a position for the Department of |
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| Corrections, (ii) was a member
of this System on May 31, | 2 |
| 1987, and (iii) did not elect to become a member of
the | 3 |
| State Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section | 4 |
| 14-108.2 of this
Code; except that "teacher" does not | 5 |
| include any person who (A) becomes
a security employee of | 6 |
| the Department of Human Services, as defined in
Section | 7 |
| 14-110, after June 28, 2001 (the effective date of Public | 8 |
| Act
92-14), or (B) becomes a member of the State Employees'
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| Retirement System pursuant to Section 14-108.2c of this | 10 |
| Code;
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| (3) Any regional superintendent of schools, assistant | 12 |
| regional
superintendent of schools, State Superintendent | 13 |
| of Education; any person
employed by the State Board of | 14 |
| Education as an executive; any executive of
the boards | 15 |
| engaged in the service of public common school education in
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| school districts covered under this system of which the | 17 |
| State
Superintendent of Education is an ex-officio member;
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| (4) Any employee of a school board association | 19 |
| operating in compliance
with Article 23 of the School Code | 20 |
| who is certificated under the law
governing the | 21 |
| certification of teachers;
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| (5) Any person employed by the retirement system
who:
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| (i) was an employee of and a participant in the | 24 |
| system on August 17,
2001 (the effective date of Public | 25 |
| Act 92-416), or
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| (ii) becomes an employee of the system on or after |
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| August 17, 2001;
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| (6) Any educational, administrative, professional or | 3 |
| other staff
employed by and under the supervision and | 4 |
| control of a regional
superintendent of schools, provided | 5 |
| such employment position requires the
person to be | 6 |
| certificated under the law governing the certification of
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| teachers and is in an educational program serving 2 or more | 8 |
| districts in
accordance with a joint agreement authorized | 9 |
| by the School Code or by federal
legislation;
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| (7) Any educational, administrative, professional or | 11 |
| other staff employed
in an educational program serving 2 or | 12 |
| more school districts in accordance
with a joint agreement | 13 |
| authorized by the School Code or by federal
legislation and | 14 |
| in a position requiring certification under the laws
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| governing the certification of teachers;
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| (8) Any officer or employee of a statewide teacher | 17 |
| organization or
officer of a national teacher organization | 18 |
| who is certified under the law
governing certification of | 19 |
| teachers, provided: (i) the individual had
previously | 20 |
| established creditable service under this Article, (ii) | 21 |
| the
individual files with the system an irrevocable | 22 |
| election to become a member,
and (iii) the individual does | 23 |
| not receive credit for such service under any
other Article | 24 |
| of this Code;
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| (9) Any educational, administrative, professional, or | 26 |
| other staff
employed in a charter school operating in |
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| compliance with the Charter
Schools Law who is certificated | 2 |
| under the law governing the certification
of teachers.
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| (10) Any person employed, on the effective date of this | 4 |
| amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, by the | 5 |
| Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education in a | 6 |
| birth-through-age-three pilot program receiving funds | 7 |
| under Section 2-389 of the School Code who is required by | 8 |
| the Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education to hold a | 9 |
| teaching certificate, provided that the Macon-Piatt | 10 |
| Regional Office of Education makes an election, within 6 | 11 |
| months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 12 |
| the 94th General Assembly, to have the person participate | 13 |
| in the system. Any service established prior to the | 14 |
| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General | 15 |
| Assembly for service as an employee of the Macon-Piatt | 16 |
| Regional Office of Education in a birth-through-age-three | 17 |
| pilot program receiving funds under Section 2-389 of the | 18 |
| School Code shall be considered service as a teacher if | 19 |
| employee and employer contributions have been received by | 20 |
| the system and the system has not refunded those | 21 |
| contributions.
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| An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity under this | 23 |
| Article or under
Article 17 of this Code who is employed by a | 24 |
| board of education
or other employer as permitted under Section | 25 |
| 16-118
or 16-150.1 is not a "teacher" for purposes of this | 26 |
| Article. A person who
has received a single-sum retirement |
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| benefit under Section 16-136.4 of this
Article is not a | 2 |
| "teacher" for purposes of this Article. | 3 |
| A person who is a teacher as described in item (8) of this | 4 |
| Section may establish service credit for similar employment | 5 |
| prior to becoming certified as a teacher if he or she (i) is | 6 |
| certified as a teacher on or before the effective date of this | 7 |
| amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, (ii) applies in | 8 |
| writing to the system within 6 months after the effective date | 9 |
| of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, and (iii) | 10 |
| pays to the system contributions equal to the normal costs | 11 |
| calculated from the date of first full-time employment as | 12 |
| described in item (8) to the date of payment, compounded | 13 |
| annually at the rate of 8.5% per year for periods before the | 14 |
| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General | 15 |
| Assembly and for subsequent periods at a rate equal to the | 16 |
| System's actuarially assumed rate of return on investments. | 17 |
| However, credit shall not be granted under this paragraph for | 18 |
| any such prior employment for which the applicant received | 19 |
| credit under any other provision of this Code.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-320, eff. 7-23-03; 94-1111, eff. 2-27-07.)
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| (40 ILCS 5/16-133.2) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-133.2)
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| Sec. 16-133.2. Early retirement without discount. | 23 |
| (a) A member
retiring after June 1, 1980 and on or before | 24 |
| June 30, 2005 (or as provided in subsection (b) of this | 25 |
| Section), and
applying for a retirement annuity within 6 months |
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| of the last day of
teaching for which retirement contributions | 2 |
| were required,
may elect at the time of application for a | 3 |
| retirement annuity, to make
a one time member contribution to | 4 |
| the System and thereby
avoid the reduction in the retirement | 5 |
| annuity for retirement before age
60 specified in paragraph (B) | 6 |
| of Section 16-133. The exercise of the
election shall also | 7 |
| obligate the last employer to make a one time
non-refundable | 8 |
| contribution to the System. Substitute teachers wishing to
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| exercise this election must teach 85 or more days in one school | 10 |
| term with
one employer, who shall be deemed the last employer | 11 |
| for purposes of this
Section. The last day of teaching with | 12 |
| that employer must be within 6
months of the date of | 13 |
| application for retirement. All substitute
teaching credit | 14 |
| applied toward the required 85 days must be earned after
June | 15 |
| 30, 1990.
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| The one time member and employer contributions shall be a | 17 |
| percentage of
the retiring member's highest annual salary rate | 18 |
| used in the determination
of the average salary for retirement | 19 |
| annuity purposes. However, when
determining the one-time | 20 |
| member and employer contributions, that part of a
member's | 21 |
| salary with the same employer which exceeds the annual salary | 22 |
| rate
for the preceding year by more than 20% shall be excluded. | 23 |
| The member
contribution shall be at the rate of 7% for the | 24 |
| lesser of the following 2
periods: (1) for each year that the | 25 |
| member is less than age 60; or (2) for
each year that the | 26 |
| member's creditable service is less than 35 years. If a
member |
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| is at least age 55 and has at least 34 years of creditable | 2 |
| service, no
member or employer contribution for the early | 3 |
| retirement option shall be
required. The employer contribution | 4 |
| shall be at the rate of 20% for each year
the member is under | 5 |
| age 60.
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| Upon receipt of the application and election, the System | 7 |
| shall determine
the one time employee and employer | 8 |
| contributions required. The member
contribution shall be | 9 |
| credited to the individual account of the member and
the | 10 |
| employer contribution shall be credited to the Benefit Trust | 11 |
| Reserve. The
provisions of this subsection (a) providing for | 12 |
| the avoidance of the reduction in retirement annuity shall
not | 13 |
| be applicable until the member's contribution, if any, has been | 14 |
| received
by the System; however, the date such contributions | 15 |
| are received shall not be
considered in determining the | 16 |
| effective date of retirement.
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| The number of members working for a single employer who may
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| retire under this subsection or subsection (b) in any year may | 19 |
| be limited at the option
of the employer to a specified | 20 |
| percentage of those eligible, not less
than 30%, with the right | 21 |
| to participate to be allocated among those
applying on the | 22 |
| basis of seniority in the service of the employer.
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| (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this Section shall | 24 |
| remain in effect for a member retiring after June 30, 2005 and | 25 |
| on or before July 1, 2007, provided that the member satisfies | 26 |
| both of the following requirements: |
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| (1) the member notified his or her employer of intent | 2 |
| to retire under this Article on or before the effective | 3 |
| date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly | 4 |
| under the terms of a contract or collective bargaining | 5 |
| agreement entered into, amended, or renewed with the | 6 |
| employer on or before the effective date of this amendatory | 7 |
| Act of the 94th General Assembly; and
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| (2) the effective date of the member's retirement is on | 9 |
| or before July 1, 2007. | 10 |
| The member's employer must give evidence of the member's | 11 |
| notification by providing to the System:
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| (i) a copy of the member's notification to the employer | 13 |
| or the record of that notification;
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| (ii) an affidavit signed by the member and the | 15 |
| employer, verifying the notification; and
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| (iii) any additional documentation that the System may | 17 |
| require.
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| (c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), and | 19 |
| subject to the provisions of Section 16-176, a member retiring | 20 |
| on or after July 1, 2005, and applying for a retirement annuity | 21 |
| within 6 months of the last day of teaching for which | 22 |
| retirement contributions were required, may elect at the time | 23 |
| of application for a retirement annuity, to make a one-time | 24 |
| member contribution to the System and thereby avoid the | 25 |
| reduction in the retirement annuity for retirement before age | 26 |
| 60 specified in paragraph (B) of Section 16-133. The exercise |
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| of the election shall also obligate the last employer to make a | 2 |
| one-time nonrefundable contribution to the System. Substitute | 3 |
| teachers wishing to exercise this election must teach 85 or | 4 |
| more days in one school term with one employer, who shall be | 5 |
| deemed the last employer for purposes of this Section. The last | 6 |
| day of teaching with that employer must be within 6 months of | 7 |
| the date of application for retirement. All substitute teaching | 8 |
| credit applied toward the required 85 days must be earned after | 9 |
| June 30, 1990. | 10 |
| The one-time member and employer contributions shall be a | 11 |
| percentage of the retiring member's highest annual salary rate | 12 |
| used in the determination of the average salary for retirement | 13 |
| annuity purposes. However, when determining the one-time | 14 |
| member and employer contributions, that part of a member's | 15 |
| salary with the same employer which exceeds the annual salary | 16 |
| rate for the preceding year by more than 20% shall be excluded. | 17 |
| The member contribution shall be at the rate of 11.5% for the | 18 |
| lesser of the following 2 periods: (1) for each year that the | 19 |
| member is less than age 60; or (2) for each year that the | 20 |
| member's creditable service is less than 35 years. The employer | 21 |
| contribution shall be at the rate of 23.5% for each year the | 22 |
| member is under age 60 and shall be payable to the System | 23 |
| within 30 days after receipt of the bill. These employer | 24 |
| payments shall be subject to Section 16-158.1 of this Code. . | 25 |
| Upon receipt of the application and election, the System | 26 |
| shall determine the one-time employee and employer |
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| contributions required. The member contribution shall be | 2 |
| credited to the individual account of the member and the | 3 |
| employer contribution shall be credited to the Benefit Trust | 4 |
| Reserve. The avoidance of the reduction in retirement annuity | 5 |
| provided under this subsection (c) is not applicable until the | 6 |
| member's contribution, if any, has been received by the System; | 7 |
| however, the date that contribution is received shall not be | 8 |
| considered in determining the effective date of retirement.
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| The number of members working for a single employer who may | 10 |
| retire under this subsection (c) in any year may be limited at | 11 |
| the option of the employer to a specified percentage of those | 12 |
| eligible, not less than 10%, with the right to participate to | 13 |
| be allocated among those applying on the basis of seniority in | 14 |
| the service of the employer. | 15 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-469, eff. 8-8-03; 94-4, eff. 6-1-05.)
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| (40 ILCS 5/16-136.4) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-136.4)
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| Sec. 16-136.4. Single-sum retirement benefit.
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| (a) A member who has less than 5 years of creditable | 19 |
| service shall be
entitled, upon written application to the | 20 |
| board, to receive a retirement
benefit payable in a single sum | 21 |
| upon or after the member's attainment of
age 65. However, the | 22 |
| benefit shall not be paid while the member is
employed as a | 23 |
| teacher in the schools included under this Article or Article
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| 17, unless the System is required by federal law to make | 25 |
| payment due to the
member's age.
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| (b) The retirement benefit shall consist of a single sum | 2 |
| that is the
actuarial equivalent of a life annuity consisting | 3 |
| of 2.2% 1.67% of the member's
final average salary for each | 4 |
| year of creditable service. In determining
the amount of the | 5 |
| benefit, a fractional year shall be granted proportional
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| credit.
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| For the purposes of this Section, final average salary | 8 |
| shall be the
average salary of the member's highest 4 | 9 |
| consecutive years of service
as determined under rules of the | 10 |
| board. For a member with less than 4
consecutive years of | 11 |
| service, final average salary shall be the average
salary | 12 |
| during the member's entire period of service. In the | 13 |
| determination
of final average salary for members other than | 14 |
| elected officials and their
appointees when such appointees are | 15 |
| allowed by statute, that part of a
member's salary which | 16 |
| exceeds the member's annual full-time salary rate
with the same | 17 |
| employer for the preceding year by more than 20% shall be
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| excluded.
The exclusion shall not apply in any year in which | 19 |
| the member's creditable
earnings are less than 50% of the | 20 |
| preceding year's mean salary for downstate
teachers as | 21 |
| determined by the survey of school district salaries provided | 22 |
| in
Section 2-3.103 of the School Code.
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| (c) The retirement benefit determined under this Section | 24 |
| shall be
available to all members who render teaching service | 25 |
| after July 1, 1947 for
which member contributions are required.
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| (d) Upon acceptance of the retirement benefit, all of the |
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| member's
accrued rights and credits in the System are | 2 |
| forfeited. Receipt of a
single-sum retirement benefit under | 3 |
| this Section does not make a person an
"annuitant" for the | 4 |
| purposes of this Article, nor a "benefit recipient" for
the | 5 |
| purposes of Sections 16-153.1 through 16-153.4.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-887, eff. 7-6-00.)
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| (40 ILCS 5/16-158.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-158.1)
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| Sec. 16-158.1. Actions to enforce payments by school | 9 |
| districts and
other employing units. Any school district or | 10 |
| other
employing unit failing to transmit to the System | 11 |
| contributions required of
it under this Article or | 12 |
| contributions required of teachers, for more
than 90 days after | 13 |
| such contributions are due is subject to the following:
after | 14 |
| giving notice to the district or other unit, the System may | 15 |
| certify
to the State Comptroller or the Regional Superintendent | 16 |
| of Schools the
amounts of such delinquent payments and the | 17 |
| State Comptroller or the
Regional Superintendent of Schools | 18 |
| shall deduct the amounts so certified
or any part thereof from | 19 |
| any State funds to be remitted
to the school district or other | 20 |
| employing unit involved and shall
pay the amount so deducted to | 21 |
| the System. If State funds from which
such deductions may be | 22 |
| made are not available, the System may proceed
against the | 23 |
| school district or other employing unit to recover the
amounts | 24 |
| of such delinquent payments in the appropriate circuit court | 25 |
| and the System may charge interest at a rate equal to the |
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| System's annual actuarially assumed rate of return on | 2 |
| investment compounded annually from the 91st day after the | 3 |
| school district receives the bill .
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| The System may provide for an
audit of the records of a | 5 |
| school district or other employing unit as
may be required to | 6 |
| establish the amounts of required contributions.
The school | 7 |
| district or other employing unit shall make its records
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| available to the System for the purpose of such audit. The cost | 9 |
| of such
audit shall be added to the amount of the delinquent | 10 |
| payments and shall
be recovered by the System from the school | 11 |
| district or other employing
unit at the same time and in the | 12 |
| same manner as the delinquent payments
are recovered.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-448, eff. 8-16-97.)
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| (40 ILCS 5/16-165) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-165) | 15 |
| Sec. 16-165. Board; elected members; vacancies.
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| (a) In each odd-numbered year, there shall be elected 2 | 17 |
| teachers who
shall hold office for a term of 4 years beginning | 18 |
| July 15 next following their
election, in the manner provided | 19 |
| under this Section. An elected teacher
member of the board who | 20 |
| ceases to be a teacher as defined in Section 16-106 may
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| continue to serve on the board for the remainder of the term to | 22 |
| which he or she
was elected.
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| (b) One elected annuitant trustee shall first be elected in
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| 1987, and in every fourth year thereafter, for a
term of 4 | 25 |
| years beginning July 15 next following his or her election.
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| (c) The elected annuitant position created by this | 2 |
| amendatory Act of
the 91st General Assembly shall be filled as | 3 |
| soon as possible in the manner
provided for vacancies, for an | 4 |
| initial term ending July 15, 2001. One
elected annuitant | 5 |
| trustee shall be elected in 2001, and in every fourth year
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| thereafter, for a term of 4 years beginning July 15 next | 7 |
| following his or her
election.
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| (d) Elections shall be held on May 1, unless May 1 falls on | 9 |
| a Saturday
or Sunday, in which event the election shall be | 10 |
| conducted on the
following Monday. Candidates shall be | 11 |
| nominated by petitions in writing,
signed by not less than 500 | 12 |
| teachers or annuitants, as the case may be, with
their | 13 |
| addresses shown opposite their names. The petitions shall be | 14 |
| filed with
the board's Secretary not less than 90 nor more than | 15 |
| 120 days prior to May 1.
The Secretary shall determine their | 16 |
| validity not less than 75 days before the
election.
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| (e) If, for either teacher or annuitant members, the number | 18 |
| of qualified
nominees exceeds the number of available | 19 |
| positions,
the system shall prepare an appropriate ballot with | 20 |
| the names of the candidates
in alphabetical order and shall | 21 |
| mail one copy thereof, at least 10 days prior
to the election | 22 |
| day, to each teacher or annuitant of this system as of the
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| latest date practicable, at the latest known address, together | 24 |
| with a return
envelope addressed to the board and also a | 25 |
| smaller envelope marked "For Ballot
Only", and a slip for | 26 |
| signature. Each voter, upon marking his ballot with a
cross |
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| mark in the square before the name of the person voted for, | 2 |
| shall place
the ballot in the envelope marked "For Ballot | 3 |
| Only", seal the envelope, write
on the slip provided therefor | 4 |
| his signature and address, enclose both the slip
and sealed | 5 |
| envelope containing the marked ballot in the return envelope
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| addressed to the board, and mail it. Whether a person is | 7 |
| eligible to vote for
the teacher nominees or the annuitant | 8 |
| nominees shall be
determined from system payroll records as of | 9 |
| March 1.
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| Upon receipt of the return envelopes, the system shall open | 11 |
| them and set
aside unopened the envelopes marked "For Ballot | 12 |
| Only". On election day ballots
shall be publicly opened and | 13 |
| counted by the trustees or canvassers appointed
therefor. Each | 14 |
| vote cast for a candidate represents one vote only. No ballot
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| arriving after 10 o'clock a.m. on election day shall be | 16 |
| counted. The 2 teacher
candidates and the annuitant candidate | 17 |
| receiving the highest number of votes
shall be elected. The | 18 |
| board shall declare the results of the election, keep a
record | 19 |
| thereof, and notify the candidates of the results thereof | 20 |
| within 30 days
after the election.
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| If, for either class of members, there are only as many
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| qualified nominees as there are positions available, the | 23 |
| balloting as described
in this
Section shall not be conducted | 24 |
| for those nominees,
and the board shall declare them duly | 25 |
| elected.
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| (f) A vacancy occurring in the elective membership of
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shall be filled for the unexpired term by a person | 2 |
| qualified
for the vacant position, selected by the remaining | 3 |
| elected members of the
board, if there are no more than 6 | 4 |
| months remaining on the
term. For a term with more than 6 | 5 |
| months remaining, the Director of the
Teachers' Retirement | 6 |
| System of the State of Illinois shall institute an
election in | 7 |
| accordance with this Act to fill the unexpired term ; however, | 8 |
| if the Board's secretary determines there is inadequate time to | 9 |
| hold a special election so as to allow the newly elected | 10 |
| trustee to participate in at least one regularly scheduled | 11 |
| Board meeting, then no special election shall be held and the | 12 |
| vacancy shall remain until the next regular election .
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| (Source: P.A. 94-423, eff. 8-2-05; 94-710, eff. 12-5-05; | 14 |
| 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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| (40 ILCS 5/16-203.1 new)
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| Sec. 16-203.1. New benefit increases. The General Assembly | 17 |
| finds and declares that the amendment to Section 16-136.4 made | 18 |
| by this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly that | 19 |
| increases the retirement benefit of a member constitutes a new | 20 |
| benefit increase within the meaning of Section 16-203. The | 21 |
| additional funding required under Section 16-203 for this new | 22 |
| benefit increase was provided for by the increase in employee | 23 |
| and employer contributions for this purpose under Public Act | 24 |
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 2 |
| Section 8.32 as follows: | 3 |
| (30 ILCS 805/8.32 new) | 4 |
| Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 5 |
| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 6 |
| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 7 |
| the 95th General Assembly.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 |
| becoming law.
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