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HB6874 Engrossed |
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LRB093 18809 RLC 44544 b |
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding |
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| Section 33-6 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/33-6 new) |
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| Sec. 33-6. Hiring decertified police officer prohibited. |
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| (a) In this Section, "part-time police officer", |
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| "full-time police officer", and "permanent police officer" |
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| have the meanings ascribed to them in Section 2 of the Illinois |
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| Police Training Act.
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| (b) A municipal police department or a county sheriff may |
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| not hire a person for employment in the municipal police |
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| department or county sheriff's office in any capacity if that |
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| person had been a full-time, permanent, or part-time police |
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| officer in this State or any other jurisdiction and has been |
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| decertified as a police officer by the Illinois Law Enforcement |
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| Training Standards Board under Section 6.1 of the Illinois |
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| Police Training Act or has been decertified as a police officer |
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| under a similar law of another jurisdiction. |
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| (c) Sentence. A violation of this Section by a county |
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| sheriff or municipal police chief or other police officer in |
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| charge of hiring police officers is a Class A misdemeanor.
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