Public Act 100-0935
 
SB2884 EnrolledLRB100 18738 MJP 33972 b


  
    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended  by changing 
Section 7-175.1 as follows:
 



    (40 ILCS 5/7-175.1)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-175.1)



    Sec. 7-175.1. Election of employee and annuitant trustees. 

    (a) The board shall prepare and send ballots and ballot 
envelopes to the
employees and annuitants eligible to vote as 
of September of that
year.  The ballots shall contain the names 
of all candidates in alphabetical
order and an appropriate 
place where a name may be written in on
the ballot.
The ballot 
envelope shall have on the outside a form of certificate 
stating
that the person voting the ballot is a participating 
employee or annuitant
entitled to vote.

    (b) Employees and annuitants, upon receipt of the ballot, 
shall vote the
ballot and place it in the ballot envelope, seal 
the envelope, execute the
certificate thereon and return the 
ballot to the Fund.

    (c) The board shall set a final date for ballot return, and 
ballots
received prior to that date in a ballot envelope with a

properly executed certificate and properly voted, shall be 
valid ballots.

    (d) The board shall set a day for counting the ballots and

name judges and clerks of election to conduct the count of 
ballots, and shall
make any rules and regulations necessary for 
the conduct of the
count.

    (e) No election under this Section shall be required if a 
candidate is deemed the winner under subsection (g) of Section 
7-175. 
    (f) Nothing in this Section shall preclude the Board from 
adopting rules that provide for Internet balloting or phone 
balloting in addition to election by mail under this Section. 
An Internet or phone ballot cast in accordance with rules 
adopted under this subsection shall be a valid ballot. 
(Source: P.A. 98-932, eff. 8-15-14.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
1, 2019.