Bill Text: IL SB1449 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the State Police Act. Provides that the Department of State Police shall maintain a minimum force of 2,350 State Police Officers. Provides that the Governor, in consultation with the General Assembly and the Director of State Police, shall review every 4 years, commencing 4 years from the effective date of the amendatory Act, the minimum number of State Police Officers. Provides that the Director of State Police, in conjunction with the Department of State Police Merit Board, shall add State Police Officers to the Department as needed, in order to maintain the minimum allowable number of State Police Officers. Provides that the Director shall be responsible for the management and control of the additions of State Police Officers to the Department.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1449 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB1449-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1449
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1449 on page 1, | ||||||
| 3 | line 5, by replacing "Section 1" with "Sections 1 and 7.2"; and
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| 4 | on page 2, by inserting immediately below line 4 the following:
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| 5 | "(20 ILCS 2610/7.2) | ||||||
| 6 | Sec. 7.2. State Police Merit Board Public Safety Fund. | ||||||
| 7 | (a) A special fund in the State treasury is hereby created | ||||||
| 8 | which shall be known as the State Police Merit Board Public | ||||||
| 9 | Safety Fund. The Fund shall be used by the State Police Merit | ||||||
| 10 | Board to provide a cadet program for State Police personnel and | ||||||
| 11 | to meet all costs associated with the functions of the State | ||||||
| 12 | Police Merit Board. Notwithstanding any other law to the | ||||||
| 13 | contrary, the State Police Merit Board Public Safety Fund is | ||||||
| 14 | not subject to sweeps, administrative charge-backs, or any | ||||||
| 15 | other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that would in any way | ||||||
| 16 | transfer any amounts from the State Police Merit Board Public | ||||||
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| 1 | Safety Fund into any other fund of the State. | ||||||
| 2 | (b) The Fund may receive State appropriations, gifts, | ||||||
| 3 | grants, and federal funds and shall include earnings from the | ||||||
| 4 | investment of moneys in the Fund. | ||||||
| 5 | (c) The administration of this Fund shall be the | ||||||
| 6 | responsibility of the State Police Merit Board. The Board shall | ||||||
| 7 | establish terms and conditions for the operation of the Fund. | ||||||
| 8 | The Board shall establish and implement fiscal controls and | ||||||
| 9 | accounting periods for programs operated using the Fund. All | ||||||
| 10 | fees or moneys received by the State Treasurer under subsection | ||||||
| 11 | (n) of Section 27.6 of the Clerks of Courts Act shall be | ||||||
| 12 | deposited into the Fund. The moneys deposited in the State | ||||||
| 13 | Police Merit Board Public Safety Fund shall be appropriated to | ||||||
| 14 | the State Police Merit Board for expenses of the Board for the | ||||||
| 15 | administration and conduct of all its programs for State Police | ||||||
| 16 | personnel and for attaining the minimum force level of 2,350 | ||||||
| 17 | State Police Officers as prescribed in subsection (b) of | ||||||
| 18 | Section 1 of this Act.
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| 19 | (Source: P.A. 97-1051, eff. 1-1-13.)".
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