103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2873 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 150 (instead of 100) paid days or 750 (instead of 500) paid hours in each school year. Effective immediately. LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2873 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 150 (instead of 100) paid days or 750 (instead of 500) paid hours in each school year. Effective immediately. LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2873 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 150 (instead of 100) paid days or 750 (instead of 500) paid hours in each school year. Effective immediately. LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b A BILL FOR HB2873LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b HB2873 LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b HB2873 LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b 1 AN ACT concerning public employee benefits. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by 5 changing Section 16-118 as follows: 6 (40 ILCS 5/16-118) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118) 7 Sec. 16-118. Retirement. "Retirement": Entry upon a 8 retirement annuity or receipt of a single-sum retirement 9 benefit granted under this Article after termination of active 10 service as a teacher. 11 (a) An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity other than 12 a disability retirement annuity may accept employment as a 13 teacher from a school board or other employer specified in 14 Section 16-106 without impairing retirement status, if that 15 employment: 16 (1) is not within the school year during which service 17 was terminated; and 18 (2) does not exceed the following: 19 (i) before July 1, 2001, 100 paid days or 500 paid 20 hours in any school year; 21 (ii) during the period beginning July 1, 2001 22 through June 30, 2011, 120 paid days or 600 paid hours 23 in each school year; 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2873 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 150 (instead of 100) paid days or 750 (instead of 500) paid hours in each school year. Effective immediately. LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b A BILL FOR 40 ILCS 5/16-118 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-118 LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b HB2873 LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b HB2873- 2 -LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b HB2873 - 2 - LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b HB2873 - 2 - LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b 1 (iii) during the period beginning July 1, 2011 2 through June 30, 2018, 100 paid days or 500 paid hours 3 in each school year; 4 (iv) beginning July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2023, 5 120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each school year, 6 but not more than 100 paid days in the same classroom; 7 (v) during the period between July 1, 2021 and 8 June 30, 2022, an additional 20 paid days or 100 paid 9 hours shall be added to item (iv) of this paragraph (2) 10 to assist with addressing the substitute teacher 11 shortage that has been exacerbated by the ongoing 12 global pandemic; and 13 (vi) beginning July 1, 2023, 150 100 paid days or 14 750 500 paid hours in each school year. 15 Where such permitted employment is partly on a daily and 16 partly on an hourly basis, a day shall be considered as 5 17 hours. 18 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an annuitant who 19 returns to teaching under the program established in Section 20 16-150.1, for the duration of his or her participation in that 21 program. 22 (Source: P.A. 101-645, eff. 6-26-20; 102-537, eff. 8-20-21; 23 102-709, eff. 4-22-22.) 24 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 25 becoming law. HB2873 - 2 - LRB103 30037 RPS 56458 b