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    AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits. 

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
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represented in the General Assembly: 


 
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    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing 
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Section
7-109.3 and adding Section 7-109.4 as follows:


 
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    (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)

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    Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".


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    (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:


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        (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than 
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    special deputies,
employed on a full time basis in the 
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    office of the sheriff.


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        (2) A person who has elected to participate in this 
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    Fund under Section
3-109.1 of this Code, and who is 
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    employed by a participating municipality
to perform police 
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    duties.


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        (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time 
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    basis by a Forest
Preserve District, provided that such 
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    officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's
law enforcement 
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    employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in

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    that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's 
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    law enforcement
employee, only if the board of 
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    commissioners of the District have so
elected by adoption 
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    of an affirmative resolution.  Such election, once made,
may 
 


 






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    not be rescinded.


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        (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund 
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    established under
Article 3 of this Code who is employed on 
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    a full-time basis by a
participating municipality or 
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    participating instrumentality to perform
police duties at 
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    an airport, but only if the governing authority of the

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    employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee 
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    status for its
airport police employees by adoption of an 
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    affirmative resolution.  Such
approval, once given, may not 
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    be rescinded.


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        (5) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to 
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    participate in
this Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement 
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    employee under Section 3-109.4.


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    (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee 
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and is granted
military leave or authorized leave of absence 
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shall receive service credit in
that capacity.  Sheriff's law 
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enforcement employees shall not be entitled to
out-of-State 
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service credit under Section 7-139.


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(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)

 
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    (40 ILCS 5/7-109.4 new)

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    Sec. 7-109.4. SLEP credit for coroner. 

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    (a) An elected or appointed coroner who participates in the 
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Fund may elect
to participate as a sheriff's law enforcement 
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employee.

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    (b) An elected or appointed coroner who has elected to 
 


 






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participate in the
Fund as a sheriff's law enforcement employee 
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may have his or her service as a
coroner prior to the date of 
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that election deemed service as a sheriff's law
enforcement 
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employee by paying to the Fund the additional contribution 
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required
under Section 7-173.1, plus interest thereon at the 
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effective rate from the
date of the service to the date of 
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payment.



 
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    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding 
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Section 8.33 as follows:
 
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    (30 ILCS 805/8.33 new)
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    Sec. 8.33. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 
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of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the 
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implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of 
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the 96th General Assembly.
 
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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.