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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB2050
Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Richard T. Bradley SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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40 ILCS 5/4-110 |
from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-110 |
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Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a disability pension.
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A BILL FOR
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HB2050 |
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LRB095 01514 AMC 21516 b |
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| AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing |
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| Section 4-110 as follows:
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| (40 ILCS 5/4-110) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-110)
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| Sec. 4-110. Disability pension - Line of duty. If a |
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| firefighter, as the
the
result of sickness, accident or injury |
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| incurred in or resulting from the
performance of an act of duty |
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| or from the cumulative effects of acts of duty,
is found, |
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| pursuant to Section 4-112, to be physically or mentally |
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| permanently
disabled for service in the fire department, so as |
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| to render necessary his or
her being placed on disability |
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| pension, the firefighter shall be entitled to
a disability |
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| pension equal to the greater of (1) 65% of the monthly
salary |
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| attached to the rank held by him or her in the fire department |
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| at the
date he or she is removed from the municipality's fire |
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| department payroll or
(2) the retirement pension that the |
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| firefighter would be eligible to receive
if he or she retired |
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| (but not including any automatic annual increase in that
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| retirement pension). A firefighter shall be considered "on |
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| duty" while on
any assignment approved by the chief of the fire |
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| department, even though away
from the municipality he or she |