Illinois Senate Bill 2870

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SB 2870
Short Description:  ST POLICE-RADIO OPERABILITY
Senate Sponsors: Sen. John M. Sullivan-M. Maggie Crotty
House Sponsors: Rep. Susana A Mendoza-Michael P. McAuliffe

Synopsis As Introduced
     Amends the State Police Radio Act. Requires that the Director of State Police, or his or her designee, serve as chairman of 2 public safety radio interoperability entities, the Illinois Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee and the STARCOM21 Oversight Committee. Specifies the minimum voting membership of those committees and authorizes the Director to increase the membership of the committees. Effective immediately.

Senate Floor Amendment No. 1
     Adds the Director of the Secretary of State Police or his or her designee as a member of the State Interoperability Executive Committee.

 

Please email your concerns or questions to our MABAS Radio Committee Co-Chair, who is point-man on this bill:

 

Chief Paul Maplethorpe (chief@roundlakefire.org)

 

MABAS needs to be fully represented on both of the entities named in this bill, with assurances that MABAS is represented in all decisions regarding radio interoperability, and all issues involving STARCOM21. Please make your opinions known to our Co-Chairmen.

 

 

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois

represented in the General Assembly:

 

Section 5. The State Police Radio Act is amended by adding Section 10 as follows:

 

(20 ILCS 2615/10 new)

 

Sec. 10. Public safety radio interoperability. Upon their establishment and thereafter, the Director of State Police, or his or her designee, shall serve as the chairman of the Illinois Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (SEIC) and as the chairman of the STARCOM21 Oversight Committee. The Director, as chairman, may increase the size and makeup of the voting membership of each committee when deemed necessary for improved public safety radio interoperability, but the voting membership of each committee must represent public safety users (police, fire, or EMS) and must, at a minimum, include the representatives specified in this Section.

 

The STARCOM21 Oversight Committee must comprise public safety users accessing the system. The SEIC shall have at a minimum one representative from each of the following: the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association, the Rural Fire Protection Association, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, the Illinois Sheriffs' Association, the Illinois State Police, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Public Health, and the Secretary of State Police (which representative shall be the Director of the

Secretary of State Police or his or her designee).

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