Bill Text: IL HB4247 | 2011-2012 | 97th 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: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4247 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4247-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB4247 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan 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.
LRB097 15238 JDS 60338 b
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
HB4247 LRB097 15238 JDS 60338 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.)