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Representative Elaine Nekritz - Pension Crisis in Illinois

Representative Elaine Nekritz of Northbrook (D-57th District ) reviewed Illinois Pension history beginning in 1989 and ending with the Illinois Supreme Court ruling on Senate Bill 1 in 2015. As Chair of the House Pension Committee and a member of Governor Quinn’s Pension Working Group, Representative Nekritz also discussed the legislative debate leading up to Senate Bill 1 and the status of pension reform following the Illinois Supreme Court’s ruling on the unconstitutional nature of the newly passed Law.