102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3961

 

Introduced 2/22/2021, 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
13as a 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
18Board; or has been awarded a certificate attesting to his or
19her satisfactory 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
23corrections experience the basic training requirement is

 

 

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1determined by the Board 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
5the Board extending the period for compliance. Such waiver
6shall be issued only for good and justifiable reasons, and in
7no case shall extend more than 90 days beyond the initial 6
8months. Any hiring agency that fails to train a law
9enforcement officer within this period shall be prohibited
10from employing this individual in a law enforcement capacity
11for one year from the date training was to be completed. If an
12agency again fails to train the individual a second time, the
13agency shall be permanently barred from employing this
14individual in a law enforcement capacity.
15    (a-5) No probationary police officer beginning employment
16after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd
17General Assembly shall receive a permanent appointment as a
18law enforcement 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
22mean that a law enforcement officer employed by a local
23governmental agency at the time of the effective date of this
24amendatory Act, either as a probationary police officer or as
25a permanent police officer, shall require certification under
26the provisions of this Section. No provision of this Section

 

 

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

 

 

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1    Sec. 8.45. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and
28 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for
3the implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory
4Act of the 102nd General Assembly.