Bill Text: IL HB1645 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the total amount of the retirement annuity or pension benefits a person may receive from any pension fund or retirement system under the Code in any year shall not exceed $132,900; however, that amount shall annually thereafter be increased by the percentage increase (but not less than zero) in the consumer price index-u for the 12 months ending with the September preceding each November 1, including all previous adjustments. Provides that the changes apply without regard to whether a person became a member, participant, beneficiary, or annuitant before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB1645 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1645-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1645 Introduced , by Rep. Blaine Wilhour SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/1-163 new
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the total amount of the retirement annuity or pension benefits a person may receive from any pension fund or retirement system under the Code in any year shall not exceed $132,900; however, that amount shall annually thereafter be increased by the percentage increase (but not less than zero) in the consumer price index-u for the 12 months ending with the September preceding each November 1, including all previous adjustments. Provides that the changes apply without regard to whether a person became a member, participant, beneficiary, or annuitant before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
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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 adding
Section 1-163 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/1-163 new)
Sec. 1-163. Limit on total retirement annuity amount.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code to the
contrary, the total amount of the retirement annuity or
pension benefits a person may receive from any pension fund or
retirement system under this Code in any year shall not exceed
$132,900; however, that amount shall annually thereafter be
increased by the percentage increase (but not less than zero)
in the consumer price index-u for the 12 months ending with the
September preceding each November 1, including all previous
adjustments.
The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd
General Assembly apply without regard to whether a person
became a member, participant, beneficiary, or annuitant before
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly.
For the purposes of this Section, "consumer price index-u"
means the index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of

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the United States Department of Labor that measures the
average change in prices of goods and services purchased by
all urban consumers, United States city average, all items,
1982-84 = 100. The new amount resulting from each annual
adjustment shall be determined by the Public Pension Division
of the Department of Insurance and made available to the
boards of the retirement systems and pension funds by November
1 of each year.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.