HB3153 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB102 09951 RPS 15269 b

102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3153

Introduced 2/19/2021, by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

40 ILCS 5/2-156

from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-156

Amends the General Assembly Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that none of the benefits provided for in the Article shall be paid to any person who (i) first becomes a member on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act and (ii) is convicted of any felony. 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 2-156 as follows:

(40 ILCS 5/2-156) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 2-156)

Sec. 2-156. Felony conviction. None of the benefits herein provided for shall be paid to any person who is convicted of any felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with his or her service as a member.

None of the benefits provided for in this Article shall be paid to any person who otherwise would receive a survivor benefit who is convicted of any felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with the service of the member from whom the benefit results.

None of the benefits herein provided for shall be paid to any person who (i) first becomes a member on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly and (ii) is convicted of any felony.

This Section shall not operate to impair any contract or vested right acquired prior to July 11, 1955 under any law or laws continued in this Article, nor to preclude the right to a refund, and for the changes under this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, shall not impair any contract or vested right acquired by a survivor prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly.

All participants entering service subsequent to July 11, 1955 shall be deemed to have consented to the provisions of this Section as a condition of participation, and all participants entering service subsequent to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly shall be deemed to have consented to the provisions of this amendatory Act as a condition of participation. All participants entering service subsequent to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly shall be deemed to have consented to the provisions of this amendatory Act as a condition of participation.

(Source: P.A. 100-334, eff. 8-25-17.)

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