Bill Text: IL HB0732 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the State Universities Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an employee is entitled to receive service credit for up to 2 years (now up to one year) of unused sick leave. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0732 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HB0732-Introduced.html
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 15-113.4 as follows:
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | (40 ILCS 5/15-113.4) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 15-113.4)
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 15-113.4. Service for unused sick leave. "Service for | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | unused
sick leave": A participant who is an employee under this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | System or one of
the other systems subject to Article 20 of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | this Code within 60 days
immediately preceding the date on | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | which his or her retirement annuity
begins, is entitled to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | credit for service for that portion of unused sick
leave earned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | in the course of employment with an employer and credited on
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | the date of termination of employment by an employer for which | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | payment is
not received, in accordance with the following | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | schedule: 30 through 90
full calendar days and 20 through 59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | full work days of unused sick leave,
1/4 of a year of service; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | 91 through 180 full calendar days and 60 through
119 full work | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | days, 1/2 of a year of service; 181 through 270 full calendar
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | days and 120 through 179 full work days, 3/4 of a year of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | service; 271
through 360 full calendar days and 180 through 240 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | full work days, one year
of service ; 361 through 450
full | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | calendar days and 241 through 300 full work days of unused sick |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | leave,
1.25 years of service; 451 through 540 full calendar | ||||||
2 | days and 301 through
360 full work days, 1.5 years of service; | ||||||
3 | 541 through 630 full calendar
days and 361 through 420 full | ||||||
4 | work days, 1.75 years of service; 631
through 720 full calendar | ||||||
5 | days and 421 through 480 full work days, 2 years
of service .
| ||||||
6 | Only uncompensated, unused sick leave earned in accordance with | ||||||
7 | an
employer's sick leave accrual policy generally applicable to | ||||||
8 | employees or a
class of employees shall be taken into account | ||||||
9 | in calculating service credit
under this Section. Any | ||||||
10 | uncompensated, unused sick leave granted by an
employer to | ||||||
11 | facilitate the hiring, retirement, termination, or other | ||||||
12 | special
circumstances of an employee shall not be taken into | ||||||
13 | account in calculating
service credit under this Section.
If a | ||||||
14 | participant transfers from one employer to another, the
unused | ||||||
15 | sick leave credited by the previous employer shall be | ||||||
16 | considered in
determining service to be credited under this | ||||||
17 | Section, even if the
participant terminated service prior to | ||||||
18 | the effective date of P.A. 86-272
(August 23, 1989); if | ||||||
19 | necessary, the retirement annuity shall be
recalculated to | ||||||
20 | reflect such sick leave credit. Each employer shall
certify to | ||||||
21 | the board the number of days of unused sick leave accrued to | ||||||
22 | the
participant's credit on the date that the participant's | ||||||
23 | status as an
employee terminated. This period of unused sick | ||||||
24 | leave shall not be
considered in determining the date the | ||||||
25 | retirement annuity begins.
| ||||||
26 | (Source: P.A. 90-65, eff. 7-7-97; 90-511, eff. 8-22-97.)
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.
|