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Bill	PEN CD-COOK-PAYEE	Amends the Cook County Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if a person certified by a medical doctor to be under legal disability (i) has no spouse, blood relative, or other person providing or caring for him or her, (ii) has no guardian of his or her estate, and (iii) is confined to a Medicare approved, State certified nursing home or to a publicly owned and operated nursing home, hospital, or mental institution, the Board may pay any benefit due that person to the nursing home, hospital, or mental institution, to be used for the sole benefit of the person under legal disability. Provides that the payment to a person, nursing home, hospital, or mental institution for the benefit of a minor or person under legal disability shall be an absolute discharge of the Fund's liability with respect to the amount so paid. Requires any person, nursing home, hospital, or mental institution accepting that payment to notify the Fund of the death or any other relevant change in the status of the minor or person under legal disability. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	100th	SB 2578	Illinois SB 2578 (100th)	bill		enacted		3	33	2	2018-02-07	2018-08-10	openstates	ocd-bill/2c541ec5-88b4-4acd-ad40-b6a42ed23c81	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2578&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=109554&SessionID=91&GA=100	641f060d7f6cd07043f4486cccbaf09d88f47b1b393a0096905e049afbd65cdc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2578 (100th) — PEN CD-COOK-PAYEE

Amends the Cook County Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if a person certified by a medical doctor to be under legal disability (i) has no spouse, blood relative, or other person providing or caring for him or her, (ii) has no guardian of his or her estate, and (iii) is confined to a Medicare approved, State certified nursing home or to a publicly owned and operated nursing home, hospital, or mental institution, the Board may pay any benefit due that person to the nursing home, hospital, or mental institution, to be used for the sole benefit of the person under legal disability. Provides that the payment to a person, nursing home, hospital, or mental institution for the benefit of a minor or person under legal disability shall be an absolute discharge of the Fund's liability with respect to the amount so paid. Requires any person, nursing home, hospital, or mental institution accepting that payment to notify the Fund of the death or any other relevant change in the status of the minor or person under legal disability. Effective immediately.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 105–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John G. Mulroe — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-02-07 Filed with Secretary by Sen. John G. Mulroe filing
• 2018-02-07 First Reading reading-1
• 2018-02-07 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2018-02-14 Assigned to Licensed Activities and Pensions referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
• 2018-02-21 Do Pass Licensed Activities and Pensions; 011-000-000 committee-passage
• 2018-02-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 22, 2018
• 2018-02-22 Second Reading reading-2
• 2018-02-22 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading February 27, 2018
• 2018-02-28 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. John G. Mulroe amendment-introduction
• 2018-02-28 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2018-03-01 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Licensed Activities and Pensions
• 2018-04-12 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Licensed Activities and Pensions; 008-000-000
• 2018-04-17 Recalled to Second Reading reading-2
• 2018-04-17 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Mulroe amendment-passage
• 2018-04-17 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 18, 2018
• 2018-04-25 Third Reading - Passed; 053-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-25 Arrived in House introduction
• 2018-04-27 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
• 2018-05-08 First Reading reading-1
• 2018-05-08 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 Assigned to Personnel & Pensions Committee referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Robert Martwick
• 2018-05-18 Do Pass / Short Debate Personnel & Pensions Committee; 014-000-000 committee-passage
• 2018-05-21 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2018-05-23 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2018-05-23 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2018-05-24 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 105-000-001 reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-24 Passed Both Houses
• 2018-06-22 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-08-10 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2018-08-10 Effective Date August 10, 2018
• 2018-08-10 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0794 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c541ec5-88b4-4acd-ad40-b6a42ed23c81. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).