Bill Text: IL HB4599 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a person who is not eligible to participate in a downstate firefighter pension fund and is employed on a full-time basis by a participating municipality to perform duties as a paramedic, emergency medical technician (EMT), emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I), or advanced emergency medical technician (A-EMT) may be granted Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employee (SLEP) status with the approval of the employing municipality. The approval resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be applied to employment occurring on or after the adoption of the resolution. Provides that the resolution is irrevocable. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4599 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4599-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4599 Introduced , by Rep. Kathleen Willis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/7-109.3 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a person who is not eligible to participate in a downstate firefighter pension fund and is employed on a full-time basis by a participating municipality to perform duties as a paramedic, emergency medical technician (EMT), emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I), or advanced emergency medical technician (A-EMT) may be granted Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employee (SLEP) status with the approval of the employing municipality. The approval resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be applied to employment occurring on or after the adoption of the resolution. Provides that the resolution is irrevocable. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
Section 7-109.3 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/7-109.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
(a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
(1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than
special deputies, employed on a full time basis in the
office of the sheriff.
(2) A person who has elected to participate in this
Fund under Section 3-109.1 of this Code, and who is
employed by a participating municipality to perform police
duties.
(3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time
basis by a Forest Preserve District, provided that such
officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's law enforcement
employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's
law enforcement employee, only if the board of
commissioners of the District have so elected by adoption
of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made, may

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not be rescinded.
(4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund
established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed on
a full-time basis by a participating municipality or
participating instrumentality to perform police duties at
an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee
status for its airport police employees by adoption of an
affirmative resolution. Such approval, once given, may not
be rescinded.
(5) A person who (i) is employed by a participating
municipality that has both 30 or more full-time police
officers and 50 or more full-time firefighters and has not
established a fund under Article 3 or Article 4 of this
Code and (ii) is employed on a full-time basis by that
participating municipality to perform police duties or
firefighting and EMS duties; but only if the governing
authority of that municipality has approved sheriff's law
enforcement employee status for its police officer or
firefighter employees by adoption of an affirmative
resolution. The resolution must specify that SLEP status
shall be applicable to such employment occurring on or
after the adoption of the resolution. Such resolution shall
be irrevocable, but shall automatically terminate upon the
establishment of an Article 3 or 4 fund by the
municipality.

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(6) A person who is not eligible to participate in a
fund established under Article 4 and is employed on a
full-time basis by a participating municipality to perform
duties as a paramedic, emergency medical technician (EMT),
emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I), or
advanced emergency medical technician (A-EMT), but only if
the governing authority of that municipality has approved
SLEP status for its paramedic, EMT, EMT-I, and A-EMT
employees by adoption of an affirmative resolution. The
resolution must specify that SLEP status shall be
applicable to such employment occurring on or after the
adoption of the resolution. Such resolution shall be
irrevocable.
(b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee
and is granted military leave or authorized leave of absence
shall receive service credit in that capacity. Sheriff's law
enforcement employees shall not be entitled to out-of-State
service credit under Section 7-139.
(Source: P.A. 100-354, eff. 8-25-17.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.