97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB4146

 

Introduced 1/30/2012, by Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 705/6  from Ch. 85, par. 506
50 ILCS 705/9  from Ch. 85, par. 509
110 ILCS 370/4  from Ch. 144, par. 63d

    Amends the Illinois Police Training Act and the Police Training Institute Act. Provides that the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois shall meet and exceed all standards established by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Provides that the certification that such standards have been met and exceeded shall be made by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Provides that an annual sum sufficient to reimburse the University of Illinois for one half of the cost of training recruits in the previous year shall be appropriated from the Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Police Training Institute Act. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
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 Sections 6 and 9 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 705/6)  (from Ch. 85, par. 506)
7    Sec. 6. Selection and certification of schools. The Police
8Training Institute at the University of Illinois shall meet and
9exceed all standards established by the Board. The
10certification that such standards have been met and exceeded
11shall be made by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at
12the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Board shall
13select and certify all other schools within the State of
14Illinois for the purpose of providing basic training for
15probationary police officers, probationary county corrections
16officers, and court security officers and of providing advanced
17or in-service training for permanent police officers or
18permanent county corrections officers, which schools may be
19either publicly or privately owned and operated. In addition,
20the Board has the following power and duties:
21        a. To require local governmental units to furnish such
22    reports and information as the Board deems necessary to
23    fully implement this Act.

 

 

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1        b. To establish appropriate mandatory minimum
2    standards relating to the training of probationary local
3    law enforcement officers or probationary county
4    corrections officers.
5        c. To provide appropriate certification to those
6    probationary officers who successfully complete the
7    prescribed minimum standard basic training course.
8        d. To review and approve annual training curriculum for
9    county sheriffs.
10        e. To review and approve applicants to ensure no
11    applicant is admitted to a certified academy unless the
12    applicant is a person of good character and has not been
13    convicted of a felony offense, any of the misdemeanors in
14    Sections 11-1.50, 11-6, 11-9.1, 11-14, 11-17, 11-19, 12-2,
15    12-15, 16-1, 17-1, 17-2, 28-3, 29-1, 31-1, 31-6, 31-7,
16    32-4a, or 32-7 of the Criminal Code of 1961, subdivision
17    (a)(1) or (a)(2)(C) of Section 11-14.3 of the Criminal Code
18    of 1961, or Section 5 or 5.2 of the Cannabis Control Act,
19    or a crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of this
20    State or any other state which if committed in this State
21    would be punishable as a felony or a crime of moral
22    turpitude. The Board may appoint investigators who shall
23    enforce the duties conferred upon the Board by this Act.
24(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)
 
25    (50 ILCS 705/9)  (from Ch. 85, par. 509)

 

 

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1    Sec. 9. A special fund is hereby established in the State
2Treasury to be known as "The Traffic and Criminal Conviction
3Surcharge Fund" and shall be financed as provided in Section
49.1 of this Act and Section 5-9-1 of the "Unified Code of
5Corrections", unless the fines, costs or additional amounts
6imposed are subject to disbursement by the circuit clerk under
7Section 27.5 of the Clerks of Courts Act. Moneys in this Fund
8shall be expended as follows:
9        (1) A portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
10    may be used, as appropriated by the General Assembly, for
11    the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Law
12    Enforcement Training Standards Board;
13        (2) A portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
14    shall be appropriated for the reimbursement of local
15    governmental agencies participating in training programs
16    certified by the Board, in an amount equaling 1/2 of the
17    total sum paid by such agencies during the State's previous
18    fiscal year for mandated training for probationary police
19    officers or probationary county corrections officers and
20    for optional advanced and specialized law enforcement or
21    county corrections training. These reimbursements may
22    include the costs for tuition at training schools, the
23    salaries of trainees while in schools, and the necessary
24    travel and room and board expenses for each trainee. If the
25    appropriations under this paragraph (2) are not sufficient
26    to fully reimburse the participating local governmental

 

 

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1    agencies, the available funds shall be apportioned among
2    such agencies, with priority first given to repayment of
3    the costs of mandatory training given to law enforcement
4    officer or county corrections officer recruits, then to
5    repayment of costs of advanced or specialized training for
6    permanent police officers or permanent county corrections
7    officers;
8        (3) A portion of the total amount deposited in the Fund
9    may be used to fund the "Intergovernmental Law Enforcement
10    Officer's In-Service Training Act", veto overridden
11    October 29, 1981, as now or hereafter amended, at a rate
12    and method to be determined by the board;
13        (4) A portion of the Fund also may be used by the
14    Illinois Department of State Police for expenses incurred
15    in the training of employees from any State, county or
16    municipal agency whose function includes enforcement of
17    criminal or traffic law;
18        (5) A portion of the Fund may be used by the Board to
19    fund grant-in-aid programs and services for the training of
20    employees from any county or municipal agency whose
21    functions include corrections or the enforcement of
22    criminal or traffic law.
23        (6) A portion of the Fund shall be used for expenses
24    incurred by the Police Training Institute at the University
25    of Illinois in accordance with Section 4 of the Police
26    Training Institute Act.

 

 

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1    All payments from The Traffic and Criminal Conviction
2Surcharge Fund shall be made each year from moneys appropriated
3for the purposes specified in this Section. No more than 50% of
4any appropriation under this Act shall be spent in any city
5having a population of more than 500,000. The State Comptroller
6and the State Treasurer shall from time to time, at the
7direction of the Governor, transfer from The Traffic and
8Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund to the General Revenue Fund
9in the State Treasury such amounts as the Governor determines
10are in excess of the amounts required to meet the obligations
11of The Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund.
12(Source: P.A. 88-586, eff. 8-12-94; 89-464, eff. 6-13-96.)
 
13    Section 10. The Police Training Institute Act is amended by
14changing Section 4 as follows:
 
15    (110 ILCS 370/4)  (from Ch. 144, par. 63d)
16    Sec. 4. The sum of $30,000.00 or so much thereof as may be
17necessary is appropriated to the trustees of the University of
18Illinois for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this
19Act. In addition, an annual sum sufficient to reimburse the
20University of Illinois for one half of the cost of training
21recruits in the previous year shall be appropriated from the
22Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund to the Board of
23Trustees of the University of Illinois for the purpose of
24carrying out the provisions of this Act.

 

 

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1(Source: Laws 1955, p. 1096.)
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3becoming law.