101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5810

 

Introduced 11/10/2020, by Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 705/8.1  from Ch. 85, par. 508.1
50 ILCS 705/10.25 new
30 ILCS 805/8.45 new

    Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that no probationary police officer beginning employment after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall receive a permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer unless he or she shall have obtained a bachelor's degree with a major or minor in social work. Provides that a law enforcement agency that offers tuition reimbursements for permanent police officers to go to school must also allow permanent police officers to request retroactively up to two years of tuition reimbursement for college or police academy tuition that was incurred before being hired as a police officer at the law enforcement agency only if the police officer qualified for financial aid while attending college or police academy. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
MAY APPLY

 

 

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 Section 8.1 and by adding Section 10.25 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 705/8.1)  (from Ch. 85, par. 508.1)
7    Sec. 8.1. Full-time police and county corrections
8officers.
9    (a) After January 1, 1976, no person shall receive a
10permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer as defined
11in this Act nor shall any person receive, after the effective
12date of this amendatory Act of 1984, a permanent appointment as
13a county corrections officer unless that person has been
14awarded, within 6 months of his or her initial full-time
15employment, a certificate attesting to his or her successful
16completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement and
17County Correctional Training Course as prescribed by the Board;
18or has been awarded a certificate attesting to his or her
19satisfactory completion of a training program of similar
20content and number of hours and which course has been found
21acceptable by the Board under the provisions of this Act; or by
22reason of extensive prior law enforcement or county corrections
23experience the basic training requirement is determined by the

 

 

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1Board to be illogical and unreasonable.
2    If such training is required and not completed within the
3applicable 6 months, then the officer must forfeit his or her
4position, or the employing agency must obtain a waiver from the
5Board extending the period for compliance. Such waiver shall be
6issued only for good and justifiable reasons, and in no case
7shall extend more than 90 days beyond the initial 6 months. Any
8hiring agency that fails to train a law enforcement officer
9within this period shall be prohibited from employing this
10individual in a law enforcement capacity for one year from the
11date training was to be completed. If an agency again fails to
12train the individual a second time, the agency shall be
13permanently barred from employing this individual in a law
14enforcement capacity.
15    (a-5) No probationary police officer beginning employment
16after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st
17General Assembly shall receive a permanent appointment as a law
18enforcement officer as defined in this Act unless he or she
19shall have obtained a bachelor's degree with a major or minor
20in social work.
21    (b) No provision of this Section shall be construed to mean
22that a law enforcement officer employed by a local governmental
23agency at the time of the effective date of this amendatory
24Act, either as a probationary police officer or as a permanent
25police officer, shall require certification under the
26provisions of this Section. No provision of this Section shall

 

 

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1be construed to mean that a county corrections officer employed
2by a local governmental agency at the time of the effective
3date of this amendatory Act of 1984, either as a probationary
4county corrections or as a permanent county corrections
5officer, shall require certification under the provisions of
6this Section. No provision of this Section shall be construed
7to apply to certification of elected county sheriffs.
8    (c) This Section does not apply to part-time police
9officers or probationary part-time police officers.
10(Source: P.A. 101-187, eff. 1-1-20.)
 
11    (50 ILCS 705/10.25 new)
12    Sec. 10.25. Tuition reimbursement. If a law enforcement
13agency offers tuition reimbursements for permanent police
14officers to go to school, then they must also allow permanent
15police officers to request retroactively up to two years of
16tuition reimbursement for college or police academy tuition
17that was incurred before being hired as a police officer at the
18law enforcement agency only if the police officer qualified for
19financial aid while attending college or police academy.
 
20    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
21Section 8.45 as follows:
 
22    (30 ILCS 805/8.45 new)
23    Sec. 8.45. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8

 

 

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1of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
2implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
3the 101st General Assembly.