Bill Text: IL HB5079 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that in lieu of a training waiver granted by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board under the Act, the chief of police of a law enforcement agency may employ as a permanent or part-time law enforcement officer a person who does not meet the training standards and is not certified as a law enforcement officer under the Act if the chief of police signs an attestation that the applicant for employment as a law enforcement officer has extensive prior law enforcement or corrections experience in another state or with the United States government and has prior to the officer's employment completed a course on Illinois law comparable to the course required for law enforcement officers certified under the Act. Provides that the attestation shall be filed with the Board and the applicant may assume duties as a law enforcement officer immediately upon the chief of police's transmittal of that attestation to the Board. Provides that nothing in this provision prohibits a law enforcement agency from seeking a training waiver under the Act for prospective law enforcement officer applicants who do not meet the training standards of the Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-27 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5079 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB5079-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB5079 Introduced , by Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 705/8.5 new
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that in lieu of a training waiver granted by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board under the Act, the chief of police of a law enforcement agency may employ as a permanent or part-time law enforcement officer a person who does not meet the training standards and is not certified as a law enforcement officer under the Act if the chief of police signs an attestation that the applicant for employment as a law enforcement officer has extensive prior law enforcement or corrections experience in another state or with the United States government and has prior to the officer's employment completed a course on Illinois law comparable to the course required for law enforcement officers certified under the Act. Provides that the attestation shall be filed with the Board and the applicant may assume duties as a law enforcement officer immediately upon the chief of police's transmittal of that attestation to the Board. Provides that nothing in this provision prohibits a law enforcement agency from seeking a training waiver under the Act for prospective law enforcement officer applicants who do not meet the training standards of the Act.
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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 Police Training Act is amended by
adding Section 8.5 as follows:
(50 ILCS 705/8.5 new)
Sec. 8.5. Prior law enforcement experience; attestation by
the chief of police in lieu of waiver from the Board. In lieu
of a training waiver granted by the Board under Section 8.1 or
8.2, the chief of police of a law enforcement agency may employ
as a permanent or part-time law enforcement officer a person
who does not meet the training standards and is not certified
as a law enforcement officer under this Act if the chief of
police signs an attestation that the applicant for employment
as a law enforcement officer has extensive prior law
enforcement or corrections experience in another state or with
the United States government and has prior to the officer's
employment completed a course on Illinois law comparable to
the course required for law enforcement officers certified
under this Act. The attestation shall be filed with the Board
and applicant may assume duties as a law enforcement officer
immediately upon the chief of police's transmittal of that
attestation to the Board. Nothing in this Section prohibits a

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law enforcement agency from seeking a training waiver under
Section 8.1 or 8.2 for prospective law enforcement officer
applicants who do not met the training standards of this Act.