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                                     LRB093 05561 RLC 16144 a

 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 563

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  563  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT in relation to sex offenders."; and

 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:

 7        "Section   5.   The  Sex  Offender  and  Child   Murderer
 8    Community Notification Law is amended by changing Section 115
 9    as follows:

10        (730 ILCS 152/115)
11        Sec. 115.  Sex offender database.
12        (a)  The  Department  of State Police shall establish and
13    maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for the purpose of
14    identifying  sex  offenders  and  making   that   information
15    available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of
16    this  Law.   The  Database  shall  be  created  from  the Law
17    Enforcement Agencies Data System  (LEADS)  established  under
18    Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act
19    of  1984.   The  Department of State Police shall examine its
20    LEADS database for persons registered as sex offenders  under
21    the  Sex  Offender  Registration Act and shall identify those
 
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 1    who are sex offenders and  shall  add  all  the  information,
 2    including photographs if available, on those sex offenders to
 3    the Statewide Sex Offender Database.
 4        (a-5)  The  Department  of  State  Police  shall  develop
 5    computer  software  that will compare the residence locations
 6    of  each  registered  sex  offender  with  the  locations  of
 7    schools, as defined in Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of
 8    1961, to enable  the  Department  or  other  law  enforcement
 9    agencies and the public to ascertain whether any sex offender
10    may  be residing within 500 feet of a school building or real
11    property comprising any school that persons under the age  of
12    18  attend in violation of subsection (b-5) of Section 11-9.3
13    of the Criminal Code of  1961.   This  information  shall  be
14    accessible  to  the  public  on  the  Internet  by means of a
15    hyperlink  labeled  "Sex  Offender   Residence   and   School
16    Locations" on the Department's World Wide Web home page.  The
17    Department   must   update   this  information  as  it  deems
18    necessary.
19        (b)  The  Department  of  State  Police  must  make   the
20    information  contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database
21    accessible on the Internet by means of  a  hyperlink  labeled
22    "Sex Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web
23    home  page.  The  Department of State Police must update that
24    information as it deems necessary.
25        The Department of State Police may require that a  person
26    who  seeks  access  to  the  sex  offender information submit
27    biographical information  about  himself  or  herself  before
28    permitting  access  to  the  sex  offender  information.  The
29    Department of State  Police  may  limit  access  to  the  sex
30    offender  information  to information about sex offenders who
31    reside within a specified geographic area in proximity to the
32    address  of  the  person  seeking  that   information.    The
33    Department   of   State   Police  must  promulgate  rules  in
34    accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act  to
 
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 1    implement  this  subsection  (b) and those rules must include
 2    procedures to ensure that the information in the database  is
 3    accurate.
 4    (Source: P.A. 90-193, eff. 7-24-97; 91-224, eff. 7-1-00.)

 5        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 6    becoming law.".