Bill Title: Amends the Peace Officer Firearm Training Act. Includes in the definition of "peace officer" any sworn State's Attorney or authorized Assistant State's Attorney, except that any person who is deemed a peace officer solely by virtue of his or her employment as a State's Attorney or Assistant State's Attorney shall not be authorized to make arrests for offenses. Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that notwithstanding the provisions prohibiting a licensee from carrying a firearm into certain places, except those places where firearms are prohibited by federal law and property used by a nuclear energy, storage, weapons, or development site or facility regulated by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a licensee who is a State's Attorney prohibited from carrying a concealed firearm into an area of a prohibited location shall be permitted to carry a concealed firearm on or about his or her person if he or she has completed the required training to be qualified to carry a firearm as a peace officer, notwithstanding that he or she is not otherwise certified as a sworn peace officer. Exempts from the firearm training requirements, a sworn State's Attorney or Assistant State's Attorney authorized by the State's Attorney, who has completed the required training to be qualified to carry a firearm as a peace officer. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB6004 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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