Amending the IMRF Article of the
Pension Code by increasing the SLEP retirement formula to allow for a maximum
benefit of 80% at 30 years of service.
Amending the Downstate Police
and IMRF Articles of the Pension Code to allow members to transfer up to 8 years
of creditable service, on a day for day basis, between funds.
SUPPORT!
Amends IMRF Pension Code provisions restricting the return to employment after receiving early retirement benefits to exclude return by election to office.
Amending the Chicago Police Article
of the Pension Code to base benefits on the salary on the last day of service
or during the last year of service, whichever is greater. Also, increases the
maximum pension for persons who retire from 75% to 80% of salary.
Amending the Chicago Police Article of the Pension Code to provide a compounded 3% annual increase in surviving spouse annuities.
Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code to increase the pensions of persons with over 20 years of service. Increases the maximum pension from 75% to 80% of salary. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Pension Code to provide for a Deferred Retirement Option Plan, under which a police officer who is at least age 50 with 20 years of service may continue in active service for up to 5 years while having his or her retirement pension paid into a special account, to be distributed to the police officer upon retirement.
Maximum Benefit Level 80%
after 26 ½ years of service
Conservation Police, State Troopers,
State of Illinois Air Pilots, Security for Department of Human Services, CMS
police officers, Department of Corrections, Investigators for the Office of
Attorney General, Controlled substance Inspectors, Investigators for the Office
of the State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Commerce Commission police, Arson
Investigators, State Highway maintenance workers and others.
Maximum Benefit Level 75% after 30 years of service
Municipal police officers in cities,
towns, & villages with populations over 5000, outside the City of Chicago
Maximum Benefit Level 75% after 29 years + 1 day of service
Police officers employed by the
City of Chicago
Sheriff’s Law Enforcement (SLEP)
Maximum Benefit Level 75% after 35 years of service
County Sheriff’s and their deputies
- Our Goal -
80% Pension Benefit Equity
For All of Illinois’ Law Enforcement Officers
Amending the Illinois Public Labor
Relations Act to provide the submission of disciplinary matters to grievance
and arbitration procedures as a mandatory subject of bargaining.
Amending the Uniform Peace Officers’ Disciplinary Act by defining “interrogation” to mean the verbal questioning of an officer, or ordered written report, during an informal inquiry, or pursuant to formal investigation procedures. Also amending the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners Act and the Sheriff’s Merit Commission Act to provide that those Acts shall not be construed to limit or prohibit any municipality, subject to the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, from bargaining collectively discipline and discharge procedures including arbitration procedures for the appeal of decisions of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners and the Sheriff’s Merit Commission.
Amending the Illinois Public Labor
Relations Act to provide for mandatory release time to conduct union business.
Amending the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act to provide that employers' duty to bargaining collectively includes negotiating promotional issues with the certified representative of any peace officer bargaining unit from which promotions will be made to the next highest rank outside the unit.
Amending the Illinois Police Training Act by requiring full-time and part-time officers to be licensed rather than certified. The legislation provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training & Standards Board will require municipalities to furnish personnel rosters, employment status reports, and annual training plans to the Board.
Amending the Public Employee Disability Act to provide that benefits apply to officers injured during required training.
Support Expansion of Quality Preschool Opportunities for 3- and 4-Year Olds whose parents choose it.
Support an increase to the Teen REACH After-School Program.
For
additional information, please contact Donald N. Snyder, Governmental Affairs
Office 217/523-5141 ext. 204 Mobile 217/415-6885
Last Updated: April 28, 2006