Public Act 90-0497 of the 90th General Assembly
Public Act 90-0497
SB423 Enrolled LRB9002251EGfg
AN ACT in relation to health care benefits for certain
retired community college employees and their dependents,
amending named Acts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Employees Group Insurance Act of
1971 is amended by changing Sections 2, 3, and 15 and adding
Sections 6.9 and 6.10 as follows:
(5 ILCS 375/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 522)
Sec. 2. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to provide a
program of group life insurance, a program of health benefits
and other employee benefits for persons in the service of the
State of Illinois, employees of local governments, employees
of rehabilitation facilities and employees of domestic
violence shelters and services, and certain of their
dependents. It is also the purpose of this Act to provide a
program of health benefits (i) for certain benefit recipients
of the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois
and their dependent beneficiaries and (ii) for certain
eligible retired community college employees and their
dependent beneficiaries.
(Source: P.A. 89-25, eff. 6-21-95.)
(5 ILCS 375/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 523)
(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 89-507)
Sec. 3. Definitions. Unless the context otherwise
requires, the following words and phrases as used in this Act
shall have the following meanings. The Department may define
these and other words and phrases separately for the purpose
of implementing specific programs providing benefits under
this Act.
(a) "Administrative service organization" means any
person, firm or corporation experienced in the handling of
claims which is fully qualified, financially sound and
capable of meeting the service requirements of a contract of
administration executed with the Department.
(b) "Annuitant" means (1) an employee who retires, or
has retired, on or after January 1, 1966 on an immediate
annuity under the provisions of Articles 2, 14, 15 (including
an employee who has retired and is receiving a retirement
annuity under an optional program established under Section
15-158.2 and who would also be eligible for a retirement
annuity had that person been a participant in the State
University Retirement System), paragraphs (b) or (c) of
Section 16-106, or Article 18 of the Illinois Pension Code;
(2) any person who was receiving group insurance coverage
under this Act as of March 31, 1978 by reason of his status
as an annuitant, even though the annuity in relation to which
such coverage was provided is a proportional annuity based on
less than the minimum period of service required for a
retirement annuity in the system involved; (3) any person not
otherwise covered by this Act who has retired as a
participating member under Article 2 of the Illinois Pension
Code but is ineligible for the retirement annuity under
Section 2-119 of the Illinois Pension Code; (4) the spouse of
any person who is receiving a retirement annuity under
Article 18 of the Illinois Pension Code and who is covered
under a group health insurance program sponsored by a
governmental employer other than the State of Illinois and
who has irrevocably elected to waive his or her coverage
under this Act and to have his or her spouse considered as
the "annuitant" under this Act and not as a "dependent"; or
(5) an employee who retires, or has retired, from a qualified
position, as determined according to rules promulgated by the
Director, under a qualified local government or a qualified
rehabilitation facility or a qualified domestic violence
shelter or service. (For definition of "retired employee",
see (p) post).
(c) "Carrier" means (1) an insurance company, a
corporation organized under the Limited Health Service
Organization Act or the Voluntary Health Services Plan Act, a
partnership, or other nongovernmental organization, which is
authorized to do group life or group health insurance
business in Illinois, or (2) the State of Illinois as a
self-insurer.
(d) "Compensation" means salary or wages payable on a
regular payroll by the State Treasurer on a warrant of the
State Comptroller out of any State, trust or federal fund, or
by the Governor of the State through a disbursing officer of
the State out of a trust or out of federal funds, or by any
Department out of State, trust, federal or other funds held
by the State Treasurer or the Department, to any person for
personal services currently performed, and ordinary or
accidental disability benefits under Articles 2, 14, 15
(including ordinary or accidental disability benefits under
an optional program established under Section 15-158.2),
paragraphs (b) or (c) of Section 16-106, or Article 18 of the
Illinois Pension Code, for disability incurred after January
1, 1966, or benefits payable under the Workers' Compensation
or Occupational Diseases Act or benefits payable under a sick
pay plan established in accordance with Section 36 of the
State Finance Act. "Compensation" also means salary or wages
paid to an employee of any qualified local government or
qualified rehabilitation facility or a qualified domestic
violence shelter or service.
(e) "Commission" means the State Employees Group
Insurance Advisory Commission authorized by this Act.
Commencing July 1, 1984, "Commission" as used in this Act
means the Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission as
established by the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act
of 1984.
(f) "Contributory", when referred to as contributory
coverage, shall mean optional coverages or benefits elected
by the member toward the cost of which such member makes
contribution, or which are funded in whole or in part through
the acceptance of a reduction in earnings or the foregoing of
an increase in earnings by an employee, as distinguished from
noncontributory coverage or benefits which are paid entirely
by the State of Illinois without reduction of the member's
salary.
(g) "Department" means any department, institution,
board, commission, officer, court or any agency of the State
government receiving appropriations and having power to
certify payrolls to the Comptroller authorizing payments of
salary and wages against such appropriations as are made by
the General Assembly from any State fund, or against trust
funds held by the State Treasurer and includes boards of
trustees of the retirement systems created by Articles 2, 14,
15, 16 and 18 of the Illinois Pension Code. "Department"
also includes the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance
Board and the Illinois Rural Bond Bank.
(h) "Dependent", when the term is used in the context of
the health and life plan, means a member's spouse and any
unmarried child (1) from birth to age 19 including an adopted
child, a child who lives with the member from the time of the
filing of a petition for adoption until entry of an order of
adoption, a stepchild or recognized child who lives with the
member in a parent-child relationship, or a child who lives
with the member if such member is a court appointed guardian
of the child, or (2) age 19 to 23 enrolled as a full-time
student in any accredited school, financially dependent upon
the member, and eligible as a dependent for Illinois State
income tax purposes, or (3) age 19 or over who is mentally or
physically handicapped as defined in the Illinois Insurance
Code. For the health plan only, the term "dependent" also
includes any person enrolled prior to the effective date of
this Section who is dependent upon the member to the extent
that the member may claim such person as a dependent for
Illinois State income tax deduction purposes; no other such
person may be enrolled.
(i) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois
Department of Central Management Services.
(j) "Eligibility period" means the period of time a
member has to elect enrollment in programs or to select
benefits without regard to age, sex or health.
(k) "Employee" means and includes each officer or
employee in the service of a department who (1) receives his
compensation for service rendered to the department on a
warrant issued pursuant to a payroll certified by a
department or on a warrant or check issued and drawn by a
department upon a trust, federal or other fund or on a
warrant issued pursuant to a payroll certified by an elected
or duly appointed officer of the State or who receives
payment of the performance of personal services on a warrant
issued pursuant to a payroll certified by a Department and
drawn by the Comptroller upon the State Treasurer against
appropriations made by the General Assembly from any fund or
against trust funds held by the State Treasurer, and (2) is
employed full-time or part-time in a position normally
requiring actual performance of duty during not less than 1/2
of a normal work period, as established by the Director in
cooperation with each department, except that persons elected
by popular vote will be considered employees during the
entire term for which they are elected regardless of hours
devoted to the service of the State, and (3) except that
"employee" does not include any person who is not eligible by
reason of such person's employment to participate in one of
the State retirement systems under Articles 2, 14, 15 (either
the regular Article 15 system or an optional program
established under Section 15-158.2) or 18, or under paragraph
(b) or (c) of Section 16-106, of the Illinois Pension Code,
but such term does include persons who are employed during
the 6 month qualifying period under Article 14 of the
Illinois Pension Code. Such term also includes any person
who (1) after January 1, 1966, is receiving ordinary or
accidental disability benefits under Articles 2, 14, 15
(including ordinary or accidental disability benefits under
an optional program established under Section 15-158.2),
paragraphs (b) or (c) of Section 16-106, or Article 18 of the
Illinois Pension Code, for disability incurred after January
1, 1966, (2) receives total permanent or total temporary
disability under the Workers' Compensation Act or
Occupational Disease Act as a result of injuries sustained or
illness contracted in the course of employment with the State
of Illinois, or (3) is not otherwise covered under this Act
and has retired as a participating member under Article 2 of
the Illinois Pension Code but is ineligible for the
retirement annuity under Section 2-119 of the Illinois
Pension Code. However, a person who satisfies the criteria
of the foregoing definition of "employee" except that such
person is made ineligible to participate in the State
Universities Retirement System by clause (4) of the first
paragraph of Section 15-107 of the Illinois Pension Code is
also an "employee" for the purposes of this Act. "Employee"
also includes any person receiving or eligible for benefits
under a sick pay plan established in accordance with Section
36 of the State Finance Act. "Employee" also includes each
officer or employee in the service of a qualified local
government, including persons appointed as trustees of
sanitary districts regardless of hours devoted to the service
of the sanitary district, and each employee in the service of
a qualified rehabilitation facility and each full-time
employee in the service of a qualified domestic violence
shelter or service, as determined according to rules
promulgated by the Director.
(l) "Member" means an employee, annuitant, retired
employee or survivor.
(m) "Optional coverages or benefits" means those
coverages or benefits available to the member on his or her
voluntary election, and at his or her own expense.
(n) "Program" means the group life insurance, health
benefits and other employee benefits designed and contracted
for by the Director under this Act.
(o) "Health plan" means a self-insured health insurance
program offered by the State of Illinois for the purposes of
benefiting employees by means of providing, among others,
wellness programs, utilization reviews, second opinions and
medical fee reviews, as well as for paying for hospital and
medical care up to the maximum coverage provided by the plan,
to its members and their dependents.
(p) "Retired employee" means any person who would be an
annuitant as that term is defined herein but for the fact
that such person retired prior to January 1, 1966. Such term
also includes any person formerly employed by the University
of Illinois in the Cooperative Extension Service who would be
an annuitant but for the fact that such person was made
ineligible to participate in the State Universities
Retirement System by clause (4) of the first paragraph of
Section 15-107 of the Illinois Pension Code.
(q) "Survivor" means a person receiving an annuity as a
survivor of an employee or of an annuitant. "Survivor" also
includes: (1) the surviving dependent of a person who
satisfies the definition of "employee" except that such
person is made ineligible to participate in the State
Universities Retirement System by clause (4) of the first
paragraph of Section 15-107 of the Illinois Pension Code; and
(2) the surviving dependent of any person formerly employed
by the University of Illinois in the Cooperative Extension
Service who would be an annuitant except for the fact that
such person was made ineligible to participate in the State
Universities Retirement System by clause (4) of the first
paragraph of Section 15-107 of the Illinois Pension Code.
(r) "Medical services" means the services provided
within the scope of their licenses by practitioners in all
categories licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
(s) "Unit of local government" means any county,
municipality, township, school district, special district or
other unit, designated as a unit of local government by law,
which exercises limited governmental powers or powers in
respect to limited governmental subjects, any not-for-profit
association with a membership that primarily includes
townships and township officials, that has duties that
include provision of research service, dissemination of
information, and other acts for the purpose of improving
township government, and that is funded wholly or partly in
accordance with Section 85-15 of the Township Code; any
not-for-profit corporation or association, with a membership
consisting primarily of municipalities, that operates its own
utility system, and provides research, training,
dissemination of information, or other acts to promote
cooperation between and among municipalities that provide
utility services and for the advancement of the goals and
purposes of its membership; and the Illinois Association of
Park Districts. "Qualified local government" means a unit of
local government approved by the Director and participating
in a program created under subsection (i) of Section 10 of
this Act.
(t) "Qualified rehabilitation facility" means any
not-for-profit organization that is accredited by the
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities or
certified by the Department of Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities to provide services to persons
with disabilities and which receives funds from the State of
Illinois for providing those services, approved by the
Director and participating in a program created under
subsection (j) of Section 10 of this Act.
(u) "Qualified domestic violence shelter or service"
means any Illinois domestic violence shelter or service and
its administrative offices funded by the Illinois Department
of Public Aid, approved by the Director and participating in
a program created under subsection (k) of Section 10.
(v) "TRS benefit recipient" means a person who:
(1) is not a "member" as defined in this Section;
and
(2) is receiving a monthly benefit or retirement
annuity under Article 16 of the Illinois Pension Code;
and
(3) either (i) has at least 8 years of creditable
service under Article 16 of the Illinois Pension Code, or
(ii) was enrolled in the health insurance program offered
under that Article on January 1, 1996, or (iii) is the
survivor of a benefit recipient who had at least 8 years
of creditable service under Article 16 of the Illinois
Pension Code or was enrolled in the health insurance
program offered under that Article on the effective date
of this amendatory Act of 1995, or (iv) is a recipient or
survivor of a recipient of a disability benefit under
Article 16 of the Illinois Pension Code.
(w) "TRS dependent beneficiary" means a person who:
(1) is not a "member" or "dependent" as defined in
this Section; and
(2) is a TRS benefit recipient's: (A) spouse, (B)
dependent parent who is receiving at least half of his or
her support from the TRS benefit recipient, or (C)
unmarried natural or adopted child who is (i) under age
19, or (ii) enrolled as a full-time student in an
accredited school, financially dependent upon the TRS
benefit recipient, eligible as a dependent for Illinois
State income tax purposes, and either is under age 24 or
was, on January 1, 1996, participating as a dependent
beneficiary in the health insurance program offered under
Article 16 of the Illinois Pension Code, or (iii) age 19
or over who is mentally or physically handicapped as
defined in the Illinois Insurance Code.
(x) "Military leave with pay and benefits" refers to
individuals in basic training for reserves, special/advanced
training, annual training, emergency call up, or activation
by the President of the United States with approved pay and
benefits.
(y) "Military leave without pay and benefits" refers to
individuals who enlist for active duty in a regular component
of the U.S. Armed Forces or other duty not specified or
authorized under military leave with pay and benefits.
(z) "Community college benefit recipient" means a person
who:
(1) is not a "member" as defined in this Section;
and
(2) is receiving a monthly survivor's annuity or
retirement annuity under Article 15 of the Illinois
Pension Code; and
(3) either (i) was a full-time employee of a
community college district or an association of community
college boards created under the Public Community College
Act (other than an employee whose last employer under
Article 15 of the Illinois Pension Code was a community
college district subject to Article VII of the Public
Community College Act) and was eligible to participate in
a group health benefit plan as an employee during the
time of employment with a community college district
(other than a community college district subject to
Article VII of the Public Community College Act) or an
association of community college boards, or (ii) is the
survivor of a person described in item (i).
(aa) "Community college dependent beneficiary" means a
person who:
(1) is not a "member" or "dependent" as defined in
this Section; and
(2) is a community college benefit recipient's: (A)
spouse, (B) dependent parent who is receiving at least
half of his or her support from the community college
benefit recipient, or (C) unmarried natural or adopted
child who is (i) under age 19, or (ii) enrolled as a
full-time student in an accredited school, financially
dependent upon the community college benefit recipient,
eligible as a dependent for Illinois State income tax
purposes and under age 23, or (iii) age 19 or over and
mentally or physically handicapped as defined in the
Illinois Insurance Code.
(Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-21, eff. 6-21-95;
89-25, eff. 6-21-95; 89-76, eff. 7-1-95; 89-324, eff.
8-13-95; 89-430, eff. 12-15-95; 89-502, eff. 7-1-96; 89-628,
eff. 8-9-96; revised 8-23-96.)
(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 89-507)
Sec. 3. Definitions. Unless the context otherwise
requires, the following words and phrases as used in this Act
shall have the following meanings. The Department may define
these and other words and phrases separately for the purpose
of implementing specific programs providing benefits under
this Act.
(a) "Administrative service organization" means any
person, firm or corporation experienced in the handling of
claims which is fully qualified, financially sound and
capable of meeting the service requirements of a contract of
administration executed with the Department.
(b) "Annuitant" means (1) an employee who retires, or
has retired, on or after January 1, 1966 on an immediate
annuity under the provisions of Articles 2, 14, 15 (including
an employee who has retired and is receiving a retirement
annuity under an optional program established under Section
15-158.2 and who would also be eligible for a retirement
annuity had that person been a participant in the State
University Retirement System), paragraphs (b) or (c) of
Section 16-106, or Article 18 of the Illinois Pension Code;
(2) any person who was receiving group insurance coverage
under this Act as of March 31, 1978 by reason of his status
as an annuitant, even though the annuity in relation to which
such coverage was provided is a proportional annuity based on
less than the minimum period of service required for a
retirement annuity in the system involved; (3) any person not
otherwise covered by this Act who has retired as a
participating member under Article 2 of the Illinois Pension
Code but is ineligible for the retirement annuity under
Section 2-119 of the Illinois Pension Code; (4) the spouse of
any person who is receiving a retirement annuity under
Article 18 of the Illinois Pension Code and who is covered
under a group health insurance program sponsored by a
governmental employer other than the State of Illinois and
who has irrevocably elected to waive his or her coverage
under this Act and to have his or her spouse considered as
the "annuitant" under this Act and not as a "dependent"; or
(5) an employee who retires, or has retired, from a qualified
position, as determined according to rules promulgated by the
Director, under a qualified local government or a qualified
rehabilitation facility or a qualified domestic violence
shelter or service. (For definition of "retired employee",
see (p) post).
(c) "Carrier" means (1) an insurance company, a
corporation organized under the Limited Health Service
Organization Act or the Voluntary Health Services Plan Act, a
partnership, or other nongovernmental organization, which is
authorized to do group life or group health insurance
business in Illinois, or (2) the State of Illinois as a
self-insurer.
(d) "Compensation" means salary or wages payable on a
regular payroll by the State Treasurer on a warrant of the
State Comptroller out of any State, trust or federal fund, or
by the Governor of the State through a disbursing officer of
the State out of a trust or out of federal funds, or by any
Department out of State, trust, federal or other funds held
by the State Treasurer or the Department, to any person for
personal services currently performed, and ordinary or
accidental disability benefits under Articles 2, 14, 15
(including ordinary or accidental disability benefits under
an optional program established under Section 15-158.2),
paragraphs (b) or (c) of Section 16-106, or Article 18 of the
Illinois Pension Code, for disability incurred after January
1, 1966, or benefits payable under the Workers' Compensation
or Occupational Diseases Act or benefits payable under a sick
pay plan established in accordance with Section 36 of the
State Finance Act. "Compensation" also means salary or wages
paid to an employee of any qualified local government or
qualified rehabilitation facility or a qualified domestic
violence shelter or service.
(e) "Commission" means the State Employees Group
Insurance Advisory Commission authorized by this Act.
Commencing July 1, 1984, "Commission" as used in this Act
means the Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission as
established by the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act
of 1984.
(f) "Contributory", when referred to as contributory
coverage, shall mean optional coverages or benefits elected
by the member toward the cost of which such member makes
contribution, or which are funded in whole or in part through
the acceptance of a reduction in earnings or the foregoing of
an increase in earnings by an employee, as distinguished from
noncontributory coverage or benefits which are paid entirely
by the State of Illinois without reduction of the member's
salary.
(g) "Department" means any department, institution,
board, commission, officer, court or any agency of the State
government receiving appropriations and having power to
certify payrolls to the Comptroller authorizing payments of
salary and wages against such appropriations as are made by
the General Assembly from any State fund, or against trust
funds held by the State Treasurer and includes boards of
trustees of the retirement systems created by Articles 2, 14,
15, 16 and 18 of the Illinois Pension Code. "Department"
also includes the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance
Board and the Illinois Rural Bond Bank.
(h) "Dependent", when the term is used in the context of
the health and life plan, means a member's spouse and any
unmarried child (1) from birth to age 19 including an adopted
child, a child who lives with the member from the time of the
filing of a petition for adoption until entry of an order of
adoption, a stepchild or recognized child who lives with the
member in a parent-child relationship, or a child who lives
with the member if such member is a court appointed guardian
of the child, or (2) age 19 to 23 enrolled as a full-time
student in any accredited school, financially dependent upon
the member, and eligible as a dependent for Illinois State
income tax purposes, or (3) age 19 or over who is mentally or
physically handicapped as defined in the Illinois Insurance
Code. For the health plan only, the term "dependent" also
includes any person enrolled prior to the effective date of
this Section who is dependent upon the member to the extent
that the member may claim such person as a dependent for
Illinois State income tax deduction purposes; no other such
person may be enrolled.
(i) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois
Department of Central Management Services.
(j) "Eligibility period" means the period of time a
member has to elect enrollment in programs or to select
benefits without regard to age, sex or health.
(k) "Employee" means and includes each officer or
employee in the service of a department who (1) receives his
compensation for service rendered to the department on a
warrant issued pursuant to a payroll certified by a
department or on a warrant or check issued and drawn by a
department upon a trust, federal or other fund or on a
warrant issued pursuant to a payroll certified by an elected
or duly appointed officer of the State or who receives
payment of the performance of personal services on a warrant
issued pursuant to a payroll certified by a Department and
drawn by the Comptroller upon the State Treasurer against
appropriations made by the General Assembly from any fund or
against trust funds held by the State Treasurer, and (2) is
employed full-time or part-time in a position normally
requiring actual performance of duty during not less than 1/2
of a normal work period, as established by the Director in
cooperation with each department, except that persons elected
by popular vote will be considered employees during the
entire term for which they are elected regardless of hours
devoted to the service of the State, and (3) except that
"employee" does not include any person who is not eligible by
reason of such person's employment to participate in one of
the State retirement systems under Articles 2, 14, 15 (either
the regular Article 15 system or an optional program
established under Section 15-158.2) or 18, or under paragraph
(b) or (c) of Section 16-106, of the Illinois Pension Code,
but such term does include persons who are employed during
the 6 month qualifying period under Article 14 of the
Illinois Pension Code. Such term also includes any person
who (1) after January 1, 1966, is receiving ordinary or
accidental disability benefits under Articles 2, 14, 15
(including ordinary or accidental disability benefits under
an optional program established under Section 15-158.2),
paragraphs (b) or (c) of Section 16-106, or Article 18 of the
Illinois Pension Code, for disability incurred after January
1, 1966, (2) receives total permanent or total temporary
disability under the Workers' Compensation Act or
Occupational Disease Act as a result of injuries sustained or
illness contracted in the course of employment with the State
of Illinois, or (3) is not otherwise covered under this Act
and has retired as a participating member under Article 2 of
the Illinois Pension Code but is ineligible for the
retirement annuity under Section 2-119 of the Illinois
Pension Code. However, a person who satisfies the criteria
of the foregoing definition of "employee" except that such
person is made ineligible to participate in the State
Universities Retirement System by clause (4) of the first
paragraph of Section 15-107 of the Illinois Pension Code is
also an "employee" for the purposes of this Act. "Employee"
also includes any person receiving or eligible for benefits
under a sick pay plan established in accordance with Section
36 of the State Finance Act. "Employee" also includes each
officer or employee in the service of a qualified local
government, including persons appointed as trustees of
sanitary districts regardless of hours devoted to the service
of the sanitary district, and each employee in the service of
a qualified rehabilitation facility and each full-time
employee in the service of a qualified domestic violence
shelter or service, as determined according to rules
promulgated by the Director.
(l) "Member" means an employee, annuitant, retired
employee or survivor.
(m) "Optional coverages or benefits" means those
coverages or benefits available to the member on his or her
voluntary election, and at his or her own expense.
(n) "Program" means the group life insurance, health
benefits and other employee benefits designed and contracted
for by the Director under this Act.
(o) "Health plan" means a self-insured health insurance
program offered by the State of Illinois for the purposes of
benefiting employees by means of providing, among others,
wellness programs, utilization reviews, second opinions and
medical fee reviews, as well as for paying for hospital and
medical care up to the maximum coverage provided by the plan,
to its members and their dependents.
(p) "Retired employee" means any person who would be an
annuitant as that term is defined herein but for the fact
that such person retired prior to January 1, 1966. Such term
also includes any person formerly employed by the University
of Illinois in the Cooperative Extension Service who would be
an annuitant but for the fact that such person was made
ineligible to participate in the State Universities
Retirement System by clause (4) of the first paragraph of
Section 15-107 of the Illinois Pension Code.
(q) "Survivor" means a person receiving an annuity as a
survivor of an employee or of an annuitant. "Survivor" also
includes: (1) the surviving dependent of a person who
satisfies the definition of "employee" except that such
person is made ineligible to participate in the State
Universities Retirement System by clause (4) of the first
paragraph of Section 15-107 of the Illinois Pension Code; and
(2) the surviving dependent of any person formerly employed
by the University of Illinois in the Cooperative Extension
Service who would be an annuitant except for the fact that
such person was made ineligible to participate in the State
Universities Retirement System by clause (4) of the first
paragraph of Section 15-107 of the Illinois Pension Code.
(r) "Medical services" means the services provided
within the scope of their licenses by practitioners in all
categories licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
(s) "Unit of local government" means any county,
municipality, township, school district, special district or
other unit, designated as a unit of local government by law,
which exercises limited governmental powers or powers in
respect to limited governmental subjects, any not-for-profit
association with a membership that primarily includes
townships and township officials, that has duties that
include provision of research service, dissemination of
information, and other acts for the purpose of improving
township government, and that is funded wholly or partly in
accordance with Section 85-15 of the Township Code; any
not-for-profit corporation or association, with a membership
consisting primarily of municipalities, that operates its own
utility system, and provides research, training,
dissemination of information, or other acts to promote
cooperation between and among municipalities that provide
utility services and for the advancement of the goals and
purposes of its membership; and the Illinois Association of
Park Districts. "Qualified local government" means a unit of
local government approved by the Director and participating
in a program created under subsection (i) of Section 10 of
this Act.
(t) "Qualified rehabilitation facility" means any
not-for-profit organization that is accredited by the
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities or
certified by the Department of Human Services (as successor
to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities) to provide services to persons with
disabilities and which receives funds from the State of
Illinois for providing those services, approved by the
Director and participating in a program created under
subsection (j) of Section 10 of this Act.
(u) "Qualified domestic violence shelter or service"
means any Illinois domestic violence shelter or service and
its administrative offices funded by the Department of Human
Services (as successor to the Illinois Department of Public
Aid), approved by the Director and participating in a program
created under subsection (k) of Section 10.
(v) "TRS benefit recipient" means a person who:
(1) is not a "member" as defined in this Section;
and
(2) is receiving a monthly benefit or retirement
annuity under Article 16 of the Illinois Pension Code;
and
(3) either (i) has at least 8 years of creditable
service under Article 16 of the Illinois Pension Code, or
(ii) was enrolled in the health insurance program offered
under that Article on January 1, 1996, or (iii) is the
survivor of a benefit recipient who had at least 8 years
of creditable service under Article 16 of the Illinois
Pension Code or was enrolled in the health insurance
program offered under that Article on the effective date
of this amendatory Act of 1995, or (iv) is a recipient or
survivor of a recipient of a disability benefit under
Article 16 of the Illinois Pension Code.
(w) "TRS dependent beneficiary" means a person who:
(1) is not a "member" or "dependent" as defined in
this Section; and
(2) is a TRS benefit recipient's: (A) spouse, (B)
dependent parent who is receiving at least half of his or
her support from the TRS benefit recipient, or (C)
unmarried natural or adopted child who is (i) under age
19, or (ii) enrolled as a full-time student in an
accredited school, financially dependent upon the TRS
benefit recipient, eligible as a dependent for Illinois
State income tax purposes, and either is under age 24 or
was, on January 1, 1996, participating as a dependent
beneficiary in the health insurance program offered under
Article 16 of the Illinois Pension Code, or (iii) age 19
or over who is mentally or physically handicapped as
defined in the Illinois Insurance Code.
(x) "Military leave with pay and benefits" refers to
individuals in basic training for reserves, special/advanced
training, annual training, emergency call up, or activation
by the President of the United States with approved pay and
benefits.
(y) "Military leave without pay and benefits" refers to
individuals who enlist for active duty in a regular component
of the U.S. Armed Forces or other duty not specified or
authorized under military leave with pay and benefits.
(z) "Community college benefit recipient" means a person
who:
(1) is not a "member" as defined in this Section;
and
(2) is receiving a monthly survivor's annuity or
retirement annuity under Article 15 of the Illinois
Pension Code; and
(3) either (i) was a full-time employee of a
community college district or an association of community
college boards created under the Public Community College
Act (other than an employee whose last employer under
Article 15 of the Illinois Pension Code was a community
college district subject to Article VII of the Public
Community College Act) and was eligible to participate in
a group health benefit plan as an employee during the
time of employment with a community college district
(other than a community college district subject to
Article VII of the Public Community College Act) or an
association of community college boards, or (ii) is the
survivor of a person described in item (i).
(aa) "Community college dependent beneficiary" means a
person who:
(1) is not a "member" or "dependent" as defined in
this Section; and
(2) is a community college benefit recipient's: (A)
spouse, (B) dependent parent who is receiving at least
half of his or her support from the community college
benefit recipient, or (C) unmarried natural or adopted
child who is (i) under age 19, or (ii) enrolled as a
full-time student in an accredited school, financially
dependent upon the community college benefit recipient,
eligible as a dependent for Illinois State income tax
purposes and under age 23, or (iii) age 19 or over and
mentally or physically handicapped as defined in the
Illinois Insurance Code.
(Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-21, eff. 6-21-95;
89-25, eff. 6-21-95; 89-76, eff. 7-1-95; 89-324, eff.
8-13-95; 89-430, eff. 12-15-95; 89-502, eff. 7-1-96; 89-507,
eff. 7-1-97; 89-628, eff. 8-9-96; revised 8-23-96.)
(5 ILCS 375/6.9 new)
Sec. 6.9. Health benefits for community college benefit
recipients and community college dependent beneficiaries.
(a) Purpose. It is the purpose of this amendatory Act
of 1997 to establish a uniform program of health benefits for
community college benefit recipients and their dependent
beneficiaries under the administration of the Department of
Central Management Services.
(b) Creation of program. Beginning July 1, 1999, the
Department of Central Management Services shall be
responsible for administering a program of health benefits
for community college benefit recipients and community
college dependent beneficiaries under this Section. The
State Universities Retirement System and the boards of
trustees of the various community college districts shall
cooperate with the Department in this endeavor.
(c) Eligibility. All community college benefit
recipients and community college dependent beneficiaries
shall be eligible to participate in the program established
under this Section, without any interruption or delay in
coverage or limitation as to pre-existing medical conditions.
Eligibility to participate shall be determined by the State
Universities Retirement System. Eligibility information
shall be communicated to the Department of Central Management
Services in a format acceptable to the Department.
(d) Coverage. The health benefit coverage provided
under this Section shall be a program of health, dental, and
vision benefits.
The program of health benefits under this Section may
include any or all of the benefit limitations, including but
not limited to a reduction in benefits based on eligibility
for federal medicare benefits, that are provided under
subsection (a) of Section 6 of this Act for other health
benefit programs under this Act.
(e) Insurance rates and premiums. The Director shall
determine the insurance rates and premiums for community
college benefit recipients and community college dependent
beneficiaries. Rates and premiums may be based in part on
age and eligibility for federal Medicare coverage. The
Director shall also determine premiums that will allow for
the establishment of an actuarially sound reserve for this
program.
The cost of health benefits under the program shall be
paid as follows:
(1) For a community college benefit recipient, up
to 75% of the total insurance rate shall be paid from the
Community College Health Insurance Security Fund.
(2) The balance of the rate of insurance, including
the entire premium for any coverage for community college
dependent beneficiaries that has been elected, shall be
paid by deductions authorized by the community college
benefit recipient to be withheld from his or her monthly
annuity or benefit payment from the State Universities
Retirement System; except that (i) if the balance of the
cost of coverage exceeds the amount of the monthly
annuity or benefit payment, the difference shall be paid
directly to the State Universities Retirement System by
the community college benefit recipient, and (ii) all or
part of the balance of the cost of coverage may, at the
option of the board of trustees of the community college
district, be paid to the State Universities Retirement
System by the board of the community college district
from which the community college benefit recipient
retired. The State Universities Retirement System shall
promptly deposit all moneys withheld by or paid to it
under this subdivision (e)(2) into the Community College
Health Insurance Security Fund. These moneys shall not
be considered assets of the State Universities Retirement
System.
(f) Financing. All revenues arising from the
administration of the health benefit program established
under this Section shall be deposited into the Community
College Health Insurance Security Fund, which is hereby
created as a nonappropriated trust fund to be held outside
the State Treasury, with the State Treasurer as custodian.
Any interest earned on moneys in the Community College Health
Insurance Security Fund shall be deposited into the Fund.
Moneys in the Community College Health Insurance Security
Fund shall be used only to pay the costs of the health
benefit program established under this Section, including
associated administrative costs and the establishment of a
program reserve. Beginning January 1, 1999, the Department
of Central Management Services may make expenditures from the
Community College Health Insurance Security Fund for those
costs.
(g) Contract for benefits. The Director shall by
contract, self-insurance, or otherwise make available the
program of health benefits for community college benefit
recipients and their community college dependent
beneficiaries that is provided for in this Section. The
contract or other arrangement for the provision of these
health benefits shall be on terms deemed by the Director to
be in the best interest of the State of Illinois and the
community college benefit recipients based on, but not
limited to, such criteria as administrative cost, service
capabilities of the carrier or other contractor, and the
costs of the benefits.
(h) Continuation of program. It is the intention of the
General Assembly that the program of health benefits provided
under this Section be maintained on an ongoing, affordable
basis. The program of health benefits provided under this
Section may be amended by the State and is not intended to be
a pension or retirement benefit subject to protection under
Article XIII, Section 5 of the Illinois Constitution.
(i) Other health benefit plans. A health benefit plan
provided by a community college district (other than a
community college district subject to Article VII of the
Public Community College Act) under the terms of a collective
bargaining agreement in effect on or prior to the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1997 shall continue in force
according to the terms of that agreement, unless otherwise
mutually agreed by the parties to that agreement and the
affected retiree. A community college benefit recipient or
community college dependent beneficiary whose coverage under
such a plan expires shall be eligible to begin participating
in the program established under this Section without any
interruption or delay in coverage or limitation as to
pre-existing medical conditions.
This Act does not prohibit any community college district
from offering additional health benefits for its retirees or
their dependents or survivors.
(5 ILCS 375/6.10 new)
Sec. 6.10. Contributions to the Community College Health
Insurance Security Fund.
(a) Beginning January 1, 1999, every active contributor
of the State Universities Retirement System (established
under Article 15 of the Illinois Pension Code) who (1) is a
full-time employee of a community college district (other
than a community college district subject to Article VII of
the Public Community College Act) or an association of
community college boards and (2) is not an employee as
defined in Section 3 of this Act shall make contributions
toward the cost of community college annuitant and survivor
health benefits at the rate of 0.50% of salary.
These contributions shall be deducted by the employer and
paid to the State Universities Retirement System as service
agent for the Department of Central Management Services. The
System may use the same processes for collecting the
contributions required by this subsection that it uses to
collect the contributions received from those employees under
Section 15-157 of the Illinois Pension Code. An employer may
agree to pick up or pay the contributions required under this
subsection on behalf of the employee; such contributions
shall be deemed to have been paid by the employee.
A person required to make contributions under this
subsection (a) who purchases optional service credit under
Article 15 of the Illinois Pension Code must also pay the
contribution required under this subsection (a) with respect
to that optional service credit. This contribution must be
received by the System before that optional service credit is
granted.
The State Universities Retirement System shall promptly
deposit all moneys collected under this subsection (a) into
the Community College Health Insurance Security Fund created
in Section 6.9 of this Act. The moneys collected under this
Section shall be used only for the purposes authorized in
Section 6.9 of this Act and shall not be considered to be
assets of the State Universities Retirement System.
Contributions made under this Section are not transferable to
other pension funds or retirement systems and are not
refundable upon termination of service.
(b) Beginning January 1, 1999, every community college
district (other than a community college district subject to
Article VII of the Public Community College Act) or
association of community college boards that is an employer
under the State Universities Retirement System shall
contribute toward the cost of the community college health
benefits provided under Section 6.9 of this Act an amount
equal to 0.50% of the salary paid to its full-time employees
who participate in the State Universities Retirement System
and are not members as defined in Section 3 of this Act.
These contributions shall be paid by the employer to the
State Universities Retirement System as service agent for the
Department of Central Management Services. The System may
use the same processes for collecting the contributions
required by this subsection that it uses to collect the
contributions received from those employers under Section
15-155 of the Illinois Pension Code.
The State Universities Retirement System shall promptly
deposit all moneys collected under this subsection (b) into
the Community College Health Insurance Security Fund created
in Section 6.9 of this Act. The moneys collected under this
Section shall be used only for the purposes authorized in
Section 6.9 of this Act and shall not be considered to be
assets of the State Universities Retirement System.
Contributions made under this Section are not transferable to
other pension funds or retirement systems and are not
refundable upon termination of service.
(c) On or before November 15 of each year, the Board of
Trustees of the State Universities Retirement System shall
certify to the Governor, the Director of Central Management
Services, and the State Comptroller its estimate of the total
amount of contributions to be paid under subsection (a) of
this Section for the next fiscal year. The certification
shall include a detailed explanation of the methods and
information that the Board relied upon in preparing its
estimate. As soon as possible after the effective date of
this Section, the Board shall submit its estimate for fiscal
year 1999.
(d) Beginning in fiscal year 1999, on the first day of
each month, or as soon thereafter as may be practical, the
State Treasurer and the State Comptroller shall transfer from
the General Revenue Fund to the Community College Health
Insurance Security Fund 1/12 of the annual amount
appropriated for that fiscal year to the State Comptroller
for deposit into the Community College Health Insurance
Security Fund under Section 1.4 of the State Pension Funds
Continuing Appropriation Act.
(e) Except where otherwise specified in this Section,
the definitions that apply to Article 15 of the Illinois
Pension Code apply to this Section.
(5 ILCS 375/15) (from Ch. 127, par. 535)
Sec. 15. Administration; rules; audit; review.
(a) The Director shall administer this Act and shall
prescribe such rules and regulations as are necessary to give
full effect to the purposes of this Act.
(b) These rules may fix reasonable standards for the
group life and group health programs and other benefit
programs offered under this Act, and for the contractors
providing them.
(c) These rules shall specify that covered and optional
medical services of the program are services provided within
the scope of their licenses by practitioners in all
categories licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987
and shall provide that all eligible persons be fully informed
of this specification.
(d) These rules shall establish eligibility requirements
for members and dependents as may be necessary to supplement
or clarify requirements contained in this Act.
(e) Each affected department of the State, the State
Universities Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement
System, and each qualified local government, rehabilitation
facility, or domestic violence shelter or service, shall keep
such records, make such certifications, and furnish the
Director such information as may be necessary for the
administration of this Act, including information concerning
number and total amounts of payroll of employees of the
department who are paid from trust funds or federal funds.
(f) Each member, each community college benefit
recipient to whom this Act applies, and each TRS benefit
recipient to whom this Act applies shall furnish the
Director, in such form as may be required, any information
that may be necessary to enroll such member or TRS benefit
recipient and, if applicable, his or her dependents or TRS
dependent beneficiaries under the programs or plan, including
such data as may be required to allow the Director to
accumulate statistics on data normally considered in
actuarial studies of employee groups. Information about
community college benefit recipients and community college
dependent beneficiaries shall be furnished through the State
Universities Retirement System. Information about TRS
benefit recipients and TRS dependent beneficiaries shall be
furnished through the Teachers' Retirement System.
(g) There shall be an annual audit and report on the
programs authorized and established by this Act prepared by
the Director with the assistance of a qualified, independent
accounting firm. The annual report shall provide information
on the experience, and administrative effectiveness and
adequacy of the program including, when applicable,
recommendations on up-grading of benefits and improvement of
the program.
(h) Any final order, decision or other determination
made, issued or executed by the Director under the provisions
of this Act whereby any contractor or person is aggrieved
shall be subject to review in accordance with the provisions
of the Administrative Review Law and all amendments and
modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant
thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the
judicial review of final administrative decisions of the
Director.
(Source: P.A. 89-21, eff. 6-21-95; 89-25, eff. 6-21-95.)
Section 10. The State Pension Funds Continuing
Appropriation Act is amended by adding Section 1.4 as
follows:
(40 ILCS 15/1.4 new)
Sec. 1.4. Appropriations for the Community College Health
Insurance Security Fund. Beginning in State fiscal year
1999, there is hereby appropriated, on a continuing annual
basis, from the General Revenue Fund to the State Comptroller
for deposit into the Community College Health Insurance
Security Fund, an amount equal to the amount certified by the
Board of Trustees of the State Universities Retirement System
under subsection (c) of Section 6.10 of the State Employees
Group Insurance Act of 1971 as the estimated total amount of
contributions to be paid under subsection (a) of that Section
6.10 in that fiscal year. The moneys appropriated under this
Section 1.4 shall be deposited into the Community College
Health Insurance Security Fund and used only for the purposes
authorized in Section 6.9 of the State Employees Group
Insurance Act of 1971.
Section 15. The Public Community College Act is amended
by changing Section 2-16.02 as follows:
(110 ILCS 805/2-16.02) (from Ch. 122, par. 102-16.02)
Sec. 2-16.02. Grants. Any community college district
that maintains a community college recognized by the State
Board shall receive, when eligible, grants enumerated in this
Section. Except for equalization grants, retirees health
insurance grants, grants to districts established pursuant to
Section 6-6.1, and grants for special initiatives, all grants
specified in this Section shall be based on funded semester
credit hours. Funded semester credit hours shall be defined,
for purposes of this Section, as the greater of (1) the
number of semester credit hours, or equivalent, in all funded
instructional categories of students who have been certified
as being in attendance at midterm during the respective terms
of the base fiscal year or (2) the average of semester credit
hours, or equivalent, in all funded instructional categories
of students who have been certified as being in attendance at
midterm during the respective terms of the base fiscal year
and the 2 prior fiscal years. For purposes of this Section,
"base fiscal year" means the fiscal year 2 years prior to the
fiscal year for which the grants are appropriated. Such
students shall have been residents of Illinois and shall have
been enrolled in courses that are part of instructional
program categories approved by the State Board and that are
applicable toward an associate degree or certificate.
Courses are not eligible for reimbursement where the district
receives federal or State financing or both, except financing
through the State Board, for 50% or more of the program costs
with the exception of courses offered by contract with the
Department of Corrections in correctional institutions.
After distributing a grant of up to one-tenth of 1% of the
total available credit hour grant funding to each district
with less than 75,000 funded semester credit hours exclusive
of Department of Corrections credit hours, the remaining
credit hour grants shall be paid based on rates per funded
semester credit hour or equivalent calculated by the State
Board for funded instructional categories using cost of
instruction, enrollment, inflation, and other relevant
factors.
Grants for equalization shall be distributed to each
district that falls below a statewide threshold calculated by
the State Board by: (A) adding (1) the Corporate Personal
Property Replacement Fund allocations from the base fiscal
year or the average of the base fiscal year and prior year,
whichever is less, divided by the applicable tax rate to (2)
the most recently audited year's equalized assessed valuation
or the average of the most recently audited year and prior
year, whichever is less, (B) then dividing by the number of
audited full-time equivalent resident students for the base
fiscal year or the average for the base fiscal year and the
2 prior fiscal years, whichever is greater, and (C) then
multiplying by the applicable tax rate. The State Board
shall use the same methodology to calculate a local revenue
factor for each district. The difference between the
statewide threshold and the local revenue factor, multiplied
by the number of full-time equivalent students, shall
determine the amount of equalization funding that each
district is eligible to receive.
A special populations grant of $20,000 per community
college shall be distributed to each community college
district, and any remaining appropriated funds for special
populations programs with the exception of moneys
appropriated as grants for unique special populations
initiatives created by the State Board shall be distributed
proportionately to each community college district on the
basis of each district's share of the State total funded
semester credit hours, or equivalent, in
remedial/developmental and adult basic education/adult
secondary education courses. Each community college
district's expenditures of funds from those grants shall be
limited to courses and services related to programs for
educationally disadvantaged and minority students as
specified by the State Board.
A workforce preparation grant of $35,000 shall be
distributed to each community college district, and any
remaining appropriated funds for workforce preparation with
the exception of monies appropriated as grants for special
workforce preparation initiatives created by the State Board
shall be distributed proportionately to each community
college district on the basis of each district's share of the
State total funded semester credit hours, or equivalent, in
business occupational, technical occupational, and health
occupational courses. Each community college district's
expenditures of funds from those grants shall be limited to
workforce preparation activities and services as specified by
the State Board.
An advanced technology equipment grant shall be
distributed proportionately to each community college
district based on each district's share of the State total
funded semester credit hours, or equivalent, in business
occupational, technical occupational, and health occupational
courses. Each community college district's expenditures of
funds from those grants shall be limited to procurement of
equipment for curricula impacted by technological advances as
specified by the State Board.
Until January 1, 1999, a retirees health insurance grant
shall be distributed proportionately to each community
college district or entity created pursuant to Section 3-55
based on each district's share of the total number of
community college retirees in the State on July 1 of the
fiscal year prior to the fiscal year for which the grants are
appropriated, as determined by the State Board. Each
community college district's expenditures of funds from those
grants shall be limited to payment of costs associated with
the provision of retirees' health insurance. Beginning
January 1, 1999, the retirees health insurance grant shall be
limited to community college districts subject to Article VII
of this Act. The retirees health insurance grants to
community college districts not subject to Article VII for
fiscal year 1998-1999 shall be calculated so as to reflect
the January 1, 1999 termination date.
A grant shall be provided to the Illinois Occupational
Information Coordinating Committee for the purpose of
providing the State Board with labor market information by
updating the Occupational Information System and HORIZONS
Career Information System and by providing labor market
information and technical assistance, that grant to be
provided in its entirety during the first quarter of the
fiscal year.
A grant shall be provided to Community College District
#540, that district having been formed under the provisions
of Section 6-6.1, for the purpose of providing funds for the
district to meet operating expenses. The State Board shall
certify, prepare, and submit to the State Comptroller during
August of the fiscal year a voucher setting forth a one-time
payment of any Education Assistance Fund appropriation, and
during November, February, and May of the fiscal year a
voucher setting forth equal payments of General Revenue Fund
appropriations. The Comptroller shall cause a warrant to be
drawn for the amount due, payable to Community College
District #540, within 15 days following the receipt of each
such voucher.
The State Board shall distribute such other special
grants as may be authorized or appropriated by the General
Assembly.
Each community college district entitled to State grants
under this Section must submit a report of its enrollment to
the State Board not later than 30 days following the end of
each semester, quarter, or term in a format prescribed by the
State Board. These semester credit hours, or equivalent,
shall be certified by each district on forms provided by the
State Board. Each district's certified semester credit
hours, or equivalent, are subject to audit pursuant to
Section 3-22.1.
The State Board shall certify, prepare, and submit to the
State Comptroller during August, November, February, and May
of each fiscal year vouchers setting forth an amount equal to
25% of the districts' total grants approved by the State
Board for credit hour grants, special populations grants,
workforce preparation grants, equalization grants, advanced
technology equipment grants, and retirees health insurance
grants. The State Board shall prepare and submit to the State
Comptroller vouchers for special initiatives grant payments
as set forth in the contracts executed pursuant to
appropriations received for special initiatives. The
Comptroller shall cause his warrants to be drawn for the
respective amounts due, payable to each community college
district, within 15 days following the receipt of such
vouchers. If the amount appropriated for grants is different
from the amount provided for such grants under this Act, the
grants shall be proportionately reduced or increased
accordingly.
For the purposes of this Section, "resident student"
means a student in a community college district who maintains
residency in that district or meets other residency
definitions established by the State Board, and who was
enrolled either in one of the approved instructional program
categories in that district, or in another community college
district to which the resident's district is paying tuition
under Section 6-2 or with which the resident's district has
entered into a cooperative agreement in lieu of such tuition.
For the purposes of this Section, a "full-time
equivalent" student is equal to 30 semester credit hours.
The Illinois Community College Board Contracts and Grants
Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Items of
income to this fund shall include any grants, awards,
endowments, or like proceeds, and where appropriate, other
funds made available through contracts with governmental,
public, and private agencies or persons. The General
Assembly shall from time to time make appropriations payable
from such fund for the support, improvement, and expenses of
the State Board and Illinois community college districts.
(Source: P.A. 88-103; 88-553; 89-141, eff. 7-14-95; 89-281,
eff. 8-10-95; 89-473, eff. 6-18-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
Section 8.21 as follows:
(30 ILCS 805/8.21 new)
Sec. 8.21. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6
and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
for the implementation of any mandate created by this
amendatory Act of 1997.
Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act
makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that
text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i)
the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from
any other Public Act.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.