Rep. Fred Crespo

Filed: 3/28/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3027

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3027 on page 1, by
3replacing line 5 with the following:
4"10-21.9, 10-22.31a, 18-12, 26-2a, and 34-18.5 as follows:";
5and
 
6on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the
7following:
 
8    "(105 ILCS 5/10-21.9)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9)
9    Sec. 10-21.9. Criminal history records checks and checks of
10the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Child
11Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.
12    (a) Certified and noncertified applicants for employment
13with a school district, except school bus driver applicants,
14are required as a condition of employment to authorize a
15fingerprint-based criminal history records check to determine
16if such applicants have been convicted of any of the enumerated

 

 

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1criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or
2have been convicted, within 7 years of the application for
3employment with the school district, of any other felony under
4the laws of this State or of any offense committed or attempted
5in any other state or against the laws of the United States
6that, if committed or attempted in this State, would have been
7punishable as a felony under the laws of this State.
8Authorization for the check shall be furnished by the applicant
9to the school district, except that if the applicant is a
10substitute teacher seeking employment in more than one school
11district, a teacher seeking concurrent part-time employment
12positions with more than one school district (as a reading
13specialist, special education teacher or otherwise), or an
14educational support personnel employee seeking employment
15positions with more than one district, any such district may
16require the applicant to furnish authorization for the check to
17the regional superintendent of the educational service region
18in which are located the school districts in which the
19applicant is seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent
20part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel
21employee. Upon receipt of this authorization, the school
22district or the appropriate regional superintendent, as the
23case may be, shall submit the applicant's name, sex, race, date
24of birth, social security number, fingerprint images, and other
25identifiers, as prescribed by the Department of State Police,
26to the Department. The regional superintendent submitting the

 

 

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1requisite information to the Department of State Police shall
2promptly notify the school districts in which the applicant is
3seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
4teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee
5that the check of the applicant has been requested. The
6Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
7Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based
8criminal history records check, records of convictions, until
9expunged, to the president of the school board for the school
10district that requested the check, or to the regional
11superintendent who requested the check. The Department shall
12charge the school district or the appropriate regional
13superintendent a fee for conducting such check, which fee shall
14be deposited in the State Police Services Fund and shall not
15exceed the cost of the inquiry; and the applicant shall not be
16charged a fee for such check by the school district or by the
17regional superintendent, except that those applicants seeking
18employment as a substitute teacher with a school district may
19be charged a fee not to exceed the cost of the inquiry. Subject
20to appropriations for these purposes, the State Superintendent
21of Education shall reimburse school districts and regional
22superintendents for fees paid to obtain criminal history
23records checks under this Section.
24    (a-5) The school district or regional superintendent shall
25further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database,
26as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law,

 

 

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1for each applicant.
2    (a-6) The school district or regional superintendent shall
3further perform a check of the Statewide Child Murderer and
4Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the
5Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Community
6Notification Law, for each applicant.
7    (b) Any information concerning the record of convictions
8obtained by the president of the school board or the regional
9superintendent shall be confidential and may only be
10transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or his
11designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if the check
12was requested by the school district, the presidents of the
13appropriate school boards if the check was requested from the
14Department of State Police by the regional superintendent, the
15State Superintendent of Education, the State Teacher
16Certification Board, any other person necessary to the decision
17of hiring the applicant for employment, or for clarification
18purposes the Department of State Police or Statewide Sex
19Offender Database, or both. A copy of the record of convictions
20obtained from the Department of State Police shall be provided
21to the applicant for employment. Upon the check of the
22Statewide Sex Offender Database, the school district or
23regional superintendent shall notify an applicant as to whether
24or not the applicant has been identified in the Database as a
25sex offender. If a check of an applicant for employment as a
26substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent

 

 

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1educational support personnel employee in more than one school
2district was requested by the regional superintendent, and the
3Department of State Police upon a check ascertains that the
4applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated
5criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) or has not been
6convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment
7with the school district, of any other felony under the laws of
8this State or of any offense committed or attempted in any
9other state or against the laws of the United States that, if
10committed or attempted in this State, would have been
11punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and so
12notifies the regional superintendent and if the regional
13superintendent upon a check ascertains that the applicant has
14not been identified in the Sex Offender Database as a sex
15offender, then the regional superintendent shall issue to the
16applicant a certificate evidencing that as of the date
17specified by the Department of State Police the applicant has
18not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
19offenses in subsection (c) or has not been convicted, within 7
20years of the application for employment with the school
21district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or
22of any offense committed or attempted in any other state or
23against the laws of the United States that, if committed or
24attempted in this State, would have been punishable as a felony
25under the laws of this State and evidencing that as of the date
26that the regional superintendent conducted a check of the

 

 

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1Statewide Sex Offender Database, the applicant has not been
2identified in the Database as a sex offender. The school board
3of any school district may rely on the certificate issued by
4any regional superintendent to that substitute teacher,
5concurrent part-time teacher, or concurrent educational
6support personnel employee or may initiate its own criminal
7history records check of the applicant through the Department
8of State Police and its own check of the Statewide Sex Offender
9Database as provided in subsection (a). Any person who releases
10any confidential information concerning any criminal
11convictions of an applicant for employment shall be guilty of a
12Class A misdemeanor, unless the release of such information is
13authorized by this Section.
14    (c) No school board shall knowingly employ a person who has
15been convicted of any offense that would subject him or her to
16certification suspension or revocation pursuant to Section
1721-23a of this Code. Further, no school board shall knowingly
18employ a person who has been found to be the perpetrator of
19sexual or physical abuse of any minor under 18 years of age
20pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court
21Act of 1987.
22    (d) No school board shall knowingly employ a person for
23whom a criminal history records check and a Statewide Sex
24Offender Database check has not been initiated.
25    (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a
26finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate issued

 

 

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1pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the School
2Code, the State Superintendent of Education may initiate
3certificate suspension and revocation proceedings as
4authorized by law.
5    (e-5) The superintendent of the employing school board
6shall, in writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education
7and the applicable regional superintendent of schools of any
8certificate holder whom he or she has reasonable cause to
9believe has committed an intentional act of abuse or neglect
10with the result of making a child an abused child or a
11neglected child, as defined in Section 3 of the Abused and
12Neglected Child Reporting Act, and that act resulted in the
13certificate holder's dismissal or resignation from the school
14district. This notification must be submitted within 30 days
15after the dismissal or resignation. The certificate holder must
16also be contemporaneously sent a copy of the notice by the
17superintendent. All correspondence, documentation, and other
18information so received by the regional superintendent of
19schools, the State Superintendent of Education, the State Board
20of Education, or the State Teacher Certification Board under
21this subsection (e-5) is confidential and must not be disclosed
22to third parties, except (i) as necessary for the State
23Superintendent of Education or his or her designee to
24investigate and prosecute pursuant to Article 21 of this Code,
25(ii) pursuant to a court order, (iii) for disclosure to the
26certificate holder or his or her representative, or (iv) as

 

 

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1otherwise provided in this Article and provided that any such
2information admitted into evidence in a hearing is exempt from
3this confidentiality and non-disclosure requirement. Except
4for an act of willful or wanton misconduct, any superintendent
5who provides notification as required in this subsection (e-5)
6shall have immunity from any liability, whether civil or
7criminal or that otherwise might result by reason of such
8action.
9    (f) After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section
10shall apply to all employees of persons or firms holding
11contracts with any school district including, but not limited
12to, food service workers, school bus drivers and other
13transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
14the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of
15criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex
16Offender Database on employees of persons or firms holding
17contracts with more than one school district and assigned to
18more than one school district, the regional superintendent of
19the educational service region in which the contracting school
20districts are located may, at the request of any such school
21district, be responsible for receiving the authorization for a
22criminal history records check prepared by each such employee
23and submitting the same to the Department of State Police and
24for conducting a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database
25and the Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against
26Youth Database for each employee. Any information concerning

 

 

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1the record of conviction and identification as a sex offender
2of any such employee obtained by the regional superintendent
3shall be promptly reported to the president of the appropriate
4school board or school boards.
5    (g) Beginning on January 1, 2012, the provisions of this
6Section shall apply to all student teachers, as defined by
7State Board of Education rule, assigned to public schools or
8nonpublic schools recognized by the State Board pursuant to
9Section 2-3.25o of this Code. Student teachers must undergo a
10Department of State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation
11fingerprint-based criminal history records check.
12Authorization to conduct the criminal history records check
13must be furnished by the student teacher to the school to which
14the student teacher is assigned. The Department of State Police
15and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall furnish, pursuant
16to a fingerprint-based criminal history records check, records
17of convictions, until expunged, to the president of the school
18board for the school district that requested the check or the
19chief administrative officer of the nonpublic school that
20requested the check. The Department of State Police shall
21charge a fee for conducting the check, which fee must be
22deposited into the State Police Services Fund and must not
23exceed the cost of the inquiry. The student teacher shall be
24required to pay all fees associated with conducting the
25criminal history records check, as well as any other
26application fees as established by rule including, but not

 

 

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1limited to, the fee established by the Department of State
2Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to process
3fingerprint-based criminal history records checks. Results of
4the check must also be furnished by the school district or
5nonpublic school to the higher education institution where the
6student teacher is enrolled. No one may begin student teaching
7until the results of the criminal history records check have
8been returned to the school district or nonpublic school. In
9order to student teach in the public schools, a person is
10required to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history
11records check and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database
12and Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth
13Database prior to participating in any field experiences in the
14public schools. Authorization for and payment of the costs of
15the checks must be furnished by the student teacher. Results of
16the checks must be furnished to the higher education
17institution where the student teacher is enrolled and the
18superintendent of the school district where the student is
19assigned.
20(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-431, eff. 8-13-09;
2196-1452, eff. 8-20-10; 96-1489, eff. 1-1-11; revised
221-4-11.)"; and
 
23on page 7, immediately below line 8, by inserting the
24following:
 

 

 

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1    "(105 ILCS 5/34-18.5)  (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5)
2    Sec. 34-18.5. Criminal history records checks and checks of
3the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Child
4Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.
5    (a) Certified and noncertified applicants for employment
6with the school district are required as a condition of
7employment to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history
8records check to determine if such applicants have been
9convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in
10subsection (c) of this Section or have been convicted, within 7
11years of the application for employment with the school
12district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or
13of any offense committed or attempted in any other state or
14against the laws of the United States that, if committed or
15attempted in this State, would have been punishable as a felony
16under the laws of this State. Authorization for the check shall
17be furnished by the applicant to the school district, except
18that if the applicant is a substitute teacher seeking
19employment in more than one school district, or a teacher
20seeking concurrent part-time employment positions with more
21than one school district (as a reading specialist, special
22education teacher or otherwise), or an educational support
23personnel employee seeking employment positions with more than
24one district, any such district may require the applicant to
25furnish authorization for the check to the regional
26superintendent of the educational service region in which are

 

 

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1located the school districts in which the applicant is seeking
2employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or
3concurrent educational support personnel employee. Upon
4receipt of this authorization, the school district or the
5appropriate regional superintendent, as the case may be, shall
6submit the applicant's name, sex, race, date of birth, social
7security number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as
8prescribed by the Department of State Police, to the
9Department. The regional superintendent submitting the
10requisite information to the Department of State Police shall
11promptly notify the school districts in which the applicant is
12seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
13teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee
14that the check of the applicant has been requested. The
15Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
16Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based
17criminal history records check, records of convictions, until
18expunged, to the president of the school board for the school
19district that requested the check, or to the regional
20superintendent who requested the check. The Department shall
21charge the school district or the appropriate regional
22superintendent a fee for conducting such check, which fee shall
23be deposited in the State Police Services Fund and shall not
24exceed the cost of the inquiry; and the applicant shall not be
25charged a fee for such check by the school district or by the
26regional superintendent. Subject to appropriations for these

 

 

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1purposes, the State Superintendent of Education shall
2reimburse the school district and regional superintendent for
3fees paid to obtain criminal history records checks under this
4Section.
5    (a-5) The school district or regional superintendent shall
6further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database,
7as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law,
8for each applicant.
9    (a-6) The school district or regional superintendent shall
10further perform a check of the Statewide Child Murderer and
11Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the
12Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Community
13Notification Law, for each applicant.
14    (b) Any information concerning the record of convictions
15obtained by the president of the board of education or the
16regional superintendent shall be confidential and may only be
17transmitted to the general superintendent of the school
18district or his designee, the appropriate regional
19superintendent if the check was requested by the board of
20education for the school district, the presidents of the
21appropriate board of education or school boards if the check
22was requested from the Department of State Police by the
23regional superintendent, the State Superintendent of
24Education, the State Teacher Certification Board or any other
25person necessary to the decision of hiring the applicant for
26employment. A copy of the record of convictions obtained from

 

 

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1the Department of State Police shall be provided to the
2applicant for employment. Upon the check of the Statewide Sex
3Offender Database, the school district or regional
4superintendent shall notify an applicant as to whether or not
5the applicant has been identified in the Database as a sex
6offender. If a check of an applicant for employment as a
7substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent
8educational support personnel employee in more than one school
9district was requested by the regional superintendent, and the
10Department of State Police upon a check ascertains that the
11applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated
12criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) or has not been
13convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment
14with the school district, of any other felony under the laws of
15this State or of any offense committed or attempted in any
16other state or against the laws of the United States that, if
17committed or attempted in this State, would have been
18punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and so
19notifies the regional superintendent and if the regional
20superintendent upon a check ascertains that the applicant has
21not been identified in the Sex Offender Database as a sex
22offender, then the regional superintendent shall issue to the
23applicant a certificate evidencing that as of the date
24specified by the Department of State Police the applicant has
25not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
26offenses in subsection (c) or has not been convicted, within 7

 

 

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1years of the application for employment with the school
2district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or
3of any offense committed or attempted in any other state or
4against the laws of the United States that, if committed or
5attempted in this State, would have been punishable as a felony
6under the laws of this State and evidencing that as of the date
7that the regional superintendent conducted a check of the
8Statewide Sex Offender Database, the applicant has not been
9identified in the Database as a sex offender. The school board
10of any school district may rely on the certificate issued by
11any regional superintendent to that substitute teacher,
12concurrent part-time teacher, or concurrent educational
13support personnel employee or may initiate its own criminal
14history records check of the applicant through the Department
15of State Police and its own check of the Statewide Sex Offender
16Database as provided in subsection (a). Any person who releases
17any confidential information concerning any criminal
18convictions of an applicant for employment shall be guilty of a
19Class A misdemeanor, unless the release of such information is
20authorized by this Section.
21    (c) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a
22person who has been convicted of any offense that would subject
23him or her to certification suspension or revocation pursuant
24to Section 21-23a of this Code. Further, the board of education
25shall not knowingly employ a person who has been found to be
26the perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under

 

 

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118 years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the
2Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
3    (d) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a
4person for whom a criminal history records check and a
5Statewide Sex Offender Database check has not been initiated.
6    (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a
7finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate issued
8pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the School
9Code, the State Superintendent of Education may initiate
10certificate suspension and revocation proceedings as
11authorized by law.
12    (e-5) The general superintendent of schools shall, in
13writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education of any
14certificate holder whom he or she has reasonable cause to
15believe has committed an intentional act of abuse or neglect
16with the result of making a child an abused child or a
17neglected child, as defined in Section 3 of the Abused and
18Neglected Child Reporting Act, and that act resulted in the
19certificate holder's dismissal or resignation from the school
20district. This notification must be submitted within 30 days
21after the dismissal or resignation. The certificate holder must
22also be contemporaneously sent a copy of the notice by the
23superintendent. All correspondence, documentation, and other
24information so received by the State Superintendent of
25Education, the State Board of Education, or the State Teacher
26Certification Board under this subsection (e-5) is

 

 

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1confidential and must not be disclosed to third parties, except
2(i) as necessary for the State Superintendent of Education or
3his or her designee to investigate and prosecute pursuant to
4Article 21 of this Code, (ii) pursuant to a court order, (iii)
5for disclosure to the certificate holder or his or her
6representative, or (iv) as otherwise provided in this Article
7and provided that any such information admitted into evidence
8in a hearing is exempt from this confidentiality and
9non-disclosure requirement. Except for an act of willful or
10wanton misconduct, any superintendent who provides
11notification as required in this subsection (e-5) shall have
12immunity from any liability, whether civil or criminal or that
13otherwise might result by reason of such action.
14    (f) After March 19, 1990, the provisions of this Section
15shall apply to all employees of persons or firms holding
16contracts with any school district including, but not limited
17to, food service workers, school bus drivers and other
18transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
19the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of
20criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex
21Offender Database on employees of persons or firms holding
22contracts with more than one school district and assigned to
23more than one school district, the regional superintendent of
24the educational service region in which the contracting school
25districts are located may, at the request of any such school
26district, be responsible for receiving the authorization for a

 

 

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1criminal history records check prepared by each such employee
2and submitting the same to the Department of State Police and
3for conducting a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database
4and the Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against
5Youth Database for each employee. Any information concerning
6the record of conviction and identification as a sex offender
7of any such employee obtained by the regional superintendent
8shall be promptly reported to the president of the appropriate
9school board or school boards.
10    (g) Beginning on January 1, 2012, the provisions of this
11Section shall apply to all student teachers, as defined by
12State Board of Education rule, assigned to public schools.
13Student teachers must undergo a Department of State Police and
14Federal Bureau of Investigation fingerprint-based criminal
15history records check. Authorization to conduct the criminal
16history records check must be furnished by the student teacher
17to the school to which the student teacher is assigned. The
18Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
19Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based
20criminal history records check, records of convictions, until
21expunged, to the president of the Chicago Board of Education.
22The Department of State Police shall charge a fee for
23conducting the check, which fee must be deposited into the
24State Police Services Fund and must not exceed the cost of the
25inquiry. The student teacher shall be required to pay all fees
26associated with conducting the criminal history records check,

 

 

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1as well as any other application fees as established by rule
2including, but not limited to, the fee established by the
3Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
4Investigation to process fingerprint-based criminal history
5records checks. Results of the check must also be furnished by
6the school district to the higher education institution where
7the student teacher is enrolled. No one may begin student
8teaching until the results of the criminal history records
9check have been returned to the school district. In order to
10student teach in the public schools, a person is required to
11authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history records check
12and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide
13Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database
14prior to participating in any field experiences in the public
15schools. Authorization for and payment of the costs of the
16checks must be furnished by the student teacher. Results of the
17checks must be furnished to the higher education institution
18where the student teacher is enrolled and the general
19superintendent of schools.
20(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-431, eff. 8-13-09;
2196-1452, eff. 8-20-10.)".