Illinois Statutes Chapter 40. Pensions § 5/24-104. State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan

§ 24-104. State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan.

In this Section, “Plan” means the State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan.

The Illinois State Board of Investment created under Article 22A of this Act shall develop and establish a deferred compensation plan for employees of the State which shall be known as the State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan. The Plan shall provide for the Board to review proposed investment offerings and shall require that only investments determined to be acceptable by the Board may be used for investing compensation deferred.

The Plan shall include appropriate provisions pertaining to its day to day operation providing for methods of electing to defer income, methods of changing the amount of income to be deferred, methods of selecting from among investment options available under the plan and such other provisions as may be appropriate.

In administering the Plan, the Board shall require that the Plan recordkeeper agree that, in performing services with respect to the Plan, the recordkeeper: (i) will not use information received as a result of providing services with respect to the Plan or the Plan's participants to solicit the Plan's participants for the purpose of cross-selling non-Plan products and services, unless in response to a request by a Plan participant; and (ii) will not promote, recommend, endorse, or solicit Plan participants to purchase any financial products or services outside of the Plan, except that links to parts of the recordkeeper's website that are generally available to the public, are about commercial products, and may be encountered by a Plan participant in the regular course of navigating the recordkeeper's website will not constitute a violation of this item (ii).

The Plan shall provide for the preparation, and distribution from time to time to all eligible State employees, of pamphlets describing the Plan and outlining the options and opportunities available to State employees under the Plan.

The Plan established under this Section shall not be implemented or amended until the Board is satisfied that compensation deferred under the Plan is not subject to income tax for the year in which it is earned and that the taxation of such compensation will be deferred until the time of its distribution to the employee.

The Board shall also review and oversee the administration of the Plan.