Public Act 104-0196
 
HB1648 EnrolledLRB104 07389 RPS 17430 b

    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 4-135 as follows:
 
    (40 ILCS 5/4-135)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 4-135)
    Sec. 4-135. Benefits; exempt Benefits - Exempt. No portion 
of the pension fund shall, either before or after a board's 
order of distribution to any retired firefighter or his or her 
beneficiaries, be held, seized, taken subject to, or detained 
or levied on by virtue of any process, injunction 
interlocutory or other order or judgment, or any process or 
proceeding whatever issued by any court of this State, for the 
payment or satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt, 
damages, claim, demand or judgment against any firefighter or 
his or her beneficiaries, but the fund shall be held, secured 
and distributed for the purposes of pensioning such 
firefighter and beneficiaries and for no other purposes 
whatever.
    A pensioner, annuitant, applicant for a refund, disability 
beneficiary, or other beneficiary does not have the right to 
transfer or assign his or her pension, annuity, refund, or 
disability benefit, or any part thereof, by mortgage or 
otherwise; except that an annuitant or disability beneficiary 
may direct, in writing, that a monthly payment be made to an 
association or organization with which the annuitant or 
disability beneficiary or the annuitant's or disability 
beneficiary's surviving spouse may be affiliated by virtue of 
his or her fire service or for hospitalization insurance 
purposes. 
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)