99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2976

 

Introduced 2/18/2016, by Sen. Chuck Weaver

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 705/8.2

    Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that a person who has previously served as a full-time or part-time police officer in the State may be granted additional time in which to be enrolled and accepted into a Board-approved course and to obtain his or her certificate if it is within 36 months after the initial date of hire as a probationary part-time police officer in the State. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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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 8.2 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 705/8.2)
7    Sec. 8.2. Part-time police officers.
8    (a) A person hired to serve as a part-time police officer
9must obtain from the Board a certificate (i) attesting to his
10or her successful completion of the part-time police training
11course; (ii) attesting to his or her satisfactory completion of
12a training program of similar content and number of hours that
13has been found acceptable by the Board under the provisions of
14this Act; or (iii) attesting to the Board's determination that
15the part-time police training course is unnecessary because of
16the person's extensive prior law enforcement experience. A
17person hired on or after the effective date of this amendatory
18Act of the 92nd General Assembly must obtain this certificate
19within 18 months after the initial date of hire as a
20probationary part-time police officer in the State of Illinois.
21The probationary part-time police officer must be enrolled and
22accepted into a Board-approved course within 6 months after
23active employment by any department in the State. A person

 

 

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1hired on or after January 1, 1996 and before the effective date
2of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly must obtain
3this certificate within 18 months after the date of hire. A
4person hired before January 1, 1996 must obtain this
5certificate within 24 months after the effective date of this
6amendatory Act of 1995.
7    The employing agency may seek a waiver from the Board
8extending the period for compliance. A waiver shall be issued
9only for good and justifiable reasons, and the probationary
10part-time police officer may not practice as a part-time police
11officer during the waiver period. If training is required and
12not completed within the applicable time period, as extended by
13any waiver that may be granted, then the officer must forfeit
14his or her position. A person who has previously served as a
15full-time or part-time police officer in the State may be
16granted additional time in which to be enrolled and accepted
17into a Board-approved course and to obtain his or her
18certificate if it is within 36 months after the initial date of
19hire as a probationary part-time police officer in the State.
20    (b) (Blank).
21    (c) The part-time police training course referred to in
22this Section shall be of similar content and the same number of
23hours as the courses for full-time officers and shall be
24provided by Mobile Team In-Service Training Units under the
25Intergovernmental Law Enforcement Officer's In-Service
26Training Act or by another approved program or facility in a

 

 

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1manner prescribed by the Board.
2    (d) For the purposes of this Section, the Board shall adopt
3rules defining what constitutes employment on a part-time
4basis.
5(Source: P.A. 92-533, eff. 3-14-02.)
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.