Bill Text: IL HB4941 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides for a veteran's and educational preference for appointments to offices, positions, and places of employment in the police department of non-home rule municipalities that do not have a civil service commission or board of fire and police commissioners in the municipality. Requirements for the veteran's and educational preference include a specified associate degree, successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Training Course, and specified military or naval service of the United States. Provides for an employment preference for persons who have participated in a municipality's police explorer or cadet program. Provides that the preference points awarded under these provisions are not cumulative. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4941 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4941-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4941 Introduced , by Rep. Thomas M. Bennett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/11-1-10.5 new
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides for a veteran's and educational preference for appointments to offices, positions, and places of employment in the police department of non-home rule municipalities that do not have a civil service commission or board of fire and police commissioners in the municipality. Requirements for the veteran's and educational preference include a specified associate degree, successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Training Course, and specified military or navel service of the United States. Provides for an employment preference for persons who have participated in a municipality's police explorer or cadet program. Provides that the preference points awarded under these provisions are not cumulative. Effective immediately.
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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 Municipal Code is amended by adding
Section 11-1-10.5 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-1-10.5 new)
Sec. 11-1-10.5. Veteran's and educational preference;
police explorer and cadet program preference.
(a) This Section applies to a non-home rule municipality
which has established a police department not subject to
Division 1 or Division 2.1 of Article 10 of this Code.
(b) Individuals meeting the following requirements shall
be preferred for appointments to offices, positions, and places
of employment in the police department of the municipality:
(1) persons who have successfully obtained an
associate degree in the field of law enforcement, criminal
justice, fire service, or emergency medical services, or a
bachelor's degree from an accredited college or
university;
(2) persons who have been awarded a certificate
attesting to the successful completion of the Minimum
Standards Basic Law Enforcement Training Course as
provided in the Illinois Police Training Act and are

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currently serving as a law enforcement officer on a
part-time or full-time basis within the State of Illinois;
and
(3) persons who were engaged in the active military or
naval service of the United States for a period of at least
one year and who were honorably discharged from active
military or naval service of the United States, or who are
now or may hereafter be on inactive or reserve duty in the
military or naval service (not including, however, in the
case of offices, positions, and places of employment in the
police department, persons who were convicted by
court-martial of disobedience of orders, where such
disobedience consisted in the refusal to perform military
service on the ground of religious or conscientious
objections against war).
As used in this Section, if a person has been deployed,
then "active duty military or naval service of the United
States" includes training and service school attendance, as
defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(d), which is ordered pursuant to 10
U.S.C. 12301(d).
(c) Persons who have participated in a municipality's
police explorer or cadet program may be preferred for
appointments to offices, positions, and places of employment in
municipal police departments.
(d) The preference points awarded under this Section are
not cumulative.

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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.