Bill Text: IL HB0862 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0862 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0862-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB0862 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/4-101 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-101
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning downstate firefighters.
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PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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 4-101 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/4-101) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-101)
Sec. 4-101. Creation of fund. In each municipality as
defined in Section 4-103, the the city council or the board of
trustees, as the case may be, shall establish and administer a
firefighters' pension fund as prescribed in this Article, for
the benefit of its firefighters and of their surviving spouses,
children and certain other dependents. The duty of the
corporate authorities of a municipality to establish and
administer a firefighters' pension fund shall be suspended
during any period during which the fund is dissolved under
subsection (c) of Section 4-106.1 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 97-99, eff. 1-1-12.)