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Bill	PEN CD-TRS-EMPLOYMENT	Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the effective date of a retirement annuity may be after the date of official termination of employment but before de minimis posttermination employment as long as such employment is (1) less than 10 days in length, (2) less than $2,000 in compensation, and (3) is deemed de minimis by the System. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	102nd	SB 3954	Illinois SB 3954 (102nd)	bill		enacted	Dave Syverson Jeff Keicher	5	36	2	2022-01-21	2022-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/8d46aa7e-a669-4ec6-b3df-46b37c111d04	https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3954&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=139050&SessionID=110&GA=102	3ef6f1b77e9a2984533ce3bfbc0b8dac026905e26187ed91e9078399cef430b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 3954 (102nd) — PEN CD-TRS-EMPLOYMENT

Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the effective date of a retirement annuity may be after the date of official termination of employment but before de minimis posttermination employment as long as such employment is (1) less than 10 days in length, (2) less than $2,000 in compensation, and (3) is deemed de minimis by the System. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". 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. Senate Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Amendment 002 (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 54–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 107–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave Syverson — primary (person)
• Jeff Keicher — primary (person)
• Barbara Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Brian W. Stewart — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-21 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Dave Syverson filing
• 2022-01-21 First Reading reading-1
• 2022-01-21 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2022-02-01 Assigned to Pensions referral-committee
• 2022-02-08 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Dave Syverson amendment-introduction
• 2022-02-08 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2022-02-09 Do Pass Pensions; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2022-02-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 10, 2022
• 2022-02-10 Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-02-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading February 15, 2022
• 2022-02-16 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Dave Syverson amendment-introduction
• 2022-02-16 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Pensions
• 2022-02-22 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Brian W. Stewart
• 2022-02-23 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommend Do Adopt Pensions; 008-000-000
• 2022-02-25 Recalled to Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-02-25 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Syverson amendment-passage
• 2022-02-25 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2022-02-25 Third Reading - Passed; 054-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-25 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a) amendment-failure
• 2022-02-28 Arrived in House introduction
• 2022-03-07 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Jeff Keicher
• 2022-03-07 First Reading reading-1
• 2022-03-07 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Assigned to Personnel & Pensions Committee referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 Do Pass / Short Debate Personnel & Pensions Committee; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2022-03-17 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2022-03-23 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2022-03-23 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2022-04-01 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 107-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-01 Passed Both Houses
• 2022-04-01 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Hernandez
• 2022-04-29 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-13 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2022-05-13 Effective Date May 13, 2022
• 2022-05-13 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0871 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8d46aa7e-a669-4ec6-b3df-46b37c111d04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).