Bill Text: IL HB1697 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois State Police Law. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, all 9-1-1 telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions shall be required to be trained, utilizing the most current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care guidelines, in high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR). Defines telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the purposes of the provisions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-8)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-05 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Bob Morgan [HB1697 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1697-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1697 Introduced , by Rep. Lisa Davis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2605/2605-53
Amends the Illinois State Police Law. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, all 9-1-1 telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions shall be required to be trained, utilizing the most current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care guidelines, in high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR). Defines telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the purposes of the provisions.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois State Police Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
2605-53 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-53)
Sec. 2605-53. 9-1-1 system; sexual assault and sexual
abuse.
(a) The Office of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator, in
consultation with the Office of the Attorney General and the
Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, shall:
(1) develop comprehensive guidelines for
evidence-based, trauma-informed, victim-centered handling
of sexual assault or sexual abuse calls by Public Safety
Answering Point telecommunicators; and
(2) adopt rules and minimum standards for an
evidence-based, trauma-informed, victim-centered training
curriculum for handling of sexual assault or sexual abuse
calls for Public Safety Answering Point telecommunicators
("PSAP").
(a-5) Within one year after June 3, 2021 (the effective
date of Public Act 102-9), the Office of the Statewide 9-1-1

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Administrator, in consultation with the Statewide 9-1-1
Advisory Board, shall:
(1) develop comprehensive guidelines for training on
emergency dispatch procedures, including, but not limited
to, emergency medical dispatch, and the delivery of 9-1-1
services and professionalism for public safety
telecommunicators and public safety telecommunicator
supervisors; and
(2) adopt rules and minimum standards for continuing
education on emergency dispatch procedures, including, but
not limited to, emergency medical dispatch, and the
delivery of 9-1-1 services and professionalism for public
safety telecommunicators and public safety
telecommunicator Supervisors.
(a-10) The Office of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator may
as necessary establish by rule appropriate testing and
certification processes consistent with the training required
by this Section.
(a-15) Beginning January 1, 2026, all 9-1-1
telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical
conditions shall be required to be trained, utilizing the most
current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care
guidelines, in high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (T-CPR). The instruction shall incorporate
recognition protocols for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests
(OHCA), compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

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instructions for callers or bystanders, and continuing
education.
(b) Training requirements:
(1) Newly hired PSAP telecommunicators must complete
the sexual assault and sexual abuse training curriculum
established in subsection (a) of this Section prior to
handling emergency calls.
(2) All existing PSAP telecommunicators shall complete
the sexual assault and sexual abuse training curriculum
established in subsection (a) of this Section within 2
years of January 1, 2017 (the effective date of Public Act
99-801).
(3) Newly hired public safety telecommunicators shall
complete the emergency dispatch procedures training
curriculum established in subsection (a-5) of this Section
prior to independently handling emergency calls within one
year of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator establishing the
required guidelines, rules, and standards.
(4) All public safety telecommunicators and public
safety telecommunicator supervisors who were not required
to complete new hire training prior to handling emergency
calls, must either demonstrate proficiency or complete the
training established in subsection (a-5) of this Section
within one year of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator
establishing the required guidelines, rules, and
standards.

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(5) Upon completion of the training required in either
paragraph (3) or (4) of this subsection (b), whichever is
applicable, all public safety telecommunicators and public
safety telecommunicator supervisors shall complete the
continuing education training regarding the delivery of
9-1-1 services and professionalism biennially.
(c) The Illinois State Police may adopt rules for the
administration of this Section.
(d) As used in this Section, "telecommunicator
cardiopulmonary resuscitation" or "T-CPR" means
dispatcher-assisted delivery of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR) instruction by trained emergency call takers or public
safety dispatchers to callers or bystanders for events
requiring CPR, such as out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
(Source: P.A. 102-9, eff. 6-3-21; 102-687, eff. 12-17-21.)