Bill Text: IL HB5858 | 2017-2018 | 100th 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 select and certify schools within the State for the purpose of providing advanced or in-service training for arson investigators of a full-time fire department or fire protection district. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5858 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB5858-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB5858 Introduced , by Rep. John M. Cabello SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 705/6 from Ch. 85, par. 506
50 ILCS 705/9 from Ch. 85, par. 509
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall select and certify schools within the State for the purpose of providing advanced or in-service training for arson investigators of a full-time fire department or fire protection district. Makes conforming changes. 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 Police Training Act is amended by
changing Sections 6 and 9 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 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, or arson investigators of a full-time fire department
or fire protection district, 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

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corrections officers, and in-service training of permanent
police officers or arson investigators of a full-time fire
department or fire protection district.
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 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 or the Criminal
Code of 2012, subdivision (a)(1) or (a)(2)(C) of Section
11-14.3 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. The Board may appoint
investigators who shall enforce the duties conferred upon
the Board by this Act.
(Source: P.A. 99-352, eff. 1-1-16.)

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(50 ILCS 705/9) (from Ch. 85, par. 509)
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
training, or county corrections training, or training for
arson investigators of a full-time fire department or fire
protection district; these reimbursements may include the
costs for tuition at training schools, the salaries of

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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
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;

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(6) for fiscal years 2013 through 2017 only, a portion
of the Fund also may be used by the Department of State
Police to finance any of its lawful purposes or functions;
and
(7) a portion of the Fund may be used by the Board,
subject to appropriation, to administer grants to local law
enforcement agencies for the purpose of purchasing
bulletproof vests under the Law Enforcement Officer
Bulletproof Vest Act.
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. 98-24, eff. 6-19-13; 98-674, eff. 6-30-14;
98-743, eff. 1-1-15; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-523, eff.
6-30-16.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.