Bill Text: IL HB5773 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that during the period between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2023 (instead of June 30, 2022) an additional 20 paid days or 100 paid hours shall be added to a provision that authorizes an annuitant to accept employment for a certain number of paid days or paid hours as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status. Removes a reference to the substitute teacher shortage being exacerbated by the ongoing global pandemic. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-11-16 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5773 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB5773-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB5773 Introduced , by Rep. Thomas M. Bennett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that during the period between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2023 (instead of June 30, 2022) an additional 20 paid days or 100 paid hours shall be added to a provision that authorizes an annuitant to accept employment for a certain number of paid days or paid hours as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status. Removes a reference to the substitute teacher shortage being exacerbated by the ongoing global pandemic. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning 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 16-118 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/16-118) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118)
Sec. 16-118. Retirement. "Retirement": Entry upon a
retirement annuity or receipt of a single-sum retirement
benefit granted under this Article after termination of active
service as a teacher.
(a) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than
a disability retirement annuity may accept employment as a
teacher from a school board or other employer specified in
Section 16-106 without impairing retirement status, if that
employment:
(1) is not within the school year during which service
was terminated; and
(2) does not exceed the following:
(i) before July 1, 2001, 100 paid days or 500 paid
hours in any school year;
(ii) during the period beginning July 1, 2001
through June 30, 2011, 120 paid days or 600 paid hours
in each school year;

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(iii) during the period beginning July 1, 2011
through June 30, 2018, 100 paid days or 500 paid hours
in each school year;
(iv) beginning July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2023,
120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each school year,
but not more than 100 paid days in the same classroom;
(v) during the period between July 1, 2021 and
June 30, 2023 2022, an additional 20 paid days or 100
paid hours shall be added to item (iv) of this
paragraph (2) to assist with addressing the substitute
teacher shortage that has been exacerbated by the
ongoing global pandemic; and
(vi) beginning July 1, 2023, 100 paid days or 500
paid hours in each school year.
Where such permitted employment is partly on a daily and
partly on an hourly basis, a day shall be considered as 5
hours.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who
returns to teaching under the program established in Section
16-150.1, for the duration of his or her participation in that
program.
(Source: P.A. 101-645, eff. 6-26-20; 102-537, eff. 8-20-21;
102-709, eff. 4-22-22.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.