---
type: "Bill"
title: "IL POLICE TRAINING-CORONER"
description: "Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. In a Section concerning death and homicide investigation, provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board shall conduct or approve a training program for the training of coroners. Provides that only coroners who successfully complete the program may be assigned as a lead investigator in coroner's investigations of a death or homicide, and the completion of the program must be evidenced by a certificate. Further provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board shall develop a process for waiver applications sent by a local law enforcement agency administrator (now, an agency administrator) or from a coroner's office for certain officers or coroners that qualify for a waiver. Provides that provisions concerning training in death and homicide investigations do not affect or impede the powers of the office of the coroner to investigate all deaths."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "97th"
identifier: "HB 5635"
citation: "Illinois HB 5635 (97th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2012-02-15"
last_action: "2012-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad2e4e24-464b-4ca6-be11-f634f00c5cd0"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5635&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=66105&SessionID=84&GA=97"
source_hash: "4fee1a5b4822fc1052fcadeb0d42af3d666eabd3984e037436521951969eed9e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-il"]
---

# Illinois HB 5635 (97th) — IL POLICE TRAINING-CORONER

Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. In a Section concerning death and homicide investigation, provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board shall conduct or approve a training program for the training of coroners. Provides that only coroners who successfully complete the program may be assigned as a lead investigator in coroner's investigations of a death or homicide, and the completion of the program must be evidenced by a certificate. Further provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board shall develop a process for waiver applications sent by a local law enforcement agency administrator (now, an agency administrator) or from a coroner's office for certain officers or coroners that qualify for a waiver. Provides that provisions concerning training in death and homicide investigations do not affect or impede the powers of the office of the coroner to investigate all deaths.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09700HB5635&GA=97&SessionId=84&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=66105&DocNum=5635&GAID=11&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09700HB5635eng&GA=97&SessionId=84&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=66105&DocNum=5635&GAID=11&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09700HB5635enr&GA=97&SessionId=84&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=66105&DocNum=5635&GAID=11&Session=&print=true)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **58–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dan Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Emil Jones, III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2012-02-15** Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Dan Brady `filing`
- **2012-02-15** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-02-15** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2012-02-23** Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Jim Sacia
- **2012-02-23** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dan Brady
- **2012-02-27** Assigned to Counties & Townships Committee `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-08** Do Pass / Short Debate Counties & Townships Committee; 006-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2012-03-09** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2012-03-27** Remove Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dan Brady
- **2012-03-27** Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Dan Brady
- **2012-03-27** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2012-03-27** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2012-03-27** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jim Sacia
- **2012-03-28** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2012-03-29** Arrive in Senate `introduction`
- **2012-03-29** Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-03-29** Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Antonio Muñoz
- **2012-03-29** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-03-29** Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-11** Assigned to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-18** Do Pass Local Government; 007-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2012-04-18** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 19, 2012
- **2012-05-02** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2012-05-02** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 3, 2012
- **2012-05-22** Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
- **2012-05-22** Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2012-05-22** Passed Both Houses
- **2012-06-20** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2012-08-17** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2012-08-17** Effective Date January 1, 2013
- **2012-08-17** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-1009 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad2e4e24-464b-4ca6-be11-f634f00c5cd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).