Bill Text: IL HB2412 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Chaptered


Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Further amends the Gun Trafficking Information Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall use all reasonable efforts in making publicly available key information related to firearms used in the commission of crimes in the State (removing a requirement that the crimes are reported to and are investigated by the Illinois State Police). Further amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall implement specified protective service functions. Provides that the Office of the Director of the Illinois State Police shall oversee the Executive Protection Unit. Changes the Division of Patrol Operations to the Division of Patrol, and makes conforming changes in the Illinois State Police Law, the State Finance Act, and the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the Division of Forensic Services shall establish forensic laboratories (rather than forensic toxicological laboratories) in specified locations. Provides that the Division of Justice Service shall share all necessary information with the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board and the Firearms Owner's Identification Card Review Board necessary for the execution of their duties (rather than liaise with the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board and the Firearms Owner's Identification Card Review Board). Provides that the successful completion of the Illinois State Police Academy meets all law enforcement certification requirements for the State of Illinois and that satisfactory completion shall be evidenced by a commission or certificate issued to the officer. Adds one member who is a medical examiner or coroner to the Illinois Forensic Science Commission. Makes other changes. Further amends the State Finance Act. In provisions relating to the State Police Revocation Enforcement Fund, provides that any surplus in the Fund beyond what is necessary to ensure compliance with the provisions or moneys that are specifically appropriated for the purposes stated in the provisions shall be used by the Illinois State Police to award grants to assist with the data reporting requirements of the Gun Trafficking Information Act. Amends the Intergovernmental Drug Laws Enforcement Act. Provides that a Metropolitan Enforcement Group eligible to receive State grants to help defray the costs of operation may enforce provisions of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act relating to revocation of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card. Effective immediately, except that some provisions take effect January 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-13)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0034 [HB2412 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2412-Chaptered.html



Public Act 103-0034
HB2412 EnrolledLRB103 05885 RLC 56341 b
AN ACT concerning the Illinois State Police.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 3. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
changing Section 7.5 as follows:
(5 ILCS 140/7.5)
Sec. 7.5. Statutory exemptions. To the extent provided for
by the statutes referenced below, the following shall be
exempt from inspection and copying:
(a) All information determined to be confidential
under Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and
Development Act.
(b) Library circulation and order records identifying
library users with specific materials under the Library
Records Confidentiality Act.
(c) Applications, related documents, and medical
records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
Procedures Board and any and all documents or other
records prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
has received.
(d) Information and records held by the Department of
Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
disease or any information the disclosure of which is
restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
Disease Control Act.
(e) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
(f) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
Qualifications Based Selection Act.
(g) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
Tuition Act.
(h) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, and
records of any lawfully created State or local inspector
general's office that would be exempt if created or
obtained by an Executive Inspector General's office under
that Act.
(i) Information contained in a local emergency energy
plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a
local emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted
under Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
(j) Information and data concerning the distribution
of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by carriers
under the Emergency Telephone System Act.
(k) Law enforcement officer identification information
or driver identification information compiled by a law
enforcement agency or the Department of Transportation
under Section 11-212 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(l) Records and information provided to a residential
health care facility resident sexual assault and death
review team or the Executive Council under the Abuse
Prevention Review Team Act.
(m) Information provided to the predatory lending
database created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential
Real Property Disclosure Act, except to the extent
authorized under that Article.
(n) Defense budgets and petitions for certification of
compensation and expenses for court appointed trial
counsel as provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the
Capital Crimes Litigation Act. This subsection (n) shall
apply until the conclusion of the trial of the case, even
if the prosecution chooses not to pursue the death penalty
prior to trial or sentencing.
(o) Information that is prohibited from being
disclosed under Section 4 of the Illinois Health and
Hazardous Substances Registry Act.
(p) Security portions of system safety program plans,
investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
Department of Transportation under Sections 2705-300 and
2705-616 of the Department of Transportation Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Regional
Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of the
Regional Transportation Authority Act, or the St. Clair
County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
Act.
(q) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
Personnel Record Review Act.
(r) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
Illinois School Student Records Act.
(s) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
(t) All identified or deidentified health information
in the form of health data or medical records contained
in, stored in, submitted to, transferred by, or released
from the Illinois Health Information Exchange, and
identified or deidentified health information in the form
of health data and medical records of the Illinois Health
Information Exchange in the possession of the Illinois
Health Information Exchange Office due to its
administration of the Illinois Health Information
Exchange. The terms "identified" and "deidentified" shall
be given the same meaning as in the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law
104-191, or any subsequent amendments thereto, and any
regulations promulgated thereunder.
(u) Records and information provided to an independent
team of experts under the Developmental Disability and
Mental Health Safety Act (also known as Brian's Law).
(v) Names and information of people who have applied
for or received Firearm Owner's Identification Cards under
the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act or applied for
or received a concealed carry license under the Firearm
Concealed Carry Act, unless otherwise authorized by the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act; and databases under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act, records of the Concealed
Carry Licensing Review Board under the Firearm Concealed
Carry Act, and law enforcement agency objections under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
(v-5) Records of the Firearm Owner's Identification
Card Review Board that are exempted from disclosure under
Section 10 of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
(w) Personally identifiable information which is
exempted from disclosure under subsection (g) of Section
19.1 of the Toll Highway Act.
(x) Information which is exempted from disclosure
under Section 5-1014.3 of the Counties Code or Section
8-11-21 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
(y) Confidential information under the Adult
Protective Services Act and its predecessor enabling
statute, the Elder Abuse and Neglect Act, including
information about the identity and administrative finding
against any caregiver of a verified and substantiated
decision of abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation of
an eligible adult maintained in the Registry established
under Section 7.5 of the Adult Protective Services Act.
(z) Records and information provided to a fatality
review team or the Illinois Fatality Review Team Advisory
Council under Section 15 of the Adult Protective Services
Act.
(aa) Information which is exempted from disclosure
under Section 2.37 of the Wildlife Code.
(bb) Information which is or was prohibited from
disclosure by the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
(cc) Recordings made under the Law Enforcement
Officer-Worn Body Camera Act, except to the extent
authorized under that Act.
(dd) Information that is prohibited from being
disclosed under Section 45 of the Condominium and Common
Interest Community Ombudsperson Act.
(ee) Information that is exempted from disclosure
under Section 30.1 of the Pharmacy Practice Act.
(ff) Information that is exempted from disclosure
under the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.
(gg) Information that is prohibited from being
disclosed under Section 7-603.5 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code.
(hh) Records that are exempt from disclosure under
Section 1A-16.7 of the Election Code.
(ii) Information which is exempted from disclosure
under Section 2505-800 of the Department of Revenue Law of
the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
(jj) Information and reports that are required to be
submitted to the Department of Labor by registering day
and temporary labor service agencies but are exempt from
disclosure under subsection (a-1) of Section 45 of the Day
and Temporary Labor Services Act.
(kk) Information prohibited from disclosure under the
Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act.
(ll) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
and exempted under Section 5-30.8 of the Illinois Public
Aid Code.
(mm) Records that are exempt from disclosure under
Section 4.2 of the Crime Victims Compensation Act.
(nn) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
Section 70 of the Higher Education Student Assistance Act.
(oo) Communications, notes, records, and reports
arising out of a peer support counseling session
prohibited from disclosure under the First Responders
Suicide Prevention Act.
(pp) Names and all identifying information relating to
an employee of an emergency services provider or law
enforcement agency under the First Responders Suicide
Prevention Act.
(qq) Information and records held by the Department of
Public Health and its authorized representatives collected
under the Reproductive Health Act.
(rr) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.
(ss) Data reported by an employer to the Department of
Human Rights pursuant to Section 2-108 of the Illinois
Human Rights Act.
(tt) Recordings made under the Children's Advocacy
Center Act, except to the extent authorized under that
Act.
(uu) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
Section 50 of the Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act.
(vv) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
subsections (f) and (j) of Section 5-36 of the Illinois
Public Aid Code.
(ww) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
Section 16.8 of the State Treasurer Act.
(xx) Information that is exempt from disclosure or
information that shall not be made public under the
Illinois Insurance Code.
(yy) Information prohibited from being disclosed under
the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
(zz) Information prohibited from being disclosed under
the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act.
(aaa) Information prohibited from being disclosed
under Section 1-167 of the Illinois Pension Code.
(bbb) Information that is prohibited from disclosure
by the Illinois Police Training Act and the Illinois State
Police Act.
(ccc) Records exempt from disclosure under Section
2605-304 of the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois.
(ddd) Information prohibited from being disclosed
under Section 35 of the Address Confidentiality for
Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Human
Trafficking, or Stalking Act.
(eee) Information prohibited from being disclosed
under subsection (b) of Section 75 of the Domestic
Violence Fatality Review Act.
(fff) Images from cameras under the Expressway Camera
Act. This subsection (fff) is inoperative on and after
July 1, 2025 2023.
(ggg) Information prohibited from disclosure under
paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of Section 14 of the Nurse
Agency Licensing Act.
(hhh) Information submitted to the Illinois Department
of State Police in an affidavit or application for an
assault weapon endorsement, assault weapon attachment
endorsement, .50 caliber rifle endorsement, or .50 caliber
cartridge endorsement under the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act.
(Source: P.A. 101-13, eff. 6-12-19; 101-27, eff. 6-25-19;
101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 101-221, eff. 1-1-20; 101-236, eff.
1-1-20; 101-375, eff. 8-16-19; 101-377, eff. 8-16-19; 101-452,
eff. 1-1-20; 101-466, eff. 1-1-20; 101-600, eff. 12-6-19;
101-620, eff 12-20-19; 101-649, eff. 7-7-20; 101-652, eff.
1-1-22; 101-656, eff. 3-23-21; 102-36, eff. 6-25-21; 102-237,
eff. 1-1-22; 102-292, eff. 1-1-22; 102-520, eff. 8-20-21;
102-559, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-946, eff.
7-1-22; 102-1042, eff. 6-3-22; 102-1116, eff. 1-10-23; revised
2-13-23.)
Section 5. The Gun Trafficking Information Act is amended
by changing Section 10-5 as follows:
(5 ILCS 830/10-5)
Sec. 10-5. Gun trafficking information.
(a) The Illinois State Police shall use all reasonable
efforts, as allowed by State law and regulations, federal law
and regulations, and executed Memoranda of Understanding
between Illinois law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in making
publicly available, on a regular and ongoing basis, key
information related to firearms used in the commission of
crimes in this State, including, but not limited to: reports
on crimes committed with firearms, locations where the crimes
occurred, the number of persons killed or injured in the
commission of the crimes, the state where the firearms used
originated, the Federal Firearms Licensee that sold the
firearm, the type of firearms used, if known, annual
statistical information concerning Firearm Owner's
Identification Card and concealed carry license applications,
revocations, and compliance with Section 9.5 of the Firearm
Owners Identification Card Act, the information required in
the report or on the Illinois State Police's website under
Section 85 of the Firearms Restraining Order Act firearm
restraining order dispositions, and firearm dealer license
certification inspections. The Illinois State Police shall
make the information available on its website, which may be
presented in a dashboard format, in addition to electronically
filing a report with the Governor and the General Assembly.
The report to the General Assembly shall be filed with the
Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the
Senate in electronic form only, in the manner that the Clerk
and the Secretary shall direct.
(b) The Illinois State Police shall study, on a regular
and ongoing basis, and compile reports on the number of
Firearm Owner's Identification Card checks to determine
firearms trafficking or straw purchase patterns. The Illinois
State Police shall, to the extent not inconsistent with law,
share such reports and underlying data with academic centers,
foundations, and law enforcement agencies studying firearms
trafficking, provided that personally identifying information
is protected. For purposes of this subsection (b), a Firearm
Owner's Identification Card number is not personally
identifying information, provided that no other personal
information of the card holder is attached to the record. The
Illinois State Police may create and attach an alternate
unique identifying number to each Firearm Owner's
Identification Card number, instead of releasing the Firearm
Owner's Identification Card number itself.
(c) Each department, office, division, and agency of this
State shall, to the extent not inconsistent with law,
cooperate fully with the Illinois State Police and furnish the
Illinois State Police with all relevant information and
assistance on a timely basis as is necessary to accomplish the
purpose of this Act. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information
Authority shall submit the information required in subsection
(a) of this Section to the Illinois State Police, and any other
information as the Illinois State Police may request, to
assist the Illinois State Police in carrying out its duties
under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 102-237, eff. 1-1-22; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
Section 10. The Illinois State Police Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing
Sections 2605-10, 2605-25, 2605-30, 2605-35, 2605-40, 2605-45,
2605-51, 2605-52, 2605-200, and 2605-615 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-10) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
Sec. 2605-10. Powers and duties, generally.
(a) The Illinois State Police shall exercise the rights,
powers, and duties that have been vested in the Illinois State
Police by the following:
The Illinois State Police Act.
The Illinois State Police Radio Act.
The Criminal Identification Act.
The Illinois Vehicle Code.
The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
The Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
The Firearm Dealer License Certification Act Gun Dealer
Licensing Act.
The Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984.
The Intergovernmental Drug Laws Enforcement Act.
The Narcotic Control Division Abolition Act.
The Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act.
The Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth
Registration Act.
(b) The Illinois State Police shall have the powers and
duties set forth in the following Sections.
(c) The Illinois State Police shall exercise the rights,
powers, and duties vested in the Illinois State Police to
implement the following protective service functions for State
facilities, State officials, and State employees serving in
their official capacity:
(1) Utilize subject matter expertise and law
enforcement authority to strengthen the protection of
State government facilities, State employees, State
officials, and State critical infrastructure.
(2) Coordinate State, federal, and local law
enforcement activities involving the protection of State
facilities, officials and employees.
(3) Conduct investigations of criminal threats to
State facilities, State critical infrastructure, State
officials and State employees.
(4) Train State officials and employees in personal
protection, crime prevention, facility occupant emergency
planning, and incident management.
(5) Establish standard protocols for prevention and
response to criminal threats to State facilities, State
officials, State employees, State critical infrastructure,
and standard protocols for reporting of suspicious
activities.
(6) Establish minimum operational standards,
qualifications, training, and compliance requirements for
State employees and contractors engaged in the protection
of State facilities and employees.
(7) At the request of departments or agencies of State
government, conduct security assessments, including, but
not limited to, examination of alarm systems, cameras
systems, access points, personnel readiness, and emergency
protocols based on risk and need.
(8) Oversee the planning and implementation of
security and law enforcement activities necessary for the
protection of major, multi-jurisdictional events
implicating potential criminal threats to State officials,
State employees, or State-owned, State-leased, or
State-operated critical infrastructure or facilities.
(9) Oversee and direct the planning and implementation
of security and law enforcement activities by the
departments and agencies of the State necessary for the
protection of State employees, State officials, and
State-owned, State-leased, or State-operated critical
infrastructure or facilities from criminal activity.
(10) Advise the Governor and Homeland Security Advisor
on any matters necessary for the effective protection of
State facilities, critical infrastructure, officials, and
employees from criminal threats.
(11) Utilize intergovernmental agreements and
administrative rules as needed for the effective,
efficient implementation of law enforcement and support
activities necessary for the protection of State
facilities, State infrastructure, State officials, and
State employees.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-25) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a-1)
Sec. 2605-25. Illinois State Police divisions.
(a) The Illinois State Police is divided into the Division
of Statewide 9-1-1, the Division of Patrol Operations, the
Division of Criminal Investigation, the Division of Forensic
Services, the Division of Justice Services, the Division of
the Academy and Training, and the Division of Internal
Investigation.
(b) The Office of the Director shall:
(1) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested in
the Illinois State Police by the Governor's Office of
Management and Budget Act.
(2) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested in
the Illinois State Police by the Personnel Code.
(3) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested in
the Illinois State Police by "An Act relating to internal
auditing in State government", approved August 11, 1967
(repealed; now the Fiscal Control and Internal Auditing
Act).
(4) Oversee the Executive Protection Unit.
(Source: P.A. 101-378, eff. 1-1-20; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-30) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a-2)
Sec. 2605-30. Division of Patrol Operations (formerly
State Troopers). The Division of Patrol Operations shall
exercise the following functions and those in Section 2605-35:
(1) Cooperate with federal and State authorities
requesting utilization of the Illinois State Police's
radio network system under the Illinois Aeronautics Act.
(2) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties of the
Illinois State Police under the Illinois State Police Act.
(2.5) Provide uniformed patrol of Illinois highways
and proactively enforce criminal and traffic laws.
(3) (Blank).
(4) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties of the
Illinois State Police vested by law in the Illinois State
Police by the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(5) Exercise other duties that have been or may be
vested by law in the Illinois State Police.
(6) Exercise other duties that may be assigned by the
Director in order to fulfill the responsibilities and to
achieve the purposes of the Illinois State Police.
(7) Provide comprehensive law enforcement services to
the public and to county, municipal, and federal law
enforcement agencies, at their request.
(8) Patrol Illinois highways with the intent to
interdict crime and ensure traffic safety while assisting
citizens during times of need.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-35) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a-3)
Sec. 2605-35. Division of Criminal Investigation.
(a) The Division of Criminal Investigation shall exercise
the following functions and those in Section 2605-30:
(1) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested by
law in the Illinois State Police by the Illinois Horse
Racing Act of 1975, including those set forth in Section
2605-215.
(2) Investigate the origins, activities, personnel,
and incidents of crime and enforce the criminal laws of
this State related thereto.
(3) Enforce all laws regulating the production, sale,
prescribing, manufacturing, administering, transporting,
having in possession, dispensing, delivering,
distributing, or use of controlled substances and
cannabis.
(4) Cooperate with the police of cities, villages, and
incorporated towns and with the police officers of any
county in enforcing the laws of the State and in making
arrests and recovering property.
(5) Apprehend and deliver up any person charged in
this State or any other state with treason or a felony or
other crime who has fled from justice and is found in this
State.
(6) Investigate recipients and providers under the
Illinois Public Aid Code and any personnel involved in the
administration of the Code who are suspected of any
violation of the Code pertaining to fraud in the
administration, receipt, or provision of assistance and
pertaining to any violation of criminal law; and exercise
the functions required under Section 2605-220 in the
conduct of those investigations.
(7) Conduct other investigations as provided by law,
including, but not limited to, investigations of human
trafficking, illegal drug trafficking, and illegal
firearms trafficking, and cyber crimes that can be
investigated and prosecuted in Illinois.
(8) Investigate public corruption.
(9) Exercise other duties that may be assigned by the
Director in order to fulfill the responsibilities and
achieve the purposes of the Illinois State Police, which
may include the coordination of gang, terrorist, and
organized crime prevention, control activities, and
assisting local law enforcement in their crime control
activities.
(10) Conduct investigations (and cooperate with
federal law enforcement agencies in the investigation) of
any property-related crimes, such as money laundering,
involving individuals or entities listed on the sanctions
list maintained by the U.S. Department of Treasury's
Office of Foreign Asset Control.
(11) Oversee Illinois State Police special weapons and
tactics (SWAT) teams, including law enforcement response
to weapons of mass destruction.
(12) Oversee Illinois State Police air operations.
(13) Investigate criminal domestic terrorism
incidents, and otherwise deter all criminal threats to
Illinois.
(a-5) The Division of Criminal Investigation shall gather
information, intelligence, and evidence to facilitate the
identification, apprehension, and prosecution of persons
responsible for committing crime; to provide specialized
intelligence and analysis, investigative, tactical, and
technological services in support of law enforcement
operations throughout the State of Illinois; and to oversee
and operate the statewide criminal intelligence fusion center.
(b) (Blank).
(c) The Division of Criminal Investigation shall provide
statewide coordination and strategy pertaining to
firearm-related intelligence, firearms trafficking
interdiction, and investigations reaching across all divisions
of the Illinois State Police, including providing crime gun
intelligence support for suspects and firearms involved in
firearms trafficking or the commission of a crime involving
firearms that is investigated by the Illinois State Police and
other federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, with
the objective of reducing and preventing illegal possession
and use of firearms, firearms trafficking, firearm-related
homicides, and other firearm-related violent crimes in
Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22;
102-1108, eff. 12-21-22; 102-1116, eff. 1-10-23.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-40) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a-4)
Sec. 2605-40. Division of Forensic Services. The Division
of Forensic Services shall exercise the following functions:
(1) Provide crime scene services and traffic crash
reconstruction.
(2) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested by
law in the Illinois State Police by Section 2605-300 of
this Law.
(3) Provide assistance to local law enforcement
agencies through training, management, and consultant
services.
(4) (Blank).
(5) Exercise other duties that may be assigned by the
Director in order to fulfill the responsibilities and
achieve the purposes of the Illinois State Police.
(6) Establish and operate a forensic science
laboratory system, including a forensic toxicological
laboratory service, for the purpose of testing specimens
submitted by coroners and other law enforcement officers
in their efforts to determine whether alcohol, drugs, or
poisonous or other toxic substances have been involved in
deaths, accidents, or illness. Forensic toxicological
laboratories shall be established in Springfield, Chicago,
and elsewhere in the State as needed.
(6.5) Establish administrative rules in order to set
forth standardized requirements for the disclosure of
toxicology results and other relevant documents related to
a toxicological analysis. These administrative rules are
to be adopted to produce uniform and sufficient
information to allow a proper, well-informed determination
of the admissibility of toxicology evidence and to ensure
that this evidence is presented competently. These
administrative rules are designed to provide a minimum
standard for compliance of toxicology evidence and are not
intended to limit the production and discovery of material
information.
(7) Subject to specific appropriations made for these
purposes, establish and coordinate a system for providing
accurate and expedited forensic science and other
investigative and laboratory services to local law
enforcement agencies and local State's Attorneys in aid of
the investigation and trial of capital cases.
(8) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested by
law in the Illinois State Police under the Sexual Assault
Evidence Submission Act.
(9) Serve as the State central repository for all
genetic marker grouping analysis information and exercise
the rights, powers, and duties vested by law in the
Illinois State Police under Section 5-4-3 of the Unified
Code of Corrections.
(10) Issue reports required under Section 5-4-3a of
the Unified Code of Corrections.
(11) Oversee the Electronic Laboratory Information
Management System under Section 5-4-3b of the Unified Code
of Corrections.
(Source: P.A. 101-378, eff. 1-1-20; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-45) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a-5)
Sec. 2605-45. Division of Justice Services. The Division
of Justice Services shall provide administrative and technical
services and support to the Illinois State Police, criminal
justice agencies, and the public and shall exercise the
following functions:
(1) Operate and maintain the Law Enforcement Agencies
Data System (LEADS), a statewide, computerized
telecommunications system designed to provide services,
information, and capabilities to the law enforcement and
criminal justice community in the State of Illinois. The
Director is responsible for establishing policy,
procedures, and regulations consistent with State and
federal rules, policies, and law by which LEADS operates.
The Director shall designate a statewide LEADS
Administrator for management of the system. The Director
may appoint a LEADS Advisory Policy Board to reflect the
needs and desires of the law enforcement and criminal
justice community and to make recommendations concerning
policies and procedures.
(2) Pursue research and the publication of studies
pertaining to local law enforcement activities.
(3) Serve as the State's point of contact for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting
Program and National Incident-Based Reporting System.
(4) Operate an electronic data processing and computer
center for the storage and retrieval of data pertaining to
criminal activity.
(5) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested in
the Illinois State Police by the Cannabis Regulation and
Tax Act and the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis
Program Act.
(6) (Blank).
(6.5) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested
in the Illinois State Police by the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act, the Firearm Concealed Carry Act,
the Firearm Transfer Inquiry Program, the prohibited
persons portal under Section 2605-304, and the Firearm
Dealer License Certification Act.
(7) Exercise other duties that may be assigned by the
Director to fulfill the responsibilities and achieve the
purposes of the Illinois State Police.
(8) Exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested by
law in the Illinois State Police by the Criminal
Identification Act and the Illinois Uniform Conviction
Information Act.
(9) Exercise the powers and perform the duties that
have been vested in the Illinois State Police by the
Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration
Act, the Sex Offender Registration Act, and the Sex
Offender Community Notification Law and adopt reasonable
rules necessitated thereby.
(10) Serve as the State central repository for
criminal history record information.
(11) Share all necessary information with the
Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board and the Firearms
Owner's Identification Card Review Board necessary for the
execution of their duties.
(Source: P.A. 101-378, eff. 1-1-20; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-51)
Sec. 2605-51. Division of the Academy and Training.
(a) The Division of the Academy and Training shall
exercise, but not be limited to, the following functions:
(1) Oversee and operate the Illinois State Police
Training Academy.
(2) Train and prepare new officers for a career in law
enforcement, with innovative, quality training and
educational practices.
(3) Offer continuing training and educational programs
for Illinois State Police employees.
(4) Oversee the Illinois State Police's recruitment
initiatives.
(5) Oversee and operate the Illinois State Police's
quartermaster.
(6) Duties assigned to the Illinois State Police in
Article 5, Chapter 11 of the Illinois Vehicle Code
concerning testing and training officers on the detection
of impaired driving.
(7) Duties assigned to the Illinois State Police in
Article 108B of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
(a-5) Successful completion of the Illinois State Police
Academy satisfies the minimum standards pursuant to
subsections (a), (b), and (d) of Section 7 of the Illinois
Police Training Act and exempts State police officers from the
Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board's State
Comprehensive Examination and Equivalency Examination.
Satisfactory completion shall be evidenced by a commission or
certificate issued to the officer.
(b) The Division of the Academy and Training shall
exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested in the former
Division of State Troopers by Section 17 of the Illinois State
Police Act.
(c) Specialized training.
(1) Training; cultural diversity. The Division of the
Academy and Training shall provide training and continuing
education to State police officers concerning cultural
diversity, including sensitivity toward racial and ethnic
differences. This training and continuing education shall
include, but not be limited to, an emphasis on the fact
that the primary purpose of enforcement of the Illinois
Vehicle Code is safety and equal and uniform enforcement
under the law.
(2) Training; death and homicide investigations. The
Division of the Academy and Training shall provide
training in death and homicide investigation for State
police officers. Only State police officers who
successfully complete the training may be assigned as lead
investigators in death and homicide investigations.
Satisfactory completion of the training shall be evidenced
by a certificate issued to the officer by the Division of
the Academy and Training. The Director shall develop a
process for waiver applications for officers whose prior
training and experience as homicide investigators may
qualify them for a waiver. The Director may issue a
waiver, at his or her discretion, based solely on the
prior training and experience of an officer as a homicide
investigator.
(A) The Division shall require all homicide
investigator training to include instruction on
victim-centered, trauma-informed investigation. This
training must be implemented by July 1, 2023.
(B) The Division shall cooperate with the Division
of Criminal Investigation to develop a model
curriculum on victim-centered, trauma-informed
investigation. This curriculum must be implemented by
July 1, 2023.
(3) Training; police dog training standards. All
police dogs used by the Illinois State Police for drug
enforcement purposes pursuant to the Cannabis Control Act,
the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, and the
Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act shall
be trained by programs that meet the certification
requirements set by the Director or the Director's
designee. Satisfactory completion of the training shall be
evidenced by a certificate issued by the Division of the
Academy and Training.
(4) Training; post-traumatic stress disorder. The
Division of the Academy and Training shall conduct or
approve a training program in post-traumatic stress
disorder for State police officers. The purpose of that
training shall be to equip State police officers to
identify the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
and to respond appropriately to individuals exhibiting
those symptoms.
(5) Training; opioid antagonists. The Division of the
Academy and Training shall conduct or approve a training
program for State police officers in the administration of
opioid antagonists as defined in paragraph (1) of
subsection (e) of Section 5-23 of the Substance Use
Disorder Act that is in accordance with that Section. As
used in this Section, "State police officers" includes
full-time or part-time State police officers,
investigators, and any other employee of the Illinois
State Police exercising the powers of a peace officer.
(6) Training; sexual assault and sexual abuse.
(A) Every 3 years, the Division of the Academy and
Training shall present in-service training on sexual
assault and sexual abuse response and report writing
training requirements, including, but not limited to,
the following:
(i) recognizing the symptoms of trauma;
(ii) understanding the role trauma has played
in a victim's life;
(iii) responding to the needs and concerns of
a victim;
(iv) delivering services in a compassionate,
sensitive, and nonjudgmental manner;
(v) interviewing techniques in accordance with
the curriculum standards in this paragraph (6);
(vi) understanding cultural perceptions and
common myths of sexual assault and sexual abuse;
and
(vii) report writing techniques in accordance
with the curriculum standards in this paragraph
(6).
(B) This training must also be presented in all
full and part-time basic law enforcement academies.
(C) Instructors providing this training shall have
successfully completed training on evidence-based,
trauma-informed, victim-centered responses to cases of
sexual assault and sexual abuse and have experience
responding to sexual assault and sexual abuse cases.
(D) The Illinois State Police shall adopt rules,
in consultation with the Office of the Attorney
General and the Illinois Law Enforcement Training
Standards Board, to determine the specific training
requirements for these courses, including, but not
limited to, the following:
(i) evidence-based curriculum standards for
report writing and immediate response to sexual
assault and sexual abuse, including
trauma-informed, victim-centered interview
techniques, which have been demonstrated to
minimize retraumatization, for all State police
officers; and
(ii) evidence-based curriculum standards for
trauma-informed, victim-centered investigation
and interviewing techniques, which have been
demonstrated to minimize retraumatization, for
cases of sexual assault and sexual abuse for all
State police officers who conduct sexual assault
and sexual abuse investigations.
(7) Training; human trafficking. The Division of the
Academy and Training shall conduct or approve a training
program in the detection and investigation of all forms of
human trafficking, including, but not limited to,
involuntary servitude under subsection (b) of Section 10-9
of the Criminal Code of 2012, involuntary sexual servitude
of a minor under subsection (c) of Section 10-9 of the
Criminal Code of 2012, and trafficking in persons under
subsection (d) of Section 10-9 of the Criminal Code of
2012. This program shall be made available to all cadets
and State police officers.
(8) Training; hate crimes. The Division of the Academy
and Training shall provide training for State police
officers in identifying, responding to, and reporting all
hate crimes.
(d) The Division of the Academy and Training shall
administer and conduct a program consistent with 18 U.S.C.
926B and 926C for qualified active and retired Illinois State
Police officers.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-756, eff. 5-10-22;
102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-52)
Sec. 2605-52. Division of Statewide 9-1-1.
(a) There shall be established an Office of the Statewide
9-1-1 Administrator within the Division of Statewide 9-1-1.
Beginning January 1, 2016, the Office of the Statewide 9-1-1
Administrator shall be responsible for developing,
implementing, and overseeing a uniform statewide 9-1-1 system
for all areas of the State outside of municipalities having a
population over 500,000.
(b) The Governor shall appoint, with the advice and
consent of the Senate, a Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator. The
Administrator shall serve for a term of 2 years, and until a
successor is appointed and qualified; except that the term of
the first 9-1-1 Administrator appointed under this Act shall
expire on the third Monday in January, 2017. The Administrator
shall not hold any other remunerative public office. The
Administrator shall receive an annual salary as set by the
Governor.
(c) The Illinois State Police, from appropriations made to
it for that purpose, shall make grants to 9-1-1 Authorities
for the purpose of defraying costs associated with 9-1-1
system consolidations awarded by the Administrator under
Section 15.4b of the Emergency Telephone System Act.
(d) The Division of Statewide 9-1-1 shall exercise the
rights, powers, and duties vested by law in the Illinois State
Police by the State Police Radio Act and shall oversee the
Illinois State Police radio network, including the Illinois
State Police Emergency Radio Network and Illinois State
Police's STARCOM21.
(e) The Division of Statewide 9-1-1 shall also conduct the
following communication activities:
(1) Acquire and operate one or more radio broadcasting
stations in the State to be used for police purposes.
(2) Operate a statewide communications network to
gather and disseminate information for law enforcement
agencies.
(3) Undertake other communication activities that may
be required by law.
(4) Oversee Illinois State Police telecommunications.
(f) The Division of Statewide 9-1-1 shall oversee the
Illinois State Police fleet operations.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-200) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
Sec. 2605-200. Investigations of crime; enforcement of
laws; records; crime laboratories; personnel.
(a) To do the following:
(1) Investigate the origins, activities, personnel,
and incidents of crime and the ways and means to redress
the victims of crimes; study the impact, if any, of
legislation relative to the effusion of crime and growing
crime rates; and enforce the criminal laws of this State
related thereto.
(2) Enforce all laws regulating the production, sale,
prescribing, manufacturing, administering, transporting,
having in possession, dispensing, delivering,
distributing, or use of controlled substances and
cannabis.
(3) Employ skilled experts, scientists, technicians,
investigators, or otherwise specially qualified persons to
aid in preventing or detecting crime, apprehending
criminals, or preparing and presenting evidence of
violations of the criminal laws of the State.
(4) Cooperate with the police of cities, villages, and
incorporated towns and with the police officers of any
county in enforcing the laws of the State and in making
arrests and recovering property.
(5) Apprehend and deliver up any person charged in
this State or any other state of the United States with
treason or a felony or other crime who has fled from
justice and is found in this State.
(6) Conduct other investigations as provided by law.
(7) Be a central repository and custodian of criminal
statistics for the State.
(8) Be a central repository for criminal history
record information.
(9) Procure and file for record information that is
necessary and helpful to plan programs of crime
prevention, law enforcement, and criminal justice.
(10) Procure and file for record copies of
fingerprints that may be required by law.
(11) Establish general and field crime laboratories.
(12) Register and file for record information that may
be required by law for the issuance of firearm owner's
identification cards under the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act and concealed carry licenses under
the Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
(13) Employ laboratory technicians and other specially
qualified persons to aid in the identification of criminal
activity and the identification, collection, and recovery
of cyber forensics, including, but not limited to, digital
evidence, and may employ polygraph operators and forensic
anthropologists.
(14) Undertake other identification, information,
laboratory, statistical, or registration activities that
may be required by law.
(b) Persons exercising the powers set forth in subsection
(a) within the Illinois State Police are conservators of the
peace and as such have all the powers possessed by policemen in
cities and sheriffs, except that they may exercise those
powers anywhere in the State in cooperation with and after
contact with the local law enforcement officials. Those
persons may use false or fictitious names in the performance
of their duties under this Section, upon approval of the
Director, and shall not be subject to prosecution under the
criminal laws for that use.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-615)
Sec. 2605-615. Illinois Forensic Science Commission.
(a) Creation. There is created within the Illinois State
Police the Illinois Forensic Science Commission.
(b) Duties and purpose. The Commission shall:
(1) Provide guidance to ensure the efficient delivery
of forensic services and the sound practice of forensic
science.
(2) Provide a forum for discussions between forensic
science stakeholders to improve communication and
coordination and to monitor the important issues impacting
all stakeholders.
(3) Take a systems-based approach in reviewing all
aspects of the delivery of forensic services and the sound
practice of forensic science with the goal of reducing or
eliminating the factors and inefficiencies that contribute
to backlogs and errors, with a focus on education and
training, funding, hiring, procurement, and other aspects
identified by the Commission.
(4) Review significant non-conformities with the sound
practice of forensic science documented by each publicly
funded forensic laboratory and offer recommendations for
the correction thereof.
(5) Subject to appropriation, provide educational,
research, and professional training opportunities for
practicing forensic scientists, police officers, judges,
State's Attorneys and Assistant State's Attorneys, Public
Defenders, and defense attorneys comporting with the sound
practice of forensic science.
(6) Collect and analyze information related to the
impact of current laws, rules, policies, and practices on
forensic crime laboratories and the practice of forensic
science; evaluate the impact of those laws, rules,
policies, and practices on forensic crime laboratories and
the practice of forensic science; identify new policies
and approaches, together with changes in science, and
technology; and make recommendations for changes to those
laws, rules, policies, and practices that will yield
better results in the criminal justice system consistent
with the sound practice of forensic science.
(7) Perform such other studies or tasks pertaining to
forensic crime laboratories as may be requested by the
General Assembly by resolution or the Governor, and
perform such other functions as may be required by law or
as are necessary to carry out the purposes and goals of the
Commission prescribed in this Section.
(8) Ensure that adequate resources and facilities are
available for carrying out the changes proposed in
legislation, rules, or policies and that rational
priorities are established for the use of those resources.
To do so, the Commission may prepare statements to the
Governor and General Assembly identifying the fiscal and
practical effects of proposed legislation, rules, or
policy changes. Such statements may include, but are not
limited to: the impact on present levels of staffing and
resources; a professional opinion on the practical value
of the change or changes; the increase or decrease the
number of crime laboratories; the increase or decrease the
cost of operating crime laboratories; the impact on
efficiencies and caseloads; other information, including
but not limited to, facts, data, research, and science
relevant to the legislation, rule, or policy; the direct
or indirect alteration in any process involving or used by
crime laboratories of such proposed legislation, rules, or
policy changes; an analysis of the impact, either directly
or indirectly, on the technology, improvements, or
practices of forensic analyses for use in criminal
proceedings; together with the direct or indirect impact
on headcount, space, equipment, instruments,
accreditation, the volume of cases for analysis,
scientific controls, and quality assurance.
(c) Members. The Commission shall be composed of the
Director of the Illinois State Police, or his or her designee,
together with the following members appointed for a term of 4
years by the Governor with the advice and consent of the
Senate:
(1) One crime laboratory director or administrator
from each publicly funded forensic laboratory system.
(2) One member with experience in the admission of
forensic evidence in trials from a statewide association
representing prosecutors.
(3) One member with experience in the admission of
forensic evidence in trials from a statewide association
representing criminal defense attorneys.
(4) Three forensic scientists with bench work
background from various forensic disciplines (e.g., DNA,
chemistry, pattern evidence, etc.).
(5) One retired circuit court judge or associate
circuit court judge with criminal trial experience,
including experience in the admission of forensic evidence
in trials.
(6) One academic specializing in the field of forensic
sciences.
(7) One or more community representatives (e.g.,
victim advocates, innocence project organizations, sexual
assault examiners, etc.).
(8) One member who is a medical examiner or coroner.
The Governor shall designate one of the members of the
Commission to serve as the chair of the Commission. The
members of the Commission shall elect from their number such
other officers as they may determine. Members of the
Commission shall serve without compensation, but may be
reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in the performance
of their duties from funds appropriated for that purpose.
(d) Subcommittees. The Commission may form subcommittees
to study specific issues identified under paragraph (3) of
subsection (b), including, but not limited to, subcommittees
on education and training, procurement, funding and hiring. Ad
hoc subcommittees may also be convened to address other
issues. Such subcommittees shall meet as needed to complete
their work, and shall report their findings back to the
Commission. Subcommittees shall include members of the
Commission, and may also include non-members such as forensic
science stakeholders and subject matter experts.
(e) Meetings. The Commission shall meet quarterly, at the
call of the chairperson. Facilities for meeting, whether
remotely or in person, shall be provided for the Commission by
the Illinois State Police.
(f) Reporting by publicly funded forensic laboratories.
All State and local publicly funded forensic laboratory
systems, including, but not limited to, the DuPage County
Forensic Science Center, the Northeastern Illinois Regional
Crime Laboratory, and the Illinois State Police, shall
annually provide to the Commission a report summarizing its
significant non-conformities with the efficient delivery of
forensic services and the sound practice of forensic science.
The report will identify: each significant non-conformity or
deficient method; how the non-conformity or deficient method
was detected; the nature and extent of the non-conformity or
deficient method; all corrective actions implemented to
address the non-conformity or deficient method; and an
analysis of the effectiveness of the corrective actions taken.
(g) Definition. As used in this Section, "Commission"
means the Illinois Forensic Science Commission.
(Source: P.A. 102-523, eff. 8-20-21.)
Section 15. The Illinois State Police Act is amended by
changing Sections 16 and 20 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2610/16) (from Ch. 121, par. 307.16)
Sec. 16. State policemen shall enforce the provisions of
The Illinois Vehicle Code, approved September 29, 1969, as
amended, and Article 9 of the "Illinois Highway Code" as
amended; and shall patrol the public highways and rural
districts to make arrests for violations of the provisions of
such Acts. They are conservators of the peace and as such have
all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs,
except that they may exercise such powers anywhere in this
State. The State policemen shall cooperate with the police of
cities, villages and incorporated towns, and with the police
officers of any county, in enforcing the laws of the State and
in making arrests and recovering property. They may be
equipped with standardized and tested devices for weighing
motor vehicles and may stop and weigh, acting reasonably, or
cause to be weighed, any motor vehicle which appears to weigh
in excess of the weight permitted by law. It shall also be the
duty of the Illinois State Police to determine, whenever
possible, the person or persons or the causes responsible for
the breaking or destruction of any improved hard-surfaced
roadway; to arrest all persons criminally responsible for such
breaking or destruction and bring them before the proper
officer for trial. The Illinois State Police shall divide the
State into zones, troops, or regions Districts and assign each
zone, troop, or region district to one or more policemen. No
person employed under this Act, however, shall serve or
execute civil process, except for process issued under the
authority of the General Assembly, or a committee or
commission thereof vested with subpoena powers when the county
sheriff refuses or fails to serve such process, and except for
process allowed by statute or issued under the authority of
the Illinois Department of Revenue.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 2610/20) (from Ch. 121, par. 307.18a)
Sec. 20. The Illinois State Police from time to time may
enter into contracts with The Illinois State Toll Highway
Authority, hereinafter called the Authority, with respect to
the policing of toll highways by the Illinois State Police.
Such contracts shall provide among other matters for the
compensation or reimbursement of the Illinois State Police by
the Authority for the costs incurred by this State with
respect to such policing service, including, but not limited
to, the costs of: (1) compensation and training of the State
policemen and the clerical employees assigned to such policing
service; and (2) uniforms, equipment, and supplies, which
shall be Illinois State Police property, and housing used by
such personnel; and (3) reimbursement of such sums as the
State expends in connection with payments of claims for
injuries or illnesses suffered by such personnel in the line
of duty. Each such contract may provide for the methods of
ascertaining such costs, and shall be of such duration and may
contain such other appropriate terms as the Illinois State
Police and the Authority may agree upon. The Illinois State
Police is not obliged to furnish policing service on any
highway under the jurisdiction of the Authority except as
required by contract.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
Section 20. The Illinois State Police Radio Act is amended
by changing Section 10 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2615/10)
Sec. 10. Public safety radio interoperability. Upon their
establishment and thereafter, the Director of the Illinois
State Police, or his or her designee, shall serve as the
chairman of the Illinois Statewide Interoperability Executive
Committee (SIEC) and as the chairman of the STARCOM21
Oversight Committee. The Director or his or her designee, as
chairman, may increase the size and makeup of the voting
membership of each committee when deemed necessary for
improved public safety radio interoperability, but the voting
membership of each committee must represent public safety
users (police, fire, or EMS) and must, at a minimum, include
the representatives specified in this Section.
The STARCOM21 Oversight Committee must comprise public
safety users accessing the system and shall include the
Statewide Interoperability Coordinator. The members of the
STARCOM21 Oversight Committee shall serve without compensation
and may, at the call of the Chair, meet in person or remotely.
The Illinois State Police shall provide administrative and
other support to the STARCOM21 Oversight Committee. The
STARCOM21 Oversight Committee shall:
(1) review existing statutory law and make
recommendations for legislative changes to ensure
efficient, effective, reliable, and sustainable radio
interoperability statewide;
(2) make recommendations concerning better integration
of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
statewide; and
(3) develop a plan to sustainably fund radio
infrastructure, radio equipment, and interoperability
statewide.
The SIEC shall have at a minimum one representative from
each of the following: the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association,
the Rural Fire Protection Association, the Office of the State
Fire Marshal, the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police,
the Illinois Sheriffs' Association, the Illinois State Police,
the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, the Department of
Public Health, and the Secretary of State Police (which
representative shall be the Director of the Secretary of State
Police or his or her designee).
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
Section 25. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
Sections 6z-82, 6z-127, and 8.3 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/6z-82)
Sec. 6z-82. State Police Operations Assistance Fund.
(a) There is created in the State treasury a special fund
known as the State Police Operations Assistance Fund. The Fund
shall receive revenue under the Criminal and Traffic
Assessment Act. The Fund may also receive revenue from grants,
donations, appropriations, and any other legal source.
(a-5) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
contrary, and in addition to any other transfers that may be
provided by law, on August 20, 2021 (the effective date of
Public Act 102-505), or as soon thereafter as practical, the
State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall
transfer the remaining balance from the Over Dimensional Load
Police Escort Fund into the State Police Operations Assistance
Fund. Upon completion of the transfer, the Over Dimensional
Load Police Escort Fund is dissolved, and any future deposits
due to that Fund and any outstanding obligations or
liabilities of that Fund shall pass to the State Police
Operations Assistance Fund.
This Fund may charge, collect, and receive fees or moneys
as described in Section 15-312 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
and receive all fees received by the Illinois State Police
under that Section. The moneys shall be used by the Illinois
State Police for its expenses in providing police escorts and
commercial vehicle enforcement activities.
(b) The Illinois State Police may use moneys in the Fund to
finance any of its lawful purposes or functions.
(c) Expenditures may be made from the Fund only as
appropriated by the General Assembly by law.
(d) Investment income that is attributable to the
investment of moneys in the Fund shall be retained in the Fund
for the uses specified in this Section.
(e) The State Police Operations Assistance Fund shall not
be subject to administrative chargebacks.
(f) (Blank).
(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to
the contrary, on or after July 1, 2021, in addition to any
other transfers that may be provided for by law, at the
direction of and upon notification from the Director of the
Illinois State Police, the State Comptroller shall direct and
the State Treasurer shall transfer amounts not exceeding
$7,000,000 into the State Police Operations Assistance Fund
from the State Police Services Fund.
(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in
addition to any other transfers that may be provided by law, on
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly, or as soon thereafter as practical, the State
Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall
transfer the remaining balance from the State Police
Streetgang-Related Crime Fund to the State Police Operations
Assistance Fund. Upon completion of the transfers, the State
Police Streetgang-Related Crime Fund is dissolved, and any
future deposits into the State Police Streetgang-Related Crime
Fund and any outstanding obligations or liabilities of the
State Police Streetgang-Related Crime Fund pass to the State
Police Operations Assistance Fund.
(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-505, eff. 8-20-21;
102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
(30 ILCS 105/6z-127)
Sec. 6z-127. State Police Revocation Enforcement Fund.
(a) The State Police Revocation Enforcement Fund is
established as a special fund in the State treasury. This Fund
is established to receive moneys from the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act to enforce that Act, the Firearm
Concealed Carry Act, Article 24 of the Criminal Code of 2012,
and other firearm offenses. The Fund may also receive revenue
from grants, donations, appropriations, and any other legal
source.
(b) The Illinois State Police may use moneys from the Fund
to establish task forces and, if necessary, include other law
enforcement agencies, under intergovernmental contracts
written and executed in conformity with the Intergovernmental
Cooperation Act.
(c) The Illinois State Police may use moneys in the Fund to
hire and train State Police officers and for the prevention of
violent crime.
(d) The State Police Revocation Enforcement Fund is not
subject to administrative chargebacks.
(e) Law enforcement agencies that participate in Firearm
Owner's Identification Card revocation enforcement in the
Violent Crime Intelligence Task Force may apply for grants
from the Illinois State Police.
(f) Any surplus in the Fund beyond what is necessary to
ensure compliance with subsections (a) through (e) or moneys
that are specifically appropriated for those purposes shall be
used by the Illinois State Police to award grants to assist
with the data reporting requirements of the Gun Trafficking
Information Act.
(Source: P.A. 102-237, eff. 1-1-22; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
(30 ILCS 105/8.3) (from Ch. 127, par. 144.3)
Sec. 8.3. Money in the Road Fund shall, if and when the
State of Illinois incurs any bonded indebtedness for the
construction of permanent highways, be set aside and used for
the purpose of paying and discharging annually the principal
and interest on that bonded indebtedness then due and payable,
and for no other purpose. The surplus, if any, in the Road Fund
after the payment of principal and interest on that bonded
indebtedness then annually due shall be used as follows:
first -- to pay the cost of administration of Chapters
2 through 10 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, except the cost
of administration of Articles I and II of Chapter 3 of that
Code, and to pay the costs of the Executive Ethics
Commission for oversight and administration of the Chief
Procurement Officer appointed under paragraph (2) of
subsection (a) of Section 10-20 of the Illinois
Procurement Code for transportation; and
secondly -- for expenses of the Department of
Transportation for construction, reconstruction,
improvement, repair, maintenance, operation, and
administration of highways in accordance with the
provisions of laws relating thereto, or for any purpose
related or incident to and connected therewith, including
the separation of grades of those highways with railroads
and with highways and including the payment of awards made
by the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission under the
terms of the Workers' Compensation Act or Workers'
Occupational Diseases Act for injury or death of an
employee of the Division of Highways in the Department of
Transportation; or for the acquisition of land and the
erection of buildings for highway purposes, including the
acquisition of highway right-of-way or for investigations
to determine the reasonably anticipated future highway
needs; or for making of surveys, plans, specifications and
estimates for and in the construction and maintenance of
flight strips and of highways necessary to provide access
to military and naval reservations, to defense industries
and defense-industry sites, and to the sources of raw
materials and for replacing existing highways and highway
connections shut off from general public use at military
and naval reservations and defense-industry sites, or for
the purchase of right-of-way, except that the State shall
be reimbursed in full for any expense incurred in building
the flight strips; or for the operating and maintaining of
highway garages; or for patrolling and policing the public
highways and conserving the peace; or for the operating
expenses of the Department relating to the administration
of public transportation programs; or, during fiscal year
2022, for the purposes of a grant not to exceed $8,394,800
to the Regional Transportation Authority on behalf of PACE
for the purpose of ADA/Para-transit expenses; or, during
fiscal year 2023, for the purposes of a grant not to exceed
$8,394,800 to the Regional Transportation Authority on
behalf of PACE for the purpose of ADA/Para-transit
expenses; or for any of those purposes or any other
purpose that may be provided by law.
Appropriations for any of those purposes are payable from
the Road Fund. Appropriations may also be made from the Road
Fund for the administrative expenses of any State agency that
are related to motor vehicles or arise from the use of motor
vehicles.
Beginning with fiscal year 1980 and thereafter, no Road
Fund monies shall be appropriated to the following Departments
or agencies of State government for administration, grants, or
operations; but this limitation is not a restriction upon
appropriating for those purposes any Road Fund monies that are
eligible for federal reimbursement:
1. Department of Public Health;
2. Department of Transportation, only with respect to
subsidies for one-half fare Student Transportation and
Reduced Fare for Elderly, except fiscal year 2022 when no
more than $17,570,000 may be expended and except fiscal
year 2023 when no more than $17,570,000 may be expended;
3. Department of Central Management Services, except
for expenditures incurred for group insurance premiums of
appropriate personnel;
4. Judicial Systems and Agencies.
Beginning with fiscal year 1981 and thereafter, no Road
Fund monies shall be appropriated to the following Departments
or agencies of State government for administration, grants, or
operations; but this limitation is not a restriction upon
appropriating for those purposes any Road Fund monies that are
eligible for federal reimbursement:
1. Illinois State Police, except for expenditures with
respect to the Division of Patrol Operations and Division
of Criminal Investigation;
2. Department of Transportation, only with respect to
Intercity Rail Subsidies, except fiscal year 2022 when no
more than $50,000,000 may be expended and except fiscal
year 2023 when no more than $55,000,000 may be expended,
and Rail Freight Services.
Beginning with fiscal year 1982 and thereafter, no Road
Fund monies shall be appropriated to the following Departments
or agencies of State government for administration, grants, or
operations; but this limitation is not a restriction upon
appropriating for those purposes any Road Fund monies that are
eligible for federal reimbursement: Department of Central
Management Services, except for awards made by the Illinois
Workers' Compensation Commission under the terms of the
Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' Occupational Diseases
Act for injury or death of an employee of the Division of
Highways in the Department of Transportation.
Beginning with fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, no Road
Fund monies shall be appropriated to the following Departments
or agencies of State government for administration, grants, or
operations; but this limitation is not a restriction upon
appropriating for those purposes any Road Fund monies that are
eligible for federal reimbursement:
1. Illinois State Police, except not more than 40% of
the funds appropriated for the Division of Patrol
Operations and Division of Criminal Investigation;
2. State Officers.
Beginning with fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, no Road
Fund monies shall be appropriated to any Department or agency
of State government for administration, grants, or operations
except as provided hereafter; but this limitation is not a
restriction upon appropriating for those purposes any Road
Fund monies that are eligible for federal reimbursement. It
shall not be lawful to circumvent the above appropriation
limitations by governmental reorganization or other methods.
Appropriations shall be made from the Road Fund only in
accordance with the provisions of this Section.
Money in the Road Fund shall, if and when the State of
Illinois incurs any bonded indebtedness for the construction
of permanent highways, be set aside and used for the purpose of
paying and discharging during each fiscal year the principal
and interest on that bonded indebtedness as it becomes due and
payable as provided in the Transportation Bond Act, and for no
other purpose. The surplus, if any, in the Road Fund after the
payment of principal and interest on that bonded indebtedness
then annually due shall be used as follows:
first -- to pay the cost of administration of Chapters
2 through 10 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and
secondly -- no Road Fund monies derived from fees,
excises, or license taxes relating to registration,
operation and use of vehicles on public highways or to
fuels used for the propulsion of those vehicles, shall be
appropriated or expended other than for costs of
administering the laws imposing those fees, excises, and
license taxes, statutory refunds and adjustments allowed
thereunder, administrative costs of the Department of
Transportation, including, but not limited to, the
operating expenses of the Department relating to the
administration of public transportation programs, payment
of debts and liabilities incurred in construction and
reconstruction of public highways and bridges, acquisition
of rights-of-way for and the cost of construction,
reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and operation of
public highways and bridges under the direction and
supervision of the State, political subdivision, or
municipality collecting those monies, or during fiscal
year 2022 for the purposes of a grant not to exceed
$8,394,800 to the Regional Transportation Authority on
behalf of PACE for the purpose of ADA/Para-transit
expenses, or during fiscal year 2023 for the purposes of a
grant not to exceed $8,394,800 to the Regional
Transportation Authority on behalf of PACE for the purpose
of ADA/Para-transit expenses, and the costs for patrolling
and policing the public highways (by the State, political
subdivision, or municipality collecting that money) for
enforcement of traffic laws. The separation of grades of
such highways with railroads and costs associated with
protection of at-grade highway and railroad crossing shall
also be permissible.
Appropriations for any of such purposes are payable from
the Road Fund or the Grade Crossing Protection Fund as
provided in Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
Except as provided in this paragraph, beginning with
fiscal year 1991 and thereafter, no Road Fund monies shall be
appropriated to the Illinois State Police for the purposes of
this Section in excess of its total fiscal year 1990 Road Fund
appropriations for those purposes unless otherwise provided in
Section 5g of this Act. For fiscal years 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, and 2007 only, no Road Fund monies shall be appropriated
to the Department of State Police for the purposes of this
Section in excess of $97,310,000. For fiscal year 2008 only,
no Road Fund monies shall be appropriated to the Department of
State Police for the purposes of this Section in excess of
$106,100,000. For fiscal year 2009 only, no Road Fund monies
shall be appropriated to the Department of State Police for
the purposes of this Section in excess of $114,700,000.
Beginning in fiscal year 2010, no road fund moneys shall be
appropriated to the Illinois State Police. It shall not be
lawful to circumvent this limitation on appropriations by
governmental reorganization or other methods unless otherwise
provided in Section 5g of this Act.
In fiscal year 1994, no Road Fund monies shall be
appropriated to the Secretary of State for the purposes of
this Section in excess of the total fiscal year 1991 Road Fund
appropriations to the Secretary of State for those purposes,
plus $9,800,000. It shall not be lawful to circumvent this
limitation on appropriations by governmental reorganization or
other method.
Beginning with fiscal year 1995 and thereafter, no Road
Fund monies shall be appropriated to the Secretary of State
for the purposes of this Section in excess of the total fiscal
year 1994 Road Fund appropriations to the Secretary of State
for those purposes. It shall not be lawful to circumvent this
limitation on appropriations by governmental reorganization or
other methods.
Beginning with fiscal year 2000, total Road Fund
appropriations to the Secretary of State for the purposes of
this Section shall not exceed the amounts specified for the
following fiscal years:
Fiscal Year 2000$80,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2001$80,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2002$80,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2003$130,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2004$130,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2005$130,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2006 $130,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2007 $130,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2008$130,500,000;
Fiscal Year 2009 $130,500,000.
For fiscal year 2010, no road fund moneys shall be
appropriated to the Secretary of State.
Beginning in fiscal year 2011, moneys in the Road Fund
shall be appropriated to the Secretary of State for the
exclusive purpose of paying refunds due to overpayment of fees
related to Chapter 3 of the Illinois Vehicle Code unless
otherwise provided for by law.
It shall not be lawful to circumvent this limitation on
appropriations by governmental reorganization or other
methods.
No new program may be initiated in fiscal year 1991 and
thereafter that is not consistent with the limitations imposed
by this Section for fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, insofar
as appropriation of Road Fund monies is concerned.
Nothing in this Section prohibits transfers from the Road
Fund to the State Construction Account Fund under Section 5e
of this Act; nor to the General Revenue Fund, as authorized by
Public Act 93-25.
The additional amounts authorized for expenditure in this
Section by Public Acts 92-0600, 93-0025, 93-0839, and 94-91
shall be repaid to the Road Fund from the General Revenue Fund
in the next succeeding fiscal year that the General Revenue
Fund has a positive budgetary balance, as determined by
generally accepted accounting principles applicable to
government.
The additional amounts authorized for expenditure by the
Secretary of State and the Department of State Police in this
Section by Public Act 94-91 shall be repaid to the Road Fund
from the General Revenue Fund in the next succeeding fiscal
year that the General Revenue Fund has a positive budgetary
balance, as determined by generally accepted accounting
principles applicable to government.
(Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-636, eff. 6-10-20;
102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-699, eff.
4-19-22; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
(30 ILCS 105/5.783 rep.)
(30 ILCS 105/8p rep.)
Section 30. The State Finance Act is amended by repealing
Sections 5.783 and 8p.
Section 31. The Intergovernmental Drug Laws Enforcement
Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
(30 ILCS 715/3) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1703)
Sec. 3. A Metropolitan Enforcement Group which meets the
minimum criteria established in this Section is eligible to
receive State grants to help defray the costs of operation. To
be eligible a MEG must:
(1) Be established and operating pursuant to
intergovernmental contracts written and executed in
conformity with the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, and
involve 2 or more units of local government.
(2) Establish a MEG Policy Board composed of an
elected official, or his designee, and the chief law
enforcement officer, or his designee, from each
participating unit of local government to oversee the
operations of the MEG and make such reports to the
Illinois State Police as the Illinois State Police may
require.
(3) Designate a single appropriate elected official of
a participating unit of local government to act as the
financial officer of the MEG for all participating units
of local government and to receive funds for the operation
of the MEG.
(4) Limit its operations to enforcement of drug laws;
enforcement of Sections 10-9, 24-1, 24-1.1, 24-1.2,
24-1.2-5, 24-1.5, 24-1.7, 24-1.8, 24-2.1, 24-2.2, 24-3,
24-3.1, 24-3.2, 24-3.3, 24-3.4, 24-3.5, 24-3.7, 24-3.8,
24-3.9, 24-3A, 24-3B, 24-4, and 24-5 of the Criminal Code
of 2012; Sections 2, 3, 6.1, 9.5, and 14 of the Firearm
Owners Identification Card Act; and the investigation of
streetgang related offenses.
(5) Cooperate with the Illinois State Police in order
to assure compliance with this Act and to enable the
Illinois State Police to fulfill its duties under this
Act, and supply the Illinois State Police with all
information the Illinois State Police deems necessary
therefor.
(6) Receive funding of at least 50% of the total
operating budget of the MEG from the participating units
of local government.
(Source: P.A. 102-237, eff. 1-1-22; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
Section 35. The School Code is amended by changing Section
10-27.1A as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/10-27.1A)
Sec. 10-27.1A. Firearms in schools.
(a) All school officials, including teachers, school
counselors, and support staff, shall immediately notify the
office of the principal in the event that they observe any
person in possession of a firearm on school grounds; provided
that taking such immediate action to notify the office of the
principal would not immediately endanger the health, safety,
or welfare of students who are under the direct supervision of
the school official or the school official. If the health,
safety, or welfare of students under the direct supervision of
the school official or of the school official is immediately
endangered, the school official shall notify the office of the
principal as soon as the students under his or her supervision
and he or she are no longer under immediate danger. A report is
not required by this Section when the school official knows
that the person in possession of the firearm is a law
enforcement official engaged in the conduct of his or her
official duties. Any school official acting in good faith who
makes such a report under this Section shall have immunity
from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be
incurred as a result of making the report. The identity of the
school official making such report shall not be disclosed
except as expressly and specifically authorized by law.
Knowingly and willfully failing to comply with this Section is
a petty offense. A second or subsequent offense is a Class C
misdemeanor.
(b) Upon receiving a report from any school official
pursuant to this Section, or from any other person, the
principal or his or her designee shall immediately notify a
local law enforcement agency. If the person found to be in
possession of a firearm on school grounds is a student, the
principal or his or her designee shall also immediately notify
that student's parent or guardian. Any principal or his or her
designee acting in good faith who makes such reports under
this Section shall have immunity from any civil or criminal
liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a
result of making the reports. Knowingly and willfully failing
to comply with this Section is a petty offense. A second or
subsequent offense is a Class C misdemeanor. If the person
found to be in possession of the firearm on school grounds is a
minor, the law enforcement agency shall detain that minor
until such time as the agency makes a determination pursuant
to clause (a) of subsection (1) of Section 5-401 of the
Juvenile Court Act of 1987, as to whether the agency
reasonably believes that the minor is delinquent. If the law
enforcement agency determines that probable cause exists to
believe that the minor committed a violation of item (4) of
subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of 2012
while on school grounds, the agency shall detain the minor for
processing pursuant to Section 5-407 of the Juvenile Court Act
of 1987.
(c) Upon On or after January 1, 1997, upon receipt of any
written, electronic, or verbal report from any school
personnel regarding a verified incident involving a firearm in
a school or on school owned or leased property, including any
conveyance owned, leased, or used by the school for the
transport of students or school personnel, the superintendent
or his or her designee shall report all such firearm-related
incidents occurring in a school or on school property to the
local law enforcement authorities immediately, who shall
report and to the Illinois State Police in a form, manner, and
frequency as prescribed by the Illinois State Police.
The State Board of Education shall receive an annual
statistical compilation and related data associated with
incidents involving firearms in schools from the Illinois
State Police. The State Board of Education shall compile this
information by school district and make it available to the
public.
(d) As used in this Section, the term "firearm" shall have
the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1.1 of the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act.
As used in this Section, the term "school" means any
public or private elementary or secondary school.
As used in this Section, the term "school grounds"
includes the real property comprising any school, any
conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a school to
transport students to or from school or a school-related
activity, or any public way within 1,000 feet of the real
property comprising any school.
(Source: P.A. 102-197, eff. 7-30-21; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
Section 40. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
changing Section 14-110 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/14-110) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-110)
(Text of Section from P.A. 102-813)
Sec. 14-110. Alternative retirement annuity.
(a) Any member who has withdrawn from service with not
less than 20 years of eligible creditable service and has
attained age 55, and any member who has withdrawn from service
with not less than 25 years of eligible creditable service and
has attained age 50, regardless of whether the attainment of
either of the specified ages occurs while the member is still
in service, shall be entitled to receive at the option of the
member, in lieu of the regular or minimum retirement annuity,
a retirement annuity computed as follows:
(i) for periods of service as a noncovered employee:
if retirement occurs on or after January 1, 2001, 3% of
final average compensation for each year of creditable
service; if retirement occurs before January 1, 2001, 2
1/4% of final average compensation for each of the first
10 years of creditable service, 2 1/2% for each year above
10 years to and including 20 years of creditable service,
and 2 3/4% for each year of creditable service above 20
years; and
(ii) for periods of eligible creditable service as a
covered employee: if retirement occurs on or after January
1, 2001, 2.5% of final average compensation for each year
of creditable service; if retirement occurs before January
1, 2001, 1.67% of final average compensation for each of
the first 10 years of such service, 1.90% for each of the
next 10 years of such service, 2.10% for each year of such
service in excess of 20 but not exceeding 30, and 2.30% for
each year in excess of 30.
Such annuity shall be subject to a maximum of 75% of final
average compensation if retirement occurs before January 1,
2001 or to a maximum of 80% of final average compensation if
retirement occurs on or after January 1, 2001.
These rates shall not be applicable to any service
performed by a member as a covered employee which is not
eligible creditable service. Service as a covered employee
which is not eligible creditable service shall be subject to
the rates and provisions of Section 14-108.
(b) For the purpose of this Section, "eligible creditable
service" means creditable service resulting from service in
one or more of the following positions:
(1) State policeman;
(2) fire fighter in the fire protection service of a
department;
(3) air pilot;
(4) special agent;
(5) investigator for the Secretary of State;
(6) conservation police officer;
(7) investigator for the Department of Revenue or the
Illinois Gaming Board;
(8) security employee of the Department of Human
Services;
(9) Central Management Services security police
officer;
(10) security employee of the Department of
Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice;
(11) dangerous drugs investigator;
(12) investigator for the Illinois State Police;
(13) investigator for the Office of the Attorney
General;
(14) controlled substance inspector;
(15) investigator for the Office of the State's
Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
(16) Commerce Commission police officer;
(17) arson investigator;
(18) State highway maintenance worker;
(19) security employee of the Department of Innovation
and Technology; or
(20) transferred employee.
A person employed in one of the positions specified in
this subsection is entitled to eligible creditable service for
service credit earned under this Article while undergoing the
basic police training course approved by the Illinois Law
Enforcement Training Standards Board, if completion of that
training is required of persons serving in that position. For
the purposes of this Code, service during the required basic
police training course shall be deemed performance of the
duties of the specified position, even though the person is
not a sworn peace officer at the time of the training.
A person under paragraph (20) is entitled to eligible
creditable service for service credit earned under this
Article on and after his or her transfer by Executive Order No.
2003-10, Executive Order No. 2004-2, or Executive Order No.
2016-1.
(c) For the purposes of this Section:
(1) The term "State policeman" includes any title or
position in the Illinois State Police that is held by an
individual employed under the Illinois State Police Act.
(2) The term "fire fighter in the fire protection
service of a department" includes all officers in such
fire protection service including fire chiefs and
assistant fire chiefs.
(3) The term "air pilot" includes any employee whose
official job description on file in the Department of
Central Management Services, or in the department by which
he is employed if that department is not covered by the
Personnel Code, states that his principal duty is the
operation of aircraft, and who possesses a pilot's
license; however, the change in this definition made by
Public Act 83-842 shall not operate to exclude any
noncovered employee who was an "air pilot" for the
purposes of this Section on January 1, 1984.
(4) The term "special agent" means any person who by
reason of employment by the Division of Narcotic Control,
the Bureau of Investigation or, after July 1, 1977, the
Division of Criminal Investigation, the Division of
Internal Investigation, the Division of Operations, the
Division of Patrol Operations, or any other Division or
organizational entity in the Illinois State Police is
vested by law with duties to maintain public order,
investigate violations of the criminal law of this State,
enforce the laws of this State, make arrests and recover
property. The term "special agent" includes any title or
position in the Illinois State Police that is held by an
individual employed under the Illinois State Police Act.
(5) The term "investigator for the Secretary of State"
means any person employed by the Office of the Secretary
of State and vested with such investigative duties as
render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
A person who became employed as an investigator for
the Secretary of State between January 1, 1967 and
December 31, 1975, and who has served as such until
attainment of age 60, either continuously or with a single
break in service of not more than 3 years duration, which
break terminated before January 1, 1976, shall be entitled
to have his retirement annuity calculated in accordance
with subsection (a), notwithstanding that he has less than
20 years of credit for such service.
(6) The term "Conservation Police Officer" means any
person employed by the Division of Law Enforcement of the
Department of Natural Resources and vested with such law
enforcement duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act. The
term "Conservation Police Officer" includes the positions
of Chief Conservation Police Administrator and Assistant
Conservation Police Administrator.
(7) The term "investigator for the Department of
Revenue" means any person employed by the Department of
Revenue and vested with such investigative duties as
render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
The term "investigator for the Illinois Gaming Board"
means any person employed as such by the Illinois Gaming
Board and vested with such peace officer duties as render
the person ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(8) The term "security employee of the Department of
Human Services" means any person employed by the
Department of Human Services who (i) is employed at the
Chester Mental Health Center and has daily contact with
the residents thereof, (ii) is employed within a security
unit at a facility operated by the Department and has
daily contact with the residents of the security unit,
(iii) is employed at a facility operated by the Department
that includes a security unit and is regularly scheduled
to work at least 50% of his or her working hours within
that security unit, or (iv) is a mental health police
officer. "Mental health police officer" means any person
employed by the Department of Human Services in a position
pertaining to the Department's mental health and
developmental disabilities functions who is vested with
such law enforcement duties as render the person
ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act by
reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and
218(l)(1) of that Act. "Security unit" means that portion
of a facility that is devoted to the care, containment,
and treatment of persons committed to the Department of
Human Services as sexually violent persons, persons unfit
to stand trial, or persons not guilty by reason of
insanity. With respect to past employment, references to
the Department of Human Services include its predecessor,
the Department of Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities.
The changes made to this subdivision (c)(8) by Public
Act 92-14 apply to persons who retire on or after January
1, 2001, notwithstanding Section 1-103.1.
(9) "Central Management Services security police
officer" means any person employed by the Department of
Central Management Services who is vested with such law
enforcement duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(10) For a member who first became an employee under
this Article before July 1, 2005, the term "security
employee of the Department of Corrections or the
Department of Juvenile Justice" means any employee of the
Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile
Justice or the former Department of Personnel, and any
member or employee of the Prisoner Review Board, who has
daily contact with inmates or youth by working within a
correctional facility or Juvenile facility operated by the
Department of Juvenile Justice or who is a parole officer
or an employee who has direct contact with committed
persons in the performance of his or her job duties. For a
member who first becomes an employee under this Article on
or after July 1, 2005, the term means an employee of the
Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile
Justice who is any of the following: (i) officially
headquartered at a correctional facility or Juvenile
facility operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice,
(ii) a parole officer, (iii) a member of the apprehension
unit, (iv) a member of the intelligence unit, (v) a member
of the sort team, or (vi) an investigator.
(11) The term "dangerous drugs investigator" means any
person who is employed as such by the Department of Human
Services.
(12) The term "investigator for the Illinois State
Police" means a person employed by the Illinois State
Police who is vested under Section 4 of the Narcotic
Control Division Abolition Act with such law enforcement
powers as render him ineligible for coverage under the
Social Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(13) "Investigator for the Office of the Attorney
General" means any person who is employed as such by the
Office of the Attorney General and is vested with such
investigative duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act. For
the period before January 1, 1989, the term includes all
persons who were employed as investigators by the Office
of the Attorney General, without regard to social security
status.
(14) "Controlled substance inspector" means any person
who is employed as such by the Department of Professional
Regulation and is vested with such law enforcement duties
as render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act. The term
"controlled substance inspector" includes the Program
Executive of Enforcement and the Assistant Program
Executive of Enforcement.
(15) The term "investigator for the Office of the
State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor" means a person
employed in that capacity on a full-time basis under the
authority of Section 7.06 of the State's Attorneys
Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
(16) "Commerce Commission police officer" means any
person employed by the Illinois Commerce Commission who is
vested with such law enforcement duties as render him
ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act by
reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D), and
218(l)(1) of that Act.
(17) "Arson investigator" means any person who is
employed as such by the Office of the State Fire Marshal
and is vested with such law enforcement duties as render
the person ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act. A person who was
employed as an arson investigator on January 1, 1995 and
is no longer in service but not yet receiving a retirement
annuity may convert his or her creditable service for
employment as an arson investigator into eligible
creditable service by paying to the System the difference
between the employee contributions actually paid for that
service and the amounts that would have been contributed
if the applicant were contributing at the rate applicable
to persons with the same social security status earning
eligible creditable service on the date of application.
(18) The term "State highway maintenance worker" means
a person who is either of the following:
(i) A person employed on a full-time basis by the
Illinois Department of Transportation in the position
of highway maintainer, highway maintenance lead
worker, highway maintenance lead/lead worker, heavy
construction equipment operator, power shovel
operator, or bridge mechanic; and whose principal
responsibility is to perform, on the roadway, the
actual maintenance necessary to keep the highways that
form a part of the State highway system in serviceable
condition for vehicular traffic.
(ii) A person employed on a full-time basis by the
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in the position
of equipment operator/laborer H-4, equipment
operator/laborer H-6, welder H-4, welder H-6,
mechanical/electrical H-4, mechanical/electrical H-6,
water/sewer H-4, water/sewer H-6, sign maker/hanger
H-4, sign maker/hanger H-6, roadway lighting H-4,
roadway lighting H-6, structural H-4, structural H-6,
painter H-4, or painter H-6; and whose principal
responsibility is to perform, on the roadway, the
actual maintenance necessary to keep the Authority's
tollways in serviceable condition for vehicular
traffic.
(19) The term "security employee of the Department of
Innovation and Technology" means a person who was a
security employee of the Department of Corrections or the
Department of Juvenile Justice, was transferred to the
Department of Innovation and Technology pursuant to
Executive Order 2016-01, and continues to perform similar
job functions under that Department.
(20) "Transferred employee" means an employee who was
transferred to the Department of Central Management
Services by Executive Order No. 2003-10 or Executive Order
No. 2004-2 or transferred to the Department of Innovation
and Technology by Executive Order No. 2016-1, or both, and
was entitled to eligible creditable service for services
immediately preceding the transfer.
(d) A security employee of the Department of Corrections
or the Department of Juvenile Justice, a security employee of
the Department of Human Services who is not a mental health
police officer, and a security employee of the Department of
Innovation and Technology shall not be eligible for the
alternative retirement annuity provided by this Section unless
he or she meets the following minimum age and service
requirements at the time of retirement:
(i) 25 years of eligible creditable service and age
55; or
(ii) beginning January 1, 1987, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 54, or 24 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(iii) beginning January 1, 1988, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 53, or 23 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(iv) beginning January 1, 1989, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 52, or 22 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(v) beginning January 1, 1990, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 51, or 21 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(vi) beginning January 1, 1991, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 50, or 20 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55.
Persons who have service credit under Article 16 of this
Code for service as a security employee of the Department of
Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, or the
Department of Human Services in a position requiring
certification as a teacher may count such service toward
establishing their eligibility under the service requirements
of this Section; but such service may be used only for
establishing such eligibility, and not for the purpose of
increasing or calculating any benefit.
(e) If a member enters military service while working in a
position in which eligible creditable service may be earned,
and returns to State service in the same or another such
position, and fulfills in all other respects the conditions
prescribed in this Article for credit for military service,
such military service shall be credited as eligible creditable
service for the purposes of the retirement annuity prescribed
in this Section.
(f) For purposes of calculating retirement annuities under
this Section, periods of service rendered after December 31,
1968 and before October 1, 1975 as a covered employee in the
position of special agent, conservation police officer, mental
health police officer, or investigator for the Secretary of
State, shall be deemed to have been service as a noncovered
employee, provided that the employee pays to the System prior
to retirement an amount equal to (1) the difference between
the employee contributions that would have been required for
such service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of
employee contributions actually paid, plus (2) if payment is
made after July 31, 1987, regular interest on the amount
specified in item (1) from the date of service to the date of
payment.
For purposes of calculating retirement annuities under
this Section, periods of service rendered after December 31,
1968 and before January 1, 1982 as a covered employee in the
position of investigator for the Department of Revenue shall
be deemed to have been service as a noncovered employee,
provided that the employee pays to the System prior to
retirement an amount equal to (1) the difference between the
employee contributions that would have been required for such
service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of employee
contributions actually paid, plus (2) if payment is made after
January 1, 1990, regular interest on the amount specified in
item (1) from the date of service to the date of payment.
(g) A State policeman may elect, not later than January 1,
1990, to establish eligible creditable service for up to 10
years of his service as a policeman under Article 3, by filing
a written election with the Board, accompanied by payment of
an amount to be determined by the Board, equal to (i) the
difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Section 3-110.5,
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman may elect, not later than July 1, 1993, to establish
eligible creditable service for up to 10 years of his service
as a member of the County Police Department under Article 9, by
filing a written election with the Board, accompanied by
payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal to
(i) the difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Section 9-121.10
and the amounts that would have been contributed had those
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
(h) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman or investigator for the Secretary of State may elect
to establish eligible creditable service for up to 12 years of
his service as a policeman under Article 5, by filing a written
election with the Board on or before January 31, 1992, and
paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference between
the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
to the System under Section 5-236, and the amounts that would
have been contributed had such contributions been made at the
rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, or investigator for
the Secretary of State may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 10 years of service as a sheriff's
law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing a written
election with the Board on or before January 31, 1993, and
paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference between
the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
to the System under Section 7-139.7, and the amounts that
would have been contributed had such contributions been made
at the rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, or investigator for
the Secretary of State may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a police
officer under Article 3, a policeman under Article 5, a
sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, a member
of the county police department under Article 9, or a police
officer under Article 15 by filing a written election with the
Board and paying to the System an amount to be determined by
the Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.6, 5-236, 7-139.8, 9-121.10, or 15-134.4
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Office of the Attorney General, or an
investigator for the Department of Revenue, may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for up to 5 years of
service as a police officer under Article 3, a policeman under
Article 5, a sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article
7, or a member of the county police department under Article 9
by filing a written election with the Board within 6 months
after August 25, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act
96-745) and paying to the System an amount to be determined by
the Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.6, 5-236, 7-139.8, or 9-121.10 and the
amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, investigator for the
Office of the Attorney General, an investigator for the
Department of Revenue, or investigator for the Secretary of
State may elect to establish eligible creditable service for
up to 5 years of service as a person employed by a
participating municipality to perform police duties, or law
enforcement officer employed on a full-time basis by a forest
preserve district under Article 7, a county corrections
officer, or a court services officer under Article 9, by
filing a written election with the Board within 6 months after
August 25, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act 96-745) and
paying to the System an amount to be determined by the Board,
equal to (i) the difference between the amount of employee and
employer contributions transferred to the System under
Sections 7-139.8 and 9-121.10 and the amounts that would have
been contributed had such contributions been made at the rates
applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
the actuarially assumed rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, arson investigator, or Commerce Commission police
officer may elect to establish eligible creditable service for
up to 5 years of service as a person employed by a
participating municipality to perform police duties under
Article 7, a county corrections officer, a court services
officer under Article 9, or a firefighter under Article 4 by
filing a written election with the Board within 6 months after
July 30, 2021 (the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and
paying to the System an amount to be determined by the Board
equal to (i) the difference between the amount of employee and
employer contributions transferred to the System under
Sections 4-108.8, 7-139.8, and 9-121.10 and the amounts that
would have been contributed had such contributions been made
at the rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the actuarially assumed rate for each year,
compounded annually, from the date of service to the date of
payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
conservation police officer may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a person
employed by a participating municipality to perform police
duties under Article 7, a county corrections officer, or a
court services officer under Article 9 by filing a written
election with the Board within 6 months after July 30, 2021
(the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and paying to the
System an amount to be determined by the Board equal to (i) the
difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Sections 7-139.8
and 9-121.10 and the amounts that would have been contributed
had such contributions been made at the rates applicable to
State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
Notwithstanding the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman or conservation police officer may elect to convert
service credit earned under this Article to eligible
creditable service, as defined by this Section, by filing a
written election with the board within 6 months after July 30,
2021 (the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and paying to
the System an amount to be determined by the Board equal to (i)
the difference between the amount of employee contributions
originally paid for that service and the amounts that would
have been contributed had such contributions been made at the
rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) the difference
between the employer's normal cost of the credit prior to the
conversion authorized by Public Act 102-210 and the employer's
normal cost of the credit converted in accordance with Public
Act 102-210, plus (iii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
(i) The total amount of eligible creditable service
established by any person under subsections (g), (h), (j),
(k), (l), (l-5), and (o) of this Section shall not exceed 12
years.
(j) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate
Prosecutor or a controlled substance inspector may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for up to 10 years of
his service as a policeman under Article 3 or a sheriff's law
enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing a written
election with the Board, accompanied by payment of an amount
to be determined by the Board, equal to (1) the difference
between the amount of employee and employer contributions
transferred to the System under Section 3-110.6 or 7-139.8,
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (2) interest thereon at the effective rate for
each year, compounded annually, from the date of service to
the date of payment.
(k) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of this
Section, an alternative formula employee may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for periods spent as a
full-time law enforcement officer or full-time corrections
officer employed by the federal government or by a state or
local government located outside of Illinois, for which credit
is not held in any other public employee pension fund or
retirement system. To obtain this credit, the applicant must
file a written application with the Board by March 31, 1998,
accompanied by evidence of eligibility acceptable to the Board
and payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal
to (1) employee contributions for the credit being
established, based upon the applicant's salary on the first
day as an alternative formula employee after the employment
for which credit is being established and the rates then
applicable to alternative formula employees, plus (2) an
amount determined by the Board to be the employer's normal
cost of the benefits accrued for the credit being established,
plus (3) regular interest on the amounts in items (1) and (2)
from the first day as an alternative formula employee after
the employment for which credit is being established to the
date of payment.
(l) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
security employee of the Department of Corrections may elect,
not later than July 1, 1998, to establish eligible creditable
service for up to 10 years of his or her service as a policeman
under Article 3, by filing a written election with the Board,
accompanied by payment of an amount to be determined by the
Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.5, and the amounts that would have been
contributed had such contributions been made at the rates
applicable to security employees of the Department of
Corrections, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
(l-5) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of this
Section, a State policeman may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a full-time
law enforcement officer employed by the federal government or
by a state or local government located outside of Illinois for
which credit is not held in any other public employee pension
fund or retirement system. To obtain this credit, the
applicant must file a written application with the Board no
later than 3 years after January 1, 2020 (the effective date of
Public Act 101-610), accompanied by evidence of eligibility
acceptable to the Board and payment of an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (1) employee contributions
for the credit being established, based upon the applicant's
salary on the first day as an alternative formula employee
after the employment for which credit is being established and
the rates then applicable to alternative formula employees,
plus (2) an amount determined by the Board to be the employer's
normal cost of the benefits accrued for the credit being
established, plus (3) regular interest on the amounts in items
(1) and (2) from the first day as an alternative formula
employee after the employment for which credit is being
established to the date of payment.
(m) The amendatory changes to this Section made by Public
Act 94-696 apply only to: (1) security employees of the
Department of Juvenile Justice employed by the Department of
Corrections before June 1, 2006 (the effective date of Public
Act 94-696) and transferred to the Department of Juvenile
Justice by Public Act 94-696; and (2) persons employed by the
Department of Juvenile Justice on or after June 1, 2006 (the
effective date of Public Act 94-696) who are required by
subsection (b) of Section 3-2.5-15 of the Unified Code of
Corrections to have any bachelor's or advanced degree from an
accredited college or university or, in the case of persons
who provide vocational training, who are required to have
adequate knowledge in the skill for which they are providing
the vocational training.
(n) A person employed in a position under subsection (b)
of this Section who has purchased service credit under
subsection (j) of Section 14-104 or subsection (b) of Section
14-105 in any other capacity under this Article may convert up
to 5 years of that service credit into service credit covered
under this Section by paying to the Fund an amount equal to (1)
the additional employee contribution required under Section
14-133, plus (2) the additional employer contribution required
under Section 14-131, plus (3) interest on items (1) and (2) at
the actuarially assumed rate from the date of the service to
the date of payment.
(o) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
conservation police officer, investigator for the Secretary of
State, Commerce Commission police officer, investigator for
the Department of Revenue or the Illinois Gaming Board, or
arson investigator subject to subsection (g) of Section 1-160
may elect to convert up to 8 years of service credit
established before January 1, 2020 (the effective date of
Public Act 101-610) as a conservation police officer,
investigator for the Secretary of State, Commerce Commission
police officer, investigator for the Department of Revenue or
the Illinois Gaming Board, or arson investigator under this
Article into eligible creditable service by filing a written
election with the Board no later than one year after January 1,
2020 (the effective date of Public Act 101-610), accompanied
by payment of an amount to be determined by the Board equal to
(i) the difference between the amount of the employee
contributions actually paid for that service and the amount of
the employee contributions that would have been paid had the
employee contributions been made as a noncovered employee
serving in a position in which eligible creditable service, as
defined in this Section, may be earned, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
(Source: P.A. 101-610, eff. 1-1-20; 102-210, eff. 7-30-21;
102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
(Text of Section from P.A. 102-856)
Sec. 14-110. Alternative retirement annuity.
(a) Any member who has withdrawn from service with not
less than 20 years of eligible creditable service and has
attained age 55, and any member who has withdrawn from service
with not less than 25 years of eligible creditable service and
has attained age 50, regardless of whether the attainment of
either of the specified ages occurs while the member is still
in service, shall be entitled to receive at the option of the
member, in lieu of the regular or minimum retirement annuity,
a retirement annuity computed as follows:
(i) for periods of service as a noncovered employee:
if retirement occurs on or after January 1, 2001, 3% of
final average compensation for each year of creditable
service; if retirement occurs before January 1, 2001, 2
1/4% of final average compensation for each of the first
10 years of creditable service, 2 1/2% for each year above
10 years to and including 20 years of creditable service,
and 2 3/4% for each year of creditable service above 20
years; and
(ii) for periods of eligible creditable service as a
covered employee: if retirement occurs on or after January
1, 2001, 2.5% of final average compensation for each year
of creditable service; if retirement occurs before January
1, 2001, 1.67% of final average compensation for each of
the first 10 years of such service, 1.90% for each of the
next 10 years of such service, 2.10% for each year of such
service in excess of 20 but not exceeding 30, and 2.30% for
each year in excess of 30.
Such annuity shall be subject to a maximum of 75% of final
average compensation if retirement occurs before January 1,
2001 or to a maximum of 80% of final average compensation if
retirement occurs on or after January 1, 2001.
These rates shall not be applicable to any service
performed by a member as a covered employee which is not
eligible creditable service. Service as a covered employee
which is not eligible creditable service shall be subject to
the rates and provisions of Section 14-108.
(b) For the purpose of this Section, "eligible creditable
service" means creditable service resulting from service in
one or more of the following positions:
(1) State policeman;
(2) fire fighter in the fire protection service of a
department;
(3) air pilot;
(4) special agent;
(5) investigator for the Secretary of State;
(6) conservation police officer;
(7) investigator for the Department of Revenue or the
Illinois Gaming Board;
(8) security employee of the Department of Human
Services;
(9) Central Management Services security police
officer;
(10) security employee of the Department of
Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice;
(11) dangerous drugs investigator;
(12) investigator for the Illinois State Police;
(13) investigator for the Office of the Attorney
General;
(14) controlled substance inspector;
(15) investigator for the Office of the State's
Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
(16) Commerce Commission police officer;
(17) arson investigator;
(18) State highway maintenance worker;
(19) security employee of the Department of Innovation
and Technology; or
(20) transferred employee.
A person employed in one of the positions specified in
this subsection is entitled to eligible creditable service for
service credit earned under this Article while undergoing the
basic police training course approved by the Illinois Law
Enforcement Training Standards Board, if completion of that
training is required of persons serving in that position. For
the purposes of this Code, service during the required basic
police training course shall be deemed performance of the
duties of the specified position, even though the person is
not a sworn peace officer at the time of the training.
A person under paragraph (20) is entitled to eligible
creditable service for service credit earned under this
Article on and after his or her transfer by Executive Order No.
2003-10, Executive Order No. 2004-2, or Executive Order No.
2016-1.
(c) For the purposes of this Section:
(1) The term "State policeman" includes any title or
position in the Illinois State Police that is held by an
individual employed under the Illinois State Police Act.
(2) The term "fire fighter in the fire protection
service of a department" includes all officers in such
fire protection service including fire chiefs and
assistant fire chiefs.
(3) The term "air pilot" includes any employee whose
official job description on file in the Department of
Central Management Services, or in the department by which
he is employed if that department is not covered by the
Personnel Code, states that his principal duty is the
operation of aircraft, and who possesses a pilot's
license; however, the change in this definition made by
Public Act 83-842 shall not operate to exclude any
noncovered employee who was an "air pilot" for the
purposes of this Section on January 1, 1984.
(4) The term "special agent" means any person who by
reason of employment by the Division of Narcotic Control,
the Bureau of Investigation or, after July 1, 1977, the
Division of Criminal Investigation, the Division of
Internal Investigation, the Division of Operations, the
Division of Patrol Operations, or any other Division or
organizational entity in the Illinois State Police is
vested by law with duties to maintain public order,
investigate violations of the criminal law of this State,
enforce the laws of this State, make arrests and recover
property. The term "special agent" includes any title or
position in the Illinois State Police that is held by an
individual employed under the Illinois State Police Act.
(5) The term "investigator for the Secretary of State"
means any person employed by the Office of the Secretary
of State and vested with such investigative duties as
render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
A person who became employed as an investigator for
the Secretary of State between January 1, 1967 and
December 31, 1975, and who has served as such until
attainment of age 60, either continuously or with a single
break in service of not more than 3 years duration, which
break terminated before January 1, 1976, shall be entitled
to have his retirement annuity calculated in accordance
with subsection (a), notwithstanding that he has less than
20 years of credit for such service.
(6) The term "Conservation Police Officer" means any
person employed by the Division of Law Enforcement of the
Department of Natural Resources and vested with such law
enforcement duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act. The
term "Conservation Police Officer" includes the positions
of Chief Conservation Police Administrator and Assistant
Conservation Police Administrator.
(7) The term "investigator for the Department of
Revenue" means any person employed by the Department of
Revenue and vested with such investigative duties as
render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
The term "investigator for the Illinois Gaming Board"
means any person employed as such by the Illinois Gaming
Board and vested with such peace officer duties as render
the person ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(8) The term "security employee of the Department of
Human Services" means any person employed by the
Department of Human Services who (i) is employed at the
Chester Mental Health Center and has daily contact with
the residents thereof, (ii) is employed within a security
unit at a facility operated by the Department and has
daily contact with the residents of the security unit,
(iii) is employed at a facility operated by the Department
that includes a security unit and is regularly scheduled
to work at least 50% of his or her working hours within
that security unit, or (iv) is a mental health police
officer. "Mental health police officer" means any person
employed by the Department of Human Services in a position
pertaining to the Department's mental health and
developmental disabilities functions who is vested with
such law enforcement duties as render the person
ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act by
reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and
218(l)(1) of that Act. "Security unit" means that portion
of a facility that is devoted to the care, containment,
and treatment of persons committed to the Department of
Human Services as sexually violent persons, persons unfit
to stand trial, or persons not guilty by reason of
insanity. With respect to past employment, references to
the Department of Human Services include its predecessor,
the Department of Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities.
The changes made to this subdivision (c)(8) by Public
Act 92-14 apply to persons who retire on or after January
1, 2001, notwithstanding Section 1-103.1.
(9) "Central Management Services security police
officer" means any person employed by the Department of
Central Management Services who is vested with such law
enforcement duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(10) For a member who first became an employee under
this Article before July 1, 2005, the term "security
employee of the Department of Corrections or the
Department of Juvenile Justice" means any employee of the
Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile
Justice or the former Department of Personnel, and any
member or employee of the Prisoner Review Board, who has
daily contact with inmates or youth by working within a
correctional facility or Juvenile facility operated by the
Department of Juvenile Justice or who is a parole officer
or an employee who has direct contact with committed
persons in the performance of his or her job duties. For a
member who first becomes an employee under this Article on
or after July 1, 2005, the term means an employee of the
Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile
Justice who is any of the following: (i) officially
headquartered at a correctional facility or Juvenile
facility operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice,
(ii) a parole officer, (iii) a member of the apprehension
unit, (iv) a member of the intelligence unit, (v) a member
of the sort team, or (vi) an investigator.
(11) The term "dangerous drugs investigator" means any
person who is employed as such by the Department of Human
Services.
(12) The term "investigator for the Illinois State
Police" means a person employed by the Illinois State
Police who is vested under Section 4 of the Narcotic
Control Division Abolition Act with such law enforcement
powers as render him ineligible for coverage under the
Social Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(13) "Investigator for the Office of the Attorney
General" means any person who is employed as such by the
Office of the Attorney General and is vested with such
investigative duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act. For
the period before January 1, 1989, the term includes all
persons who were employed as investigators by the Office
of the Attorney General, without regard to social security
status.
(14) "Controlled substance inspector" means any person
who is employed as such by the Department of Professional
Regulation and is vested with such law enforcement duties
as render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act. The term
"controlled substance inspector" includes the Program
Executive of Enforcement and the Assistant Program
Executive of Enforcement.
(15) The term "investigator for the Office of the
State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor" means a person
employed in that capacity on a full-time basis under the
authority of Section 7.06 of the State's Attorneys
Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
(16) "Commerce Commission police officer" means any
person employed by the Illinois Commerce Commission who is
vested with such law enforcement duties as render him
ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act by
reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D), and
218(l)(1) of that Act.
(17) "Arson investigator" means any person who is
employed as such by the Office of the State Fire Marshal
and is vested with such law enforcement duties as render
the person ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act. A person who was
employed as an arson investigator on January 1, 1995 and
is no longer in service but not yet receiving a retirement
annuity may convert his or her creditable service for
employment as an arson investigator into eligible
creditable service by paying to the System the difference
between the employee contributions actually paid for that
service and the amounts that would have been contributed
if the applicant were contributing at the rate applicable
to persons with the same social security status earning
eligible creditable service on the date of application.
(18) The term "State highway maintenance worker" means
a person who is either of the following:
(i) A person employed on a full-time basis by the
Illinois Department of Transportation in the position
of highway maintainer, highway maintenance lead
worker, highway maintenance lead/lead worker, heavy
construction equipment operator, power shovel
operator, or bridge mechanic; and whose principal
responsibility is to perform, on the roadway, the
actual maintenance necessary to keep the highways that
form a part of the State highway system in serviceable
condition for vehicular traffic.
(ii) A person employed on a full-time basis by the
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in the position
of equipment operator/laborer H-4, equipment
operator/laborer H-6, welder H-4, welder H-6,
mechanical/electrical H-4, mechanical/electrical H-6,
water/sewer H-4, water/sewer H-6, sign maker/hanger
H-4, sign maker/hanger H-6, roadway lighting H-4,
roadway lighting H-6, structural H-4, structural H-6,
painter H-4, or painter H-6; and whose principal
responsibility is to perform, on the roadway, the
actual maintenance necessary to keep the Authority's
tollways in serviceable condition for vehicular
traffic.
(19) The term "security employee of the Department of
Innovation and Technology" means a person who was a
security employee of the Department of Corrections or the
Department of Juvenile Justice, was transferred to the
Department of Innovation and Technology pursuant to
Executive Order 2016-01, and continues to perform similar
job functions under that Department.
(20) "Transferred employee" means an employee who was
transferred to the Department of Central Management
Services by Executive Order No. 2003-10 or Executive Order
No. 2004-2 or transferred to the Department of Innovation
and Technology by Executive Order No. 2016-1, or both, and
was entitled to eligible creditable service for services
immediately preceding the transfer.
(d) A security employee of the Department of Corrections
or the Department of Juvenile Justice, a security employee of
the Department of Human Services who is not a mental health
police officer, and a security employee of the Department of
Innovation and Technology shall not be eligible for the
alternative retirement annuity provided by this Section unless
he or she meets the following minimum age and service
requirements at the time of retirement:
(i) 25 years of eligible creditable service and age
55; or
(ii) beginning January 1, 1987, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 54, or 24 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(iii) beginning January 1, 1988, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 53, or 23 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(iv) beginning January 1, 1989, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 52, or 22 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(v) beginning January 1, 1990, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 51, or 21 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(vi) beginning January 1, 1991, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 50, or 20 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55.
Persons who have service credit under Article 16 of this
Code for service as a security employee of the Department of
Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, or the
Department of Human Services in a position requiring
certification as a teacher may count such service toward
establishing their eligibility under the service requirements
of this Section; but such service may be used only for
establishing such eligibility, and not for the purpose of
increasing or calculating any benefit.
(e) If a member enters military service while working in a
position in which eligible creditable service may be earned,
and returns to State service in the same or another such
position, and fulfills in all other respects the conditions
prescribed in this Article for credit for military service,
such military service shall be credited as eligible creditable
service for the purposes of the retirement annuity prescribed
in this Section.
(f) For purposes of calculating retirement annuities under
this Section, periods of service rendered after December 31,
1968 and before October 1, 1975 as a covered employee in the
position of special agent, conservation police officer, mental
health police officer, or investigator for the Secretary of
State, shall be deemed to have been service as a noncovered
employee, provided that the employee pays to the System prior
to retirement an amount equal to (1) the difference between
the employee contributions that would have been required for
such service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of
employee contributions actually paid, plus (2) if payment is
made after July 31, 1987, regular interest on the amount
specified in item (1) from the date of service to the date of
payment.
For purposes of calculating retirement annuities under
this Section, periods of service rendered after December 31,
1968 and before January 1, 1982 as a covered employee in the
position of investigator for the Department of Revenue shall
be deemed to have been service as a noncovered employee,
provided that the employee pays to the System prior to
retirement an amount equal to (1) the difference between the
employee contributions that would have been required for such
service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of employee
contributions actually paid, plus (2) if payment is made after
January 1, 1990, regular interest on the amount specified in
item (1) from the date of service to the date of payment.
(g) A State policeman may elect, not later than January 1,
1990, to establish eligible creditable service for up to 10
years of his service as a policeman under Article 3, by filing
a written election with the Board, accompanied by payment of
an amount to be determined by the Board, equal to (i) the
difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Section 3-110.5,
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman may elect, not later than July 1, 1993, to establish
eligible creditable service for up to 10 years of his service
as a member of the County Police Department under Article 9, by
filing a written election with the Board, accompanied by
payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal to
(i) the difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Section 9-121.10
and the amounts that would have been contributed had those
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
(h) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman or investigator for the Secretary of State may elect
to establish eligible creditable service for up to 12 years of
his service as a policeman under Article 5, by filing a written
election with the Board on or before January 31, 1992, and
paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference between
the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
to the System under Section 5-236, and the amounts that would
have been contributed had such contributions been made at the
rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, or investigator for
the Secretary of State may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 10 years of service as a sheriff's
law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing a written
election with the Board on or before January 31, 1993, and
paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference between
the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
to the System under Section 7-139.7, and the amounts that
would have been contributed had such contributions been made
at the rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, or investigator for
the Secretary of State may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a police
officer under Article 3, a policeman under Article 5, a
sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, a member
of the county police department under Article 9, or a police
officer under Article 15 by filing a written election with the
Board and paying to the System an amount to be determined by
the Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.6, 5-236, 7-139.8, 9-121.10, or 15-134.4
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Office of the Attorney General, or an
investigator for the Department of Revenue, may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for up to 5 years of
service as a police officer under Article 3, a policeman under
Article 5, a sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article
7, or a member of the county police department under Article 9
by filing a written election with the Board within 6 months
after August 25, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act
96-745) and paying to the System an amount to be determined by
the Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.6, 5-236, 7-139.8, or 9-121.10 and the
amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, investigator for the
Office of the Attorney General, an investigator for the
Department of Revenue, or investigator for the Secretary of
State may elect to establish eligible creditable service for
up to 5 years of service as a person employed by a
participating municipality to perform police duties, or law
enforcement officer employed on a full-time basis by a forest
preserve district under Article 7, a county corrections
officer, or a court services officer under Article 9, by
filing a written election with the Board within 6 months after
August 25, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act 96-745) and
paying to the System an amount to be determined by the Board,
equal to (i) the difference between the amount of employee and
employer contributions transferred to the System under
Sections 7-139.8 and 9-121.10 and the amounts that would have
been contributed had such contributions been made at the rates
applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
the actuarially assumed rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, arson investigator, or Commerce Commission police
officer may elect to establish eligible creditable service for
up to 5 years of service as a person employed by a
participating municipality to perform police duties under
Article 7, a county corrections officer, a court services
officer under Article 9, or a firefighter under Article 4 by
filing a written election with the Board within 6 months after
July 30, 2021 (the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and
paying to the System an amount to be determined by the Board
equal to (i) the difference between the amount of employee and
employer contributions transferred to the System under
Sections 4-108.8, 7-139.8, and 9-121.10 and the amounts that
would have been contributed had such contributions been made
at the rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the actuarially assumed rate for each year,
compounded annually, from the date of service to the date of
payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
conservation police officer may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a person
employed by a participating municipality to perform police
duties under Article 7, a county corrections officer, or a
court services officer under Article 9 by filing a written
election with the Board within 6 months after July 30, 2021
(the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and paying to the
System an amount to be determined by the Board equal to (i) the
difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Sections 7-139.8
and 9-121.10 and the amounts that would have been contributed
had such contributions been made at the rates applicable to
State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Department of Revenue, investigator for
the Illinois Gaming Board, investigator for the Secretary of
State, or arson investigator may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a person
employed by a participating municipality to perform police
duties under Article 7, a county corrections officer, a court
services officer under Article 9, or a firefighter under
Article 4 by filing a written election with the Board within 6
months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
102nd General Assembly and paying to the System an amount to be
determined by the Board equal to (i) the difference between
the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
to the System under Sections 4-108.8, 7-139.8, and 9-121.10
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
Notwithstanding the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman or conservation police officer may elect to convert
service credit earned under this Article to eligible
creditable service, as defined by this Section, by filing a
written election with the board within 6 months after July 30,
2021 (the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and paying to
the System an amount to be determined by the Board equal to (i)
the difference between the amount of employee contributions
originally paid for that service and the amounts that would
have been contributed had such contributions been made at the
rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) the difference
between the employer's normal cost of the credit prior to the
conversion authorized by Public Act 102-210 and the employer's
normal cost of the credit converted in accordance with Public
Act 102-210, plus (iii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
Notwithstanding the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Department of Revenue, investigator for
the Illinois Gaming Board, investigator for the Secretary of
State, or arson investigator may elect to convert service
credit earned under this Article to eligible creditable
service, as defined by this Section, by filing a written
election with the Board within 6 months after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly and
paying to the System an amount to be determined by the Board
equal to (i) the difference between the amount of employee
contributions originally paid for that service and the amounts
that would have been contributed had such contributions been
made at the rates applicable to investigators for the
Department of Revenue, investigators for the Illinois Gaming
Board, investigators for the Secretary of State, or arson
investigators, plus (ii) the difference between the employer's
normal cost of the credit prior to the conversion authorized
by this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly and the
employer's normal cost of the credit converted in accordance
with this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, plus
(iii) interest thereon at the actuarially assumed rate for
each year, compounded annually, from the date of service to
the date of payment.
(i) The total amount of eligible creditable service
established by any person under subsections (g), (h), (j),
(k), (l), (l-5), and (o) of this Section shall not exceed 12
years.
(j) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate
Prosecutor or a controlled substance inspector may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for up to 10 years of
his service as a policeman under Article 3 or a sheriff's law
enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing a written
election with the Board, accompanied by payment of an amount
to be determined by the Board, equal to (1) the difference
between the amount of employee and employer contributions
transferred to the System under Section 3-110.6 or 7-139.8,
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (2) interest thereon at the effective rate for
each year, compounded annually, from the date of service to
the date of payment.
(k) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of this
Section, an alternative formula employee may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for periods spent as a
full-time law enforcement officer or full-time corrections
officer employed by the federal government or by a state or
local government located outside of Illinois, for which credit
is not held in any other public employee pension fund or
retirement system. To obtain this credit, the applicant must
file a written application with the Board by March 31, 1998,
accompanied by evidence of eligibility acceptable to the Board
and payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal
to (1) employee contributions for the credit being
established, based upon the applicant's salary on the first
day as an alternative formula employee after the employment
for which credit is being established and the rates then
applicable to alternative formula employees, plus (2) an
amount determined by the Board to be the employer's normal
cost of the benefits accrued for the credit being established,
plus (3) regular interest on the amounts in items (1) and (2)
from the first day as an alternative formula employee after
the employment for which credit is being established to the
date of payment.
(l) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
security employee of the Department of Corrections may elect,
not later than July 1, 1998, to establish eligible creditable
service for up to 10 years of his or her service as a policeman
under Article 3, by filing a written election with the Board,
accompanied by payment of an amount to be determined by the
Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.5, and the amounts that would have been
contributed had such contributions been made at the rates
applicable to security employees of the Department of
Corrections, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
(l-5) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of this
Section, a State policeman may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a full-time
law enforcement officer employed by the federal government or
by a state or local government located outside of Illinois for
which credit is not held in any other public employee pension
fund or retirement system. To obtain this credit, the
applicant must file a written application with the Board no
later than 3 years after January 1, 2020 (the effective date of
Public Act 101-610), accompanied by evidence of eligibility
acceptable to the Board and payment of an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (1) employee contributions
for the credit being established, based upon the applicant's
salary on the first day as an alternative formula employee
after the employment for which credit is being established and
the rates then applicable to alternative formula employees,
plus (2) an amount determined by the Board to be the employer's
normal cost of the benefits accrued for the credit being
established, plus (3) regular interest on the amounts in items
(1) and (2) from the first day as an alternative formula
employee after the employment for which credit is being
established to the date of payment.
(m) The amendatory changes to this Section made by Public
Act 94-696 apply only to: (1) security employees of the
Department of Juvenile Justice employed by the Department of
Corrections before June 1, 2006 (the effective date of Public
Act 94-696) and transferred to the Department of Juvenile
Justice by Public Act 94-696; and (2) persons employed by the
Department of Juvenile Justice on or after June 1, 2006 (the
effective date of Public Act 94-696) who are required by
subsection (b) of Section 3-2.5-15 of the Unified Code of
Corrections to have any bachelor's or advanced degree from an
accredited college or university or, in the case of persons
who provide vocational training, who are required to have
adequate knowledge in the skill for which they are providing
the vocational training.
(n) A person employed in a position under subsection (b)
of this Section who has purchased service credit under
subsection (j) of Section 14-104 or subsection (b) of Section
14-105 in any other capacity under this Article may convert up
to 5 years of that service credit into service credit covered
under this Section by paying to the Fund an amount equal to (1)
the additional employee contribution required under Section
14-133, plus (2) the additional employer contribution required
under Section 14-131, plus (3) interest on items (1) and (2) at
the actuarially assumed rate from the date of the service to
the date of payment.
(o) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
conservation police officer, investigator for the Secretary of
State, Commerce Commission police officer, investigator for
the Department of Revenue or the Illinois Gaming Board, or
arson investigator subject to subsection (g) of Section 1-160
may elect to convert up to 8 years of service credit
established before January 1, 2020 (the effective date of
Public Act 101-610) as a conservation police officer,
investigator for the Secretary of State, Commerce Commission
police officer, investigator for the Department of Revenue or
the Illinois Gaming Board, or arson investigator under this
Article into eligible creditable service by filing a written
election with the Board no later than one year after January 1,
2020 (the effective date of Public Act 101-610), accompanied
by payment of an amount to be determined by the Board equal to
(i) the difference between the amount of the employee
contributions actually paid for that service and the amount of
the employee contributions that would have been paid had the
employee contributions been made as a noncovered employee
serving in a position in which eligible creditable service, as
defined in this Section, may be earned, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
(Source: P.A. 101-610, eff. 1-1-20; 102-210, eff. 7-30-21;
102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-856, eff. 1-1-23.)
(Text of Section from P.A. 102-956)
Sec. 14-110. Alternative retirement annuity.
(a) Any member who has withdrawn from service with not
less than 20 years of eligible creditable service and has
attained age 55, and any member who has withdrawn from service
with not less than 25 years of eligible creditable service and
has attained age 50, regardless of whether the attainment of
either of the specified ages occurs while the member is still
in service, shall be entitled to receive at the option of the
member, in lieu of the regular or minimum retirement annuity,
a retirement annuity computed as follows:
(i) for periods of service as a noncovered employee:
if retirement occurs on or after January 1, 2001, 3% of
final average compensation for each year of creditable
service; if retirement occurs before January 1, 2001, 2
1/4% of final average compensation for each of the first
10 years of creditable service, 2 1/2% for each year above
10 years to and including 20 years of creditable service,
and 2 3/4% for each year of creditable service above 20
years; and
(ii) for periods of eligible creditable service as a
covered employee: if retirement occurs on or after January
1, 2001, 2.5% of final average compensation for each year
of creditable service; if retirement occurs before January
1, 2001, 1.67% of final average compensation for each of
the first 10 years of such service, 1.90% for each of the
next 10 years of such service, 2.10% for each year of such
service in excess of 20 but not exceeding 30, and 2.30% for
each year in excess of 30.
Such annuity shall be subject to a maximum of 75% of final
average compensation if retirement occurs before January 1,
2001 or to a maximum of 80% of final average compensation if
retirement occurs on or after January 1, 2001.
These rates shall not be applicable to any service
performed by a member as a covered employee which is not
eligible creditable service. Service as a covered employee
which is not eligible creditable service shall be subject to
the rates and provisions of Section 14-108.
(b) For the purpose of this Section, "eligible creditable
service" means creditable service resulting from service in
one or more of the following positions:
(1) State policeman;
(2) fire fighter in the fire protection service of a
department;
(3) air pilot;
(4) special agent;
(5) investigator for the Secretary of State;
(6) conservation police officer;
(7) investigator for the Department of Revenue or the
Illinois Gaming Board;
(8) security employee of the Department of Human
Services;
(9) Central Management Services security police
officer;
(10) security employee of the Department of
Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice;
(11) dangerous drugs investigator;
(12) investigator for the Illinois State Police;
(13) investigator for the Office of the Attorney
General;
(14) controlled substance inspector;
(15) investigator for the Office of the State's
Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
(16) Commerce Commission police officer;
(17) arson investigator;
(18) State highway maintenance worker;
(19) security employee of the Department of Innovation
and Technology; or
(20) transferred employee.
A person employed in one of the positions specified in
this subsection is entitled to eligible creditable service for
service credit earned under this Article while undergoing the
basic police training course approved by the Illinois Law
Enforcement Training Standards Board, if completion of that
training is required of persons serving in that position. For
the purposes of this Code, service during the required basic
police training course shall be deemed performance of the
duties of the specified position, even though the person is
not a sworn peace officer at the time of the training.
A person under paragraph (20) is entitled to eligible
creditable service for service credit earned under this
Article on and after his or her transfer by Executive Order No.
2003-10, Executive Order No. 2004-2, or Executive Order No.
2016-1.
(c) For the purposes of this Section:
(1) The term "State policeman" includes any title or
position in the Illinois State Police that is held by an
individual employed under the Illinois State Police Act.
(2) The term "fire fighter in the fire protection
service of a department" includes all officers in such
fire protection service including fire chiefs and
assistant fire chiefs.
(3) The term "air pilot" includes any employee whose
official job description on file in the Department of
Central Management Services, or in the department by which
he is employed if that department is not covered by the
Personnel Code, states that his principal duty is the
operation of aircraft, and who possesses a pilot's
license; however, the change in this definition made by
Public Act 83-842 shall not operate to exclude any
noncovered employee who was an "air pilot" for the
purposes of this Section on January 1, 1984.
(4) The term "special agent" means any person who by
reason of employment by the Division of Narcotic Control,
the Bureau of Investigation or, after July 1, 1977, the
Division of Criminal Investigation, the Division of
Internal Investigation, the Division of Operations, the
Division of Patrol Operations, or any other Division or
organizational entity in the Illinois State Police is
vested by law with duties to maintain public order,
investigate violations of the criminal law of this State,
enforce the laws of this State, make arrests and recover
property. The term "special agent" includes any title or
position in the Illinois State Police that is held by an
individual employed under the Illinois State Police Act.
(5) The term "investigator for the Secretary of State"
means any person employed by the Office of the Secretary
of State and vested with such investigative duties as
render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
A person who became employed as an investigator for
the Secretary of State between January 1, 1967 and
December 31, 1975, and who has served as such until
attainment of age 60, either continuously or with a single
break in service of not more than 3 years duration, which
break terminated before January 1, 1976, shall be entitled
to have his retirement annuity calculated in accordance
with subsection (a), notwithstanding that he has less than
20 years of credit for such service.
(6) The term "Conservation Police Officer" means any
person employed by the Division of Law Enforcement of the
Department of Natural Resources and vested with such law
enforcement duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act. The
term "Conservation Police Officer" includes the positions
of Chief Conservation Police Administrator and Assistant
Conservation Police Administrator.
(7) The term "investigator for the Department of
Revenue" means any person employed by the Department of
Revenue and vested with such investigative duties as
render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
The term "investigator for the Illinois Gaming Board"
means any person employed as such by the Illinois Gaming
Board and vested with such peace officer duties as render
the person ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(8) The term "security employee of the Department of
Human Services" means any person employed by the
Department of Human Services who (i) is employed at the
Chester Mental Health Center and has daily contact with
the residents thereof, (ii) is employed within a security
unit at a facility operated by the Department and has
daily contact with the residents of the security unit,
(iii) is employed at a facility operated by the Department
that includes a security unit and is regularly scheduled
to work at least 50% of his or her working hours within
that security unit, or (iv) is a mental health police
officer. "Mental health police officer" means any person
employed by the Department of Human Services in a position
pertaining to the Department's mental health and
developmental disabilities functions who is vested with
such law enforcement duties as render the person
ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act by
reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and
218(l)(1) of that Act. "Security unit" means that portion
of a facility that is devoted to the care, containment,
and treatment of persons committed to the Department of
Human Services as sexually violent persons, persons unfit
to stand trial, or persons not guilty by reason of
insanity. With respect to past employment, references to
the Department of Human Services include its predecessor,
the Department of Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities.
The changes made to this subdivision (c)(8) by Public
Act 92-14 apply to persons who retire on or after January
1, 2001, notwithstanding Section 1-103.1.
(9) "Central Management Services security police
officer" means any person employed by the Department of
Central Management Services who is vested with such law
enforcement duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(10) For a member who first became an employee under
this Article before July 1, 2005, the term "security
employee of the Department of Corrections or the
Department of Juvenile Justice" means any employee of the
Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile
Justice or the former Department of Personnel, and any
member or employee of the Prisoner Review Board, who has
daily contact with inmates or youth by working within a
correctional facility or Juvenile facility operated by the
Department of Juvenile Justice or who is a parole officer
or an employee who has direct contact with committed
persons in the performance of his or her job duties. For a
member who first becomes an employee under this Article on
or after July 1, 2005, the term means an employee of the
Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile
Justice who is any of the following: (i) officially
headquartered at a correctional facility or Juvenile
facility operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice,
(ii) a parole officer, (iii) a member of the apprehension
unit, (iv) a member of the intelligence unit, (v) a member
of the sort team, or (vi) an investigator.
(11) The term "dangerous drugs investigator" means any
person who is employed as such by the Department of Human
Services.
(12) The term "investigator for the Illinois State
Police" means a person employed by the Illinois State
Police who is vested under Section 4 of the Narcotic
Control Division Abolition Act with such law enforcement
powers as render him ineligible for coverage under the
Social Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act.
(13) "Investigator for the Office of the Attorney
General" means any person who is employed as such by the
Office of the Attorney General and is vested with such
investigative duties as render him ineligible for coverage
under the Social Security Act by reason of Sections
218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act. For
the period before January 1, 1989, the term includes all
persons who were employed as investigators by the Office
of the Attorney General, without regard to social security
status.
(14) "Controlled substance inspector" means any person
who is employed as such by the Department of Professional
Regulation and is vested with such law enforcement duties
as render him ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D) and 218(l)(1) of that Act. The term
"controlled substance inspector" includes the Program
Executive of Enforcement and the Assistant Program
Executive of Enforcement.
(15) The term "investigator for the Office of the
State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor" means a person
employed in that capacity on a full-time basis under the
authority of Section 7.06 of the State's Attorneys
Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
(16) "Commerce Commission police officer" means any
person employed by the Illinois Commerce Commission who is
vested with such law enforcement duties as render him
ineligible for coverage under the Social Security Act by
reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A), 218(d)(8)(D), and
218(l)(1) of that Act.
(17) "Arson investigator" means any person who is
employed as such by the Office of the State Fire Marshal
and is vested with such law enforcement duties as render
the person ineligible for coverage under the Social
Security Act by reason of Sections 218(d)(5)(A),
218(d)(8)(D), and 218(l)(1) of that Act. A person who was
employed as an arson investigator on January 1, 1995 and
is no longer in service but not yet receiving a retirement
annuity may convert his or her creditable service for
employment as an arson investigator into eligible
creditable service by paying to the System the difference
between the employee contributions actually paid for that
service and the amounts that would have been contributed
if the applicant were contributing at the rate applicable
to persons with the same social security status earning
eligible creditable service on the date of application.
(18) The term "State highway maintenance worker" means
a person who is either of the following:
(i) A person employed on a full-time basis by the
Illinois Department of Transportation in the position
of highway maintainer, highway maintenance lead
worker, highway maintenance lead/lead worker, heavy
construction equipment operator, power shovel
operator, or bridge mechanic; and whose principal
responsibility is to perform, on the roadway, the
actual maintenance necessary to keep the highways that
form a part of the State highway system in serviceable
condition for vehicular traffic.
(ii) A person employed on a full-time basis by the
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in the position
of equipment operator/laborer H-4, equipment
operator/laborer H-6, welder H-4, welder H-6,
mechanical/electrical H-4, mechanical/electrical H-6,
water/sewer H-4, water/sewer H-6, sign maker/hanger
H-4, sign maker/hanger H-6, roadway lighting H-4,
roadway lighting H-6, structural H-4, structural H-6,
painter H-4, or painter H-6; and whose principal
responsibility is to perform, on the roadway, the
actual maintenance necessary to keep the Authority's
tollways in serviceable condition for vehicular
traffic.
(19) The term "security employee of the Department of
Innovation and Technology" means a person who was a
security employee of the Department of Corrections or the
Department of Juvenile Justice, was transferred to the
Department of Innovation and Technology pursuant to
Executive Order 2016-01, and continues to perform similar
job functions under that Department.
(20) "Transferred employee" means an employee who was
transferred to the Department of Central Management
Services by Executive Order No. 2003-10 or Executive Order
No. 2004-2 or transferred to the Department of Innovation
and Technology by Executive Order No. 2016-1, or both, and
was entitled to eligible creditable service for services
immediately preceding the transfer.
(d) A security employee of the Department of Corrections
or the Department of Juvenile Justice, a security employee of
the Department of Human Services who is not a mental health
police officer, and a security employee of the Department of
Innovation and Technology shall not be eligible for the
alternative retirement annuity provided by this Section unless
he or she meets the following minimum age and service
requirements at the time of retirement:
(i) 25 years of eligible creditable service and age
55; or
(ii) beginning January 1, 1987, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 54, or 24 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(iii) beginning January 1, 1988, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 53, or 23 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(iv) beginning January 1, 1989, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 52, or 22 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(v) beginning January 1, 1990, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 51, or 21 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55; or
(vi) beginning January 1, 1991, 25 years of eligible
creditable service and age 50, or 20 years of eligible
creditable service and age 55.
Persons who have service credit under Article 16 of this
Code for service as a security employee of the Department of
Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, or the
Department of Human Services in a position requiring
certification as a teacher may count such service toward
establishing their eligibility under the service requirements
of this Section; but such service may be used only for
establishing such eligibility, and not for the purpose of
increasing or calculating any benefit.
(e) If a member enters military service while working in a
position in which eligible creditable service may be earned,
and returns to State service in the same or another such
position, and fulfills in all other respects the conditions
prescribed in this Article for credit for military service,
such military service shall be credited as eligible creditable
service for the purposes of the retirement annuity prescribed
in this Section.
(f) For purposes of calculating retirement annuities under
this Section, periods of service rendered after December 31,
1968 and before October 1, 1975 as a covered employee in the
position of special agent, conservation police officer, mental
health police officer, or investigator for the Secretary of
State, shall be deemed to have been service as a noncovered
employee, provided that the employee pays to the System prior
to retirement an amount equal to (1) the difference between
the employee contributions that would have been required for
such service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of
employee contributions actually paid, plus (2) if payment is
made after July 31, 1987, regular interest on the amount
specified in item (1) from the date of service to the date of
payment.
For purposes of calculating retirement annuities under
this Section, periods of service rendered after December 31,
1968 and before January 1, 1982 as a covered employee in the
position of investigator for the Department of Revenue shall
be deemed to have been service as a noncovered employee,
provided that the employee pays to the System prior to
retirement an amount equal to (1) the difference between the
employee contributions that would have been required for such
service as a noncovered employee, and the amount of employee
contributions actually paid, plus (2) if payment is made after
January 1, 1990, regular interest on the amount specified in
item (1) from the date of service to the date of payment.
(g) A State policeman may elect, not later than January 1,
1990, to establish eligible creditable service for up to 10
years of his service as a policeman under Article 3, by filing
a written election with the Board, accompanied by payment of
an amount to be determined by the Board, equal to (i) the
difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Section 3-110.5,
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman may elect, not later than July 1, 1993, to establish
eligible creditable service for up to 10 years of his service
as a member of the County Police Department under Article 9, by
filing a written election with the Board, accompanied by
payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal to
(i) the difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Section 9-121.10
and the amounts that would have been contributed had those
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
(h) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman or investigator for the Secretary of State may elect
to establish eligible creditable service for up to 12 years of
his service as a policeman under Article 5, by filing a written
election with the Board on or before January 31, 1992, and
paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference between
the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
to the System under Section 5-236, and the amounts that would
have been contributed had such contributions been made at the
rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, or investigator for
the Secretary of State may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 10 years of service as a sheriff's
law enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing a written
election with the Board on or before January 31, 1993, and
paying to the System by January 31, 1994 an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (i) the difference between
the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred
to the System under Section 7-139.7, and the amounts that
would have been contributed had such contributions been made
at the rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, or investigator for
the Secretary of State may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a police
officer under Article 3, a policeman under Article 5, a
sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article 7, a member
of the county police department under Article 9, or a police
officer under Article 15 by filing a written election with the
Board and paying to the System an amount to be determined by
the Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.6, 5-236, 7-139.8, 9-121.10, or 15-134.4
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Office of the Attorney General, or an
investigator for the Department of Revenue, may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for up to 5 years of
service as a police officer under Article 3, a policeman under
Article 5, a sheriff's law enforcement employee under Article
7, or a member of the county police department under Article 9
by filing a written election with the Board within 6 months
after August 25, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act
96-745) and paying to the System an amount to be determined by
the Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.6, 5-236, 7-139.8, or 9-121.10 and the
amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, conservation police officer, investigator for the
Office of the Attorney General, an investigator for the
Department of Revenue, or investigator for the Secretary of
State may elect to establish eligible creditable service for
up to 5 years of service as a person employed by a
participating municipality to perform police duties, or law
enforcement officer employed on a full-time basis by a forest
preserve district under Article 7, a county corrections
officer, or a court services officer under Article 9, by
filing a written election with the Board within 6 months after
August 25, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act 96-745) and
paying to the System an amount to be determined by the Board,
equal to (i) the difference between the amount of employee and
employer contributions transferred to the System under
Sections 7-139.8 and 9-121.10 and the amounts that would have
been contributed had such contributions been made at the rates
applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at
the actuarially assumed rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman, arson investigator, or Commerce Commission police
officer may elect to establish eligible creditable service for
up to 5 years of service as a person employed by a
participating municipality to perform police duties under
Article 7, a county corrections officer, a court services
officer under Article 9, or a firefighter under Article 4 by
filing a written election with the Board within 6 months after
July 30, 2021 (the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and
paying to the System an amount to be determined by the Board
equal to (i) the difference between the amount of employee and
employer contributions transferred to the System under
Sections 4-108.8, 7-139.8, and 9-121.10 and the amounts that
would have been contributed had such contributions been made
at the rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the actuarially assumed rate for each year,
compounded annually, from the date of service to the date of
payment.
Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
conservation police officer may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a person
employed by a participating municipality to perform police
duties under Article 7, a county corrections officer, or a
court services officer under Article 9 by filing a written
election with the Board within 6 months after July 30, 2021
(the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and paying to the
System an amount to be determined by the Board equal to (i) the
difference between the amount of employee and employer
contributions transferred to the System under Sections 7-139.8
and 9-121.10 and the amounts that would have been contributed
had such contributions been made at the rates applicable to
State policemen, plus (ii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
Notwithstanding the limitation in subsection (i), a State
policeman or conservation police officer may elect to convert
service credit earned under this Article to eligible
creditable service, as defined by this Section, by filing a
written election with the board within 6 months after July 30,
2021 (the effective date of Public Act 102-210) and paying to
the System an amount to be determined by the Board equal to (i)
the difference between the amount of employee contributions
originally paid for that service and the amounts that would
have been contributed had such contributions been made at the
rates applicable to State policemen, plus (ii) the difference
between the employer's normal cost of the credit prior to the
conversion authorized by Public Act 102-210 and the employer's
normal cost of the credit converted in accordance with Public
Act 102-210, plus (iii) interest thereon at the actuarially
assumed rate for each year, compounded annually, from the date
of service to the date of payment.
(i) The total amount of eligible creditable service
established by any person under subsections (g), (h), (j),
(k), (l), (l-5), (o), and (p) of this Section shall not exceed
12 years.
(j) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate
Prosecutor or a controlled substance inspector may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for up to 10 years of
his service as a policeman under Article 3 or a sheriff's law
enforcement employee under Article 7, by filing a written
election with the Board, accompanied by payment of an amount
to be determined by the Board, equal to (1) the difference
between the amount of employee and employer contributions
transferred to the System under Section 3-110.6 or 7-139.8,
and the amounts that would have been contributed had such
contributions been made at the rates applicable to State
policemen, plus (2) interest thereon at the effective rate for
each year, compounded annually, from the date of service to
the date of payment.
(k) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of this
Section, an alternative formula employee may elect to
establish eligible creditable service for periods spent as a
full-time law enforcement officer or full-time corrections
officer employed by the federal government or by a state or
local government located outside of Illinois, for which credit
is not held in any other public employee pension fund or
retirement system. To obtain this credit, the applicant must
file a written application with the Board by March 31, 1998,
accompanied by evidence of eligibility acceptable to the Board
and payment of an amount to be determined by the Board, equal
to (1) employee contributions for the credit being
established, based upon the applicant's salary on the first
day as an alternative formula employee after the employment
for which credit is being established and the rates then
applicable to alternative formula employees, plus (2) an
amount determined by the Board to be the employer's normal
cost of the benefits accrued for the credit being established,
plus (3) regular interest on the amounts in items (1) and (2)
from the first day as an alternative formula employee after
the employment for which credit is being established to the
date of payment.
(l) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
security employee of the Department of Corrections may elect,
not later than July 1, 1998, to establish eligible creditable
service for up to 10 years of his or her service as a policeman
under Article 3, by filing a written election with the Board,
accompanied by payment of an amount to be determined by the
Board, equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
employee and employer contributions transferred to the System
under Section 3-110.5, and the amounts that would have been
contributed had such contributions been made at the rates
applicable to security employees of the Department of
Corrections, plus (ii) interest thereon at the effective rate
for each year, compounded annually, from the date of service
to the date of payment.
(l-5) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i) of this
Section, a State policeman may elect to establish eligible
creditable service for up to 5 years of service as a full-time
law enforcement officer employed by the federal government or
by a state or local government located outside of Illinois for
which credit is not held in any other public employee pension
fund or retirement system. To obtain this credit, the
applicant must file a written application with the Board no
later than 3 years after January 1, 2020 (the effective date of
Public Act 101-610), accompanied by evidence of eligibility
acceptable to the Board and payment of an amount to be
determined by the Board, equal to (1) employee contributions
for the credit being established, based upon the applicant's
salary on the first day as an alternative formula employee
after the employment for which credit is being established and
the rates then applicable to alternative formula employees,
plus (2) an amount determined by the Board to be the employer's
normal cost of the benefits accrued for the credit being
established, plus (3) regular interest on the amounts in items
(1) and (2) from the first day as an alternative formula
employee after the employment for which credit is being
established to the date of payment.
(m) The amendatory changes to this Section made by Public
Act 94-696 apply only to: (1) security employees of the
Department of Juvenile Justice employed by the Department of
Corrections before June 1, 2006 (the effective date of Public
Act 94-696) and transferred to the Department of Juvenile
Justice by Public Act 94-696; and (2) persons employed by the
Department of Juvenile Justice on or after June 1, 2006 (the
effective date of Public Act 94-696) who are required by
subsection (b) of Section 3-2.5-15 of the Unified Code of
Corrections to have any bachelor's or advanced degree from an
accredited college or university or, in the case of persons
who provide vocational training, who are required to have
adequate knowledge in the skill for which they are providing
the vocational training.
(n) A person employed in a position under subsection (b)
of this Section who has purchased service credit under
subsection (j) of Section 14-104 or subsection (b) of Section
14-105 in any other capacity under this Article may convert up
to 5 years of that service credit into service credit covered
under this Section by paying to the Fund an amount equal to (1)
the additional employee contribution required under Section
14-133, plus (2) the additional employer contribution required
under Section 14-131, plus (3) interest on items (1) and (2) at
the actuarially assumed rate from the date of the service to
the date of payment.
(o) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), a
conservation police officer, investigator for the Secretary of
State, Commerce Commission police officer, investigator for
the Department of Revenue or the Illinois Gaming Board, or
arson investigator subject to subsection (g) of Section 1-160
may elect to convert up to 8 years of service credit
established before January 1, 2020 (the effective date of
Public Act 101-610) as a conservation police officer,
investigator for the Secretary of State, Commerce Commission
police officer, investigator for the Department of Revenue or
the Illinois Gaming Board, or arson investigator under this
Article into eligible creditable service by filing a written
election with the Board no later than one year after January 1,
2020 (the effective date of Public Act 101-610), accompanied
by payment of an amount to be determined by the Board equal to
(i) the difference between the amount of the employee
contributions actually paid for that service and the amount of
the employee contributions that would have been paid had the
employee contributions been made as a noncovered employee
serving in a position in which eligible creditable service, as
defined in this Section, may be earned, plus (ii) interest
thereon at the effective rate for each year, compounded
annually, from the date of service to the date of payment.
(p) Subject to the limitation in subsection (i), an
investigator for the Office of the Attorney General subject to
subsection (g) of Section 1-160 may elect to convert up to 8
years of service credit established before the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly as an
investigator for the Office of the Attorney General under this
Article into eligible creditable service by filing a written
election with the Board no later than one year after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General
Assembly, accompanied by payment of an amount to be determined
by the Board equal to (i) the difference between the amount of
the employee contributions actually paid for that service and
the amount of the employee contributions that would have been
paid had the employee contributions been made as a noncovered
employee serving in a position in which eligible creditable
service, as defined in this Section, may be earned, plus (ii)
interest thereon at the effective rate for each year,
compounded annually, from the date of service to the date of
payment.
(Source: P.A. 101-610, eff. 1-1-20; 102-210, eff. 7-30-21;
102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-956, eff. 5-27-22.)
Section 45. The Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery
Act of 1984 is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
(325 ILCS 40/6) (from Ch. 23, par. 2256)
Sec. 6. The Illinois State Police shall:
(a) Utilize the statewide Law Enforcement Agencies Data
System (LEADS) for the purpose of effecting an immediate law
enforcement response to reports of missing children. The
Illinois State Police shall implement an automated data
exchange system to compile, to maintain and to make available
for dissemination to Illinois and out-of-State law enforcement
agencies, data which can assist appropriate agencies in
recovering missing children.
(b) Establish contacts and exchange information regarding
lost, missing or runaway children with nationally recognized
"missing person and runaway" service organizations and monitor
national research and publicize important developments.
(c) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of
pertinent information regarding reports of missing children
into LEADS.
(d) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide or
regional alert would be used in situations relating to the
disappearances of children, based on criteria and in a format
established by the Illinois State Police. Such a format shall
include, but not be limited to, the age and physical
description of the missing child and the suspected
circumstances of the disappearance.
(e) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of
missing persons shall be entered as soon as the minimum level
of data specified by the Illinois State Police is available to
the reporting agency and that no waiting period for entry of
such data exists.
(f) Provide a procedure for prompt confirmation of the
receipt and entry of the missing child report into LEADS to the
parent or guardian of the missing child.
(g) Compile and retain information regarding missing
children in a separate data file, in a manner that allows such
information to be used by law enforcement and other agencies
deemed appropriate by the Director, for investigative
purposes. Such files shall be updated to reflect and include
information relating to the disposition of the case.
(h) Compile and maintain an historic data repository
relating to missing children in order (1) to develop and
improve techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when
responding to reports of missing children and (2) to provide a
factual and statistical base for research that would address
the problem of missing children.
(i) Create a quality control program to assess the monitor
timeliness of entries of missing children reports into LEADS
and conduct performance audits of all entering agencies.
(j) Prepare a periodic information bulletin concerning
missing children who it determines may be present in this
State, compiling such bulletin from information contained in
both the National Crime Information Center computer and from
reports, alerts and other information entered into LEADS or
otherwise compiled and retained by the Illinois State Police
pursuant to this Act. The bulletin shall indicate the name,
age, physical description, suspected circumstances of
disappearance if that information is available, a photograph
if one is available, the name of the law enforcement agency
investigating the case, and such other information as the
Director considers appropriate concerning each missing child
who the Illinois State Police determines may be present in
this State. The Illinois State Police shall send a copy of each
periodic information bulletin to the State Board of Education
for its use in accordance with Section 2-3.48 of the School
Code. The Illinois State Police shall provide a copy of the
bulletin, upon request, to law enforcement agencies of this or
any other state or of the federal government, and may provide a
copy of the bulletin, upon request, to other persons or
entities, if deemed appropriate by the Director, and may
establish limitations on its use and a reasonable fee for so
providing the same, except that no fee shall be charged for
providing the periodic information bulletin to the State Board
of Education, appropriate units of local government, State
agencies, or law enforcement agencies of this or any other
state or of the federal government.
(k) Provide for the entry into LEADS of the names and
addresses of sex offenders as defined in the Sex Offender
Registration Act who are required to register under that Act.
The information shall be immediately accessible to law
enforcement agencies and peace officers of this State or any
other state or of the federal government. Similar information
may be requested from any other state or of the federal
government for purposes of this Act.
(l) Provide for the entry into LEADS of the names and
addresses of violent offenders against youth as defined in the
Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act
who are required to register under that Act. The information
shall be immediately accessible to law enforcement agencies
and peace officers of this State or any other state or of the
federal government. Similar information may be requested from
any other state or of the federal government for purposes of
this Act.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
Section 50. The Sex Offender Registration Act is amended
by changing Section 11 as follows:
(730 ILCS 150/11)
Sec. 11. Offender Registration Fund. There is created the
Offender Registration Fund (formerly known as the Sex Offender
Registration Fund). Moneys in the Fund shall be used to cover
costs incurred by the criminal justice system to administer
this Article and the Murderer and Violent Offender Against
Youth Registration Act, and for purposes as authorized under
this Section 5-9-1.15 of the Unified Code of Corrections. The
Illinois State Police shall establish and promulgate rules and
procedures regarding the administration of this Fund. Fifty
percent of the moneys in the Fund shall be allocated by the
Department for sheriffs' offices and police departments. The
remaining moneys in the Fund received under this amendatory
Act of the 101st General Assembly shall be allocated to the
Illinois State Police for education and administration of the
Act.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to
any other transfers that may be provided by law, on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly, or as soon thereafter as practical, the State
Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall
transfer the remaining balance from the Sex Offender
Investigation Fund to the Offender Registration Fund. Upon
completion of the transfers, the Sex Offender Investigation
Fund is dissolved, and any future deposits into the Sex
Offender Investigation Fund and any outstanding obligations or
liabilities of the Sex Offender Investigation Fund pass to the
Offender Registration Fund.
(Source: P.A. 101-571, eff. 8-23-19; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
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