104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1295 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 20 ILCS 2605/2605-53 Amends the Illinois State Police Law. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, all 9-1-1 telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions shall be required to be trained, utilizing the most current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care guidelines, in high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR). Defines telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the purposes of the provisions. LRB104 10877 RTM 20959 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1295 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 20 ILCS 2605/2605-53 20 ILCS 2605/2605-53 Amends the Illinois State Police Law. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, all 9-1-1 telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions shall be required to be trained, utilizing the most current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care guidelines, in high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR). Defines telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the purposes of the provisions. LRB104 10877 RTM 20959 b LRB104 10877 RTM 20959 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1295 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2605/2605-53 20 ILCS 2605/2605-53
20 ILCS 2605/2605-53
Amends the Illinois State Police Law. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, all 9-1-1 telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions shall be required to be trained, utilizing the most current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care guidelines, in high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR). Defines telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the purposes of the provisions.
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1 AN ACT concerning State government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois State Police Law of the Civil
5 Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
6 2605-53 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 2605/2605-53)
8 Sec. 2605-53. 9-1-1 system; sexual assault and sexual
9 abuse.
10 (a) The Office of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator, in
11 consultation with the Office of the Attorney General and the
12 Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, shall:
13 (1) develop comprehensive guidelines for
14 evidence-based, trauma-informed, victim-centered handling
15 of sexual assault or sexual abuse calls by Public Safety
16 Answering Point telecommunicators; and
17 (2) adopt rules and minimum standards for an
18 evidence-based, trauma-informed, victim-centered training
19 curriculum for handling of sexual assault or sexual abuse
20 calls for Public Safety Answering Point telecommunicators
21 ("PSAP").
22 (a-5) Within one year after June 3, 2021 (the effective
23 date of Public Act 102-9), the Office of the Statewide 9-1-1
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1295 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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20 ILCS 2605/2605-53
Amends the Illinois State Police Law. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, all 9-1-1 telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions shall be required to be trained, utilizing the most current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care guidelines, in high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR). Defines telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the purposes of the provisions.
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1 Administrator, in consultation with the Statewide 9-1-1
2 Advisory Board, shall:
3 (1) develop comprehensive guidelines for training on
4 emergency dispatch procedures, including, but not limited
5 to, emergency medical dispatch, and the delivery of 9-1-1
6 services and professionalism for public safety
7 telecommunicators and public safety telecommunicator
8 supervisors; and
9 (2) adopt rules and minimum standards for continuing
10 education on emergency dispatch procedures, including, but
11 not limited to, emergency medical dispatch, and the
12 delivery of 9-1-1 services and professionalism for public
13 safety telecommunicators and public safety
14 telecommunicator Supervisors.
15 (a-10) The Office of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator may
16 as necessary establish by rule appropriate testing and
17 certification processes consistent with the training required
18 by this Section.
19 (a-15) Beginning January 1, 2026, all 9-1-1
20 telecommunicators who provide dispatch for emergency medical
21 conditions shall be required to be trained, utilizing the most
22 current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care
23 guidelines, in high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary
24 resuscitation (T-CPR). The instruction shall incorporate
25 recognition protocols for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests
26 (OHCA), compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
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1 instructions for callers or bystanders, and continuing
2 education.
3 (b) Training requirements:
4 (1) Newly hired PSAP telecommunicators must complete
5 the sexual assault and sexual abuse training curriculum
6 established in subsection (a) of this Section prior to
7 handling emergency calls.
8 (2) All existing PSAP telecommunicators shall complete
9 the sexual assault and sexual abuse training curriculum
10 established in subsection (a) of this Section within 2
11 years of January 1, 2017 (the effective date of Public Act
12 99-801).
13 (3) Newly hired public safety telecommunicators shall
14 complete the emergency dispatch procedures training
15 curriculum established in subsection (a-5) of this Section
16 prior to independently handling emergency calls within one
17 year of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator establishing the
18 required guidelines, rules, and standards.
19 (4) All public safety telecommunicators and public
20 safety telecommunicator supervisors who were not required
21 to complete new hire training prior to handling emergency
22 calls, must either demonstrate proficiency or complete the
23 training established in subsection (a-5) of this Section
24 within one year of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator
25 establishing the required guidelines, rules, and
26 standards.
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