Bill Text: IL HB1608 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning coroners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1608 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1608-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1608 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Patrick J Verschoore SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/3-3001 from Ch. 34, par. 3-3001
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning coroners.
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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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section
3-3001 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/3-3001) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-3001)
Sec. 3-3001. Commission; training; duties performed by
other county officer.
(a) Every coroner shall be commissioned by the the
Governor, but no commission shall issue except upon the
certificate of the county clerk of the proper county of the due
election or appointment of the coroner and that the coroner has
filed his or her bond and taken the oath of office as provided
in this Division.
(b) (1) Within 30 days of assuming office, a coroner
elected to that office for the first time shall apply for
admission to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training
Standards Board coroners training program. Completion of
the training program shall be within 6 months of
application. Any coroner may direct the chief deputy
coroner or a deputy coroner, or both, to attend the
training program, provided the coroner has completed the
training program. Satisfactory completion of the program

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shall be evidenced by a certificate issued to the coroner
by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board.
All coroners shall complete the training program at least
once while serving as coroner.
(2) In developing the coroner training program, the
Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall
consult with the Illinois Coroners Association and the
Illinois Necropsy Board.
(3) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards
Board shall notify the proper county board of the failure
by a coroner to successfully complete this training
program.
(c) Every coroner shall attend at least 24 hours of
accredited continuing education for coroners in each calendar
year.
(d) In all counties that provide by resolution for the
elimination of the office of coroner pursuant to a referendum,
the resolution may also provide, as part of the same
proposition, that the duties of the coroner be taken over by
another county officer specified by the resolution and
proposition.
(Source: P.A. 87-255; 88-586, eff. 8-12-94.)