101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5810

Introduced , by Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 705/8.1 from Ch. 85, par. 508.1 50 ILCS 705/10.25 new30 ILCS 805/8.45 new

Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that no probationary police officer beginning employment after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall receive a permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer unless he or she shall have obtained a bachelor's degree with a major or minor in social work. Provides that a law enforcement agency that offers tuition reimbursements for permanent police officers to go to school must also allow permanent police officers to request retroactively up to two years of tuition reimbursement for college or police academy tuition that was incurred before being hired as a police officer at the law enforcement agency only if the police officer qualified for financial aid while attending college or police academy. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. LRB101 21717 AWJ 72662 b FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLYHOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLYHOUSING AFFORDABILITY IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLYSTATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT MAY APPLY

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HB5810LRB101 21717 AWJ 72662 b 1 AN ACT concerning local government. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by 5changing Section 8.1 and by adding Section 10.25 as follows: 6 (50 ILCS 705/8.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 508.1) 7 Sec. 8.1. Full-time police and county corrections 8officers. 9 (a) After January 1, 1976, no person shall receive a 10permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer as defined 11in this Act nor shall any person receive, after the effective 12date of this amendatory Act of 1984, a permanent appointment as 13a county corrections officer unless that person has been 14awarded, within 6 months of his or her initial full-time 15employment, a certificate attesting to his or her successful 16completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement and 17County Correctional Training Course as prescribed by the Board; 18or has been awarded a certificate attesting to his or her 19satisfactory completion of a training program of similar 20content and number of hours and which course has been found 21acceptable by the Board under the provisions of this Act; or by 22reason of extensive prior law enforcement or county corrections 23experience the basic training requirement is determined by the

HB5810- 2 -LRB101 21717 AWJ 72662 b 1Board to be illogical and unreasonable. 2 If such training is required and not completed within the 3applicable 6 months, then the officer must forfeit his or her 4position, or the employing agency must obtain a waiver from the 5Board extending the period for compliance. Such waiver shall be 6issued only for good and justifiable reasons, and in no case 7shall extend more than 90 days beyond the initial 6 months. Any 8hiring agency that fails to train a law enforcement officer 9within this period shall be prohibited from employing this 10individual in a law enforcement capacity for one year from the 11date training was to be completed. If an agency again fails to 12train the individual a second time, the agency shall be 13permanently barred from employing this individual in a law 14enforcement capacity. 15 (a-5) No probationary police officer beginning employment 16after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st 17General Assembly shall receive a permanent appointment as a law 18enforcement officer as defined in this Act unless he or she 19shall have obtained a bachelor's degree with a major or minor 20in social work. 21 (b) No provision of this Section shall be construed to mean 22that a law enforcement officer employed by a local governmental 23agency at the time of the effective date of this amendatory 24Act, either as a probationary police officer or as a permanent 25police officer, shall require certification under the 26provisions of this Section. No provision of this Section shall

HB5810- 3 -LRB101 21717 AWJ 72662 b 1be construed to mean that a county corrections officer employed 2by a local governmental agency at the time of the effective 3date of this amendatory Act of 1984, either as a probationary 4county corrections or as a permanent county corrections 5officer, shall require certification under the provisions of 6this Section. No provision of this Section shall be construed 7to apply to certification of elected county sheriffs. 8 (c) This Section does not apply to part-time police 9officers or probationary part-time police officers. 10(Source: P.A. 101-187, eff. 1-1-20.) 11 (50 ILCS 705/10.25 new)12 Sec. 10.25. Tuition reimbursement. If a law enforcement 13agency offers tuition reimbursements for permanent police 14officers to go to school, then they must also allow permanent 15police officers to request retroactively up to two years of 16tuition reimbursement for college or police academy tuition 17that was incurred before being hired as a police officer at the 18law enforcement agency only if the police officer qualified for 19financial aid while attending college or police academy. 20 Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding 21Section 8.45 as follows: 22 (30 ILCS 805/8.45 new)23 Sec. 8.45. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8

HB5810- 4 -LRB101 21717 AWJ 72662 b 1of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the 2implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of 3the 101st General Assembly.