Illinois 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB1648 Engrossed / Bill

Filed 03/25/2025

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1  AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
2  Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3  represented in the General Assembly:
4  Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
5  changing Section 4-135 as follows:
6  (40 ILCS 5/4-135)    (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-135)
7  Sec. 4-135. Benefits; exempt Benefits - Exempt. No portion
8  of the pension fund shall, either before or after a board's
9  order of distribution to any retired firefighter or his or her
10  beneficiaries, be held, seized, taken subject to, or detained
11  or levied on by virtue of any process, injunction
12  interlocutory or other order or judgment, or any process or
13  proceeding whatever issued by any court of this State, for the
14  payment or satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt,
15  damages, claim, demand or judgment against any firefighter or
16  his or her beneficiaries, but the fund shall be held, secured
17  and distributed for the purposes of pensioning such
18  firefighter and beneficiaries and for no other purposes
19  whatever.
20  A pensioner, annuitant, applicant for a refund, disability
21  beneficiary, or other beneficiary does not have the right to
22  transfer or assign his or her pension, annuity, refund, or
23  disability benefit, or any part thereof, by mortgage or

 

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1  otherwise; except that an annuitant or disability beneficiary
2  may direct, in writing, that a monthly payment be made to an
3  association or organization with which the annuitant or
4  disability beneficiary or the annuitant's or disability
5  beneficiary's surviving spouse may be affiliated by virtue of
6  his or her fire service or for hospitalization insurance
7  purposes.
8  (Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

 

 

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