Bill Text: IL SB3616 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act through the end of the 60th month after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a State policeman who earns a retirement annuity equal to the limitation specified under the alternative retirement annuity provisions may elect to begin his or her retirement annuity effective on the month he or she first earned that retirement annuity at the amount so limited or the effective date of the amendatory Act, whichever is later. Provides that a State policeman who makes such an election must first pay to the System an amount equal to the increase in the present value of the future benefits resulting from the State policeman's election to retire in accordance with the provisions. Provides that a State policeman or conservation police officer may elect to convert service credit earned under the Article or, for certain types of service, elect to establish eligible creditable service under the alternative retirement annuity provisions by filing a written election with the board and paying to the System a specified amount. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-09 - Referred to Assignments [SB3616 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3616-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3616 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/14-110 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-110
40 ILCS 5/14-152.1
Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act through the end of the 60th month after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a State policeman who earns a retirement annuity equal to the limitation specified under the alternative retirement annuity provisions may elect to begin his or her retirement annuity effective on the month he or she first earned that retirement annuity at the amount so limited or the effective date of the amendatory Act, whichever is later. Provides that a State policeman who makes such an election must first pay to the System an amount equal to the increase in the present value of the future benefits resulting from the State policeman's election to retire in accordance with the provisions. Provides that a State policeman or conservation police officer may elect to convert service credit earned under the Article or, for certain types of service, elect to establish eligible creditable service under the alternative retirement annuity provisions by filing a written election with the board and paying to the System a specified amount. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". 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 Sections 14-110 and 14-152.1 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/14-110) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 14-110)
(Text of Section from P.A. 102-813 and 103-34)
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

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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.
(a-5) Notwithstanding the applicable age eligibility
requirements of subsection (a) of this Section, beginning on
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly through the end of the 60th month after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, a

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State policeman who earns a retirement annuity equal to the
limitation specified under subsection (a) of this Section, may
elect to begin his or her retirement annuity effective on the
month he or she first earned that retirement annuity at the
amount so limited or the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 103rd General Assembly, whichever is later. A State
policeman who elects to retire under the provisions of this
subsection must first pay to the System an amount equal to the
increase in the present value of the future benefits resulting
from the State policeman's election to retire in accordance
with this subsection.
(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

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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.

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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

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Division of Criminal Investigation, the Division of
Internal Investigation, the Division of Operations, the
Division of Patrol, 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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(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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 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
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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 this amendatory Act of
the 103rd General Assembly Public Act 102-210 and the
employer's normal cost of the credit converted in accordance
with this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly 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

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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. 102-210, eff. 7-30-21; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 103-34, eff. 1-1-24.)
(Text of Section from P.A. 102-856 and 103-34)
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
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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.
(a-5) Notwithstanding the applicable age eligibility
requirements of subsection (a) of this Section, beginning on
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly through the end of the 60th month after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, a
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limitation specified under subsection (a) of this Section, may
elect to begin his or her retirement annuity effective on the
month he or she first earned that retirement annuity at the
amount so limited or the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 103rd General Assembly, whichever is later. A State
policeman who elects to retire under the provisions of this
subsection must first pay to the System an amount equal to the
increase in the present value of the future benefits resulting
from the State policeman's election to retire in accordance
with this subsection.
(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;

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(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

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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
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Internal Investigation, the Division of Operations, the
Division of Patrol, 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
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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
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(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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 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 this amendatory Act of
the 103rd General Assembly Public Act 102-210 and the
employer's normal cost of the credit converted in accordance
with this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly Public
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. 102-210, eff. 7-30-21; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-856, eff. 1-1-23; 103-34, eff. 1-1-24.)
(Text of Section from P.A. 102-956 and 103-34)
Sec. 14-110. Alternative retirement annuity.
(a) Any member who has withdrawn from service with not

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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
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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.
(a-5) Notwithstanding the applicable age eligibility
requirements of subsection (a) of this Section, beginning on
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly through the end of the 60th month after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, a
State policeman who earns a retirement annuity equal to the
limitation specified under subsection (a) of this Section, may
elect to begin his or her retirement annuity effective on the
month he or she first earned that retirement annuity at the
amount so limited or the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 103rd General Assembly, whichever is later. A State
policeman who elects to retire under the provisions of this
subsection must first pay to the System an amount equal to the
increase in the present value of the future benefits resulting
from the State policeman's election to retire in accordance
with this subsection.
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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;
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(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
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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, 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

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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

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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
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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

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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

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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
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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
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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

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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

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(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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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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 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 this amendatory Act of
the 103rd General Assembly Public Act 102-210 and the
employer's normal cost of the credit converted in accordance
with this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly 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
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(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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. 102-210, eff. 7-30-21; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-956, eff. 5-27-22; 103-34, eff. 1-1-24.)
(40 ILCS 5/14-152.1)
Sec. 14-152.1. Application and expiration of new benefit
increases.
(a) As used in this Section, "new benefit increase" means
an increase in the amount of any benefit provided under this
Article, or an expansion of the conditions of eligibility for
any benefit under this Article, that results from an amendment
to this Code that takes effect after June 1, 2005 (the
effective date of Public Act 94-4). "New benefit increase",
however, does not include any benefit increase resulting from
the changes made to Article 1 or this Article by Public Act

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96-37, Public Act 100-23, Public Act 100-587, Public Act
100-611, Public Act 101-10, Public Act 101-610, Public Act
102-210, Public Act 102-856, Public Act 102-956, or this
amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly this amendatory
Act of the 102nd General Assembly.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code or
any subsequent amendment to this Code, every new benefit
increase is subject to this Section and shall be deemed to be
granted only in conformance with and contingent upon
compliance with the provisions of this Section.
(c) The Public Act enacting a new benefit increase must
identify and provide for payment to the System of additional
funding at least sufficient to fund the resulting annual
increase in cost to the System as it accrues.
Every new benefit increase is contingent upon the General
Assembly providing the additional funding required under this
subsection. The Commission on Government Forecasting and
Accountability shall analyze whether adequate additional
funding has been provided for the new benefit increase and
shall report its analysis to the Public Pension Division of
the Department of Insurance. A new benefit increase created by
a Public Act that does not include the additional funding
required under this subsection is null and void. If the Public
Pension Division determines that the additional funding
provided for a new benefit increase under this subsection is
or has become inadequate, it may so certify to the Governor and

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the State Comptroller and, in the absence of corrective action
by the General Assembly, the new benefit increase shall expire
at the end of the fiscal year in which the certification is
made.
(d) Every new benefit increase shall expire 5 years after
its effective date or on such earlier date as may be specified
in the language enacting the new benefit increase or provided
under subsection (c). This does not prevent the General
Assembly from extending or re-creating a new benefit increase
by law.
(e) Except as otherwise provided in the language creating
the new benefit increase, a new benefit increase that expires
under this Section continues to apply to persons who applied
and qualified for the affected benefit while the new benefit
increase was in effect and to the affected beneficiaries and
alternate payees of such persons, but does not apply to any
other person, including, without limitation, a person who
continues in service after the expiration date and did not
apply and qualify for the affected benefit while the new
benefit increase was in effect.
(Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19;
101-610, eff. 1-1-20; 102-210, eff. 7-30-21; 102-856, eff.
1-1-23; 102-956, eff. 5-27-22.)