Bill Text: IL SB2933 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a person is not eligible to be elected or appointed to the office of sheriff unless he or she has a certificate attesting to his or her successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Officers Training Course as prescribed by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board or a substantially similar training program of another state or the federal government. Amends the Illinois Police Training Act making a conforming change.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2933 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2933-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB2933 Introduced 2/3/2020, by Sen. Scott M. Bennett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 705/8.1 from Ch. 85, par. 508.1
55 ILCS 5/3-6001.5
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a person is not eligible to be elected or appointed to the office of sheriff unless he or she has a certificate attesting to his or her successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Officers Training Course as prescribed by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board or a substantially similar training program of another state or the federal government. Amends the Illinois Police Training Act making a conforming change.
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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 8.1 as follows:
(50 ILCS 705/8.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 508.1)
Sec. 8.1. Full-time police and county corrections
officers.
(a) After January 1, 1976, no person shall receive a
permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer as defined
in this Act nor shall any person receive, after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1984, a permanent appointment as
a county corrections officer unless that person has been
awarded, within 6 months of his or her initial full-time
employment, a certificate attesting to his or her successful
completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement and
County Correctional Training Course as prescribed by the Board;
or has been awarded a certificate attesting to his or her
satisfactory completion of a training program of similar
content and number of hours and which course has been found
acceptable by the Board under the provisions of this Act; or by
reason of extensive prior law enforcement or county corrections
experience the basic training requirement is determined by the

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Board to be illogical and unreasonable.
If such training is required and not completed within the
applicable 6 months, then the officer must forfeit his or her
position, or the employing agency must obtain a waiver from the
Board extending the period for compliance. Such waiver shall be
issued only for good and justifiable reasons, and in no case
shall extend more than 90 days beyond the initial 6 months. Any
hiring agency that fails to train a law enforcement officer
within this period shall be prohibited from employing this
individual in a law enforcement capacity for one year from the
date training was to be completed. If an agency again fails to
train the individual a second time, the agency shall be
permanently barred from employing this individual in a law
enforcement capacity.
(b) No provision of this Section shall be construed to mean
that a law enforcement officer employed by a local governmental
agency at the time of the effective date of this amendatory
Act, either as a probationary police officer or as a permanent
police officer, shall require certification under the
provisions of this Section. No provision of this Section shall
be construed to mean that a county corrections officer employed
by a local governmental agency at the time of the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1984, either as a probationary
county corrections or as a permanent county corrections
officer, shall require certification under the provisions of
this Section. No provision of this Section shall be construed

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to apply to certification of elected county sheriffs.
(c) This Section does not apply to part-time police
officers or probationary part-time police officers.
(Source: P.A. 101-187, eff. 1-1-20.)
Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by changing
Section 3-6001.5 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/3-6001.5)
Sec. 3-6001.5. Sheriff qualifications. A On or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General
Assembly, except as otherwise provided in this Section, a
person is not eligible to be elected or appointed to the office
of sheriff, unless that person meets all of the following
requirements:
(1) Is a United States citizen.
(2) Has been a resident of the county for at least one
year.
(3) Is not a convicted felon.
(4) Has a certificate attesting to his or her
successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law
Enforcement Officers Training Course as prescribed by the
Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board or a
substantially similar training program of another state or
the federal government. This paragraph does not apply to a
sheriff currently serving on the effective date of this

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amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)