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Synopsis As Introduced Creates the Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act. Provides for the registration of persons under the Act who were previously registered as sex offenders under the Sex Offender Registration Act for the offenses of kidnapping, aggravated kidnapping, unlawful restraint, aggravated unlawful restraint, first degree murder, child abduction, and forcible detention, or an attempt to commit certain of those offenses when those offenses were committed against persons under 18 years of age. Transfers information about those persons previously registered under the Sex Offender Registration Act for those offenses to the Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act. Creates the Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Fund. Provides that the Fund shall receive deposits of registration fees from violent offenders against youth. Establishes various requirements for registration and provides penalties for those persons who violate registration requirements. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes.
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the bill with these changes: (1) changes the name of the new Act to the Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, changes the name of the database to the Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, and changes the name of the new Fund to the Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Fund; (2) restores the offenses eliminated from the requirements for registration under the Sex Offender Registration Act but requires that the offenses must be sexually motivated; (3) establishes procedures for transfer from the sex offender registry of child murder and other violent offenses against youth that were not sexually motivated; and (4) restores the lifetime registration for child murderers under the Sex Offender Registration Act.
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that the Department of State Police shall commence the duties prescribed in the Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act within 12 months after the effective date of that Act. Adds an immediate effective date to the bill.
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