Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that retiree members of the city health care plans shall pay no higher premium, and shall receive no lower level of benefits, than the active employee members with the same Medicare status. Pre-empts home rule. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Compounds the automatic annual increase in retirement annuity. Also increases it to 3%, reduces the minimum age to 55, and removes the 30% maximum increase limitation for all annuitants. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Authorizes an active member with at least 5 years of creditable service to establish up to 10 years of additional service credit for certain employment as a law enforcement officer with a downstate municipal police department, the Cook County Police Department, the State of Illinois, or the Chicago Housing Authority. Requires the applicant to pay employee and employer contributions, plus interest; permits the use of rollover contributions. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Includes persons employed on a full-time basis by the Illinois Department of Transportation in the positions of sign hanger and sign hanger foreman in the definition of "State highway maintenance worker". Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the general purposes of the Code.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning downstate firefighters.
Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Beginning January 1, 2007, increases the duty disability benefit to 75% of the current salary attached from time to time to the rank held by the policeman at the time of removal from the police department payroll. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Beginning January 1, 2005, extends the 3% annual increase in retirement pensions to persons born in 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the total amount of General Obligation Bonds authorized under the Act. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.