Bill Text: IL HB4146 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act and the Police Training Institute Act. Provides that the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois shall meet and exceed all standards established by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Provides that the certification that such standards have been met and exceeded shall be made by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Provides that an annual sum sufficient to reimburse the University of Illinois for one half of the cost of training recruits in the previous year shall be appropriated from the Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Police Training Institute Act. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4146 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4146-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB4146 Introduced , by Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 705/6 from Ch. 85, par. 506
50 ILCS 705/9 from Ch. 85, par. 509
110 ILCS 370/4 from Ch. 144, par. 63d
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act and the Police Training Institute Act. Provides that the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois shall meet and exceed all standards established by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Provides that the certification that such standards have been met and exceeded shall be made by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Provides that an annual sum sufficient to reimburse the University of Illinois for one half of the cost of training recruits in the previous year shall be appropriated from the Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Police Training Institute Act. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning education.
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
changing Sections 6 and 9 as follows:
(50 ILCS 705/6) (from Ch. 85, par. 506)
Sec. 6. Selection and certification of schools. The Police
Training Institute at the University of Illinois shall meet and
exceed all standards established by the Board. The
certification that such standards have been met and exceeded
shall be made by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Board shall
select and certify all other schools within the State of
Illinois for the purpose of providing basic training for
probationary police officers, probationary county corrections
officers, and court security officers and of providing advanced
or in-service training for permanent police officers or
permanent county corrections officers, which schools may be
either publicly or privately owned and operated. In addition,
the Board has the following power and duties:
a. To require local governmental units to furnish such
reports and information as the Board deems necessary to
fully implement this Act.

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b. To establish appropriate mandatory minimum
standards relating to the training of probationary local
law enforcement officers or probationary county
corrections officers.
c. To provide appropriate certification to those
probationary officers who successfully complete the
prescribed minimum standard basic training course.
d. To review and approve annual training curriculum for
county sheriffs.
e. To review and approve applicants to ensure no
applicant is admitted to a certified academy unless the
applicant is a person of good character and has not been
convicted of a felony offense, any of the misdemeanors in
Sections 11-1.50, 11-6, 11-9.1, 11-14, 11-17, 11-19, 12-2,
12-15, 16-1, 17-1, 17-2, 28-3, 29-1, 31-1, 31-6, 31-7,
32-4a, or 32-7 of the Criminal Code of 1961, subdivision
(a)(1) or (a)(2)(C) of Section 11-14.3 of the Criminal Code
of 1961, or Section 5 or 5.2 of the Cannabis Control Act,
or a crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of this
State or any other state which if committed in this State
would be punishable as a felony or a crime of moral
turpitude. The Board may appoint investigators who shall
enforce the duties conferred upon the Board by this Act.
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)
(50 ILCS 705/9) (from Ch. 85, par. 509)

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Sec. 9. A special fund is hereby established in the State
Treasury to be known as "The Traffic and Criminal Conviction
Surcharge Fund" and shall be financed as provided in Section
9.1 of this Act and Section 5-9-1 of the "Unified Code of
Corrections", unless the fines, costs or additional amounts
imposed are subject to disbursement by the circuit clerk under
Section 27.5 of the Clerks of Courts Act. Moneys in this Fund
shall be expended as follows:
(1) A portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
may be used, as appropriated by the General Assembly, for
the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Law
Enforcement Training Standards Board;
(2) A portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
shall be appropriated for the reimbursement of local
governmental agencies participating in training programs
certified by the Board, in an amount equaling 1/2 of the
total sum paid by such agencies during the State's previous
fiscal year for mandated training for probationary police
officers or probationary county corrections officers and
for optional advanced and specialized law enforcement or
county corrections training. These reimbursements may
include the costs for tuition at training schools, the
salaries of trainees while in schools, and the necessary
travel and room and board expenses for each trainee. If the
appropriations under this paragraph (2) are not sufficient
to fully reimburse the participating local governmental

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agencies, the available funds shall be apportioned among
such agencies, with priority first given to repayment of
the costs of mandatory training given to law enforcement
officer or county corrections officer recruits, then to
repayment of costs of advanced or specialized training for
permanent police officers or permanent county corrections
officers;
(3) A portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
may be used to fund the "Intergovernmental Law Enforcement
Officer's In-Service Training Act", veto overridden
October 29, 1981, as now or hereafter amended, at a rate
and method to be determined by the board;
(4) A portion of the Fund also may be used by the
Illinois Department of State Police for expenses incurred
in the training of employees from any State, county or
municipal agency whose function includes enforcement of
criminal or traffic law;
(5) A portion of the Fund may be used by the Board to
fund grant-in-aid programs and services for the training of
employees from any county or municipal agency whose
functions include corrections or the enforcement of
criminal or traffic law.
(6) A portion of the Fund shall be used for expenses
incurred by the Police Training Institute at the University
of Illinois in accordance with Section 4 of the Police
Training Institute Act.

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All payments from The Traffic and Criminal Conviction
Surcharge Fund shall be made each year from moneys appropriated
for the purposes specified in this Section. No more than 50% of
any appropriation under this Act shall be spent in any city
having a population of more than 500,000. The State Comptroller
and the State Treasurer shall from time to time, at the
direction of the Governor, transfer from The Traffic and
Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund to the General Revenue Fund
in the State Treasury such amounts as the Governor determines
are in excess of the amounts required to meet the obligations
of The Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund.
(Source: P.A. 88-586, eff. 8-12-94; 89-464, eff. 6-13-96.)
Section 10. The Police Training Institute Act is amended by
changing Section 4 as follows:
(110 ILCS 370/4) (from Ch. 144, par. 63d)
Sec. 4. The sum of $30,000.00 or so much thereof as may be
necessary is appropriated to the trustees of the University of
Illinois for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this
Act. In addition, an annual sum sufficient to reimburse the
University of Illinois for one half of the cost of training
recruits in the previous year shall be appropriated from the
Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund to the Board of
Trustees of the University of Illinois for the purpose of
carrying out the provisions of this Act.

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(Source: Laws 1955, p. 1096.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.