100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5858

 

Introduced , by Rep. John M. Cabello

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 705/6  from Ch. 85, par. 506
50 ILCS 705/9  from Ch. 85, par. 509

    Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall select and certify schools within the State for the purpose of providing advanced or in-service training for arson investigators of a full-time fire department or fire protection district. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by
5changing Sections 6 and 9 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 705/6)  (from Ch. 85, par. 506)
7    Sec. 6. Powers and duties of the Board; selection and
8certification of schools. The Board shall select and certify
9schools within the State of Illinois for the purpose of
10providing basic training for probationary police officers,
11probationary county corrections officers, and court security
12officers and of providing advanced or in-service training for
13permanent police officers, or permanent county corrections
14officers, or arson investigators of a full-time fire department
15or fire protection district, which schools may be either
16publicly or privately owned and operated. In addition, the
17Board has the following power and duties:
18        a. To require local governmental units to furnish such
19    reports and information as the Board deems necessary to
20    fully implement this Act.
21        b. To establish appropriate mandatory minimum
22    standards relating to the training of probationary local
23    law enforcement officers or probationary county

 

 

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1    corrections officers, and in-service training of permanent
2    police officers or arson investigators of a full-time fire
3    department or fire protection district.
4        c. To provide appropriate certification to those
5    probationary officers who successfully complete the
6    prescribed minimum standard basic training course.
7        d. To review and approve annual training curriculum for
8    county sheriffs.
9        e. To review and approve applicants to ensure that no
10    applicant is admitted to a certified academy unless the
11    applicant is a person of good character and has not been
12    convicted of a felony offense, any of the misdemeanors in
13    Sections 11-1.50, 11-6, 11-9.1, 11-14, 11-17, 11-19, 12-2,
14    12-15, 16-1, 17-1, 17-2, 28-3, 29-1, 31-1, 31-6, 31-7,
15    32-4a, or 32-7 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal
16    Code of 2012, subdivision (a)(1) or (a)(2)(C) of Section
17    11-14.3 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code
18    of 2012, or subsection (a) of Section 17-32 of the Criminal
19    Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, or Section 5 or
20    5.2 of the Cannabis Control Act, or a crime involving moral
21    turpitude under the laws of this State or any other state
22    which if committed in this State would be punishable as a
23    felony or a crime of moral turpitude. The Board may appoint
24    investigators who shall enforce the duties conferred upon
25    the Board by this Act.
26(Source: P.A. 99-352, eff. 1-1-16.)
 

 

 

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1    (50 ILCS 705/9)  (from Ch. 85, par. 509)
2    Sec. 9. A special fund is hereby established in the State
3Treasury to be known as the Traffic and Criminal Conviction
4Surcharge Fund and shall be financed as provided in Section 9.1
5of this Act and Section 5-9-1 of the Unified Code of
6Corrections, unless the fines, costs, or additional amounts
7imposed are subject to disbursement by the circuit clerk under
8Section 27.5 of the Clerks of Courts Act. Moneys in this Fund
9shall be expended as follows:
10        (1) a portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
11    may be used, as appropriated by the General Assembly, for
12    the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Law
13    Enforcement Training Standards Board;
14        (2) a portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
15    shall be appropriated for the reimbursement of local
16    governmental agencies participating in training programs
17    certified by the Board, in an amount equaling 1/2 of the
18    total sum paid by such agencies during the State's previous
19    fiscal year for mandated training for probationary police
20    officers or probationary county corrections officers and
21    for optional advanced and specialized law enforcement
22    training, or county corrections training, or training for
23    arson investigators of a full-time fire department or fire
24    protection district; these reimbursements may include the
25    costs for tuition at training schools, the salaries of

 

 

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1    trainees while in schools, and the necessary travel and
2    room and board expenses for each trainee; if the
3    appropriations under this paragraph (2) are not sufficient
4    to fully reimburse the participating local governmental
5    agencies, the available funds shall be apportioned among
6    such agencies, with priority first given to repayment of
7    the costs of mandatory training given to law enforcement
8    officer or county corrections officer recruits, then to
9    repayment of costs of advanced or specialized training for
10    permanent police officers or permanent county corrections
11    officers;
12        (3) a portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
13    may be used to fund the Intergovernmental Law Enforcement
14    Officer's In-Service Training Act, veto overridden October
15    29, 1981, as now or hereafter amended, at a rate and method
16    to be determined by the board;
17        (4) a portion of the Fund also may be used by the
18    Illinois Department of State Police for expenses incurred
19    in the training of employees from any State, county or
20    municipal agency whose function includes enforcement of
21    criminal or traffic law;
22        (5) a portion of the Fund may be used by the Board to
23    fund grant-in-aid programs and services for the training of
24    employees from any county or municipal agency whose
25    functions include corrections or the enforcement of
26    criminal or traffic law;

 

 

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1        (6) for fiscal years 2013 through 2017 only, a portion
2    of the Fund also may be used by the Department of State
3    Police to finance any of its lawful purposes or functions;
4    and
5        (7) a portion of the Fund may be used by the Board,
6    subject to appropriation, to administer grants to local law
7    enforcement agencies for the purpose of purchasing
8    bulletproof vests under the Law Enforcement Officer
9    Bulletproof Vest Act.
10    All payments from the Traffic and Criminal Conviction
11Surcharge Fund shall be made each year from moneys appropriated
12for the purposes specified in this Section. No more than 50% of
13any appropriation under this Act shall be spent in any city
14having a population of more than 500,000. The State Comptroller
15and the State Treasurer shall from time to time, at the
16direction of the Governor, transfer from the Traffic and
17Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund to the General Revenue Fund
18in the State Treasury such amounts as the Governor determines
19are in excess of the amounts required to meet the obligations
20of the Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund.
21(Source: P.A. 98-24, eff. 6-19-13; 98-674, eff. 6-30-14;
2298-743, eff. 1-1-15; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-523, eff.
236-30-16.)
 
24    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25becoming law.