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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 |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the |
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| Emergency Shelter Workers Criminal Background Check Act.
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| Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: |
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| "Department" means the Department of State Police. |
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| "Homeless person" means any person who has a nontraditional |
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| residence, including but not limited to, a shelter, day |
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| shelter, park bench, street corner, or space under a bridge. |
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| "Overnight emergency shelter" means a facility that |
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| provides emergency sleeping accommodations for 12 or fewer |
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| hours, at least one meal, and supportive services to homeless |
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| persons. |
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| "Transitional shelter" means a facility that provides |
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| shelter, food, and supportive services for up to 24 months to |
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| homeless persons. |
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| "Youth emergency shelter" has the meaning ascribed to it in |
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| Section 2.21 of the Child Care Act of 1969.
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| Section 10. Emergency shelter worker criminal background |
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| check. After the effective date of this
Act, an overnight |
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| emergency shelter or transitional shelter shall require an |
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| employee, volunteer, prospective employee, or prospective |
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| volunteer of the overnight emergency shelter or transitional |
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| shelter and a youth emergency shelter shall require a volunteer |
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| or prospective volunteer of the youth emergency shelter to |
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| submit to a criminal
background check conducted by the |
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| Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
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| Investigation as
part
of the requirements for employment or |
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| volunteer work at the shelter. If the employee, volunteer, |
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| prospective employee, or prospective volunteer's criminal |
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| background
check
indicates criminal conviction, the employee, |
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| volunteer, prospective employee, or prospective volunteer must |
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| further submit to a
fingerprint-based criminal background |
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| check.
The employee's, volunteer's, prospective employee's, or |
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| prospective volunteer's name, sex, race, date of birth, and |
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| social security number
shall be forwarded to the Department of |
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| State Police to be searched against the
Illinois criminal |
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| history records database in the form and manner
prescribed by |
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| the Department of State Police. The Department of State Police |
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| shall
charge a fee for conducting the search, which shall be |
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| deposited in the State
Police Services Fund and shall not |
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| exceed the cost of the inquiry. Each employee, volunteer, |
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| prospective employee, or prospective volunteer requiring a |
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| fingerprint based search
shall submit his or her fingerprints |
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| to the Department of State Police in the form and manner |
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| prescribed by the Department.
These fingerprints shall be |
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| checked against the fingerprint records now and
hereafter filed
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| with the Department of State Police and
Federal Bureau of |
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| Investigation criminal history records
databases. The |
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| Department of State Police shall charge a fee to the owner of |
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| the shelter for
conducting the criminal history records check, |
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| which shall be deposited in the
State Police Services Fund and |
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| shall not exceed the actual cost of the records
check. The |
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| Department shall adopt rules
to
implement this Section.
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| Section 15. Penalty. A person, group of persons, |