Public Act 096-1044
 
HB5411 EnrolledLRB096 16405 MJR 31672 b


  
    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Medical School Matriculant Criminal History 
Records Check Act is amended  by changing Sections 10 and 15 as 
follows:
 
    (110 ILCS 57/10)

    Sec. 10. Criminal history records check for matriculants.
 
    (a) A public medical school located in Illinois
  must 
conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's 
Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must

require that each matriculant submit to a fingerprint-based 
criminal history records check for violent felony  convictions,


conducted by the Department of State Police and the  Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, as part of the medical school  
admissions process. The medical school shall forward  the name, 
sex, race, date of birth, social security number, and 
fingerprints  of each of its matriculants to the Department of 
State Police to  be searched against the fingerprint records
now 
and hereafter filed in the Department of State Police and

Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history records

databases. The fingerprints of each matriculant must be 
submitted in the form and manner  prescribed by the Department 
of State Police. The Department of State Police shall furnish,

pursuant to positive identification, records of a 
matriculant's
violent felony convictions to the medical school 
that
requested the criminal history records check. Compliance 
with the criminal history record checks required by this 
subsection (a) may also be accomplished through the use of a 
private entity that checks criminal history records for violent 
felony convictions. 

    (b) A private  medical school located in Illinois
  must 
conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's 
Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must  
require that each matriculant submit to an Illinois Uniform 
Conviction Information Act  fingerprint-based, criminal history 
records check for violent felony  convictions, conducted by the 
Department of State Police, as part of the medical school  
admissions process. The  medical school shall forward  the name, 
sex, race, date of birth, social security number, and 
fingerprints  of each of its matriculants to the Department of 
State Police to  be searched against the fingerprint records
now 
and hereafter filed in the Department of State Police criminal 
history records
database. The fingerprints of each matriculant 
must be submitted in the form and manner  prescribed by the 
Department of State Police. The Department of State Police 
shall furnish,
pursuant to positive identification, records of 
a matriculant's
violent felony convictions to the medical 
school that
requested the criminal history records check.

Compliance with the criminal history record checks required by 
this subsection (b) may also be accomplished through the use of 
a private entity that checks criminal history records for 
violent felony convictions.
(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05; 94-837, eff. 6-6-06.)
 
    (110 ILCS 57/15)

    Sec. 15. Fees. The Department of State Police shall  charge 
each requesting medical school a fee for conducting the  
criminal history records check under Section 10 of this Act, 
which shall be deposited in the  State Police Services Fund and 
shall not exceed the cost of the  inquiry. Each requesting 
medical school is solely responsible  for payment of this fee to 
the Department of State Police. Each requesting medical school 
is solely responsible for payment of any fees associated with 
the use of a private entity that checks criminal history 
records for violent felony convictions. Each  medical school may 
impose its own fee upon a matriculant to cover the cost of the 
criminal history records check at  the time the matriculant 
submits to the criminal history records  check.


(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05.)
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.