Bill Text: IL HB1183 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointments by the board of fire and police commissioners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB1183 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1183-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1183 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointments by the board of fire and police commissioners.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 10-2.1-9 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9)
Sec. 10-2.1-9. Original appointments; Preferences;
Limitation.
(a) The The board of fire and police commissioners shall
give preference for original appointment to persons designated
in Section 10-2.1-8 whose names appear on any register of
eligibles resulting from an examination for original entrance
in the classified service of the fire and police departments
of any municipality coming under the provisions of this
Division 2.1 by adding to the final grade average which they
receive or will receive as the result of any examination held
for original entrance, 5 points. The board shall also give
preference to persons eligible under subsection (b) as
provided in that subsection. The numerical result thus
attained shall be applied by the board of fire and police
commissioners in determining the position of such persons on
any eligibility list which has been created as the result of
any examination for original entrance for purposes of

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preference in certification and appointment from such
eligibility list. The board shall strike off the names of
candidates for original appointment after such names have been
on the list for more than 2 years.
(b) All persons who, on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1993, have been paid-on-call certified
firefighters II, paramedics, or any combination of those
capacities, of the municipality shall be awarded 0.5 point for
each year of successful service in one or more of those
capacities, up to a maximum of 5 points at the time of
examination for original appointment to the classified service
of the fire department. Certified firefighters III shall be
awarded one point per year up to a maximum of 5 points.
Applicants from outside the municipality who were employed as
full-time firefighters or firefighter-paramedics by a fire
protection district or another municipality for at least 2
years shall have the same preference as paid-on-call
personnel. These additional points presuppose a rating scale
totalling 100 points available for the eligibility list. If
more or fewer points are used in the rating scale for the
eligibility list, the points awarded under this subsection
shall be increased or decreased by a factor equal to the total
possible points available for the examination divided by 100.
No person entitled to additional points under this
subsection shall be required to claim that preference or
credit before an examination is held. The preference shall be

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