HB1552 Summary

• Requires State's Attorney to notify pension fund boards when a covered person is convicted of a disqualifying offense, defined as 13 specific crimes including murder, sexual assault offenses, child exploitation, and aggravated battery.

• Allows circuit courts to order forfeiture of all pension benefits for police officers who first become officers after this Act's effective date and are convicted of a disqualifying offense, if the offense involved use of police authority, threatened public safety, or violated law enforcement principles.

• Extends benefit forfeiture provisions to survivor benefits when they result from service of newly hired police officers convicted of disqualifying offenses meeting the same three criteria.

• Applies to eight Illinois pension systems: Downstate Police, Chicago Police, Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, Chicago Municipal, Cook County, Cook County Forest Preserve, State Employee, and State Universities.

• Takes effect immediately upon becoming law.