Public Act 096-1044
 
HB5411 EnrolledLRB096 16405 MJR 31672 b

    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