HB5760 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB099 20515 RPS 45043 b

99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB5760

Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Zalewski

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

40 ILCS 5/8-251

from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-251

Amends the Chicago Municipal Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In a provision concerning the forfeiture of benefits due to a felony conviction relating to or arising out of or in connection with a participant's service as a municipal employee, provides that any refund required under the Chicago Municipal Article shall be calculated based on that person's contributions to the Fund, less the amount of any annuity benefit previously received by the person or his or her beneficiaries. Provides that the changes in the amendatory Act apply only to felony convictions or pleas of guilty to a felony entered on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

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 8-251 as follows:

(40 ILCS 5/8-251) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-251)

Sec. 8-251. Felony conviction.

None of the benefits provided for in this Article shall be paid to any person who is convicted of any felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with his service as a municipal employee.

This Section section shall not operate to impair any contract or vested right heretofore acquired under any law or laws continued in this Article, nor to preclude the right to a refund.

Any refund required under this Article shall be calculated based on that person's contributions to the Fund, less the amount of any annuity benefit previously received by the person or his or her beneficiaries. The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly apply only to a felony conviction or a plea of guilty to a felony entered on or after that effective date.

All future entrants entering service subsequent to July 11, 1955 shall be deemed to have consented to the provisions of this section as a condition of coverage.

(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)

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