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<title>Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 6004         </title>
<shortdesc>STATES ATT&amp;ASSISTANT-FIREARMS</shortdesc>
<sponsor>
<sponsorhead1>House Sponsors</sponsorhead1><sponsors>Rep. John E. Bradley</sponsors>
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<lastaction>
<statusdate>12/3/2014</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
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<reference>50 ILCS 710/1</reference><aliasreference>from Ch. 85, par. 515</aliasreference><reference>430 ILCS 66/65</reference><aliasreference></aliasreference><reference>430 ILCS 66/75</reference><aliasreference></aliasreference><SynopsisText>     Amends the Peace Officer Firearm Training Act. Includes in the definition of "peace officer" any sworn State's Attorney or authorized Assistant State's Attorney, except that any person who is deemed a peace officer solely by virtue of his or her employment as a State's Attorney or Assistant State's Attorney shall not be authorized to make arrests for offenses. Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that notwithstanding the provisions prohibiting a licensee from carrying a firearm into certain places, except those places where firearms are prohibited by federal law and property used by a nuclear energy, storage, weapons, or development site or facility regulated by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a licensee who is a State's Attorney prohibited from carrying a concealed firearm into an area of a prohibited location shall be permitted to carry a concealed firearm on or about his or her person if he or she has completed the required training to be qualified to carry a firearm as a peace officer, notwithstanding that he or she is not otherwise certified as a sworn peace officer. Exempts from the firearm training requirements, a sworn State's Attorney or Assistant State's Attorney authorized by the State's Attorney, who has completed the required training to be qualified to carry a firearm as a peace officer. Effective immediately.</SynopsisText></synopsis>
<actions>
<statusdate>2/19/2014</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Filed with the Clerk by Rep. John E. Bradley</action>
<statusdate>2/19/2014</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>First Reading</action>
<statusdate>2/19/2014</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>12/3/2014</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
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