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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Medical School Matriculant Criminal History | ||||||
| 5 | Records Check Act is amended by changing Sections 10 and 15 as | ||||||
| 6 | follows: | ||||||
| 7 | (110 ILCS 57/10)
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| 8 | Sec. 10. Criminal history records check for matriculants.
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| 9 | (a) A public medical school located in Illinois
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| 10 | conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's | ||||||
| 11 | Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must
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| 12 | require that each matriculant submit to a fingerprint-based | ||||||
| 13 | criminal history records check for violent felony convictions,
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| 14 | conducted by the Department of State Police and the Federal | ||||||
| 15 | Bureau of Investigation, as part of the medical school | ||||||
| 16 | admissions process. The medical school shall forward the name, | ||||||
| 17 | sex, race, date of birth, social security number, and | ||||||
| 18 | fingerprints of each of its matriculants to the Department of | ||||||
| 19 | State Police to be searched against the fingerprint records
now | ||||||
| 20 | and hereafter filed in the Department of State Police and
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| 21 | Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history records
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| 22 | databases. The fingerprints of each matriculant must be | ||||||
| 23 | submitted in the form and manner prescribed by the Department | ||||||
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| 1 | of State Police. The Department of State Police shall furnish,
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| 2 | pursuant to positive identification, records of a | ||||||
| 3 | matriculant's
violent felony convictions to the medical school | ||||||
| 4 | that
requested the criminal history records check. Compliance | ||||||
| 5 | with the criminal history record checks required by this | ||||||
| 6 | subsection (a) may also be accomplished through the use of a | ||||||
| 7 | private entity that checks criminal history records for violent | ||||||
| 8 | felony convictions.
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| 9 | (b) A private medical school located in Illinois
must | ||||||
| 10 | conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's | ||||||
| 11 | Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must | ||||||
| 12 | require that each matriculant submit to an Illinois Uniform | ||||||
| 13 | Conviction Information Act fingerprint-based, criminal history | ||||||
| 14 | records check for violent felony convictions, conducted by the | ||||||
| 15 | Department of State Police, as part of the medical school | ||||||
| 16 | admissions process. The medical school shall forward the name, | ||||||
| 17 | sex, race, date of birth, social security number, and | ||||||
| 18 | fingerprints of each of its matriculants to the Department of | ||||||
| 19 | State Police to be searched against the fingerprint records
now | ||||||
| 20 | and hereafter filed in the Department of State Police criminal | ||||||
| 21 | history records
database. The fingerprints of each matriculant | ||||||
| 22 | must be submitted in the form and manner prescribed by the | ||||||
| 23 | Department of State Police. The Department of State Police | ||||||
| 24 | shall furnish,
pursuant to positive identification, records of | ||||||
| 25 | a matriculant's
violent felony convictions to the medical | ||||||
| 26 | school that
requested the criminal history records check.
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| 1 | Compliance with the criminal history record checks required by | ||||||
| 2 | this subsection (b) may also be accomplished through the use of | ||||||
| 3 | a private entity that checks criminal history records for | ||||||
| 4 | violent felony convictions. | ||||||
| 5 | (Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05; 94-837, eff. 6-6-06.) | ||||||
| 6 | (110 ILCS 57/15)
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| 7 | Sec. 15. Fees. The Department of State Police shall charge | ||||||
| 8 | each requesting medical school a fee for conducting the | ||||||
| 9 | criminal history records check under Section 10 of this Act, | ||||||
| 10 | which shall be deposited in the State Police Services Fund and | ||||||
| 11 | shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry. Each requesting | ||||||
| 12 | medical school is solely responsible for payment of this fee to | ||||||
| 13 | the Department of State Police. Each requesting medical school | ||||||
| 14 | is solely responsible for payment of any fees associated with | ||||||
| 15 | the use of a private entity that checks criminal history | ||||||
| 16 | records for violent felony convictions. Each medical school may | ||||||
| 17 | impose its own fee upon a matriculant to cover the cost of the | ||||||
| 18 | criminal history records check at the time the matriculant | ||||||
| 19 | submits to the criminal history records check.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05.)
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| 21 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 22 | becoming law.
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