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| Public Act 103-0110
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| SB1924 Enrolled | LRB103 26172 RJT 52530 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by |
changing Section 7-139 as follows:
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(40 ILCS 5/7-139) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-139)
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Sec. 7-139. Credits and creditable service to employees.
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(a) Each participating employee shall be granted credits |
and creditable
service, for purposes of determining the amount |
of any annuity or benefit
to which he or a beneficiary is |
entitled, as follows:
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1. For prior service: Each participating employee who |
is an employee
of a participating municipality or |
participating instrumentality on the
effective date shall |
be granted creditable service, but no credits under
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paragraph 2 of this subsection (a), for periods of prior |
service for which
credit has not been received under any |
other pension fund or retirement system
established under |
this Code, as follows:
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If the effective date of participation for the |
participating municipality
or participating |
instrumentality is on or before January 1, 1998, |
creditable
service shall be granted for the entire period |
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of prior service with that
employer without any employee |
contribution.
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If the effective date of participation for the |
participating municipality
or participating |
instrumentality is after January 1, 1998, creditable
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service shall be granted for the last 20% of the period of |
prior service with
that employer, but no more than 5 |
years, without any employee contribution. A
participating |
employee may establish creditable service for the |
remainder of
the period of prior service with that |
employer by making an application in
writing, accompanied |
by payment of an employee contribution in an
amount |
determined by the Fund, based on the employee contribution |
rates in
effect at the time of application for the |
creditable service and the employee's
salary rate on the |
effective date of participation for that employer, plus
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interest at the effective rate from the date of the prior |
service to the date
of payment. Application for this |
creditable service may be made at any time
while the |
employee is still in service.
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A municipality that (i) has at least 35 employees; |
(ii) is located in a county with at least 2,000,000 |
inhabitants; and (iii) maintains an independent defined |
benefit pension plan for the benefit of its eligible |
employees may restrict creditable service in whole or in |
part for periods of prior service with the employer if the |
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governing body of the municipality adopts an irrevocable |
resolution to restrict that creditable service and files |
the resolution with the board before the municipality's |
effective date of participation.
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Any person who has withdrawn from the service of a |
participating
municipality
or participating |
instrumentality prior to the effective date, who reenters
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the service of the same municipality or participating |
instrumentality after
the effective date and becomes a |
participating employee is entitled to
creditable service |
for prior service as otherwise provided in this
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subdivision (a)(1) only if he or she renders 2 years of |
service as a
participating employee after the effective |
date. Application
for such service must be made while in a |
participating status.
The salary rate to be used in the |
calculation of the required employee
contribution, if any, |
shall be the employee's salary rate at the time of first
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reentering service with the employer after the employer's |
effective date of
participation.
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2. For current service, each participating employee |
shall be
credited with:
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a. Additional credits of amounts equal to each |
payment of additional
contributions received from him |
under Section 7-173, as of the
date the corresponding |
payment of earnings is payable to him.
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b. Normal credits of amounts equal to each payment |
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of normal
contributions received from him, as of the |
date the corresponding payment of
earnings is payable |
to him, and normal contributions made for the purpose |
of
establishing out-of-state service credits as |
permitted under the conditions set
forth in paragraph |
6 of this subsection (a).
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c. Municipality credits in an amount equal to 1.4 |
times the normal
credits, except those established by |
out-of-state service credits, as of
the date of |
computation of any benefit if these credits would |
increase
the benefit.
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d. Survivor credits equal to each payment of |
survivor contributions
received from the participating |
employee as of the date the
corresponding payment of |
earnings is payable, and survivor contributions made
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for the purpose of establishing out-of-state service |
credits.
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3. For periods of temporary and total and permanent |
disability
benefits, each employee receiving disability |
benefits shall be granted
creditable service for the |
period during which disability benefits are
payable. |
Normal and survivor credits, based upon the rate of |
earnings
applied for disability benefits, shall also be |
granted if such credits
would result in a higher benefit |
to any such employee or his
beneficiary.
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4. For authorized leave of absence without pay: A |
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participating
employee shall be granted credits and |
creditable service for periods of
authorized leave of |
absence without pay under the following
conditions:
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a. An application for credits and creditable |
service is submitted to the
board while the employee |
is in a status of
active employment.
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b. Not more than 12 complete months of creditable |
service
for authorized leave of absence without pay |
shall be counted for purposes of
determining any |
benefits payable under this Article.
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c. Credits and creditable service shall be granted |
for leave of
absence only if such leave is approved by |
the governing body of the
municipality, including |
approval of the estimated cost thereof to the
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municipality as determined by the fund, and employee |
contributions, plus
interest at the effective rate |
applicable for each year from the end of
the period of |
leave to date of payment, have been paid to the fund in
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accordance with Section 7-173. The contributions shall |
be computed upon the
assumption earnings continued |
during the period of leave at the rate in
effect when |
the leave began.
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d. Benefits under the provisions of Sections |
7-141, 7-146, 7-150
and 7-163 shall become payable to |
employees on authorized leave of
absence, or their |
designated beneficiary, only if such leave of absence
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is creditable hereunder, and if the employee has at |
least one year of
creditable service other than the |
service granted for leave of absence.
Any employee |
contributions due may be deducted from any benefits
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payable.
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e. No credits or creditable service shall be |
allowed for leave of
absence without pay during any |
period of prior service.
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5. For military service: The governing body of a |
municipality or
participating instrumentality may elect to |
allow creditable service to
participating employees who |
leave their employment to serve in the armed
forces of the |
United States for all periods of such service, provided
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that the person returns to active employment within 90 |
days after
completion
of full time active duty, but no |
creditable service shall be allowed such
person for any |
period that can be used in the computation of a pension
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any other pay or benefit, other than pay for active duty, |
for service
in any branch of the armed forces of the United |
States. If necessary to
the computation of any benefit, |
the board shall establish municipality
credits for |
participating employees under this paragraph on the
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assumption that the employee received earnings at the rate |
received at
the time he left the employment to enter the |
armed forces. A
participating employee in the armed forces |
shall not be considered an
employee during such period of |
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service and no additional death and no
disability benefits |
are payable for death or disability during such period.
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Any participating employee who left his employment |
with a
municipality or participating instrumentality to |
serve in the armed
forces of the United States and who |
again became a participating
employee within 90 days after |
completion of full time active duty by
entering the |
service of a different municipality or participating
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instrumentality, which has elected to allow creditable |
service for
periods of military service under the |
preceding paragraph, shall also be
allowed creditable |
service for his period of military service on the
same |
terms that would apply if he had been employed, before |
entering
military service, by the municipality or |
instrumentality which employed
him after he left the |
military service and the employer costs arising in
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relation to such grant of creditable service shall be |
charged to and
paid by that municipality or |
instrumentality.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, any participating |
employee
shall be entitled to creditable service as |
required by any federal law
relating to re-employment |
rights of persons who served in the United States
Armed |
Services. Such creditable service shall be granted upon |
payment by
the member of an amount equal to the employee |
contributions which would
have been required had the |
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employee continued in service at the same
rate of earnings |
during the military leave period, plus interest at
the |
effective rate.
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5.1. In addition to any creditable service established |
under
paragraph 5 of this subsection (a), creditable |
service may be granted for
up to 48 months of service in |
the armed forces of the United States.
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In order to receive creditable service for military |
service under this
paragraph 5.1, a participating employee |
must (1) apply to the Fund
in writing and provide evidence |
of the military service that is satisfactory
to the Board; |
(2) obtain the written approval of the current employer; |
and (3)
make contributions to the Fund equal to (i)
the |
employee contributions that would have been required had |
the service been
rendered as a member, plus (ii) an amount |
determined by the board to be equal
to the employer's |
normal cost of the benefits accrued for that military
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service, plus (iii) interest on items (i) and (ii) from |
the date of first
membership in the Fund to the date of |
payment. The required interest shall be
calculated at the |
regular interest rate.
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The changes made to this paragraph 5.1 by Public Acts |
95-483 and 95-486
apply only to participating employees in |
service on or after August 28, 2007 (the effective date of |
those Public Acts).
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6. For out-of-state service: Creditable service shall |
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be granted for
service rendered to an out-of-state local |
governmental body under the
following conditions: The |
employee had participated and has irrevocably
forfeited |
all rights to benefits in the out-of-state public |
employees
pension system; the governing body of his |
participating municipality or
instrumentality authorizes |
the employee to establish such service; the
employee has 2 |
years current service with this municipality or
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participating instrumentality; the employee makes a |
payment of
contributions, which shall be computed at 8% |
(normal) plus 2% (survivor)
times length of service |
purchased times the average rate of earnings for the
first |
2
years of service with the municipality or participating
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instrumentality whose governing body authorizes the |
service established
plus interest at the effective rate on |
the date such credits are
established, payable from the |
date the employee completes the required 2
years of |
current service to date of payment. In no case shall more |
than
120 months of creditable service be granted under |
this provision.
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7. For retroactive service: Any employee who could |
have but did not
elect to become a participating employee, |
or who should have been a
participant in the Municipal |
Public Utilities Annuity and Benefit Fund
before that fund |
was superseded, may receive creditable service for the
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period of service not to exceed 50 months; however, a |
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current or former
elected or appointed official of a |
participating municipality may establish credit under this |
paragraph 7 for more than 50
months of service as an |
official of that municipality, if the excess over 50 |
months is approved by resolution of the
governing body of |
the affected municipality filed with
the Fund before |
January 1, 2002.
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Any employee who is a
participating employee on or |
after September 24, 1981 and who was
excluded from |
participation by the age restrictions removed by Public |
Act
82-596 may receive creditable service for the period, |
on or after January
1, 1979, excluded by the age |
restriction and, in addition, if the governing
body of the |
participating municipality or participating |
instrumentality elects
to allow creditable service for all |
employees excluded by the age restriction
prior to January |
1, 1979, for service during the period prior to that date
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excluded by the age restriction. Any employee who was |
excluded from
participation by the age restriction removed |
by Public Act 82-596 and who is
not a participating |
employee on or after September 24, 1981 may receive
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creditable service for service after January 1,
1979. |
Creditable service under this paragraph
shall be granted |
upon payment of the employee contributions
which would |
have been required had he participated, with interest at |
the
effective rate for each year from the end of the period |
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of service
established to date of payment.
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8. For accumulated unused sick leave: A participating |
employee who is
applying for a retirement annuity shall be |
entitled to creditable service
for that portion of the |
employee's accumulated unused sick leave
for which payment |
is not received, as follows:
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a. Sick leave days shall be limited to those |
accumulated under a sick
leave plan established by a |
participating municipality or participating
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instrumentality which is available to all employees or |
a class of employees.
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b. Except as provided in item b-1, only sick leave |
days accumulated with a participating municipality or
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participating instrumentality with which the employee |
was in service within
60 days of the effective date of |
his retirement annuity shall be credited;
If the |
employee was in service with more than one employer |
during this
period only the sick leave days with the |
employer with which the employee
has the greatest |
number of unpaid sick leave days shall be considered.
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b-1. If the employee was in the service of more |
than one employer as defined in item (2) of paragraph |
(a) of subsection (A) of Section 7-132 or regional |
office of education, then the sick leave days from all |
such employers shall be credited, as long as the |
creditable service attributed to those sick leave days |
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does not exceed the limitation in item d of this |
paragraph 8. If the employee was in the service of more |
than one employer described in paragraph (c) of |
subsection (B) of Section 7-132 on or after the |
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st |
General Assembly, then the sick leave days from all |
such employers, except for employers from which the |
employee terminated service before the effective date |
of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, |
shall be credited, as long as the creditable service |
attributed to those sick leave days does not exceed |
the limitation in item d of this paragraph 8. In |
calculating the creditable service under this item |
b-1, the sick leave days from the last employer shall |
be considered first, then the remaining sick leave |
days shall be considered until there are no more days |
or the maximum creditable sick leave threshold under |
item d of this paragraph 8 has been reached. |
c. The creditable service granted shall be |
considered solely for the
purpose of computing the |
amount of the retirement annuity and shall not be
used |
to establish any minimum service period required by |
any provision of the
Illinois Pension Code, the |
effective date of the retirement annuity, or the
final |
rate of earnings.
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d. The creditable service shall be at the rate of |
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1/20 of a month for
each full sick day, provided that |
no more than 12 months may be credited
under this |
subdivision 8.
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e. Employee contributions shall not be required |
for creditable service
under this subdivision 8.
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f. Each participating municipality and |
participating instrumentality
with which an employee |
has service within 60 days of the effective date of
his |
retirement annuity shall certify to the board the |
number of accumulated
unpaid sick leave days credited |
to the employee at the time of termination
of service.
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9. For service transferred from another system: |
Credits and
creditable service shall be granted for |
service under Article 4, 5, 8, 14,
or 16 of this Act, to |
any active member of this Fund, and to any
inactive member |
who has been a county sheriff, upon
transfer of such |
credits pursuant to Section 4-108.3, 5-235,
8-226.7,
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14-105.6, or 16-131.4, and payment by the member of the |
amount by
which (1) the employer and employee |
contributions that would have been required
if he had |
participated in this Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement |
employee
during the period for which credit is
being |
transferred, plus interest thereon at the effective rate |
for each
year, compounded annually, from the date of |
termination of the service for
which credit is being |
transferred to the date of payment, exceeds (2) the
amount |
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actually transferred to the Fund.
Such transferred service |
shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's law
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enforcement employee for the purposes of Section 7-142.1.
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10. (Blank).
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11. For service transferred from an Article 3 system |
under Section 3-110.3: Credits and creditable service |
shall be granted for service under Article 3 of this Act as |
provided in Section 3-110.3, to any active member of this |
Fund, upon transfer of such credits pursuant to Section |
3-110.3. If the board determines that the amount |
transferred is less than the true cost to the Fund of |
allowing that creditable service to be established, then |
in order to establish that creditable service, the member |
must pay to the Fund an additional contribution equal to |
the difference, as determined by the board in accordance |
with the rules and procedures adopted under this |
paragraph. If the member does not make the full additional |
payment as required by this paragraph prior to termination |
of his participation with that employer, then his or her |
creditable service shall be reduced by an amount equal to |
the difference between the amount transferred under |
Section 3-110.3, including any payments made by the member |
under this paragraph prior to termination, and the true |
cost to the Fund of allowing that creditable service to be |
established, as determined by the board in accordance with |
the rules and procedures adopted under this paragraph. |
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The board shall establish by rule the manner of making |
the calculation required under this paragraph 11, taking |
into account the appropriate actuarial assumptions; the |
member's service, age, and salary history, and any other |
factors that the board determines to be relevant. |
12. For omitted service: Any employee who was employed |
by a participating employer in a position that required |
participation, but who was not enrolled in the Fund, may |
establish such credits under the following conditions: |
a. Application for such credits is received by the |
Board while the employee is an active participant of |
the Fund or a reciprocal retirement system. |
b. Eligibility for participation and earnings are |
verified by the Authorized Agent of the participating |
employer for which the service was rendered. |
Creditable service under this paragraph shall be |
granted upon payment of the employee contributions that |
would have been required had he participated, which shall |
be calculated by the Fund using the member contribution |
rate in effect during the period that the service was |
rendered. |
(b) Creditable service - amount:
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1. One month of creditable service
shall be allowed |
for each month for which a participating employee made
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contributions as required under Section 7-173, or for |
which creditable
service is otherwise granted hereunder. |
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Not more than 1 month of
service shall be credited and |
counted for 1 calendar month, and not more
than 1 year of |
service shall be credited and counted for any calendar
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year. A calendar month means a nominal month beginning on |
the first day
thereof, and a calendar year means a year |
beginning January 1 and ending
December 31.
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2. A seasonal employee shall be given 12 months of |
creditable
service if he renders the number of months of |
service normally required
by the position in a 12-month |
period and he remains in service for the
entire 12-month |
period. Otherwise a fractional year of service in the
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number of months of service rendered shall be credited.
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3. An intermittent employee shall be given creditable |
service for
only those months in which a contribution is |
made under Section 7-173.
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(c) No application for correction of credits or creditable |
service shall
be considered unless the board receives an |
application for correction while
(1) the applicant is a |
participating employee and in active employment
with a |
participating municipality or instrumentality, or (2) while |
the
applicant is actively participating in a pension fund or |
retirement
system which is a participating system under the |
Retirement Systems
Reciprocal Act. A participating employee or |
other applicant shall not be
entitled to credits or creditable |
service unless the required employee
contributions are made in |
a lump sum or in installments made in accordance
with board |
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rule. Payments made to establish service credit under |
paragraph 1, 4, 5, 5.1, 6, 7, or 12 of subsection (a) of this |
Section must be received by the Board while the applicant is an |
active participant in the Fund or a reciprocal retirement |
system, except that an applicant may make one payment after |
termination of active participation in the Fund or a |
reciprocal retirement system. |
(d) Upon the granting of a retirement, surviving spouse or |
child
annuity, a death benefit or a separation benefit, on |
account of any
employee, all individual accumulated credits |
shall thereupon terminate.
Upon the withdrawal of additional |
contributions, the credits applicable
thereto shall thereupon |
terminate. Terminated credits shall not be applied
to increase |
the benefits any remaining employee would otherwise receive |
under
this Article.
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(Source: P.A. 100-148, eff. 8-18-17; 101-492, eff. 8-23-19.)
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Section 10. The School Code is amended by changing |
Sections 3-2.5 and 3-12 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
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Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
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(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the
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regional superintendents of schools shall receive for their |
services an annual
salary according to the population, as |
determined by the last preceding federal
census, of the region |
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they serve, as set out in the following schedule:
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SALARIES OF REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF
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POPULATION OF REGION |
ANNUAL SALARY |
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61,000 to 99,999 |
$78,000 |
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100,000 to 999,999 |
$81,500 |
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1,000,000 and over |
$83,500 |
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Beginning July 1, 2023, all regional superintendents of |
schools shall receive the same salary regardless of the |
population of the region they serve. The salary shall be equal |
to the middle annual salary tier. |
The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary |
that the
regional superintendents of schools shall receive for |
their services shall
apply to the annual salary received by |
the regional superintendents of
schools during each of their |
elected terms of office that
commence after
July 26, 1989 and |
before the first Monday of August, 1995.
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The changes made by Public Act 89-225 in the annual salary |
that
regional superintendents of schools shall receive for |
their services shall
apply to the annual salary received by |
the regional superintendents of schools
during their elected |
terms of office that
commence after August 4,
1995 and end on |
August 1, 1999.
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The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st |
General Assembly in the
annual salary that the regional |
superintendents of schools shall receive for
their services |
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shall apply to the annual salary received by the regional
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superintendents of schools during each of their elected terms |
of office that
commence on or after August 2, 1999.
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Beginning July 1, 2000, the salary that the regional |
superintendent
of schools receives for his or her services |
shall be adjusted annually to
reflect the percentage increase, |
if any, in the most recent Consumer Price
Index, as defined and |
officially reported by the United States Department of
Labor, |
Bureau of Labor Statistics, except that no annual increment |
may exceed
2.9%. If the percentage of change in the
Consumer |
Price Index is a percentage decrease, the salary that the |
regional
superintendent of schools receives shall not be |
adjusted for that year.
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When regional superintendents are authorized by the School |
Code to
appoint assistant regional superintendents, the |
assistant regional
superintendent shall receive an annual |
salary based on his or her
qualifications and computed as a |
percentage of the salary of the
regional superintendent to |
whom he or she is assistant, as set out in the
following |
schedule:
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SALARIES OF ASSISTANT REGIONAL | SUPERINTENDENTS |
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QUALIFICATIONS OF |
PERCENTAGE OF SALARY |
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ASSISTANT REGIONAL |
OF REGIONAL |
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SUPERINTENDENT |
SUPERINTENDENT |
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Bachelor's degree plus |
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State license valid | |
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for supervising. |
75% |
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Master's degree plus |
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State license valid | |
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for supervising. |
90% |
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However, in any region in which the appointment of more |
than one
assistant regional superintendent is authorized, |
whether by Section
3-15.10 of this Code or otherwise, not more |
than one assistant may
be compensated at the 90% rate and any |
other assistant shall be paid at
not exceeding the 75% rate, in |
each case depending on the qualifications
of the assistant.
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The salaries provided in this Section plus an amount for |
other employment-related compensation or benefits for regional |
superintendents
and assistant regional superintendents are |
payable monthly by the State Board of Education out of the |
Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund through a specific |
appropriation to that effect in the State Board of Education |
budget. The State Comptroller in making his or her warrant to
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any county for the amount due it from the Personal Property Tax |
Replacement Fund shall deduct
from it the several amounts for |
which warrants have been issued to the
regional |
superintendent, and any assistant regional superintendent, of
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the educational service region encompassing the county since |
the
preceding apportionment from the Personal Property Tax |
Replacement Fund.
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County boards may provide for additional compensation for |
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the
regional superintendent or the assistant regional |
superintendents, or
for each of them, to be paid quarterly |
from the county treasury.
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(b) (Blank).
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(c) If the State pays all or any portion of the employee |
contributions
required under Section 16-152 of the Illinois |
Pension Code for employees of the
State Board of Education, it |
shall also, subject to appropriation in the State Board of |
Education budget for such payments to Regional Superintendents |
and Assistant Regional Superintendents, pay the employee |
contributions required
of regional superintendents of schools |
and assistant regional superintendents
of schools on the same |
basis, but excluding any contributions based on
compensation |
that is paid by the county rather than the State.
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This subsection (c) applies to contributions based on |
payments of salary
earned after the effective date of this |
amendatory Act of the 91st General
Assembly, except that in |
the case of an elected regional superintendent of
schools, |
this subsection does not apply to contributions based on |
payments of
salary earned during a term of office that |
commenced before the effective date
of this amendatory Act.
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(d) References to "regional superintendent" in this |
Section shall also include the chief administrative officer of |
the educational service centers established under Section |
2-3.62 of this Code and serving that portion of a Class II |
county school unit outside of a city with a population of |
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500,000 or more inhabitants. References to "assistant regional |
superintendent" in this Section shall include one assistant |
appointed by the chief administrative officer of the |
educational service centers established under Section 2-3.62 |
of this Code and serving that portion of a Class II county |
school unit outside of a city with a population of 500,000 or |
more inhabitants. For the purposes of calculating regional |
superintendent and assistant regional superintendent salaries |
for educational service centers established under Section |
2-3.62 of this Code, populations shall be established by |
subtracting from the total county population the population of |
a city with 500,000 or more inhabitants, divided by the number |
of educational service centers in the county. |
(Source: P.A. 99-30, eff. 7-10-15; 100-294, eff. 1-1-18.)
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(105 ILCS 5/3-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-12)
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Sec. 3-12. Institute fund. |
(a) All license
registration fees and
a portion of renewal |
and duplicate fees
shall be kept by the regional |
superintendent as described in Section 21-16 or 21B-40 of
this |
Code, together with a record of the
names of the persons paying |
them. Such fees shall be deposited
into the institute fund and
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shall be used by the regional superintendent
to defray |
expenses associated with the
work of
the regional professional |
development review committees established pursuant to
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paragraph (2) of subsection (g) of Section 21-14 of this Code |
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to advise the
regional
superintendent, upon his or her |
request, and to hear appeals relating to the
renewal of
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teaching licenses, in accordance with Section 21-14 of this |
Code; to defray
expenses
connected with improving the |
technology necessary for the efficient processing
of
licenses; |
to defray all costs associated with the administration of |
teaching licenses;
to defray expenses incidental to
teachers' |
institutes,
workshops or meetings of a professional nature |
that are designed to promote the
professional growth of |
teachers or for the purpose of defraying the expense of
any |
general or special meeting of teachers or school personnel of |
the region,
which has been approved by the regional |
superintendent.
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(b) In addition to the use of moneys in the institute fund |
to defray expenses under subsection (a) of this Section, the |
State Superintendent of Education, as authorized under Section |
2-3.105 of this Code, shall use moneys in the institute fund to |
defray all costs associated with the administration of |
teaching licenses within a city having a population exceeding |
500,000.
Moneys in the institute fund may also be used by the |
State Superintendent of Education to support educator |
recruitment and retention programs within a city having a |
population exceeding 500,000, to support educator preparation |
programs within a city having a population exceeding 500,000 |
as those programs seek national accreditation, and to provide |
professional development aligned with the requirements set |
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forth in Section 21B-45 of this Code within a city having a |
population exceeding 500,000. A majority of the moneys in the |
institute fund must be dedicated to the timely and efficient |
processing of applications and for the renewal of licenses. |
(c) The regional superintendent shall on or before January |
1 of each year post on the regional office of education's |
website
publish in a newspaper of general circulation |
published in the region or
shall post in each school building |
under his jurisdiction an accounting of
(1) the balance on |
hand in the institute fund at the beginning of the
previous |
year; (2) all receipts within the previous year deposited in |
the
fund, with the sources from which they were derived; (3) |
the amount
distributed from the fund and the purposes for |
which such distributions
were made; and (4) the balance on |
hand in the fund.
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(Source: P.A. 99-58, eff. 7-16-15.)
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(105 ILCS 5/3-3 rep.)
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Section 15. The School Code is amended by repealing |
Section 3-3.
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Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding |
Section 8.47 as follows:
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(30 ILCS 805/8.47 new) |
Sec. 8.47. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and |
