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ANENDMENT TO SENATE BILL Xxx
AMENDMENT NO. _ amend Senate Bill XXXX by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the Following:
ngection 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Cook
county Annuitant Health Care Trust Act.
Section 5. Cock County Annuitant Health Care Trust.
(a) On the effective date of this Act, there is established
an annuitant health care trust and, within the trust, a budget
stabilization fund, both for the strict and sole purpose of
financing and providing health care benefits to eligible
annuitants of the annuity and benefit funds created under
Articles 9 (Cook County) and 10 (Cook County Forest Preserve
pistrict) of the Illinois Pension Code or the consolidated Cook
county and Forest Preserve District Bmployees’ and Officers’
annuity and Benefit Fund under Article 9 of the Tilinois
pension Code, in accordance with the terms and conditions seraw wo
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forth in this Section and the policies and procedures
established by the Board of Trustees of the Annuitent Health
Care Trust.
The annuitant health care trust shall be sclely responsible
for providing health care benefits to eligible annuitants by no
later than January 1, 2021.
The budget stabilization fund of the annuitant health care
trust shall be available solely, on a loan basis, to provide
liquidity to the ennuitant health care trust to ensure the
ability of the annuitant health care trust to absorb annual
variances from budgeted revenues and expenditures. The corpus
this budget stabilization fund shall be funded with a
deposit of $xyz million from Cook County and $xyz million from
the Cook County Forest Preserve District no later than January
1, 2020. The corpus of the budget stabilization fund shall not
be incorporated nor utilized in the adoption of an annual
budget, and only interest earnings of the budget stabilization
fund shall be authorized te be included in an annual budget of
the annuitant health care trust.
(b) A board of 6 members shall constitute the board of
trustees authorized to carry out the provisions of this
Section. The board of trustees shall be known as the Board of
Trustees of the Annuitant Health Care Trust
After the effective date of this Act and until January 1,
2021, one member shall be the member of the Retirement Board of
the County Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund of Cook county10
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whe was appointed by the Comptroller of Cook County; and 5
members shall be appointed by the members of the Retirement
Board of the County Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Cook
County from among the members of that retirement board.
On and after January 1, 2021, all of the members shall be
appointed as follows:
(1) Three nembers shall be appointed by the President
Of the Cook County Board of Commissioners from among the
persons appointed to the Retirement Board of the County and
Forest Preserve District Employees’ and Officers’ Annuity
and Benefit Fund by the President pursuant to Section
9-185.1 of the Illinois Pension Code.
(2) Three members shall be appointed by the trustees of
the County end Forest Preserve District Employees’ and
cers' Annuity and Benefit Fund from among its members
holda: whom shall be an
Ig elected positions, one
annuitant member and at least one of whom shall be an
employee member.
The term of a trustee shall terminate upon the expiration
ox tezmination of the trustee's term on the retirement board.
Trustees shall serve until a successor has heen appointed and
qualified, or until resignation, death, incapacity, or
disqualification.
Any person designated or selected as a trustee of the
annuitant health care trust shall qualify by taking an oath of
office that he or she will diligently and honestly administer