Bill Text: IL HB5826 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Police Department Nonlethal Force Policy Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police, Secretary of State Police Department, and each mass transit district police force, university police force, county sheriff's office, and municipal police department of this State shall develop a plan or strategy for the use of nonlethal force on a person suspected of committing or having committed a criminal offense or resisting arrest. The plan or strategy shall include the use of new technologies and alternatives to the use of firearms in apprehending a suspect or in protecting the officer from harm by a suspect.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-10 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5826 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5826-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5826 Introduced , by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Police Department Nonlethal Force Policy Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police, Secretary of State Police Department, and each mass transit district police force, university police force, county sheriff's office, and municipal police department of this State shall develop a plan or strategy for the use of nonlethal force on a person suspected of committing or having committed a criminal offense or resisting arrest. The plan or strategy shall include the use of new technologies and alternatives to the use of firearms in apprehending a suspect or in protecting the officer from harm by a suspect.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Police
Department Nonlethal Force Policy Act.
Section 5. Police department nonlethal force policy. The
Illinois State Police, Secretary of State Police Department,
and each mass transit district police force, university police
force, county sheriff's office, and municipal police
department of this State shall develop a plan or strategy for
the use of nonlethal force on a person suspected of committing
or having committed a criminal offense or resisting arrest. The
plan or strategy shall include the use of new technologies and
alternatives to the use of firearms in apprehending a suspect
or in protecting the officer from harm by a suspect.