Bill Text: IL HB1201 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning coroners.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1201 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB1201-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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 3-3001 as follows:
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| 6 | (55 ILCS 5/3-3001) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-3001)
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| 7 | Sec. 3-3001. Commission; training; duties performed by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | other county officer.
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| 9 | (a) Every coroner shall be commissioned by the the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Governor, but no
commission shall issue except upon the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | certificate of the county clerk of
the proper county of the due | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | election or appointment of the coroner and
that the coroner has | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | filed his or her bond and taken the oath of office as
provided | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | in this Division.
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| 15 | (b)(1) Within 30 days of assuming office, a coroner elected | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | to that office
for the first time shall apply for admission to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | the Coroner Training Board coroners training program. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Completion of the training
program shall be within 6 months of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | application. Any coroner may direct the
chief deputy coroner or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | a deputy coroner, or both, to attend the training
program, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | provided the coroner has completed the training program. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | Satisfactory
completion of the program shall be evidenced by a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | certificate issued to the
coroner by the Coroner Training | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | Board. All coroners
shall complete the training program at | ||||||
| 2 | least once while serving as coroner.
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| 3 | (2) In developing the coroner training program, the Coroner | ||||||
| 4 | Training Board shall consult with the
Illinois Coroners and | ||||||
| 5 | Medical Examiners Association or other organization as | ||||||
| 6 | approved by the Coroner Training Board.
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| 7 | (3) The Coroner Training Board shall notify the
proper | ||||||
| 8 | county board of the failure by a coroner to successfully | ||||||
| 9 | complete this
training program.
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| 10 | (c) Every coroner shall attend at least 24 hours of | ||||||
| 11 | accredited
continuing education for coroners in each calendar | ||||||
| 12 | year.
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| 13 | (d) In all counties that provide by resolution for the | ||||||
| 14 | elimination of
the office of coroner pursuant to a referendum, | ||||||
| 15 | the resolution may also
provide, as part of the same | ||||||
| 16 | proposition, that the duties of the coroner be
taken over by | ||||||
| 17 | another county officer specified by the resolution and
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| 18 | proposition.
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| 19 | (Source: P.A. 99-408, eff. 1-1-16.)
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