Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that probationary police officers do not include lateral hires or previously certified officers reentering the profession seeking a training waiver. Modifies the composition of the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Makes changes to provisions regarding automatic decertification of full-time and part-time law enforcement officers; discretionary decertification of full-time and part-time law enforcement officers; review of final administrative decisions; decertification procedures; full-time law enforcement and county corrections officers; law enforcement compliance verification; mandatory training for a police chief and deputy police chief; and sexual assault and sexual abuse training. Removes and repeals existing provisions about in-service training and replaces the existing provisions by requiring the Board to establish a system for the development, delivery, and tracking of in-service training courses, including specific requirements of the training. Amends the Counties Code to make a conforming change. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5217 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Dave Vella [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-068	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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