Bill Text: IL SB2818 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Cook County Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows the board of the Fund to waive the required physician's proof of disability if (1) the employee has been compensated by the county for the disability or specific loss under the Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational Diseases Act or (2) the employee claims ordinary disability of up to 8 weeks for maternity. Provides that an employee who enters service after December 31, 2016 and who, while in receipt of an ordinary or duty disability benefit, assumes any employment for compensation, shall not be entitled to receive any amount of such disability benefit which, when added to his compensation for such employment during disability, plus any amount payable under the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, would exceed the rate of salary on which his disability benefit is based. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-07-31 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB2818 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB2818-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 | Sections 9-158 and 9-159 as follows:
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6 | (40 ILCS 5/9-158) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 9-158)
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7 | Sec. 9-158. Proof of disability, duty and ordinary. Proof | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | of duty or ordinary disability shall be furnished to the board | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | by
at least one licensed and practicing physician appointed by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | the board , except that this requirement may be waived by the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | board for proof of duty disability if the employee has been | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | compensated by the county for such disability or specific loss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | under the Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Diseases Act. The physician requirement may also be waived by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | the board for ordinary disability maternity claims of up to 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | weeks . With respect to duty disability, satisfactory proof must | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | be provided to the board that the final adjudication of the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | claim required under subsection (d) of Section 9-159 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | established that the disability or death resulted from an | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | injury incurred in the performance of an act or acts of duty. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | The
board may require other evidence of disability. Each | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | disabled employee who
receives duty or ordinary disability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | benefit shall be examined at least
once a year by one or more |
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1 | licensed and practicing physicians appointed by
the board. When | ||||||
2 | the disability ceases, the board shall discontinue payment
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3 | the benefit and the employee shall be returned to active | ||||||
4 | service .
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5 | (Source: P.A. 95-1036, eff. 2-17-09.)
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6 | (40 ILCS 5/9-159) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 9-159)
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7 | Sec. 9-159. When disability benefit not payable. | ||||||
8 | (a) If an employee receiving duty disability or ordinary | ||||||
9 | disability
benefit refuses to submit to examination by a | ||||||
10 | physician appointed by the
board, he shall have no further | ||||||
11 | right to receive the benefit.
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12 | (b) Disability benefit shall not be paid for any time for | ||||||
13 | which the
employee receives any part of his salary, or while | ||||||
14 | employed by any
public body supported in whole or in part by | ||||||
15 | taxation.
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16 | (c) If an employee who shall be disabled, or his widow or | ||||||
17 | children
receive any compensation or payment from the county | ||||||
18 | for specific loss,
disability or death under the Workers' | ||||||
19 | Compensation Act or Workers'
Occupational Diseases Act, the | ||||||
20 | disability benefit or any annuity for him
or his widow or | ||||||
21 | children payable as the result of such specific loss,
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22 | disability or death shall be reduced by any amount so received | ||||||
23 | or
recoverable. If the amount received as such compensation or | ||||||
24 | payment
exceeds such disability benefit or other annuity | ||||||
25 | payable as the result
of such specific loss, disability or |
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1 | death, no payment of disability
benefit or other annuity shall | ||||||
2 | be made until the accumulative amounts
thereof equals the | ||||||
3 | amount of such compensation or payment. In such
calculation no | ||||||
4 | interest shall be considered. In adjusting the amount of
any | ||||||
5 | annuity in relation to compensation received or recoverable | ||||||
6 | during
any period of time, the annuity to the widow shall be | ||||||
7 | first reduced.
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8 | If any employee, or widow shall be denied compensation by | ||||||
9 | such county
under the aforesaid Acts, or if such county shall | ||||||
10 | fail to act, such
denial or failure to act shall not be | ||||||
11 | considered final until the claim
has been adjudicated by the | ||||||
12 | Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission.
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13 | (d) Before any action may be taken by the board on an | ||||||
14 | application for duty disability benefit or widow's | ||||||
15 | compensation or supplemental benefit, other than rejection of | ||||||
16 | any such application that is otherwise incomplete or untimely, | ||||||
17 | the related applicant must file a timely claim under the | ||||||
18 | Workers' Compensation Act or the Workers' Occupational | ||||||
19 | Diseases Act, as applicable, to establish that the disability | ||||||
20 | or death resulted from an injury incurred in the performance of | ||||||
21 | an act or acts of duty, and the applicant must receive | ||||||
22 | compensation or payment from the claim or the claim must | ||||||
23 | otherwise be finally adjudicated. | ||||||
24 | (e) An employee who enters service after December 31, 2016 | ||||||
25 | and who, while in receipt of an ordinary or duty disability | ||||||
26 | benefit, assumes any employment for compensation shall not be |
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1 | entitled to receive any amount of such disability benefit | ||||||
2 | which, when added to his compensation for such employment | ||||||
3 | during disability, plus any amount payable under the provisions | ||||||
4 | of the Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational | ||||||
5 | Diseases Act, would exceed the rate of salary on which his | ||||||
6 | disability benefit is based. | ||||||
7 | (Source: P.A. 95-1036, eff. 2-17-09.)
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