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90_HB2602 40 ILCS 5/5-157 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-157 30 ILCS 805/8.22 new Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Pension Code to remove the earnings limitation on disability benefits. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately. LRB9009026EGfg LRB9009026EGfg 1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Pension Code by changing 2 Section 5-157 and to amend the State Mandates Act. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by 6 changing Section 5-157 as follows: 7 (40 ILCS 5/5-157) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-157) 8 Sec. 5-157. Administration of disability benefits. 9 (a) If a policeman who is granted duty or ordinary 10 disability benefit refuses to submit to examination by a 11 physician appointed by the board, he shall have no further 12 right to receive the benefit. 13 (b) A policeman who has withdrawn from service while 14 disabled and entered upon annuity prior to the effective 15 date, and who has thereafter been reinstated as a policeman, 16 shall have no right to ordinary disability benefit in excess 17 of the amount previously received unless he serves at least 18 one year after such reinstatement. This provision shall 19 apply throughout the duration of any disability incurred by 20 the policeman within one year after his reinstatement 21 resulting from any cause other than injury incurred in the 22 performance of an act of duty. 23 (c) Until January 1, 1999, a policeman who assumes 24 regular employment for compensation, while in receipt of 25 ordinary or duty disability benefits, shall not be entitled 26 to receive any amount of such disability benefits which, when 27 added to his compensation for such employment during 28 disability, would exceed the rate of salary which would be 29 paid to him if he were working in his regularly appointed 30 civil service position as a policeman; or, fromand after31 January 1, 1970 until January 1, 1999, the rate of salary on -2- LRB9009026EGfg 1 which his disability benefit is based. 2 Beginning January 1, 1999, the reduction of disability 3 benefits due to compensation for employment previously 4 imposed under this subsection (c) no longer applies to any 5 person receiving a disability benefit under this Article, 6 without regard to whether the person is in service on or 7 after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1998. The 8 removal of this limitation by this amendatory Act is not 9 retroactive and does not entitle any person to the 10 restoration of amounts previously reduced or withheld under 11 this subsection. 12 (d) Disability benefit shall not be paid for any part of 13 time for which a disabled policeman shall receive any part of 14 his salary. 15 (e) Except as herein otherwise provided, disability 16 benefit shall not be paid for any disability based upon or 17 caused by any mental or physical defect which the policeman 18 had at the time he entered the police service. 19 (f) Disability benefit shall not be allowed to any 20 policeman who re-enters the public service in any capacity 21 where his salary is payable in whole or in part by taxes 22 levied upon taxable property in the city in which this 23 Article is in effect, or out of special revenues of any 24 department of the city. The disability benefit shall be 25 suspended during the period he is in the public service for 26 compensation, and shall be resumed when he withdraws from 27 such service. 28 (g) Any disability benefit paid in violation of this 29 Section or of this Article shall be construed to have been 30 paid in error, and the amounts so paid shall be charged as a 31 debit in the account of any person to whom the same was paid 32 and shall be deducted from any moneys thereafter payable to 33 such person out of this fund, or to the widow, heirs or 34 estate of such person. -3- LRB9009026EGfg 1 (Source: P.A. 76-847.) 2 Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding 3 Section 8.22 as follows: 4 (30 ILCS 805/8.22 new) 5 Sec. 8.22. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 6 and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required 7 for the implementation of any mandate created by this 8 amendatory Act of 1998. 9 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 10 becoming law.