104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1183 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointments by the board of fire and police commissioners. LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1183 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointments by the board of fire and police commissioners. LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1183 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointments by the board of fire and police commissioners. LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b A BILL FOR HB1183LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b HB1183 LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b HB1183 LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b 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 10-2.1-9 as follows: 6 (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9) 7 Sec. 10-2.1-9. Original appointments; Preferences; 8 Limitation. 9 (a) The The board of fire and police commissioners shall 10 give preference for original appointment to persons designated 11 in Section 10-2.1-8 whose names appear on any register of 12 eligibles resulting from an examination for original entrance 13 in the classified service of the fire and police departments 14 of any municipality coming under the provisions of this 15 Division 2.1 by adding to the final grade average which they 16 receive or will receive as the result of any examination held 17 for original entrance, 5 points. The board shall also give 18 preference to persons eligible under subsection (b) as 19 provided in that subsection. The numerical result thus 20 attained shall be applied by the board of fire and police 21 commissioners in determining the position of such persons on 22 any eligibility list which has been created as the result of 23 any examination for original entrance for purposes of 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1183 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointments by the board of fire and police commissioners. LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b A BILL FOR 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9 LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b HB1183 LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b HB1183- 2 -LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b HB1183 - 2 - LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b HB1183 - 2 - LRB104 07309 RTM 17348 b 1 preference in certification and appointment from such 2 eligibility list. The board shall strike off the names of 3 candidates for original appointment after such names have been 4 on the list for more than 2 years. 5 (b) All persons who, on or after the effective date of this 6 amendatory Act of 1993, have been paid-on-call certified 7 firefighters II, paramedics, or any combination of those 8 capacities, of the municipality shall be awarded 0.5 point for 9 each year of successful service in one or more of those 10 capacities, up to a maximum of 5 points at the time of 11 examination for original appointment to the classified service 12 of the fire department. Certified firefighters III shall be 13 awarded one point per year up to a maximum of 5 points. 14 Applicants from outside the municipality who were employed as 15 full-time firefighters or firefighter-paramedics by a fire 16 protection district or another municipality for at least 2 17 years shall have the same preference as paid-on-call 18 personnel. These additional points presuppose a rating scale 19 totalling 100 points available for the eligibility list. If 20 more or fewer points are used in the rating scale for the 21 eligibility list, the points awarded under this subsection 22 shall be increased or decreased by a factor equal to the total 23 possible points available for the examination divided by 100. 24 No person entitled to additional points under this 25 subsection shall be required to claim that preference or 26 credit before an examination is held. 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