Bill Text: IL SB3201 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that beginning July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 140 paid days (rather than 150 paid days) or 700 paid hours (rather than 750 paid hours) in each school year, but not more than 100 paid days in the same classroom.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-04-11 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [SB3201 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB3201-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB3201 Introduced 1/14/2022, by Sen. Napoleon Harris, III SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 150 paid days (instead of 120 paid days) or 750 paid hours (instead of 600 paid hours) in each school year. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 120 paid days (instead of 100 paid days) or 600 paid hours (instead of 500 paid hours) in each school year. Makes a conforming change. Effective immediately.
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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 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;

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(iii) during the period beginning July 1, 2011
through June 30, 2018, 100 paid days or 500 paid hours
in each school year;
(iv) beginning July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021
2023, 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, 2021 through June 30, 2023,
150 paid days or 750 paid hours in each school year,
but not more than 100 paid days in the same classroom;
and
(vi) beginning July 1, 2023, 120 100 paid days or
600 500 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. 101-645, eff. 6-26-20; 102-537, eff. 8-20-21.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.