Bill Text: IL SB3958 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Adds fire investigators to the definition of "firefighter". Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-24 - Referred to Assignments [SB3958 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3958-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3958 Introduced 5/24/2024, by Sen. Sally J. Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/4-106 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-106
30 ILCS 805/8.48 new
Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Adds fire investigators to the definition of "firefighter". Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State.
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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 4-106 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, marine engineer, fire pilot, bomb technician, fire
investigator, 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,
marine engineer, fire pilot, bomb technician, fire
investigator, or scuba diver; and, in any of these positions
whose duties also include those of a firefighter and are

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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 8.48 as follows: