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 1        AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Pension  Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 6-140 as follows:

 6        (40 ILCS 5/6-140) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 6-140)
 7        Sec. 6-140.  Death in the line of duty.
 8        (a)  The  annuity  for the widow of a fireman whose death
 9    results from the performance of an act or acts of duty  shall
10    be  an  amount  equal  to  50%  of  the current annual salary
11    attached to the classified position to which the fireman  was
12    certified  at  the  time  of  his death and 75% thereof after
13    December 31, 1972., and it shall  be  payable  to  the  widow
14    until  the fireman, had he lived, would have attained the age
15    prescribed for compulsory retirement.
16        Thereafter the widow shall receive annuity of  an  amount
17    equal  to  40%  of  the current annual salary attached to the
18    classified position to which the fireman was certified at the
19    time of his death.  The benefits  provided  in  this  Section
20    shall  be  paid  to  all widows who qualified to receive said
21    benefits before the effective date of this amendatory Act and
22    to those widows who qualify after the effective date.
23        Unless the performance of an act or acts of duty  results
24    directly  in  the  death of the fireman, or prevents him from
25    subsequently resuming active service in the fire  department,
26    the annuity herein provided shall not be paid; nor shall such
27    annuities  be  paid  unless  the  widow  was  the wife of the
28    fireman at the time of the act or acts of duty which resulted
29    in his death.
30        (b)  The changes made to this Section by this  amendatory
31    Act  of  the  92nd  General  Assembly apply without regard to
 
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 1    whether the deceased fireman was in service on or  after  the
 2    effective  date  of  this  amendatory  Act.  In the case of a
 3    widow receiving an annuity under this Section that  has  been
 4    reduced  to 40% of current salary because the fireman, had he
 5    lived, would have attained the age prescribed for  compulsory
 6    retirement,  the  annuity  shall  be  restored  to the amount
 7    provided in subsection (a), with the  increase  beginning  to
 8    accrue on the later of January 1, 2001 or the day the annuity
 9    first became payable.
10    (Source: P.A. 77-1580.)

11        Section  90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
12    Section 8.25 as follows:

13        (30 ILCS 805/8.25 new)
14        Sec. 8.25. Exempt mandate.   Notwithstanding  Sections  6
15    and  8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
16    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
17    amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly.

18        Section 99. Effective date.  This Act takes  effect  upon
19    becoming law.

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