Bill Text: IL HB1648 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a pensioner, annuitant, applicant for a refund, disability beneficiary, or other beneficiary does not have the right to transfer or assign his or her pension, annuity, refund, or disability benefit, or any part thereof, by mortgage or otherwise; except that an annuitant or disability beneficiary may direct, in writing, that a monthly payment be made to an association or organization with which the annuitant or disability beneficiary or the annuitant's or disability beneficiary's surviving spouse may be affiliated by virtue of his or her fire service or for hospitalization insurance purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Brad Stephens [HB1648 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1648-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1648 Introduced , by Rep. Brad Stephens SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/4-135 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-135
Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a pensioner, annuitant, applicant for a refund, disability beneficiary, or other beneficiary does not have the right to transfer or assign his or her pension, annuity, refund, or disability benefit, or any part thereof, by mortgage or otherwise; except that an annuitant or disability beneficiary may direct, in writing, that a monthly payment be made to an association or organization with which the annuitant or disability beneficiary or the annuitant's or disability beneficiary's surviving spouse may be affiliated by virtue of his or her fire service or for hospitalization insurance purposes.
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A BILL FOR
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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 4-135 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/4-135) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-135)
Sec. 4-135. Benefits; exempt Benefits - Exempt. No portion
of the pension fund shall, either before or after a board's
order of distribution to any retired firefighter or his or her
beneficiaries, be held, seized, taken subject to, or detained
or levied on by virtue of any process, injunction
interlocutory or other order or judgment, or any process or
proceeding whatever issued by any court of this State, for the
payment or satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt,
damages, claim, demand or judgment against any firefighter or
his or her beneficiaries, but the fund shall be held, secured
and distributed for the purposes of pensioning such
firefighter and beneficiaries and for no other purposes
whatever.
A pensioner, annuitant, applicant for a refund, disability
beneficiary, or other beneficiary does not have the right to
transfer or assign his or her pension, annuity, refund, or
disability benefit, or any part thereof, by mortgage or

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