Bill Text: IL HB0161 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal (IMRF) Article of the Pension Code. Makes park police eligible for the sheriff's law enforcement employee formula. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0161 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0161-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0161 Introduced 1/14/2009, by Rep. Jim Sacia SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/7-109.3 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3
30 ILCS 805/8.33 new
Amends the Illinois Municipal (IMRF) Article of the Pension Code. Makes park police eligible for the sheriff's law enforcement employee formula. 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
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
Section 7-109.3 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/7-109.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
(a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
(1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than
special deputies, employed on a full time basis in the
office of the sheriff.
(2) A person who has elected to participate in this
Fund under Section 3-109.1 of this Code, and who is
employed by a participating municipality to perform police
duties.
(3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time
basis by a Forest Preserve District, provided that such
officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's law enforcement
employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's
law enforcement employee, only if the board of
commissioners of the District have so elected by adoption
of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made, may

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not be rescinded.
(4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund
established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed on
a full-time basis by a participating municipality or
participating instrumentality to perform police duties at
a park or an airport, but only if the governing authority
of the employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement
employee status for its airport police employees by
adoption of an affirmative resolution. Such approval, once
given, may not be rescinded.
(b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee
and is granted military leave or authorized leave of absence
shall receive service credit in that capacity. Sheriff's law
enforcement employees shall not be entitled to out-of-State
service credit under Section 7-139.
(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
Section 8.33 as follows:
(30 ILCS 805/8.33 new)
Sec. 8.33. 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
the 96th General Assembly.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

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