Bill Text: IL HB0700 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning downstate police.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-31 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0700 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB0700-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB0700 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/3-101 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-101
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning downstate police.
LRB104 04591 RPS 14618 b
A BILL FOR
HB0700 LRB104 04591 RPS 14618 b
AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
changing Section 3-101 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/3-101) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-101)
Sec. 3-101. Creation of fund. In each municipality, as
defined in Section 3-103, the the city council or the board of
trustees, as the case may be, shall establish and administer a
police pension fund, as prescribed in this Article, for the
benefit of its police officers and of their surviving spouses,
children, and certain other dependents. The duty of the
corporate authorities of a municipality to establish and
administer a police pension fund shall be suspended during any
period during which the fund is dissolved under Section
3-144.6 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 97-99, eff. 1-1-12.)