Bill Text: IL HB5809 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, in a municipality with at least one high school in a county of 175,000 or more inhabitants, the municipality shall include in its search for new hires for its police department candidates who are in or who have completed the police training academy job training program under the School Code from high schools in marginalized communities. Limits home rule powers. Amends the School Code. Makes the establishment of the police training academy job training program mandatory in school districts with a high school in a county of 175,000 or more inhabitants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-10 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5809 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5809-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5809 Introduced , by Rep. Mary E. Flowers SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/10-4-6.5 new
105 ILCS 5/22-83
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, in a municipality with at least one high school in a county of 175,000 or more inhabitants, the municipality shall include in its search for new hires for its police department candidates who are in or who have completed the police training academy job training program under the School Code from high schools in marginalized communities. Limits home rule powers. Amends the School Code. Makes the establishment of the police training academy job training program mandatory in school districts with a high school in a county of 175,000 or more inhabitants.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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 Municipal Code is amended by adding
Section 10-4-6.5 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/10-4-6.5 new)
Sec. 10-4-6.5. Police training academy job training
program. In a municipality with at least one high school in a
county of 175,000 or more inhabitants, the municipality shall
include in its search for new hires for its police department
candidates who are in or who have completed the police training
academy job training program under Section 22-83 of the School
Code from high schools in marginalized communities.
A home rule municipality may not search for candidates for
its police department in a manner inconsistent with this
Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of
Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the
concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions
exercised by the State.
Section 10. The School Code is amended by changing Section
22-83 as follows:

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(105 ILCS 5/22-83)
Sec. 22-83. Police training academy job training program.
(a) In a county of 175,000 or more inhabitants, any school
district with a high school shall may establish one or more
partnerships with a local police department, county sheriff, or
police training academy to establish a jobs training program
for high school students. The school district shall establish
its partnership or partnerships on behalf of all of the high
schools in the district; no high school shall establish a
partnership for this purpose separate from the school
district's partnership under this Section. The jobs training
program shall be open to all students, regardless of prior
academic history. However, to encourage and maintain
successful program participation and partnerships, the school
districts and their partner agencies may impose specific
program requirements.
(b) The State Board of Education shall track participation
and the success of students participating in the jobs training
program established under this Section and annually publish a
report on its website examining the program and its success.
(Source: P.A. 100-331, eff. 1-1-18.)