SB1861 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB1861

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. Michael Bond

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

40 ILCS 5/4-106	from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-106
30 ILCS 805/8.33 new

Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Includes any person employed in the municipality's fire service as a paramedic or EMT within the definition of "firefighter" for the purposes of the Article. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

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 4-106 as follows:

(40 ILCS 5/4-106) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-106)

Sec. 4-106. Firefighter, firefighters. "Firefighter, firefighters":

(a) In municipalities which have adopted Division 1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, any person employed in the municipality's fire service as a firefighter, fire engineer, paramedic, EMT, marine engineer, fire pilot, bomb technician or scuba diver; and in any of these positions where such person's duties also include those of a firefighter as classified by the Civil Service Commission of that city, and whose duty is to participate in the work of controlling and extinguishing fires at the location of any such fires.

(b) In municipalities which are subject to Division 2.1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, any person employed by a city in its fire service as a firefighter, fire engineer, paramedic, EMT, marine engineer, fire pilot, bomb technician, or scuba diver; and, in any of these positions whose duties also include those of a firefighter and are certified in the same manner as a firefighter in that city.

(c) In municipalities which are subject to neither Division 1 nor Division 2.1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, any person who would have been included as a firefighter under sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above except that he served as a de facto and not as a de jure firefighter.

(d) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, "firefighter" does not include any person who is actively participating in the State Universities Retirement System under subsection (h) of Section 15-107 with respect to the employment for which he or she is a participating employee in that System.

(e) This amendatory Act of 1977 does not affect persons covered by this Article prior to September 22, 1977.

(Source: P.A. 90-576, eff. 3-31-98.)

Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding Section 8.33 as follows:

(30 ILCS 805/8.33 new)

Sec. 8.33. 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 Act of the 96th General Assembly.