HB6874eng 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB6874 Engrossed LRB093 18809 RLC 44544 b

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding Section 33-6 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/33-6 new)

Sec. 33-6. Hiring decertified police officer prohibited.

(a) In this Section, "part-time police officer", "full-time police officer", and "permanent police officer" have the meanings ascribed to them in Section 2 of the Illinois Police Training Act.

(b) A municipal police department or a county sheriff may not hire a person for employment in the municipal police department or county sheriff's office in any capacity if that person had been a full-time, permanent, or part-time police officer in this State or any other jurisdiction and has been decertified as a police officer by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board under Section 6.1 of the Illinois Police Training Act or has been decertified as a police officer under a similar law of another jurisdiction.

(c) Sentence. A violation of this Section by a county sheriff or municipal police chief or other police officer in charge of hiring police officers is a Class A misdemeanor.