Bill Text: IL SB3742 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Chicago Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Increases the Board of Education's total required contribution to the Fund for fiscal year 2013 from $196,000,000 to $307,485,000. In a provision that reduces the required annual Board of Education contribution to the Fund by the amount of any State contribution, makes the reduction apply only if the Board has certified in the previous fiscal year that the total assets of the Fund are at least 90% of the total actuarial liabilities of the Fund. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB3742 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB3742-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB3742 Introduced 2/10/2012, by Sen. Kwame Raoul SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/17-129 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-129
Amends the Chicago Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Increases the Board of Education's total required contribution to the Fund for fiscal year 2013 from $196,000,000 to $307,485,000. In a provision that reduces the required annual Board of Education contribution to the Fund by the amount of any State contribution, makes the reduction apply only if the Board has certified in the previous fiscal year that the total assets of the Fund are at least 90% of the total actuarial liabilities of the Fund. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
Section 17-129 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/17-129) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-129)
Sec. 17-129. Employer contributions; deficiency in Fund.
(a) If in any fiscal year of the Board of Education ending
prior to 1997 the total amounts paid to the Fund from the Board
of Education (other than under this subsection, and other than
amounts used for making or "picking up" contributions on behalf
of teachers) and from the State do not equal the total
contributions made by or on behalf of the teachers for such
year, or if the total income of the Fund in any such fiscal
year of the Board of Education from all sources is less than
the total such expenditures by the Fund for such year, the
Board of Education shall, in the next succeeding year, in
addition to any other payment to the Fund set apart and
appropriate from moneys from its tax levy for educational
purposes, a sum sufficient to remove such deficiency or
deficiencies, and promptly pay such sum into the Fund in order
to restore any of the reserves of the Fund that may have been
so temporarily applied. Any amounts received by the Fund after

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December 4, 1997 from State appropriations, including under
Section 17-127, shall be a credit against and shall fully
satisfy any obligation that may have arisen, or be claimed to
have arisen, under this subsection (a) as a result of any
deficiency or deficiencies in the fiscal year of the Board of
Education ending in calendar year 1997.
(b) (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Section, and notwithstanding any prior certification by the
Board under subsection (c) for fiscal year 2011, the Board of
Education's total required contribution to the Fund for fiscal
year 2011 under this Section is $187,000,000.
(ii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
the Board of Education's total required contribution to the
Fund for fiscal year 2012 under this Section is $192,000,000.
(iii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
the Board of Education's total required contribution to the
Fund for fiscal year 2013 under this Section is $307,485,000
$196,000,000.
(iv) For fiscal years 2014 through 2059, the minimum
contribution to the Fund to be made by the Board of Education
in each fiscal year shall be an amount determined by the Fund
to be sufficient to bring the total assets of the Fund up to
90% of the total actuarial liabilities of the Fund by the end
of fiscal year 2059. In making these determinations, the
required Board of Education contribution shall be calculated
each year as a level percentage of the applicable employee

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payrolls over the years remaining to and including fiscal year
2059 and shall be determined under the projected unit credit
actuarial cost method.
(v) Beginning in fiscal year 2060, the minimum Board of
Education contribution for each fiscal year shall be the amount
needed to maintain the total assets of the Fund at 90% of the
total actuarial liabilities of the Fund.
(vi) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
subsection (b), for any fiscal year, the contribution to the
Fund from the Board of Education shall not be required to be in
excess of the amount calculated as needed to maintain the
assets (or cause the assets to be) at the 90% level by the end
of the fiscal year.
(vii) Any contribution by the State to or for the benefit
of the Fund, including, without limitation, as referred to
under Section 17-127, shall be a credit against any
contribution required to be made by the Board of Education
under this subsection (b) if the Board has certified in the
previous fiscal year that the total assets of the Fund are at
least 90% of the total actuarial liabilities of the Fund.
(c) The Board shall determine the amount of Board of
Education contributions required for each fiscal year on the
basis of the actuarial tables and other assumptions adopted by
the Board and the recommendations of the actuary, in order to
meet the minimum contribution requirements of subsections (a)
and (b). Annually, on or before February 28, the Board shall

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certify to the Board of Education the amount of the required
Board of Education contribution for the coming fiscal year. The
certification shall include a copy of the actuarial
recommendations upon which it is based.
(Source: P.A. 96-889, eff. 4-14-10.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.