HB0979 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB101 03190 RPS 48198 b

101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB0979

Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

40 ILCS 5/6-101

from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 6-101

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Chicago firefighters.

PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

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 6-101 as follows:

(40 ILCS 5/6-101) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 6-101)

Sec. 6-101. Creation of fund. In each city of more than 500,000 inhabitants, a firemen's annuity and and benefit fund shall be created, set apart, and maintained, for the benefit of its firemen, their widows, children and parents, and of all contributors to, participants in, and beneficiaries of any firemen's pension fund in operation, by authority of law, in such city immediately prior to the effective date. For the purposes of this Article, the firemen's annuity and benefit fund may be referred to as the "fund".

(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)