Bill Text: IL SB2976 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that a person who has previously served as a full-time or part-time police officer in the State may be granted additional time in which to be enrolled and accepted into a Board-approved course and to obtain his or her certificate if it is within 36 months after the initial date of hire as a probationary part-time police officer in the State. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-22 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2976 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB2976-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 8.2 as follows:
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| 6 | (50 ILCS 705/8.2)
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| 7 | Sec. 8.2. Part-time police officers.
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| 8 | (a) A person hired to serve as a part-time
police officer | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | must obtain from the Board a certificate (i) attesting to his
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| 10 | or her successful completion of the part-time police training | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | course; (ii)
attesting to his or her satisfactory completion of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | a training program of
similar content and number of hours that | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | has been found acceptable by the
Board under the provisions of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | this Act; or (iii) attesting to the Board's
determination that | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | the part-time police training course is unnecessary because
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| 16 | the person's extensive prior law enforcement experience.
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| 17 | person hired on or after the effective date of this amendatory | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Act of the
92nd General Assembly must obtain this certificate | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | within 18 months after the
initial date of hire as a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | probationary part-time police officer in the State of
Illinois. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | The probationary part-time police officer must be enrolled and
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| 22 | accepted into a Board-approved course within 6 months after | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | active employment
by any department in the State.
A person | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | hired
on or after January 1, 1996 and before the effective date | ||||||
| 2 | of this amendatory
Act of the 92nd General Assembly must obtain | ||||||
| 3 | this certificate within 18
months
after the date of hire. A | ||||||
| 4 | person hired before
January 1, 1996 must obtain this | ||||||
| 5 | certificate within 24 months after the
effective date of this | ||||||
| 6 | amendatory Act of 1995.
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| 7 | The employing agency may seek a waiver from the Board | ||||||
| 8 | extending the period
for compliance. A waiver shall be issued | ||||||
| 9 | only for good and justifiable
reasons, and the probationary | ||||||
| 10 | part-time police officer may not practice as a
part-time
police | ||||||
| 11 | officer during the waiver period. If training is
required and | ||||||
| 12 | not completed within the applicable time period, as extended by
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| 13 | any waiver that may be granted, then the officer must forfeit | ||||||
| 14 | his or her
position. A person who has previously served as a | ||||||
| 15 | full-time or part-time police officer in the State may be | ||||||
| 16 | granted additional time in which to be enrolled and accepted | ||||||
| 17 | into a Board-approved course and to obtain his or her | ||||||
| 18 | certificate if it is within 36 months after the initial date of | ||||||
| 19 | hire as a probationary part-time police officer in the State.
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| 20 | (b) (Blank).
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| 21 | (c) The part-time police training course referred to in | ||||||
| 22 | this Section
shall be of similar content and the same number of | ||||||
| 23 | hours as the courses for
full-time officers and
shall be | ||||||
| 24 | provided by
Mobile Team In-Service Training Units under the | ||||||
| 25 | Intergovernmental Law
Enforcement Officer's In-Service | ||||||
| 26 | Training Act or by another approved program
or facility in a | ||||||
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| 1 | manner prescribed by the
Board.
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| 2 | (d) For the purposes of this Section, the Board shall adopt | ||||||
| 3 | rules defining
what constitutes employment on a part-time | ||||||
| 4 | basis.
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| 5 | (Source: P.A. 92-533, eff. 3-14-02.)
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| 6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 7 | becoming law.
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