Bill Text: IL SB0476 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0476 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB0476-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB0476 Introduced 1/23/2013, by Sen. John J. Cullerton 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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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.)