HB2645 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 10629 RLJ 20801 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB2645

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Rep. Dennis M. Reboletti

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

50 ILCS 705/10.12 new

Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that, if a person (i) attends training at the Law Enforcement Training Standards Board equivalent to training offered to persons being trained to serve on a municipal police force, (ii) serves as a police officer for an Illinois forest preserve district, and (iii) transfers to an Illinois municipal police force, then the person shall qualify to serve as a municipal police officer on the same basis as a trained municipal police officer. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by adding Section 10.12 as follows:

(50 ILCS 705/10.12 new)

Sec. 10.12. Municipal police qualifications. If a person (i) attends training at the Law Enforcement Training Standards Board equivalent to training offered to persons being trained to serve on an Illinois municipal police force, (ii) serves as a police officer for an Illinois forest preserve district created pursuant to the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act or the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act, and (iii) transfers to an Illinois municipal police force, then the person shall qualify to serve as a municipal police officer on the same basis as if the person had served as a trained municipal police officer.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.