Bill Text: IL SB2756 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that payments of an ordinary disability benefit shall be made at least monthly (instead of intervals of not more than 30 days). Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2756 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB2756-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 13-310 as follows:
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6 | (40 ILCS 5/13-310) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 13-310)
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7 | Sec. 13-310. Ordinary disability benefit.
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8 | (a) Any employee who becomes disabled as the result of
any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | cause other than injury or illness incurred in the performance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | of duty
for the employer or any other employer, or while | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | engaged in self-employment
activities, shall be entitled to an | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | ordinary disability benefit. The
eligible period for this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | benefit shall be 25% of the employee's total
actual service | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | prior to the date of disability with a cumulative maximum
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15 | period of 5 years.
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16 | (b) The benefit shall be allowed only if the employee files | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | an
application in writing with the Board, and a medical report | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | is submitted by
at least one licensed and practicing physician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | as part of the employee's
application.
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20 | The benefit is not payable for any disability which begins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | during any
period of unpaid leave of absence. No benefit shall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | be allowed for any
period of disability prior to 30 days before | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | application is made, unless
the Board finds good cause for the |
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1 | delay in filing the application. The
benefit shall not be paid | ||||||
2 | during any period for which the employee receives
or is | ||||||
3 | entitled to receive any part of salary.
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4 | The benefit is not payable for any disability which begins | ||||||
5 | during any
period of absence from duty other than allowable | ||||||
6 | vacation time in any
calendar year. An employee whose | ||||||
7 | disability begins during any such
ineligible period of absence | ||||||
8 | from service may not receive benefits until
the employee | ||||||
9 | recovers from the disability and is in service for at least 15
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10 | consecutive working days after such recovery.
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11 | In the case of an employee who first enters service on or | ||||||
12 | after June 13,
1997, an ordinary disability benefit
is not | ||||||
13 | payable for the first 3 days of disability that would otherwise | ||||||
14 | be
payable under this Section if the disability does not | ||||||
15 | continue for at least 11
additional days.
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16 | Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of | ||||||
17 | the 94th General Assembly, an employee who first entered | ||||||
18 | service on or after June 13, 1997 is also eligible for ordinary | ||||||
19 | disability benefits on the 31st day after the last day worked, | ||||||
20 | provided all sick leave is exhausted.
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21 | (c) The benefit shall be 50% of the employee's salary at | ||||||
22 | the date of
disability, and shall terminate when the earliest | ||||||
23 | of the following occurs:
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24 | (1) The employee returns to work or receives a | ||||||
25 | retirement annuity paid
wholly or in part under this | ||||||
26 | Article;
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1 | (2) The disability ceases;
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2 | (3) The employee willfully and continuously refuses to | ||||||
3 | follow medical
advice and treatment to enable the employee | ||||||
4 | to return to
work. However this provision does not apply to | ||||||
5 | an employee who relies in good
faith on treatment by prayer | ||||||
6 | through spiritual means alone in accordance with
the tenets | ||||||
7 | and practice of a recognized church or religious | ||||||
8 | denomination, by a
duly accredited practitioner thereof;
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9 | (4) The employee (i) refuses to submit to a reasonable | ||||||
10 | physical
examination within 30 days of application by a | ||||||
11 | physician appointed by the
Board, (ii) in the case of | ||||||
12 | chronic alcoholism, the employee refuses
to join a | ||||||
13 | rehabilitation program licensed by the Department of | ||||||
14 | Public Health of
the State of Illinois and certified by the | ||||||
15 | Joint Commission on the
Accreditation of Hospitals, (iii) | ||||||
16 | fails or refuses to consent to and sign an
authorization | ||||||
17 | allowing the Board to receive copies of or to examine the
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18 | employee's medical and hospital records, or (iv) fails or | ||||||
19 | refuses to provide
complete information regarding any | ||||||
20 | other employment for compensation he or she
has received | ||||||
21 | since becoming disabled; or
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22 | (5) The eligible period for this benefit has been | ||||||
23 | exhausted.
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24 | The first payment of the benefit shall be made not later | ||||||
25 | than one month
after the same has been granted, and subsequent | ||||||
26 | payments shall be made at least monthly
intervals of not more |
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1 | than 30 days .
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2 | (Source: P.A. 94-621, eff. 8-18-05.)
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3 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
4 | becoming law.
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