Bill Text: IL HB3624 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Extends the deadline for a person to transfer up to 10 years of service credit from a downstate police pension fund to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF). Provides that such credit shall be treated as service as a sheriff's law enforcement employee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB3624 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB3624-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 3-110.8 and 7-139.13 as follows:
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6 | (40 ILCS 5/3-110.8)
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7 | Sec. 3-110.8. Transfer to IMRF. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) Until 180 60 days after the effective date of this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | amendatory Act of the 98th 97th General Assembly, any active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | member of the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund may apply to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | transfer up to 10 years of creditable service in a police | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | pension fund under this Article to the Illinois Municipal
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13 | Retirement Fund. The creditable service shall be transferred | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | upon payment by
the police pension fund to the Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Municipal Retirement Fund of an amount
equal to: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | (1) the amounts accumulated to the credit of the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | applicant on the books
of the fund on the date of transfer; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | and
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19 | (2) employer contributions in an amount equal to the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | amount determined
under subparagraph (1); and
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21 | (3) any interest paid by the applicant in order to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | reinstate service.
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23 | Creditable service transferred to the Illinois Municipal |
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1 | Retirement Fund under this Section shall terminate on the date | ||||||
2 | of the transfer.
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3 | (b) Until 180 60 days after the effective date of this | ||||||
4 | amendatory Act of the 98th 97th General Assembly, any active | ||||||
5 | member of the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund may reinstate | ||||||
6 | all or any portion of his or her service that was
terminated by | ||||||
7 | receipt of a refund, by payment to the police pension fund of | ||||||
8 | the
amount of the refund with interest thereon at the | ||||||
9 | actuarially assumed rate,
compounded annually, from the date of | ||||||
10 | refund to the date of payment.
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11 | (Source: P.A. 97-273, eff. 8-8-11.)
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12 | (40 ILCS 5/7-139.13)
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13 | Sec. 7-139.13. Transfer from Article 3. Notwithstanding | ||||||
14 | subdivision (a)10 of Section 7-139, from the effective date of | ||||||
15 | this amendatory Act of the 98th 97th General Assembly until 180 | ||||||
16 | 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
17 | 98th 97th General Assembly, a person may transfer to the | ||||||
18 | Illinois Municipal Retirement System up to 10 years of | ||||||
19 | creditable service accumulated under Article 3 of this Code. To | ||||||
20 | establish creditable service under this Section, a person may | ||||||
21 | elect to do either of the following: | ||||||
22 | (A) Pay to the Fund an amount to be determined by
the | ||||||
23 | board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
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24 | employee and employer contributions transferred to the | ||||||
25 | Fund
under Section 3-110.8 and the amounts that would have |
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1 | been contributed had such
contributions been made at the | ||||||
2 | rates applicable to a sheriff's law enforcement an employee | ||||||
3 | under this Article, plus (ii) interest thereon at the | ||||||
4 | actuarially assumed rate, compounded annually, from the | ||||||
5 | date of service to the
date of payment. | ||||||
6 | (B) Have the amount of his or her creditable service | ||||||
7 | established under this Section reduced by an amount | ||||||
8 | corresponding to the amount by which (i) the employer and | ||||||
9 | employee contributions that would have been required if he | ||||||
10 | had participated in this Fund as a sheriff's law | ||||||
11 | enforcement employee during the period for which credit is | ||||||
12 | being transferred, plus interest thereon at the | ||||||
13 | actuarially assumed rate, compounded annually, from the | ||||||
14 | date of termination of the service for which credit is | ||||||
15 | being transferred to the date of payment, exceeds (ii) the | ||||||
16 | amount actually transferred to the Fund.
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17 | Creditable service transferred under this Section under | ||||||
18 | this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly shall be | ||||||
19 | treated as service as a sheriff's law enforcement employee. | ||||||
20 | (Source: P.A. 97-273, eff. 8-8-11.)
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