Bill Text: IL SB3045 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. For the period beginning July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2020, increases the amount of employment as a teacher that a retired teacher may perform without impairing retirement status; allows 120 paid days or 600 paid hours in a school year, but not more than 100 paid days in the same classroom. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB3045 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB3045-Engrossed.html

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SB3045 Engrossed LRB100 17218 RPS 32377 b
AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
Section 16-118 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/16-118) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118)
Sec. 16-118. Retirement. "Retirement": Entry upon a
retirement annuity or receipt of a single-sum retirement
benefit granted under this Article after termination of active
service as a teacher.
(a) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than
a disability retirement annuity may accept employment as a
teacher from a school board or other employer specified in
Section 16-106 without impairing retirement status, if that
employment: (1) is not within the school year during which
service was terminated; and (2) does not exceed the following:
(i) before July 1, 2001, 100 paid days or 500 paid
hours in any school year;
(ii) (during the period beginning July 1, 2001 through
June 30, 2011, 120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each
school year; )
(iii) during the period beginning July 1, 2011 through
June 30, 2018, 100 paid days or 500 paid hours in each

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school year;
(iv) beginning July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2020, 120
paid days or 600 paid hours in each school year, but not
more than 100 paid days in the same classroom; and
(v) beginning July 1, 2020, 100 paid days or 500 paid
hours in each school year.
Where such permitted employment is partly on a daily and
partly on an hourly basis, a day shall be considered as 5
hours.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who
returns to teaching under the program established in Section
16-150.1, for the duration of his or her participation in that
program.
(Source: P.A. 93-320, eff. 7-23-03; 94-914, eff. 6-23-06.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.