Full Text of HB1127 103rd General Assembly
HB1127 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 HB1127 Introduced 1/12/2023, by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-8 | from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-8 |
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Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning veteran's and educational preference.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 10-2.1-8 as follows:
| 6 | | (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-8)
| 7 | | Sec. 10-2.1-8. Veteran's and educational preference.
| 8 | | Persons who have successfully
obtained an associate's degree | 9 | | in the
the field of law enforcement, criminal
justice, fire | 10 | | service, or emergency medical services, or a bachelor's degree
| 11 | | from an accredited college or university; persons who
have | 12 | | been awarded a certificate attesting to the successful | 13 | | completion
of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement | 14 | | Training Course as provided in
the Illinois Police Training | 15 | | Act and are currently serving as a law enforcement
officer on a | 16 | | part-time or full-time basis within the State of Illinois; and | 17 | | persons who were engaged in
the active military or naval | 18 | | service of the United States for a period of at least
one year | 19 | | and who were honorably discharged therefrom, or who are now or | 20 | | may
hereafter be on inactive or reserve duty in such military | 21 | | or naval service
(not including, however, in the case of | 22 | | offices, positions and places of
employment in the police | 23 | | department, persons who were convicted by
court-martial of |
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| 1 | | disobedience of orders, where such disobedience consisted
in | 2 | | the refusal to perform military service on the ground of | 3 | | religious or
conscientious objections against war) shall be | 4 | | preferred for appointments
to offices, positions, and places | 5 | | of employment in the fire and police
departments of the | 6 | | municipality coming under the provisions of this
Division 2.1. | 7 | | For purposes of this Section, if a person has been deployed, | 8 | | then "active duty military or naval service of the United | 9 | | States" includes training and service school attendance, as | 10 | | defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(d), which is ordered pursuant to 10 | 11 | | U.S.C. 12301(d). The preference points awarded under this | 12 | | Section shall not be
cumulative. | 13 | | This amendatory Act of 1973 does not apply to any | 14 | | municipality which is
a home rule unit. | 15 | | Persons who have participated in that municipality's | 16 | | police explorer or cadet program may be preferred, for a | 17 | | maximum of 2 points, for appointments to offices, positions, | 18 | | and places of employment in municipal police departments under | 19 | | the provisions of this Division.
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 98-231, eff. 8-9-13.)
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