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| | 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4619 Introduced 2/5/2020, by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that before the first time a person may be summoned or directed by a peace officer or local law enforcement agency to perform the duties assigned to him or her by the peace officer or local law enforcement agency as a community policing volunteer, he or she shall receive training in civil rights, human rights, human relations, and cultural competency, including implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity from a school or course approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Provides that the community policing volunteer shall receive renewed training in the subjects described in this provision every 3 years he or she serves as a community policing volunteer. Defines "community policing volunteer". Effective immediately.
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| | HB4619 | | LRB101 19449 RLC 68921 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by |
| 5 | | adding Section 8.3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (50 ILCS 705/8.3 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 8.3. Community policing volunteer; training; |
| 8 | | anti-discrimination. |
| 9 | | (a) In this Section, "community policing volunteer" has the |
| 10 | | meaning ascribed to it in Section 2-3.5 of the Criminal Code of |
| 11 | | 2012. |
| 12 | | (b) Before the first time a person may be summoned or |
| 13 | | directed by a peace officer or local law enforcement agency to |
| 14 | | perform the duties assigned to him or her by the peace officer |
| 15 | | or local law enforcement agency as a community policing |
| 16 | | volunteer, he or she shall receive training in civil rights, |
| 17 | | human rights, human relations, and cultural competency, |
| 18 | | including implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity from |
| 19 | | a school or course approved by the Board. The community |
| 20 | | policing volunteer shall receive renewed training in the |
| 21 | | subjects described in this Section every 3 years he or she |
| 22 | | serves as a community policing volunteer.
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