Bill Text: IL HB2037 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an elected or appointed coroner may elect to participate in the Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement employee (SLEP). Allows conversion of prior service. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB2037 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB2037-Introduced.html


97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB2037

Introduced , by Rep. Dan Brady

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/7-109.3 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3
40 ILCS 5/7-109.4 new
30 ILCS 805/8.35 new

Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an elected or appointed coroner may elect to participate in the Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement employee (SLEP). Allows conversion of prior service. 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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1 AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
5Section 7-109.3 and adding Section 7-109.4 as follows:
6 (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
7 Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
8 (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
9 (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than
10 special deputies, employed on a full time basis in the
11 office of the sheriff.
12 (2) A person who has elected to participate in this
13 Fund under Section 3-109.1 of this Code, and who is
14 employed by a participating municipality to perform police
15 duties.
16 (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time
17 basis by a Forest Preserve District, provided that such
18 officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's law enforcement
19 employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
20 that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's
21 law enforcement employee, only if the board of
22 commissioners of the District have so elected by adoption
23 of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made, may

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1 not be rescinded.
2 (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund
3 established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed on
4 a full-time basis by a participating municipality or
5 participating instrumentality to perform police duties at
6 an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
7 employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee
8 status for its airport police employees by adoption of an
9 affirmative resolution. Such approval, once given, may not
10 be rescinded.
11 (5) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to
12 participate in this Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement
13 employee under Section 3-109.4.
14 (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee
15and is granted military leave or authorized leave of absence
16shall receive service credit in that capacity. Sheriff's law
17enforcement employees shall not be entitled to out-of-State
18service credit under Section 7-139.
19(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
20 (40 ILCS 5/7-109.4 new)
21 Sec. 7-109.4. SLEP credit for coroner.
22 (a) An elected or appointed coroner who participates in the
23Fund may elect to participate as a sheriff's law enforcement
24employee.
25 (b) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to

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1participate in the Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement employee
2may have his or her service as a coroner prior to the date of
3that election deemed service as a sheriff's law enforcement
4employee by paying to the Fund the additional contribution
5required under Section 7-173.1, plus interest thereon at the
6effective rate from the date of the service to the date of
7payment.
8 Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
9Section 8.35 as follows:
10 (30 ILCS 805/8.35 new)
11 Sec. 8.35. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
12of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
13implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
14the 97th General Assembly.
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