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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1299 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. 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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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | HB1299 | | LRB104 07303 RPS 17342 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 4-101 as follows:
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| 6 | | (40 ILCS 5/4-101) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-101) |
| 7 | | Sec. 4-101. Creation of fund. In each municipality as |
| 8 | | defined in Section 4-103, the the city council or the board of |
| 9 | | trustees, as the case may be, shall establish and administer a |
| 10 | | firefighters' pension fund as prescribed in this Article, for |
| 11 | | the benefit of its firefighters and of their surviving |
| 12 | | spouses, children and certain other dependents. The duty of |
| 13 | | the corporate authorities of a municipality to establish and |
| 14 | | administer a firefighters' pension fund shall be suspended |
| 15 | | during any period during which the fund is dissolved under |
| 16 | | subsection (c) of Section 4-106.1 of this Code. |
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 97-99, eff. 1-1-12.) |