SB2976 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2976

Introduced 2/18/2016, by Sen. Chuck Weaver

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

50 ILCS 705/8.2

Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that a person who has previously served as a full-time or part-time police officer in the State may be granted additional time in which to be enrolled and accepted into a Board-approved course and to obtain his or her certificate if it is within 36 months after the initial date of hire as a probationary part-time police officer in the State. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by changing Section 8.2 as follows:

(50 ILCS 705/8.2)

Sec. 8.2. Part-time police officers.

(a) A person hired to serve as a part-time police officer must obtain from the Board a certificate (i) attesting to his or her successful completion of the part-time police training course; (ii) attesting to his or her satisfactory completion of a training program of similar content and number of hours that has been found acceptable by the Board under the provisions of this Act; or (iii) attesting to the Board's determination that the part-time police training course is unnecessary because of the person's extensive prior law enforcement experience. A person hired on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly must obtain this certificate within 18 months after the initial date of hire as a probationary part-time police officer in the State of Illinois. The probationary part-time police officer must be enrolled and accepted into a Board-approved course within 6 months after active employment by any department in the State. A person hired on or after January 1, 1996 and before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly must obtain this certificate within 18 months after the date of hire. A person hired before January 1, 1996 must obtain this certificate within 24 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995.

The employing agency may seek a waiver from the Board extending the period for compliance. A waiver shall be issued only for good and justifiable reasons, and the probationary part-time police officer may not practice as a part-time police officer during the waiver period. If training is required and not completed within the applicable time period, as extended by any waiver that may be granted, then the officer must forfeit his or her position. A person who has previously served as a full-time or part-time police officer in the State may be granted additional time in which to be enrolled and accepted into a Board-approved course and to obtain his or her certificate if it is within 36 months after the initial date of hire as a probationary part-time police officer in the State.

(b) (Blank).

(c) The part-time police training course referred to in this Section shall be of similar content and the same number of hours as the courses for full-time officers and shall be provided by Mobile Team In-Service Training Units under the Intergovernmental Law Enforcement Officer's In-Service Training Act or by another approved program or facility in a manner prescribed by the Board.

(d) For the purposes of this Section, the Board shall adopt rules defining what constitutes employment on a part-time basis.

(Source: P.A. 92-533, eff. 3-14-02.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.