Bill Text: IL HB3961 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that no probationary police officer beginning employment after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall receive a permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer unless he or she shall have obtained a bachelor's degree with a major or minor in social work. Provides that a law enforcement agency that offers tuition reimbursements for permanent police officers to go to school must also allow permanent police officers to request retroactively up to two years of tuition reimbursement for college or police academy tuition that was incurred before being hired as a police officer at the law enforcement agency only if the police officer qualified for financial aid while attending college or police academy. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-09 - Rule 19(b) / Motion Referred to Rules Committee [HB3961 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HB3961-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 8.1 and by adding Section 10.25 as follows:
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6 | (50 ILCS 705/8.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 508.1)
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7 | Sec. 8.1. Full-time police and county corrections | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | officers.
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9 | (a) After January 1, 1976, no person shall receive a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | permanent
appointment as a law enforcement officer as defined | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | in this
Act nor shall any person receive, after the effective | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | date of this
amendatory Act of 1984, a permanent appointment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | as a county corrections officer
unless that person has been | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | awarded, within 6 months of his or her
initial full-time | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | employment, a certificate attesting to his or her
successful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement and | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | County
Correctional Training Course as prescribed by the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Board; or has been awarded a
certificate attesting to his or | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | her satisfactory completion of a training program of
similar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | content and number of hours and which course has been found | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | acceptable
by the Board under the provisions of this Act; or by | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | reason of extensive prior
law enforcement or county | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | corrections experience the basic training requirement
is |
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1 | determined by the Board to be illogical and unreasonable.
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2 | If such training is required and not completed within the | ||||||
3 | applicable 6
months, then the officer must forfeit his or her | ||||||
4 | position, or the employing agency
must obtain a waiver from | ||||||
5 | the Board extending the period for
compliance. Such waiver | ||||||
6 | shall be issued only for good and justifiable
reasons, and in | ||||||
7 | no case shall extend more than 90 days beyond the
initial 6 | ||||||
8 | months. Any hiring agency that fails to train a law | ||||||
9 | enforcement officer within this period shall be prohibited | ||||||
10 | from employing this individual in a law enforcement capacity | ||||||
11 | for one year from the date training was to be completed. If an | ||||||
12 | agency again fails to train the individual a second time, the | ||||||
13 | agency shall be permanently barred from employing this | ||||||
14 | individual in a law enforcement capacity.
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15 | (a-5) No probationary police officer beginning employment | ||||||
16 | after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd | ||||||
17 | General Assembly shall receive a permanent appointment as a | ||||||
18 | law enforcement officer as defined in this Act unless he or she | ||||||
19 | shall have obtained a bachelor's degree with a major or minor | ||||||
20 | in social work. | ||||||
21 | (b) No provision of this Section shall be construed to | ||||||
22 | mean that a
law enforcement officer employed by a local | ||||||
23 | governmental agency
at the time of the effective date of this | ||||||
24 | amendatory Act, either as a
probationary police officer or as | ||||||
25 | a permanent police officer, shall
require certification under | ||||||
26 | the provisions of this Section. No provision
of this Section |
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1 | shall be construed to mean that a county corrections
officer | ||||||
2 | employed by a local governmental agency at the time of the
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3 | effective date of this amendatory Act of 1984, either as a | ||||||
4 | probationary
county corrections or as a permanent county | ||||||
5 | corrections officer, shall
require certification under the | ||||||
6 | provisions of this Section. No provision of
this Section shall | ||||||
7 | be construed to apply to certification of elected county
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8 | sheriffs.
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9 | (c) This Section does not apply to part-time police | ||||||
10 | officers or
probationary part-time police officers.
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11 | (Source: P.A. 101-187, eff. 1-1-20 .)
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12 | (50 ILCS 705/10.25 new) | ||||||
13 | Sec. 10.25. Tuition reimbursement. If a law enforcement | ||||||
14 | agency offers tuition reimbursements for permanent police | ||||||
15 | officers to go to school, then they must also allow permanent | ||||||
16 | police officers to request retroactively up to two years of | ||||||
17 | tuition reimbursement for college or police academy tuition | ||||||
18 | that was incurred before being hired as a police officer at the | ||||||
19 | law enforcement agency only if the police officer qualified | ||||||
20 | for financial aid while attending college or police academy.
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21 | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | ||||||
22 | Section 8.45 as follows:
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23 | (30 ILCS 805/8.45 new) |
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1 | Sec. 8.45. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and | ||||||
2 | 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for | ||||||
3 | the implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory | ||||||
4 | Act of the 102nd General Assembly.
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