Bill Text: IL HB0850 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning veteran's and educational preference.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0850 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB0850-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 10-2.1-8 as follows:
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| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-8)
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| 7 | Sec. 10-2.1-8. Veteran's and educational preference.
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| 8 | Persons who have successfully
obtained an associate's degree in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | the
the field of law enforcement, criminal
justice, fire | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | service, or emergency medical services, or a bachelor's degree
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| 11 | from an accredited college or university; persons who
have been | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | awarded a certificate attesting to the successful completion
of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Training Course as | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | provided in
the Illinois Police Training Act and are currently | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | serving as a law enforcement
officer on a part-time or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | full-time basis within the State of Illinois; and persons who | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | were engaged in
the active military or naval service of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | United States for a period of at least
one year and who were | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | honorably discharged therefrom, or who are now or may
hereafter | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | be on inactive or reserve duty in such military or naval | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | service
(not including, however, in the case of offices, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | positions and places of
employment in the police department, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | persons who were convicted by
court-martial of disobedience of | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | orders, where such disobedience consisted
in the refusal to | ||||||
| 2 | perform military service on the ground of religious or
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| 3 | conscientious objections against war) shall be preferred for | ||||||
| 4 | appointments
to offices, positions, and places of employment in | ||||||
| 5 | the fire and police
departments of the municipality coming | ||||||
| 6 | under the provisions of this
Division 2.1. For purposes of this | ||||||
| 7 | Section, if a person has been deployed, then "active duty | ||||||
| 8 | military or naval service of the United States" includes | ||||||
| 9 | training and service school attendance, as defined in 10 U.S.C. | ||||||
| 10 | 101(d), which is ordered pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 12301(d). The | ||||||
| 11 | preference points awarded under this Section shall not be
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| 12 | cumulative. | ||||||
| 13 | This amendatory Act of 1973 does not apply to any | ||||||
| 14 | municipality which is
a home rule unit. | ||||||
| 15 | Persons who have participated in that municipality's | ||||||
| 16 | police explorer or cadet program may be preferred, for a | ||||||
| 17 | maximum of 2 points, for appointments to offices, positions, | ||||||
| 18 | and places of employment in municipal police departments under | ||||||
| 19 | the provisions of this Division.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 98-231, eff. 8-9-13.)
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