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Bill	PEN CD-TRS-OPTIONAL BENEFIT	Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Repeals a provision requiring the System to offer an optional defined contribution benefit to active members of the System. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	102nd	HB 126	Illinois HB 126 (102nd)	bill		enacted	Dave Vella Rachelle Crowe	4	34	2	2021-01-13	2021-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/c14aadfa-a625-4f31-a74d-b6a65b990c8b	https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=126&GAID=16&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=127938&SessionID=110&GA=102	d9f1327052949bec4222e36365ccf7b78bbc09047127da9a1e1413a109a2ba53	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 126 (102nd) — PEN CD-TRS-OPTIONAL BENEFIT

Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Repeals a provision requiring the System to offer an optional defined contribution benefit to active members of the System. 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. House Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 78–37 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 59–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dave Vella — primary (person)
• Rachelle Crowe — primary (person)
• Katie Stuart — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-13 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Sue Scherer filing
• 2021-01-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-01-14 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2021-02-23 Assigned to Personnel & Pensions Committee referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Katie Stuart amendment-introduction
• 2021-03-22 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Katie Stuart
• 2021-03-23 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Personnel & Pensions Committee
• 2021-03-26 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Personnel & Pensions Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-03-26 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Personnel & Pensions Committee; 005-003-000 committee-passage
• 2021-04-08 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2021-04-15 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2021-04-15 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2021-04-19 Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Dave Vella
• 2021-04-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Katie Stuart
• 2021-04-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 078-037-000 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-23 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2021-04-23 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-23 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Rachelle Crowe
• 2021-04-23 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-23 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Assigned to Pensions referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 Postponed - Pensions
• 2021-05-19 Do Pass Pensions; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2021-05-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 20, 2021
• 2021-05-21 Second Reading reading-2
• 2021-05-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 24, 2021
• 2021-05-27 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading ** May 28, 2021
• 2021-05-29 Third Reading - Passed; 059-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-29 Passed Both Houses
• 2021-06-25 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-07-23 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2021-07-23 Effective Date July 23, 2021
• 2021-07-23 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0113 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c14aadfa-a625-4f31-a74d-b6a65b990c8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).