PEN CD-TRS-SERVICE CREDIT

Amends the Downstate Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if a teacher has not, before the effective date of the amendatory Act, availed himself or herself of the opportunity to establish service credit for similar employment under a specific provision of the Code, then he or she must, on or before that date, pay to the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois all contributions that must ordinarily be paid in order to establish that credit. Effective immediately.