Bill Text: IL SB1517 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act (Article 20 of the Code) is adopted and made a part of the Downstate Firefighter Article, but only with respect to a person who, on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, is entitled under the Downstate Firefighter Article to begin receiving a retirement annuity or survivor's annuity and who elects to proceed under the Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-08 - Referred to Assignments [SB1517 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1517-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1517 Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. Terri Bryant SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/4-138.15 new
30 ILCS 805/8.47 new
Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act (Article 20 of the Code) is adopted and made a part of the Downstate Firefighter Article, but only with respect to a person who, on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, is entitled under the Downstate Firefighter Article to begin receiving a retirement annuity or survivor's annuity and who elects to proceed under the Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State.
LRB103 25725 RPS 52074 b
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT 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 adding
Section 4-138.15 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/4-138.15 new)
Sec. 4-138.15. Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act. The
Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act, Article 20 of this Code, is
adopted and made a part of this Article, but only with respect
to a person who, on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, is entitled
under this Article to begin receiving a retirement annuity or
survivor's annuity (as those terms are defined in Article 20)
and who elects to proceed under the Retirement Systems
Reciprocal Act.
Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
Section 8.47 as follows:
(30 ILCS 805/8.47 new)
Sec. 8.47. 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

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Act of the 103rd General Assembly.