Full Text of HB4852 101st General Assembly
HB4852 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
| | 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020 HB4852 Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. Katie Stuart SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 40 ILCS 5/3-110.10 | | 40 ILCS 5/7-139.14 new | | 30 ILCS 805/8.44 new | |
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Amends the Downstate Police and Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that within 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a person may transfer to a fund established under the Downstate Police Article creditable service accumulated under IMRF for service as a sheriff's law enforcement employee, person employed by a participating municipality to perform police duties, or law enforcement officer employed on a full-time basis by a forest preserve district upon payment to the police pension fund of a specified amount to be determined by the board. Provides that any person applying to transfer service under the provisions may reinstate credits and creditable service under IMRF that were terminated upon receipt of a separation benefit by paying to IMRF the amount of the separation benefit plus interest thereon at the actuarially assumed rate of interest to the date of payment. 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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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 3-110.10 and by adding Section 7-139.14 as follows: | 6 | | (40 ILCS 5/3-110.10)
| 7 | | Sec. 3-110.10. Transfer from Article 7. Until January 1, | 8 | | 2009, a person may transfer to a fund established under this | 9 | | Article up to 8 years of creditable service accumulated under | 10 | | Article 7 of this Code upon payment to the fund of an amount to | 11 | | be determined by
the board, equal to (i) the difference between | 12 | | the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred | 13 | | to the fund
under Section 7-139.11 and the amounts that would | 14 | | have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the | 15 | | rates applicable to an employee under this Article, plus (ii) | 16 | | interest thereon at the actuarially assumed rate, compounded | 17 | | annually, from the date of service to the
date of payment.
| 18 | | No later than 6 months after the effective date of this | 19 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, a person may | 20 | | transfer to a fund established under this Article creditable | 21 | | service accumulated under Article 7 of this Code for service as | 22 | | a sheriff's law enforcement employee, person employed by a | 23 | | participating municipality to perform police duties, or law |
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| 1 | | enforcement officer employed on a full-time basis by a forest | 2 | | preserve district upon payment to the fund of an amount to be | 3 | | determined by the board, equal to (i) the difference between | 4 | | the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred | 5 | | to the fund under Section 7-139.14 and the amounts that would | 6 | | have been contributed had such contributions been made at the | 7 | | rates applicable to an employee under this Article, plus (ii) | 8 | | interest thereon at the actuarially assumed rate, compounded | 9 | | annually, from the date of service to the date of payment. | 10 | | (Source: P.A. 95-530, eff. 8-28-07; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08; | 11 | | 95-1036, eff. 2-17-09.) | 12 | | (40 ILCS 5/7-139.14 new) | 13 | | Sec. 7-139.14. Transfer to Article 3 pension fund. | 14 | | (a) Within 6 months after the effective date of this | 15 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, an active member | 16 | | of a pension fund established under Article 3 of this Code may | 17 | | apply for transfer to that Article 3 pension fund of his or her | 18 | | credits and creditable service accumulated in this Fund for | 19 | | service as a sheriff's law enforcement employee, person | 20 | | employed by a participating municipality to perform police | 21 | | duties, or law enforcement officer employed on a full-time | 22 | | basis by a forest preserve district. The creditable service | 23 | | shall be transferred only upon payment by this Fund to such | 24 | | Article 3 pension fund of an amount equal to: | 25 | | (1) the amounts accumulated to the credit of the |
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| 1 | | applicant for the service to be transferred, including | 2 | | interest; and | 3 | | (2) an amount representing employer contributions, | 4 | | equal to the total amount determined under item (1); and | 5 | | (3) any interest paid by the applicant to reinstate | 6 | | such service. | 7 | | Participation in this Fund as to any credits transferred | 8 | | under this Section shall terminate on the date of transfer. | 9 | | (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, any | 10 | | person applying to transfer service under this Section may | 11 | | reinstate credits and creditable service terminated upon | 12 | | receipt of a separation benefit by paying to the Fund the | 13 | | amount of the separation benefit plus interest thereon at the | 14 | | actuarially assumed rate of interest to the date of payment. | 15 | | Such payment must be made within 90 days after notification by | 16 | | the Fund of the cost of such reinstatement. | 17 | | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 18 | | Section 8.44 as follows: | 19 | | (30 ILCS 805/8.44 new) | 20 | | Sec. 8.44. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 21 | | of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 22 | | implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 23 | | the 101st General Assembly.
| 24 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| 1 | | becoming law.
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