Bill Text: IL HB5710 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Includes within the definition of "municipality" any city, village, incorporated town, or township that employs 40 or more full-time paid firefighters that are subject to a collective bargaining agreement. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5710 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB5710-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB5710 Introduced 2/9/2010, by Rep. Joseph M. Lyons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/4-103 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-103
30 ILCS 805/8.34 new
Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Includes within the definition of "municipality" any city, village, incorporated town, or township that employs 40 or more full-time paid firefighters that are subject to a collective bargaining agreement. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
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 4-103 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/4-103) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-103)
Sec. 4-103. Municipality. "Municipality": (1) Any city,
township, village or incorporated town of 5,000 or more but
less than 500,000 inhabitants, and any fire protection district
having any full-time paid firefighters, and (2) any city,
village, incorporated town or township of less than 5,000
inhabitants having a full-time paid fire department which
adopts the provisions of this article pursuant to the
provisions of Section 4-141, and (3) any city, village,
incorporated town, or township that employs 40 or more
full-time paid firefighters that are subject to a collective
bargaining agreement. The term "city council" or "board of
trustees" includes the board of trustees of a fire protection
district and the board of town trustees or other persons
empowered to draft the tentative budget and appropriation
ordinance and the electors of such a township acting at the
annual or special meeting of town electors.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

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Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
Section 8.34 as follows:
(30 ILCS 805/8.34 new)
Sec. 8.34. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
the 96th General Assembly.