Bill Text: IL HB1178 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-31 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB1178 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1178-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1178 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence 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.
LRB103 04968 RPS 49979 b
A BILL FOR
HB1178 LRB103 04968 RPS 49979 b
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.)