Neil Anderson

Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall establish minimum training standards for tactical emergency medical services professionals. In establishing the minimum training standards, the Board shall consider recommendations made by the Illinois State Police and the Department of Public Health. Provides that the Board may amend the standards as needed to respond to technological changes affecting law enforcement or tactical emergency medical services, additional recommendations made by the Illinois State Police and the Department of Public Health, or other conditions affecting the public interest in maintaining training standards of a proper professional character. Provides that no person may be certified as a tactical emergency medical services professional, except on a temporary or probationary basis, unless the person has satisfactorily met the standards established under these provisions and has been certified by the Board as being qualified to be a tactical emergency medical services professional. Provides that no person may be certified as a tactical emergency medical services professional without the prior written approval of the sheriff or chief of police for the jurisdiction in which the tactical emergency medical services professional is authorized to carry out his or her duties. Provides that the sheriff or chief of police must have authority and responsibility over the team on which he or she is approving the tactical emergency medical services professional to go armed with a firearm. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to exempt tactical emergency medical services professionals from the unlawful possession of weapons and aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon statutes. Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code to make conforming changes.