Full Text of HB2240 94th General Assembly
HB2240ham001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Deborah L. Graham
Filed: 4/11/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2240
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2240 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 |
| Emergency Shelter Workers Criminal Background Check Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: | 7 |
| "Department" means the Department of State Police. | 8 |
| "Homeless person" means any person who has a nontraditional | 9 |
| residence, including but not limited to, a shelter, day | 10 |
| shelter, park bench, street corner, or space under a bridge. | 11 |
| "Overnight emergency shelter" means a facility that | 12 |
| provides emergency sleeping accommodations for 12 or fewer | 13 |
| hours, at least one meal, and supportive services to homeless | 14 |
| persons. | 15 |
| "Transitional shelter" means a facility that provides | 16 |
| shelter, food, and supportive services for up to 24 months to | 17 |
| homeless persons. | 18 |
| "Youth emergency shelter" has the meaning ascribed to it in | 19 |
| Section 2.21 of the Child Care Act of 1969. | 20 |
| Section 10. Emergency shelter worker criminal background | 21 |
| check. After the effective date of this
Act, an overnight | 22 |
| emergency shelter or transitional shelter shall require an | 23 |
| employee, volunteer, prospective employee, or prospective |
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| volunteer of the overnight emergency shelter or transitional | 2 |
| shelter and a youth emergency shelter shall require a volunteer | 3 |
| or prospective volunteer of the youth emergency shelter to | 4 |
| submit to a criminal
background check conducted by the | 5 |
| Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
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| Investigation as
part
of the requirements for employment or | 7 |
| volunteer work at the shelter. If the employee, volunteer, | 8 |
| prospective employee, or prospective volunteer's criminal | 9 |
| background
check
indicates criminal conviction, the employee, | 10 |
| volunteer, prospective employee, or prospective volunteer must | 11 |
| further submit to a
fingerprint-based criminal background | 12 |
| check.
The employee's, volunteer's, prospective employee's, or | 13 |
| prospective volunteer's name, sex, race, date of birth, and | 14 |
| social security number
shall be forwarded to the Department of | 15 |
| State Police to be searched against the
Illinois criminal | 16 |
| history records database in the form and manner
prescribed by | 17 |
| the Department of State Police. The Department of State Police | 18 |
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charge a fee for conducting the search, which shall be | 19 |
| deposited in the State
Police Services Fund and shall not | 20 |
| exceed the cost of the inquiry. Each employee, volunteer, | 21 |
| prospective employee, or prospective volunteer requiring a | 22 |
| fingerprint based search
shall submit his or her fingerprints | 23 |
| to the Department of State Police in the form and manner | 24 |
| prescribed by the Department.
These fingerprints shall be | 25 |
| checked against the fingerprint records now and
hereafter filed
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| with the Department of State Police and
Federal Bureau of | 27 |
| Investigation criminal history records
databases. The | 28 |
| Department of State Police shall charge a fee to the owner of | 29 |
| the shelter for
conducting the criminal history records check, | 30 |
| which shall be deposited in the
State Police Services Fund and | 31 |
| shall not exceed the actual cost of the records
check. The | 32 |
| Department shall adopt rules
to
implement this Section.
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| Section 15. Penalty. A person, group of persons, |
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| association, or corporation that violates this Act is guilty of | 2 |
| a Class A misdemeanor.".
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