Public Act 1044 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB5411 Enrolled LRB096 16405 MJR 31672 b

Public Act 096-1044

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Medical School Matriculant Criminal History Records Check Act is amended by changing Sections 10 and 15 as follows:

(110 ILCS 57/10)

Sec. 10. Criminal history records check for matriculants.

(a) A public medical school located in Illinois must conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must require that each matriculant submit to a fingerprint-based criminal history records check for violent felony convictions, conducted by the Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as part of the medical school admissions process. The medical school shall forward the name, sex, race, date of birth, social security number, and fingerprints of each of its matriculants to the Department of State Police to be searched against the fingerprint records now and hereafter filed in the Department of State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history records databases. The fingerprints of each matriculant must be submitted in the form and manner prescribed by the Department of State Police. The Department of State Police shall furnish, pursuant to positive identification, records of a matriculant's violent felony convictions to the medical school that requested the criminal history records check. Compliance with the criminal history record checks required by this subsection (a) may also be accomplished through the use of a private entity that checks criminal history records for violent felony convictions.

(b) A private medical school located in Illinois must conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must require that each matriculant submit to an Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act fingerprint-based, criminal history records check for violent felony convictions, conducted by the Department of State Police, as part of the medical school admissions process. The medical school shall forward the name, sex, race, date of birth, social security number, and fingerprints of each of its matriculants to the Department of State Police to be searched against the fingerprint records now and hereafter filed in the Department of State Police criminal history records database. The fingerprints of each matriculant must be submitted in the form and manner prescribed by the Department of State Police. The Department of State Police shall furnish, pursuant to positive identification, records of a matriculant's violent felony convictions to the medical school that requested the criminal history records check. Compliance with the criminal history record checks required by this subsection (b) may also be accomplished through the use of a private entity that checks criminal history records for violent felony convictions.

(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05; 94-837, eff. 6-6-06.)

(110 ILCS 57/15)

Sec. 15. Fees. The Department of State Police shall charge each requesting medical school a fee for conducting the criminal history records check under Section 10 of this Act, which shall be deposited in the State Police Services Fund and shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry. Each requesting medical school is solely responsible for payment of this fee to the Department of State Police. Each requesting medical school is solely responsible for payment of any fees associated with the use of a private entity that checks criminal history records for violent felony convictions. Each medical school may impose its own fee upon a matriculant to cover the cost of the criminal history records check at the time the matriculant submits to the criminal history records check.

(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.

Effective Date: 7/14/2010