Full Text of SB1925 102nd General Assembly
SB1925 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 SB1925 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Rachelle Crowe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 50 ILCS 705/8.1 | from Ch. 85, par. 508.1 | 55 ILCS 5/3-6001.5 | |
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Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that, in counties with a under 3,000,000 inhabitants, a person is not eligible to be elected or appointed to the office of sheriff after the effective date of the Act unless he or she has a certificate attesting to his or her successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Officers Training Course as prescribed by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board or a substantially similar training program of another state or the federal government. Amends the Counties Code making a conforming change.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 8.1 as follows:
| 6 | | (50 ILCS 705/8.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 508.1)
| 7 | | Sec. 8.1. Full-time police and county corrections | 8 | | officers.
| 9 | | (a) After January 1, 1976, no person shall receive a | 10 | | permanent
appointment as a law enforcement officer as defined | 11 | | in this
Act nor shall any person receive, after the effective | 12 | | date of this
amendatory Act of 1984, a permanent appointment | 13 | | as a county corrections officer
unless that person has been | 14 | | awarded, within 6 months of his or her
initial full-time | 15 | | employment, a certificate attesting to his or her
successful | 16 | | completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement and | 17 | | County
Correctional Training Course as prescribed by the | 18 | | Board; or has been awarded a
certificate attesting to his or | 19 | | her satisfactory completion of a training program of
similar | 20 | | content and number of hours and which course has been found | 21 | | acceptable
by the Board under the provisions of this Act; or by | 22 | | reason of extensive prior
law enforcement or county | 23 | | corrections experience the basic training requirement
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| 1 | | determined by the Board to be illogical and unreasonable.
| 2 | | If such training is required and not completed within the | 3 | | applicable 6
months, then the officer must forfeit his or her | 4 | | position, or the employing agency
must obtain a waiver from | 5 | | the Board extending the period for
compliance. Such waiver | 6 | | shall be issued only for good and justifiable
reasons, and in | 7 | | no case shall extend more than 90 days beyond the
initial 6 | 8 | | months. Any hiring agency that fails to train a law | 9 | | enforcement officer within this period shall be prohibited | 10 | | from employing this individual in a law enforcement capacity | 11 | | for one year from the date training was to be completed. If an | 12 | | agency again fails to train the individual a second time, the | 13 | | agency shall be permanently barred from employing this | 14 | | individual in a law enforcement capacity.
| 15 | | (b) No provision of this Section shall be construed to | 16 | | mean that a
law enforcement officer employed by a local | 17 | | governmental agency
at the time of the effective date of this | 18 | | amendatory Act, either as a
probationary police officer or as | 19 | | a permanent police officer, shall
require certification under | 20 | | the provisions of this Section. No provision
of this Section | 21 | | shall be construed to mean that a county corrections
officer | 22 | | employed by a local governmental agency at the time of the
| 23 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of 1984, either as a | 24 | | probationary
county corrections or as a permanent county | 25 | | corrections officer, shall
require certification under the | 26 | | provisions of this Section. No provision of
this Section shall |
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| 1 | | be construed to apply to certification of elected county
| 2 | | sheriffs in counties with over 3,000,000 inhabitants .
| 3 | | (c) This Section does not apply to part-time police | 4 | | officers or
probationary part-time police officers.
| 5 | | (Source: P.A. 101-187, eff. 1-1-20 .)
| 6 | | Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by changing | 7 | | Section 3-6001.5 as follows:
| 8 | | (55 ILCS 5/3-6001.5)
| 9 | | Sec. 3-6001.5. Sheriff qualifications. A On or after the | 10 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General | 11 | | Assembly,
except as otherwise provided in this Section, a | 12 | | person is not eligible to be elected or
appointed to the office | 13 | | of sheriff, unless that person meets all of the
following | 14 | | requirements:
| 15 | | (1) Is a United States citizen.
| 16 | | (2) Has been a resident of the county for at least one | 17 | | year.
| 18 | | (3) Is not a convicted felon. | 19 | | (4) Has a certificate attesting to his or her | 20 | | successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law | 21 | | Enforcement Officers Training Course as prescribed by the | 22 | | Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board or a | 23 | | substantially similar training program of another state or | 24 | | the federal government. This paragraph does not apply to a |
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| 1 | | county with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants or to a | 2 | | sheriff currently serving on the effective date of this | 3 | | amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly.
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)
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