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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.".