Bill Text: IL SB2434 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Cook County Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Excludes certain temporary election work from the definition of "in service". Provides that if an employee annuitant re-enters service as an election worker and provides services for a scheduled federal, State, or local election for a period of 60 days or less during a calendar year, that employee annuitant's annuity shall not be suspended and such employee annuitant shall not be considered to be in service and is not entitled to benefits for employees in service. Provides that if an employee annuitant re-enters service for a period longer than 60 days during a calendar year, the annuity shall be suspended or cancelled retroactive to the initial date of re-entry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-31 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2434 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2434-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2434 Introduced 2/10/2023, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/9-108.3
40 ILCS 5/9-161 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 9-161
Amends the Cook County Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Excludes certain temporary election work from the definition of "in service". Provides that if an employee annuitant re-enters service as an election worker and provides services for a scheduled federal, State, or local election for a period of 60 days or less during a calendar year, that employee annuitant's annuity shall not be suspended and such employee annuitant shall not be considered to be in service and is not entitled to benefits for employees in service. Provides that if an employee annuitant re-enters service for a period longer than 60 days during a calendar year, the annuity shall be suspended or cancelled retroactive to the initial date of re-entry.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
changing Sections 9-108.3 and 9-161 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/9-108.3)
Sec. 9-108.3. In service. "In service": Any period during
which contributions are being made to the Fund on behalf of an
employee except for temporary election work as described in
subsection (c) of Section 9-161.
(Source: P.A. 99-578, eff. 7-15-16.)
(40 ILCS 5/9-161) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 9-161)
Sec. 9-161. Re-entry into service. (a) When an employee
who has withdrawn from service after the effective date
re-enters service before age 65, any annuity previously
granted and any annuity fixed for his wife shall be cancelled.
The employee shall be credited for annuity purposes with the
actuarial value of annuities equal to those cancelled as of
their ages on the date of re-entry; provided, the maximum age
of the wife for this purpose shall be as provided in Section
9-151 of this Article. The sums so credited shall provide for
annuities to be fixed and granted in the future. Contributions

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by the employee and the county for the purposes of this Article
shall be made and when the proper time arrives, as provided in
this Article, new annuities based upon the total sums
accumulated to his credit for annuity purposes and the entire
term of his service shall be fixed for the employee and his
wife.
If the employee's wife has died before he re-entered
service, no part of any credits for widow's or widow's prior
service annuity at the time annuity for his wife was fixed
shall be credited upon re-entry into service, and no such sums
shall thereafter be used to provide such annuity.
(b) When an employee re-enters service after age 65,
payments on account of any annuity previously granted shall be
suspended during the time thereafter that he is in service,
and when he again withdraws annuity payments shall be resumed.
If the employee dies in service, his widow shall receive the
annuity previously fixed for her.
(c) If an employee annuitant re-enters service as an
election worker and provides services for a scheduled federal,
State, or local election for a period of 60 days or less during
a calendar year, that employee annuitant's annuity shall not
be suspended and such employee annuitant shall not be
considered to be in service within the meaning of Section
9-108.3 and is not entitled to benefits for employees in
service. If an employee annuitant re-enters service for a
period longer than 60 days during a calendar year, the annuity

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shall be suspended or cancelled retroactive to the initial
date of re-entry.
(Source: P.A. 81-1536.)