Bill Text: IL SB1810 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the General Assembly Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Restricts participation in the General Assembly Retirement System by members of the Senate to persons who become participants before the effective date of the Act and provides that, beginning on that date, the System shall not accept any new participants who are members of the Senate. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1810 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB1810-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB1810 Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/2-101 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-101
40 ILCS 5/2-105 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-105
Amends the General Assembly Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Restricts participation in the General Assembly Retirement System by members of the Senate to persons who become participants before the effective date of the Act and provides that, beginning on that date, the System shall not accept any new participants who are members of the Senate. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.
LRB101 10905 RPS 56052 b
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A BILL FOR
SB1810 LRB101 10905 RPS 56052 b
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
Sections 2-101 and 2-105 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/2-101) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-101)
Sec. 2-101. Creation of system. A retirement system is
created to provide retirement annuities, survivor's annuities
and other benefits for certain members of the General Assembly,
certain elected state officials, and their beneficiaries.
The system shall be known as the "General Assembly
Retirement System". All its funds and property shall be a trust
separate from all other entities, maintained for the purpose of
securing payment of annuities and benefits under this Article.
Participation in the retirement system created under this
Article by members of the Senate is restricted to persons who
become participants before the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly. Beginning on that
date, the System shall not accept any new participants who are
members of the Senate.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)
(40 ILCS 5/2-105) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-105)

SB1810 - 2 - LRB101 10905 RPS 56052 b
Sec. 2-105. Member. "Member": Members of the General
Assembly of this State, including persons who enter military
service while a member of the General Assembly, and any person
serving as Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State,
Treasurer, Comptroller, or Attorney General for the period of
service in such office.
Any person who has served for 10 or more years as Clerk or
Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, Secretary or
Assistant Secretary of the Senate, or any combination thereof,
may elect to become a member of this system while thenceforth
engaged in such service by filing a written election with the
board. Any person so electing shall be deemed an active member
of the General Assembly for the purpose of validating and
transferring any service credits earned under any of the funds
and systems established under Articles 3 through 18 of this
Code.
However, notwithstanding any other provision of this
Article, a member of the Senate shall not be deemed a member
for the purposes of this Article unless he or she became a
participant of the System before the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 85-1008.)