Bill Text: IL SB2279 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Engrossed


Bill Title: Amends the Downstate Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Extends the period during which an annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than a disability retirement annuity may accept employment for up to 120 paid days or 600 paid hours in a school year without impairing his or her retirement status. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB2279 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB2279-Engrossed.html



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1 AN ACT concerning 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 16-118 as follows:
6 (40 ILCS 5/16-118) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118)
7 Sec. 16-118. Retirement. "Retirement": Entry upon a
8retirement annuity or receipt of a single-sum retirement
9benefit granted under this Article after termination of active
10service as a teacher.
11 (a) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than
12a disability retirement annuity may accept employment as a
13teacher from a school board or other employer specified in
14Section 16-106 without impairing retirement status, if that
15employment: (1) is not within the school year during which
16service was terminated; and (2) does not exceed 100 paid days
17or 500 paid hours in any school year (during the period
18beginning July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2021 2011, 120 paid
19days or 600 paid hours in each school year). Where such
20permitted employment is partly on a daily and partly on an
21hourly basis, a day shall be considered as 5 hours.
22 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who
23returns to teaching under the program established in Section

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116-150.1, for the duration of his or her participation in that
2program.
3(Source: P.A. 93-320, eff. 7-23-03; 94-914, eff. 6-23-06.)
4 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5becoming law.
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