Bill Text: IL HB0375 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that beginning January 1, 2018, all probationary officers employed by law enforcement agencies located in counties of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, including probationary part-time officers and university police officers, shall be required to complete Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training as part of initial minimum basic training requirements. All permanent police officers, part-time officers, and university officers must complete at least one Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training program prior to January 1, 2019. Provides that CIT training includes situations involving domestic violence. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board may partner with local mental health organizations and providers in developing and assisting with crisis intervention programming. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that in counties of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, $25 of bail moneys retained by the circuit court clerk shall be deposited in the Crisis Intervention Team Training Fund, a special fund in the county treasury, to be used solely for paying for the costs of crisis intervention training for probationary police officers employed by law enforcement agencies located in a county with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 45-4)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0247 [HB0375 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB0375-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. This Act may be referred to as Sam's Act.
Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by
changing Sections 7 and 10.17 as follows:
(50 ILCS 705/7) (from Ch. 85, par. 507)
Sec. 7. Rules and standards for schools. The Board shall
adopt rules and minimum standards for such schools which shall
include but not be limited to the following:
a. The curriculum for probationary police officers
which shall be offered by all certified schools shall
include but not be limited to courses of procedural
justice, arrest and use and control tactics, search and
seizure, including temporary questioning, civil rights,
human rights, human relations, cultural competency,
including implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity,
criminal law, law of criminal procedure, constitutional
and proper use of law enforcement authority, vehicle and
traffic law including uniform and non-discriminatory
enforcement of the Illinois Vehicle Code, traffic control
and accident investigation, techniques of obtaining

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physical evidence, court testimonies, statements, reports,
firearms training, training in the use of electronic
control devices, including the psychological and
physiological effects of the use of those devices on
humans, first-aid (including cardiopulmonary
resuscitation), training in the administration of opioid
antagonists as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (e)
of Section 5-23 of the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and
Dependency Act, handling of juvenile offenders,
recognition of mental conditions and crises, including,
but not limited to, the disease of addiction, which require
immediate assistance and response and methods to safeguard
and provide assistance to a person in need of mental
treatment, recognition of abuse, neglect, financial
exploitation, and self-neglect of adults with disabilities
and older adults, as defined in Section 2 of the Adult
Protective Services Act, crimes against the elderly, law of
evidence, the hazards of high-speed police vehicle chases
with an emphasis on alternatives to the high-speed chase,
and physical training. The curriculum shall include
specific training in techniques for immediate response to
and investigation of cases of domestic violence and of
sexual assault of adults and children, including cultural
perceptions and common myths of sexual assault and sexual
abuse as well as interview techniques that are trauma
informed, victim centered, and victim sensitive. The

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curriculum shall include training in techniques designed
to promote effective communication at the initial contact
with crime victims and ways to comprehensively explain to
victims and witnesses their rights under the Rights of
Crime Victims and Witnesses Act and the Crime Victims
Compensation Act. The curriculum shall also include a block
of instruction aimed at identifying and interacting with
persons with autism and other developmental or physical
disabilities, reducing barriers to reporting crimes
against persons with autism, and addressing the unique
challenges presented by cases involving victims or
witnesses with autism and other developmental
disabilities. The curriculum for permanent police officers
shall include but not be limited to (1) refresher and
in-service training in any of the courses listed above in
this subparagraph, (2) advanced courses in any of the
subjects listed above in this subparagraph, (3) training
for supervisory personnel, and (4) specialized training in
subjects and fields to be selected by the board. The
training in the use of electronic control devices shall be
conducted for probationary police officers, including
University police officers.
b. Minimum courses of study, attendance requirements
and equipment requirements.
c. Minimum requirements for instructors.
d. Minimum basic training requirements, which a

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probationary police officer must satisfactorily complete
before being eligible for permanent employment as a local
law enforcement officer for a participating local
governmental agency. Those requirements shall include
training in first aid (including cardiopulmonary
resuscitation).
e. Minimum basic training requirements, which a
probationary county corrections officer must
satisfactorily complete before being eligible for
permanent employment as a county corrections officer for a
participating local governmental agency.
f. Minimum basic training requirements which a
probationary court security officer must satisfactorily
complete before being eligible for permanent employment as
a court security officer for a participating local
governmental agency. The Board shall establish those
training requirements which it considers appropriate for
court security officers and shall certify schools to
conduct that training.
A person hired to serve as a court security officer
must obtain from the Board a certificate (i) attesting to
his or her successful completion of the training course;
(ii) attesting to his or her satisfactory completion of a
training program of similar content and number of hours
that has been found acceptable by the Board under the
provisions of this Act; or (iii) attesting to the Board's

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determination that the training course is unnecessary
because of the person's extensive prior law enforcement
experience.
Individuals who currently serve as court security
officers shall be deemed qualified to continue to serve in
that capacity so long as they are certified as provided by
this Act within 24 months of June 1, 1997 (the effective
date of Public Act 89-685). Failure to be so certified,
absent a waiver from the Board, shall cause the officer to
forfeit his or her position.
All individuals hired as court security officers on or
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996
shall be certified within 12 months of the date of their
hire, unless a waiver has been obtained by the Board, or
they shall forfeit their positions.
The Sheriff's Merit Commission, if one exists, or the
Sheriff's Office if there is no Sheriff's Merit Commission,
shall maintain a list of all individuals who have filed
applications to become court security officers and who meet
the eligibility requirements established under this Act.
Either the Sheriff's Merit Commission, or the Sheriff's
Office if no Sheriff's Merit Commission exists, shall
establish a schedule of reasonable intervals for
verification of the applicants' qualifications under this
Act and as established by the Board.
g. Minimum in-service training requirements, which a

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police officer must satisfactorily complete every 3 years.
Those requirements shall include constitutional and proper
use of law enforcement authority, procedural justice,
civil rights, human rights, mental health awareness and
response, and cultural competency.
h. Minimum in-service training requirements, which a
police officer must satisfactorily complete at least
annually. Those requirements shall include law updates and
use of force training which shall include scenario based
training, or similar training approved by the Board.
(Source: P.A. 98-49, eff. 7-1-13; 98-358, eff. 1-1-14; 98-463,
eff. 8-16-13; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14; 99-352, eff. 1-1-16;
99-480, eff. 9-9-15; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16; 99-801, eff.
1-1-17.)
(50 ILCS 705/10.17)
Sec. 10.17. Crisis intervention team training; mental
health awareness training.
(a) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards
Board shall develop and approve a standard curriculum for a
certified training programs program in crisis intervention
addressing specialized policing responses to people with
mental illnesses. The Board shall conduct Crisis Intervention
Team (CIT) training programs that train officers to identify
signs and symptoms of mental illness, to de-escalate situations
involving individuals who appear to have a mental illness, and

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connect that person in crisis to treatment. Officers who have
successfully completed this program shall be issued a
certificate attesting to their attendance of a Crisis
Intervention Team (CIT) training program.
(b) The Board shall create an introductory course
incorporating adult learning models that provides law
enforcement officers with an awareness of mental health issues
including a history of the mental health system, types of
mental health illness including signs and symptoms of mental
illness and common treatments and medications, and the
potential interactions law enforcement officers may have on a
regular basis with these individuals, their families, and
service providers including de-escalating a potential crisis
situation. This course, in addition to other traditional
learning settings, may be made available in an electronic
format.
(Source: P.A. 99-261, eff. 1-1-16; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)