Bill Text: IL SB2472 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, in a police department in a municipality with a population over 1,000,000 inhabitants, police officers assigned to one of the 5 precincts with the fewest officers assigned may not be transferred or reassigned to another precinct, including temporary reassignments, unless an equal or greater number of police officers are transferred or assigned to the precinct from which the officer was transferred or reassigned to replace the leaving officer. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-16 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2472 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB2472-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB2472 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Ram Villivalam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/11-1-15 new
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, in a police department in a municipality with a population over 1,000,000 inhabitants, police officers assigned to one of the 5 precincts with the fewest officers assigned may not be transferred or reassigned to another precinct, including temporary reassignments, unless an equal or greater number of police officers are transferred or assigned to the precinct from which the officer was transferred or reassigned to replace the leaving officer. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
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 11-1-15 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-1-15 new)
Sec. 11-1-15. Transfers between precincts. In a police
department in a municipality with a population over 1,000,000
inhabitants, police officers assigned to one of the 5
precincts with the fewest officers assigned may not be
transferred or reassigned to another precinct, including
temporary reassignments, unless an equal or greater number of
police officers are transferred or assigned to the precinct
from which the officer was transferred or reassigned to
replace the leaving officer.
A home rule municipality with a population over 1,000,000
inhabitants may not regulate transfers or assignments in
police departments in a manner inconsistent with this Section.
This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6
of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent
exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised
by the State.

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