Bill Text: IL HB5149 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, if a special needs trust has been established for a disabled adult child, then the special needs trust may stand in lieu of the disabled adult child as a beneficiary for the purposes of the Article. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-21 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1143 [HB5149 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB5149-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB5149 Introduced 1/29/2010, by Rep. Dennis M. Reboletti SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/3-108.3
Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, if a special needs trust has been established for a disabled adult child, then the special needs trust may stand in lieu of the disabled adult child as a beneficiary for the purposes of the Article. Effective immediately.
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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 3-108.3 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/3-108.3)
Sec. 3-108.3. Beneficiary. "Beneficiary": A person
receiving benefits from a pension fund, including, but not
limited to, retired pensioners, disabled pensioners, their
surviving spouses, minor children, disabled children, and
dependent parents. If a special needs trust as described in
Section 1396p(d)(4) of Title 42 of the United States Code, as
amended from time to time, has been established for a disabled
adult child, then the special needs trust may stand in lieu of
the disabled adult child as a beneficiary for the purposes of
this Article.
(Source: P.A. 90-507, eff. 8-22-97.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.