HB6874 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 18809 RLC 44544 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6874

Introduced 02/09/04, by Paul D. Froehlich - Patricia R. Bellock - Kenneth Dunkin

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/33-6 new

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a municipal police department or a county sheriff may not hire a person for employment in the municipal police department or county sheriff's office in any capacity if that person had been a full-time, permanent, or part-time police officer in this State or any other jurisdiction and has been decertified as a police officer by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board or has been decertified as a police officer under a similar law of another jurisdiction. Provides that a county sheriff or municipal police chief or other police officer in charge of hiring police officers who violates this provision is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

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

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding Section 33-6 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/33-6 new)

Sec. 33-6. Hiring decertified police officer prohibited.

(a) In this Section, "part-time police officer", "full-time police officer", and "permanent police officer" have the meanings ascribed to them in Section 2 of the Illinois Police Training Act.

(b) A municipal police department or a county sheriff may not hire a person for employment in the municipal police department or county sheriff's office in any capacity if that person had been a full-time, permanent, or part-time police officer in this State or any other jurisdiction and has been decertified as a police officer by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board under Section 6.1 of the Illinois Police Training Act or has been decertified as a police officer under a similar law of another jurisdiction.

(c) Sentence. A violation of this Section by a county sheriff or municipal police chief or other police officer in charge of hiring police officers is a Class A misdemeanor.