104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1921 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503 Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Adds 2 members to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board representing a statewide lodge representing law enforcement. Provides the procedures for appointing the 2 members the amendatory Act. LRB104 11888 RTM 21979 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1921 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503 50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503 Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Adds 2 members to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board representing a statewide lodge representing law enforcement. Provides the procedures for appointing the 2 members the amendatory Act. LRB104 11888 RTM 21979 b LRB104 11888 RTM 21979 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1921 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503 50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503
50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Adds 2 members to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board representing a statewide lodge representing law enforcement. Provides the procedures for appointing the 2 members the amendatory Act.
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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 Police Training Act is amended by
5 changing Section 3 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 705/3) (from Ch. 85, par. 503)
7 Sec. 3. Board; composition; appointments; tenure;
8 vacancies.
9 (a) The Board shall be composed of 20 18 members selected
10 as follows: The Attorney General of the State of Illinois, the
11 Director of the Illinois State Police, the Director of
12 Corrections, the Superintendent of the Chicago Police
13 Department, the Sheriff of Cook County, the Clerk of the
14 Circuit Court of Cook County, who shall serve as ex officio
15 members, and the following to be appointed by the Governor: 2
16 mayors or village presidents of Illinois municipalities, 2
17 Illinois county sheriffs from counties other than Cook County,
18 2 managers of Illinois municipalities, 2 chiefs of municipal
19 police departments in Illinois having no Superintendent of the
20 Police Department on the Board, 2 citizens of Illinois who
21 shall be members of an organized enforcement officers'
22 association, 2 active members of a statewide lodge
23 representing law enforcement, one active member of a statewide
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1921 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503 50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503
50 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 85, par. 503
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Adds 2 members to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board representing a statewide lodge representing law enforcement. Provides the procedures for appointing the 2 members the amendatory Act.
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1 association representing sheriffs, and one active member of a
2 statewide association representing municipal police chiefs.
3 The appointments of the Governor shall be made on the first
4 Monday of August in 1965 with 3 of the appointments to be for a
5 period of one year, 3 for 2 years, and 3 for 3 years except for
6 the 2 members added by this amendatory Act of the 104th General
7 Assembly. The 2 members added by this amendatory Act of the
8 104th General Assembly shall be appointed on the first Monday
9 in August after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
10 the 104th General Assembly with one member appointed for 2
11 years and one member appointed for 3 years. Their successors
12 shall be appointed in like manner for terms to expire the first
13 Monday of August each 3 years thereafter. All members shall
14 serve until their respective successors are appointed and
15 qualify. Vacancies shall be filled by the Governor for the
16 unexpired terms. Any ex officio member may appoint a designee
17 to the Board who shall have the same powers and immunities
18 otherwise conferred to the member of the Board, including the
19 power to vote and be counted toward quorum, so long as the
20 member is not in attendance.
21 (a-5) Within the Board is created a Review Committee. The
22 Review Committee shall review disciplinary cases in which the
23 Panel, the law enforcement officer, or the law enforcement
24 agency file for reconsideration of a decertification decision
25 made by the Board. The Review Committee shall be composed of 9
26 annually rotating members from the Board appointed by the
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1 Board Chairman. One member of the Review Committee shall be
2 designated by the Board Chairman as the Chair. The Review
3 Committee shall sit in 3 member panels composed of one member
4 representing law enforcement management, one member
5 representing members of law enforcement, and one member who is
6 not a current or former member of law enforcement.
7 (b) When a Board member may have an actual, perceived, or
8 potential conflict of interest or appearance of bias that
9 could prevent the Board member from making a fair and
10 impartial decision regarding decertification:
11 (1) The Board member shall recuse himself or herself.
12 (2) If the Board member fails to recuse himself or
13 herself, then the Board may, by a simple majority of the
14 remaining members, vote to recuse the Board member. Board
15 members who are found to have voted on a matter in which
16 they should have recused themselves may be removed from
17 the Board by the Governor.
18 A conflict of interest or appearance of bias may include,
19 but is not limited to, matters where one of the following is a
20 party to a decision on a decertification or formal complaint:
21 someone with whom the member has an employment relationship;
22 any of the following relatives: spouse, parents, children,
23 adopted children, legal wards, stepchildren, step parents,
24 step siblings, half siblings, siblings, parents-in-law,
25 siblings-in-law, children-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, and
26 nephews; a friend; or a member of a professional organization,
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