Illinois HB 1620: PEN CD-DNST FIRE-OCC DISEASE

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
State of Illinois 
2025 and 2026
HB1620

Introduced 1/28/2025, by Rep. Gregg Johnson 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

40 ILCS 5/4-110.1 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-110.1

30 ILCS 805/8.49 new

 Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an active firefighter with 5 or more years of creditable service who is found unable to perform his or her duties in the fire department by reason of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) resulting from service as a firefighter is entitled to an occupational disease disability pension during any period of such disability for which he or she has no right to receive salary. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State.

LRB104 08517 RPS 18569 b

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

HB1620LRB104 08517 RPS 18569 b

1 AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 

3represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by 

5changing Section 4-110.1 as follows:

6 (40 ILCS 5/4-110.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-110.1)

7 Sec. 4-110.1. Occupational disease disability pension. 

8The General Assembly finds that service in the fire department 

9requires firefighters in times of stress and danger to perform 

10unusual tasks; that firefighters are subject to exposure to 

11extreme heat or extreme cold in certain seasons while 

12performing their duties; that they are required to work in the 

13midst of and are subject to heavy smoke fumes, and 

14carcinogenic, poisonous, toxic or chemical gases from fires; 

15and that these conditions exist and arise out of or in the 

16course of employm