HB 4948

Abstract

Amends the Downstate and Chicago Teacher Articles of the Illinois Pension Code to require school districts to pay the employer normal cost of benefits beginning in fiscal year 2021. Amends the State Pension Funds Continuing Appropriation Act to appropriate from the Common School Fund to the State Board of Education, on a continuing annual basis beginning with fiscal year 2021, the amount certified as the employer normal cost, to be distributed by the State Board of Education under the evidence-based funding formula provisions of the School Code. Amends the evidence-based funding formula provisions of the School Code to make changes concerning the employee benefit investments calculation and the Base Funding Minimum calculation. Effective immediately.