Bill Text: IL HB4976 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may not require a police officer to issue a specific number of citations, warnings, points of contact, stops, or arrests within a designated period of time (rather than may not require a police officer to issue a specific number of citations within a designated period of time). For purposes of evaluating a police officer's job performance, prohibits a municipality from comparing the average, percentage, or number of citations, warnings, points of contact, stops, or arrests to be issued on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual basis issued (rather than the number of citations issued) by the police officer to the average, percentage, or number of citations, warnings, points of contact, stops, or arrests issued by any other police officer who has similar job duties. Removes language allowing a municipality to evaluate a police officer based on the police officer's points of contact. Provides that quotas may not be used as a criterion for an officer's demotion or penalization, including unfavorable assignments, transfer, termination, constructive dismissal, promotion, or lack of earning of any benefit, including awarded time off. Defines "quota".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4976 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4976-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4976 Introduced , by Rep. Bob Morgan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/11-1-12
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may not require a police officer to issue a specific number of citations, warnings, points of contact, stops, or arrests within a designated period of time (rather than may not require a police officer to issue a specific number of citations within a designated period of time). For purposes of evaluating a police officer's job performance, prohibits a municipality from comparing the average, percentage, or number of citations, warnings, points of contact, stops, or arrests to be issued on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual basis issued (rather than the number of citations issued) by the police officer to the average, percentage, or number of citations, warnings, points of contact, stops, or arrests issued by any other police officer who has similar job duties. Removes language allowing a municipality to evaluate a police officer based on the police officer's points of contact. Provides that quotas may not be used as a criterion for an officer's demotion or penalization, including unfavorable assignments, transfer, termination, constructive dismissal, promotion, or lack of earning of any benefit, including awarded time off. Defines "quota".
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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 11-1-12 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-1-12)
Sec. 11-1-12. Quotas prohibited. A municipality may not
require a quota for a police officer to issue a specific number
of citations, warnings, points of contact, stops, or arrests
within a designated period of time. This prohibition shall not
affect the conditions of any federal or State grants or funds
awarded to the municipality and used to fund traffic
enforcement programs.
A municipality may not, for purposes of evaluating a
police officer's job performance, compare the average,
percentage, or number of citations, warnings, points of
contact, stops, or arrests to be issued on a daily, weekly,
monthly, quarterly, or annual basis number of citations issued
by the police officer to the average, percentage, or number of
citations, warnings, points of contact, stops, or arrests
issued by any other police officer who has similar job duties.
Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a municipality from
evaluating a police officer based on the police officer's

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