US. House committee approves sweeping pension bills
Two comprehensive pension reform bills were OK’d by an Illinois House committee Tuesday, but their fate in the full House is far from certain. The House Personnel and Pensions Committee approved House Bill 4027 and House Bill 4045, which are identical except that one is sponsored by House Republican Leader Jim Durkin and the other by Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago. Both bills combine a pension reform promoted by Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, with a number of money-saving pension ideas...
