IEMA-POLICE POWERS Senate SponsorsSen. Antonio Muņoz-Ira I. Silverstein and James F. Clayborne, Jr. 1/10/2017SenateSession Sine Die 20 ILCS 3305/10from Ch. 127, par. 1060Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Authorizes the board of commissioners in a county having a population of more than 500,000 people to establish police powers within its Office or Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and to define and prescribe certain employees hired in that Office or Department with peace officers' duties and compensation. Establishes certain training and other requirements that a person must fulfill before he or she is appointed with police powers. Provides that a person with police powers shall have the power to investigate and mitigate threats of manmade disasters, protect the county's critical infrastructure, have access to law enforcement databases, protect the county's emergency assets and personnel that get deployed upon the request of local law enforcement agencies in emergency circumstances, protect county elected officials as requested, and observe and enforce local, county, and State ordinances and laws.Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the language from the introduced bill with the following changes: Authorizes the board of commissioners in a county having a population of more than 1,000,000 (rather than 500,000) people to establish police powers within its Office or Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and to define and prescribe certain employees hired in that Office or Department with peace officers' duties and compensation. Provides that the sworn employees of the Office or Department shall not initiate independent investigations within any community without working in concert with local law enforcement. 2/19/2016SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Antonio Muņoz 2/19/2016SenateFirst Reading 2/19/2016SenateReferred to Assignments 3/8/2016SenateAssigned to Local Government 3/30/2016SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Antonio Muņoz 3/30/2016SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments 4/5/2016SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Local Government 4/6/2016SenatePostponed - Local Government 4/6/2016SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Local Government 4/8/2016SenateRule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 22, 2016 4/14/2016SenatePostponed - Local Government 4/14/2016SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Local Government 4/19/2016SenateWaive Posting Notice 4/20/2016SenatePostponed - Local Government 4/20/2016SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Local Government 4/20/2016SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein 4/20/2016SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr. 4/20/2016SenateWaive Posting Notice 4/20/2016SenateRe-referred to Executive 4/20/2016SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Executive 4/20/2016SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted 4/20/2016SenateDo Pass as Amended Executive; 009-005-000 4/20/2016SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading 4/20/2016SenateSecond Reading 4/20/2016SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 21, 2016 4/22/2016SenateRule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 13, 2016 5/13/2016SenateRule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 27, 2016 5/27/2016SenateRule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2016 5/31/2016SenateRule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As December 31, 2016 7/31/2016SenatePursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments 1/10/2017SenateSession Sine Die