Bill Text: IL HB4480 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall establish statewide standards for minimum standards regarding regular mandatory annual mental health wellness checks (rather than regular mental health screenings) for probationary and permanent police officers, ensuring that counseling sessions and wellness checks (rather than screenings) remain confidential. Provides that the regular mandatory annual mental health wellness checks for probationary and permanent police officers shall be provided through the law enforcement agency's health insurance carrier at no cost to the law enforcement agency that employs the officers. Amends the Counties Code, Illinois Municipal Code, and Illinois Insurance Code making conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-18 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4480 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4480-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB4480 Introduced , by Rep. Deb Conroy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 705/6 from Ch. 85, par. 506
55 ILCS 5/5-1069.3
65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.3
215 ILCS 5/356z.53 new
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall establish statewide standards for minimum standards regarding regular mandatory annual mental health wellness checks (rather than regular mental health screenings) for probationary and permanent police officers, ensuring that counseling sessions and wellness checks (rather than screenings) remain confidential. Provides that the regular mandatory annual mental health wellness checks for probationary and permanent police officers shall be provided through the law enforcement agency's health insurance carrier at no cost to the law enforcement agency that employs the officers. Amends the Counties Code, Illinois Municipal Code, and Illinois Insurance Code making conforming changes.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
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 Section 6 as follows:
(50 ILCS 705/6) (from Ch. 85, par. 506)
Sec. 6. Powers and duties of the Board; selection and
certification of schools. The Board shall select and certify
schools within the State of Illinois for the purpose of
providing basic training for probationary law enforcement
officers, probationary county corrections officers, and court
security officers and of providing advanced or in-service
training for permanent law enforcement 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.
b. To establish appropriate mandatory minimum
standards relating to the training of probationary local
law enforcement officers or probationary county
corrections officers, and in-service training of permanent

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law enforcement 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 that no
applicant is admitted to a certified academy unless the
applicant is a person of good character and has not been
convicted of, found guilty of, or entered a plea of guilty
to, or entered a plea of nolo contendere to a felony
offense, any of the misdemeanors in Sections 11-1.50,
11-6, 11-6.5, 11-6.6, 11-9.1, 11-14, 11-14.1, 11-30, 12-2,
12-3.2, 12-3.5, 16-1, 17-1, 17-2, 26.5-1, 26.5-2, 26.5-3,
28-3, 29-1, any misdemeanor in violation of any Section of
Part E of Title III of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the
Criminal Code of 2012, or subsection (a) of Section 17-32
of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012,
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, or
any felony or misdemeanor in violation of federal law or
the law of any state that is the equivalent of any of the
offenses specified therein. The Board may appoint
investigators who shall enforce the duties conferred upon

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the Board by this Act.
For purposes of this paragraph e, a person is
considered to have been convicted of, found guilty of, or
entered a plea of guilty to, plea of nolo contendere to
regardless of whether the adjudication of guilt or
sentence is withheld or not entered thereon. This includes
sentences of supervision, conditional discharge, or first
offender probation, or any similar disposition provided
for by law.
f. To establish statewide standards for minimum
standards regarding regular mandatory annual mental health
wellness checks screenings for probationary and permanent
police officers, ensuring that counseling sessions and
wellness checks screenings remain confidential. The
regular mandatory annual mental health wellness checks for
probationary and permanent police officers shall be
provided through the law enforcement agency's health
insurance carrier at no cost to the law enforcement agency
that employs the officers.
g. To review and ensure all law enforcement officers
remain in compliance with this Act, and any administrative
rules adopted under this Act.
h. To suspend any certificate for a definite period,
limit or restrict any certificate, or revoke any
certificate.
i. The Board and the Panel shall have power to secure

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by its subpoena and bring before it any person or entity in
this State and to take testimony either orally or by
deposition or both with the same fees and mileage and in
the same manner as prescribed by law in judicial
proceedings in civil cases in circuit courts of this
State. The Board and the Panel shall also have the power to
subpoena the production of documents, papers, files,
books, documents, and records, whether in physical or
electronic form, in support of the charges and for
defense, and in connection with a hearing or
investigation.
j. The Executive Director, the administrative law
judge designated by the Executive Director, and each
member of the Board and the Panel shall have the power to
administer oaths to witnesses at any hearing that the
Board is authorized to conduct under this Act and any
other oaths required or authorized to be administered by
the Board under this Act.
k. In case of the neglect or refusal of any person to
obey a subpoena issued by the Board and the Panel, any
circuit court, upon application of the Board and the
Panel, through the Illinois Attorney General, may order
such person to appear before the Board and the Panel give
testimony or produce evidence, and any failure to obey
such order is punishable by the court as a contempt
thereof. This order may be served by personal delivery, by

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email, or by mail to the address of record or email address
of record.
l. The Board shall have the power to administer state
certification examinations. Any and all records related to
these examinations, including, but not limited to, test
questions, test formats, digital files, answer responses,
answer keys, and scoring information shall be exempt from
disclosure.
(Source: P.A. 101-187, eff. 1-1-20; 101-652, Article 10,
Section 10-143, eff. 7-1-21; 101-652, Article 25, Section
25-40, eff. 1-1-22; 102-687, eff. 12-17-21.)
Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by changing
Section 5-1069.3 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/5-1069.3)
Sec. 5-1069.3. Required health benefits. If a county,
including a home rule county, is a self-insurer for purposes
of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the
coverage shall include coverage for the post-mastectomy care
benefits required to be covered by a policy of accident and
health insurance under Section 356t and the coverage required
under Sections 356g, 356g.5, 356g.5-1, 356q, 356u, 356w, 356x,
356z.6, 356z.8, 356z.9, 356z.10, 356z.11, 356z.12, 356z.13,
356z.14, 356z.15, 356z.22, 356z.25, 356z.26, 356z.29,
356z.30a, 356z.32, 356z.33, 356z.36, 356z.40, 356z.41,

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356z.45, 356z.46, 356z.47, 356z.48, 356z.51, and 356z.53 and
356z.43 of the Illinois Insurance Code. The coverage shall
comply with Sections 155.22a, 355b, 356z.19, and 370c of the
Illinois Insurance Code. The Department of Insurance shall
enforce the requirements of this Section. The requirement that
health benefits be covered as provided in this Section is an
exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and
limitation under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the
Illinois Constitution. A home rule county to which this
Section applies must comply with every provision of this
Section.
Rulemaking authority to implement Public Act 95-1045, if
any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance
with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on
Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted, for
whatever reason, is unauthorized.
(Source: P.A. 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 101-281, eff. 1-1-20;
101-393, eff. 1-1-20; 101-461, eff. 1-1-20; 101-625, eff.
1-1-21; 102-30, eff. 1-1-22; 102-103, eff. 1-1-22; 102-203,
eff. 1-1-22; 102-306, eff. 1-1-22; 102-443, eff. 1-1-22;
102-642, eff. 1-1-22; 102-665, eff. 10-8-21; revised
10-26-21.)
Section 15. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 10-4-2.3 as follows:

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(65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.3)
Sec. 10-4-2.3. Required health benefits. If a
municipality, including a home rule municipality, is a
self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance
coverage for its employees, the coverage shall include
coverage for the post-mastectomy care benefits required to be
covered by a policy of accident and health insurance under
Section 356t and the coverage required under Sections 356g,
356g.5, 356g.5-1, 356q, 356u, 356w, 356x, 356z.6, 356z.8,
356z.9, 356z.10, 356z.11, 356z.12, 356z.13, 356z.14, 356z.15,
356z.22, 356z.25, 356z.26, 356z.29, 356z.30a, 356z.32,
356z.33, 356z.36, 356z.40, 356z.41, 356z.45, 356z.46, 356z.47,
356z.48, 356z.51, and 356z.53 and 356z.43 of the Illinois
Insurance Code. The coverage shall comply with Sections
155.22a, 355b, 356z.19, and 370c of the Illinois Insurance
Code. The Department of Insurance shall enforce the
requirements of this Section. The requirement that health
benefits be covered as provided in this is an exclusive power
and function of the State and is a denial and limitation under
Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois
Constitution. A home rule municipality to which this Section
applies must comply with every provision of this Section.
Rulemaking authority to implement Public Act 95-1045, if
any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance
with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure

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Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on
Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted, for
whatever reason, is unauthorized.
(Source: P.A. 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 101-281, eff. 1-1-20;
101-393, eff. 1-1-20; 101-461, eff. 1-1-20; 101-625, eff.
1-1-21; 102-30, eff. 1-1-22; 102-103, eff. 1-1-22; 102-203,
eff. 1-1-22; 102-306, eff. 1-1-22; 102-443, eff. 1-1-22;
102-642, eff. 1-1-22; 102-665, eff. 10-8-21; revised
10-26-21.)
Section 20. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
adding Section 356z.53 as follows:
(215 ILCS 5/356z.53 new)
Sec. 356z.53. Coverage for annual mental health wellness
checks for probationary and permanent police officers. A group
or individual policy of accident and health insurance (or a
managed care plan) that is amended, delivered, issued, or
renewed on or after January 1, 2023 shall provide coverage for
annual mental health wellness checks for probationary and
permanent police officers. A policy subject to this Section
shall not impose a deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or any
other cost-sharing requirement on the coverage provided and
provide the coverage at no additional cost to the law
enforcement agency that employs the officers.