101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB2982

 

Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Swanson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/10-21.9  from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9
105 ILCS 5/34-18.5  from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5

    Amends the School Code. With regard to criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, provides that if a criminal history records check or check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database is performed by a regional superintendent for an applicant seeking employment as a substitute teacher with a school district, the regional superintendent may disclose to the State Board of Education whether the applicant has been issued a certificate based on those checks. Provides that if the State Board receives information on an applicant, then it must indicate in the Educator Licensure Information System for a 90-day period that the applicant has been issued or has not been issued a certificate. Provides that a school district seeking to employ the substitute teacher may use the information in the Educator Licensure Information System rather than initiating its own criminal history records check or check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database. Makes other changes concerning the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
510-21.9 and 34-18.5 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/10-21.9)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9)
7    Sec. 10-21.9. Criminal history records checks and checks of
8the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and
9Violent Offender Against Youth Database.
10    (a) Certified and noncertified applicants for employment
11with a school district, except school bus driver applicants,
12are required as a condition of employment to authorize a
13fingerprint-based criminal history records check to determine
14if such applicants have been convicted of any of the enumerated
15criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or
16have been convicted, within 7 years of the application for
17employment with the school district, of any other felony under
18the laws of this State or of any offense committed or attempted
19in any other state or against the laws of the United States
20that, if committed or attempted in this State, would have been
21punishable as a felony under the laws of this State.
22Authorization for the check shall be furnished by the applicant
23to the school district, except that if the applicant is a

 

 

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1substitute teacher seeking employment in more than one school
2district, a teacher seeking concurrent part-time employment
3positions with more than one school district (as a reading
4specialist, special education teacher or otherwise), or an
5educational support personnel employee seeking employment
6positions with more than one district, any such district may
7require the applicant to furnish authorization for the check to
8the regional superintendent of the educational service region
9in which are located the school districts in which the
10applicant is seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent
11part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel
12employee. Upon receipt of this authorization, the school
13district or the appropriate regional superintendent, as the
14case may be, shall submit the applicant's name, sex, race, date
15of birth, social security number, fingerprint images, and other
16identifiers, as prescribed by the Department of State Police,
17to the Department. The regional superintendent submitting the
18requisite information to the Department of State Police shall
19promptly notify the school districts in which the applicant is
20seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
21teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee
22that the check of the applicant has been requested. The
23Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
24Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based
25criminal history records check, records of convictions,
26forever and hereinafter, until expunged, to the president of

 

 

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1the school board for the school district that requested the
2check, or to the regional superintendent who requested the
3check. The Department shall charge the school district or the
4appropriate regional superintendent a fee for conducting such
5check, which fee shall be deposited in the State Police
6Services Fund and shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry; and
7the applicant shall not be charged a fee for such check by the
8school district or by the regional superintendent, except that
9those applicants seeking employment as a substitute teacher
10with a school district may be charged a fee not to exceed the
11cost of the inquiry. Subject to appropriations for these
12purposes, the State Superintendent of Education shall
13reimburse school districts and regional superintendents for
14fees paid to obtain criminal history records checks under this
15Section.
16    (a-5) The school district or regional superintendent shall
17further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database,
18as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law,
19for each applicant.
20    (a-6) The school district or regional superintendent shall
21further perform a check of the Statewide Murderer and Violent
22Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the Murderer
23and Violent Offender Against Youth Community Notification Law,
24for each applicant.
25    (b) Any information concerning the record of convictions
26obtained by the president of the school board or the regional

 

 

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1superintendent shall be confidential and may only be
2transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or his
3designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if the check
4was requested by the school district, the presidents of the
5appropriate school boards if the check was requested from the
6Department of State Police by the regional superintendent, the
7State Board of Education and a school district as authorized
8under subsection (b-5), the State Superintendent of Education,
9the State Teacher Certification Board, any other person
10necessary to the decision of hiring the applicant for
11employment, or for clarification purposes the Department of
12State Police or Statewide Sex Offender Database, or both. A
13copy of the record of convictions obtained from the Department
14of State Police shall be provided to the applicant for
15employment. Upon the check of the Statewide Sex Offender
16Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against
17Youth Database, the school district or regional superintendent
18shall notify an applicant as to whether or not the applicant
19has been identified in the Database as a sex offender. If a
20check of an applicant for employment as a substitute or
21concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent educational support
22personnel employee in more than one school district was
23requested by the regional superintendent, and the Department of
24State Police upon a check ascertains that the applicant has not
25been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
26offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or has not been

 

 

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1convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment
2with the school district, of any other felony under the laws of
3this State or of any offense committed or attempted in any
4other state or against the laws of the United States that, if
5committed or attempted in this State, would have been
6punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and so
7notifies the regional superintendent and if the regional
8superintendent upon a check ascertains that the applicant has
9not been identified in the Sex Offender Database or Statewide
10Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database as a sex
11offender, then the regional superintendent shall issue to the
12applicant a certificate evidencing that as of the date
13specified by the Department of State Police the applicant has
14not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
15offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or has not been
16convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment
17with the school district, of any other felony under the laws of
18this State or of any offense committed or attempted in any
19other state or against the laws of the United States that, if
20committed or attempted in this State, would have been
21punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and
22evidencing that as of the date that the regional superintendent
23conducted a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or
24Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth
25Database, the applicant has not been identified in the Database
26as a sex offender. The school board of any school district may

 

 

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1rely on the certificate issued by any regional superintendent
2to that substitute teacher, concurrent part-time teacher, or
3concurrent educational support personnel employee or may
4initiate its own criminal history records check of the
5applicant through the Department of State Police and its own
6check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide
7Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database as
8provided in this Section subsection (a). Any unauthorized
9release of confidential information may be a violation of
10Section 7 of the Criminal Identification Act.
11    (b-5) If a criminal history records check or check of the
12Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and
13Violent Offender Against Youth Database is performed by a
14regional superintendent for an applicant seeking employment as
15a substitute teacher with a school district, the regional
16superintendent may disclose to the State Board of Education
17whether the applicant has been issued a certificate under
18subsection (b) based on those checks. If the State Board
19receives information on an applicant under this subsection,
20then it must indicate in the Educator Licensure Information
21System for a 90-day period that the applicant has been issued
22or has not been issued a certificate. Notwithstanding
23subsection (b), a school district seeking to employ the
24substitute teacher may use the information in the Educator
25Licensure Information System rather than initiating its own
26criminal history records check or check of the Statewide Sex

 

 

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1Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender
2Against Youth Database under this Section.
3    (c) No school board shall knowingly employ a person who has
4been convicted of any offense that would subject him or her to
5license suspension or revocation pursuant to Section 21B-80 of
6this Code. Further, no school board shall knowingly employ a
7person who has been found to be the perpetrator of sexual or
8physical abuse of any minor under 18 years of age pursuant to
9proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
10    (d) No school board shall knowingly employ a person for
11whom a criminal history records check and a Statewide Sex
12Offender Database check has not been initiated.
13    (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a
14finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate issued
15pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the School
16Code, the State Superintendent of Education may initiate
17certificate suspension and revocation proceedings as
18authorized by law.
19    (e-5) The superintendent of the employing school board
20shall, in writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education
21and the applicable regional superintendent of schools of any
22certificate holder whom he or she has reasonable cause to
23believe has committed an intentional act of abuse or neglect
24with the result of making a child an abused child or a
25neglected child, as defined in Section 3 of the Abused and
26Neglected Child Reporting Act, and that act resulted in the

 

 

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1certificate holder's dismissal or resignation from the school
2district. This notification must be submitted within 30 days
3after the dismissal or resignation. The certificate holder must
4also be contemporaneously sent a copy of the notice by the
5superintendent. All correspondence, documentation, and other
6information so received by the regional superintendent of
7schools, the State Superintendent of Education, the State Board
8of Education, or the State Teacher Certification Board under
9this subsection (e-5) is confidential and must not be disclosed
10to third parties, except (i) as necessary for the State
11Superintendent of Education or his or her designee to
12investigate and prosecute pursuant to Article 21 of this Code,
13(ii) pursuant to a court order, (iii) for disclosure to the
14certificate holder or his or her representative, or (iv) as
15otherwise provided in this Article and provided that any such
16information admitted into evidence in a hearing is exempt from
17this confidentiality and non-disclosure requirement. Except
18for an act of willful or wanton misconduct, any superintendent
19who provides notification as required in this subsection (e-5)
20shall have immunity from any liability, whether civil or
21criminal or that otherwise might result by reason of such
22action.
23    (f) After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section
24shall apply to all employees of persons or firms holding
25contracts with any school district including, but not limited
26to, food service workers, school bus drivers and other

 

 

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1transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
2the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of
3criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex
4Offender Database on employees of persons or firms holding
5contracts with more than one school district and assigned to
6more than one school district, the regional superintendent of
7the educational service region in which the contracting school
8districts are located may, at the request of any such school
9district, be responsible for receiving the authorization for a
10criminal history records check prepared by each such employee
11and submitting the same to the Department of State Police and
12for conducting a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database
13for each employee. Any information concerning the record of
14conviction and identification as a sex offender of any such
15employee obtained by the regional superintendent shall be
16promptly reported to the president of the appropriate school
17board or school boards.
18    (f-5) Upon request of a school or school district, any
19information obtained by a school district pursuant to
20subsection (f) of this Section within the last year must be
21made available to the requesting school or school district.
22    (g) Prior to the commencement of any student teaching
23experience or required internship (which is referred to as
24student teaching in this Section) in the public schools, a
25student teacher is required to authorize a fingerprint-based
26criminal history records check. Authorization for and payment

 

 

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1of the costs of the check must be furnished by the student
2teacher to the school district where the student teaching is to
3be completed. Upon receipt of this authorization and payment,
4the school district shall submit the student teacher's name,
5sex, race, date of birth, social security number, fingerprint
6images, and other identifiers, as prescribed by the Department
7of State Police, to the Department of State Police. The
8Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
9Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based
10criminal history records check, records of convictions,
11forever and hereinafter, until expunged, to the president of
12the school board for the school district that requested the
13check. The Department shall charge the school district a fee
14for conducting the check, which fee must not exceed the cost of
15the inquiry and must be deposited into the State Police
16Services Fund. The school district shall further perform a
17check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, as authorized by
18the Sex Offender Community Notification Law, and of the
19Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth
20Database, as authorized by the Murderer and Violent Offender
21Against Youth Registration Act, for each student teacher. No
22school board may knowingly allow a person to student teach for
23whom a criminal history records check, a Statewide Sex Offender
24Database check, and a Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender
25Against Youth Database check have not been completed and
26reviewed by the district.

 

 

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1    A copy of the record of convictions obtained from the
2Department of State Police must be provided to the student
3teacher. Any information concerning the record of convictions
4obtained by the president of the school board is confidential
5and may only be transmitted to the superintendent of the school
6district or his or her designee, the State Superintendent of
7Education, the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board,
8or, for clarification purposes, the Department of State Police
9or the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer
10and Violent Offender Against Youth Database. Any unauthorized
11release of confidential information may be a violation of
12Section 7 of the Criminal Identification Act.
13    No school board may knowingly allow a person to student
14teach who has been convicted of any offense that would subject
15him or her to license suspension or revocation pursuant to
16Section 21B-80 of this Code or who has been found to be the
17perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of a minor under 18
18years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the
19Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
20    (h) (Blank).
21(Source: P.A. 99-21, eff. 1-1-16; 99-667, eff. 7-29-16.)
 
22    (105 ILCS 5/34-18.5)  (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5)
23    Sec. 34-18.5. Criminal history records checks and checks of
24the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and
25Violent Offender Against Youth Database.

 

 

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1    (a) Certified and noncertified applicants for employment
2with the school district are required as a condition of
3employment to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history
4records check to determine if such applicants have been
5convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in
6subsection (c) of this Section or have been convicted, within 7
7years of the application for employment with the school
8district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or
9of any offense committed or attempted in any other state or
10against the laws of the United States that, if committed or
11attempted in this State, would have been punishable as a felony
12under the laws of this State. Authorization for the check shall
13be furnished by the applicant to the school district, except
14that if the applicant is a substitute teacher seeking
15employment in more than one school district, or a teacher
16seeking concurrent part-time employment positions with more
17than one school district (as a reading specialist, special
18education teacher or otherwise), or an educational support
19personnel employee seeking employment positions with more than
20one district, any such district may require the applicant to
21furnish authorization for the check to the regional
22superintendent of the educational service region in which are
23located the school districts in which the applicant is seeking
24employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or
25concurrent educational support personnel employee. Upon
26receipt of this authorization, the school district or the

 

 

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1appropriate regional superintendent, as the case may be, shall
2submit the applicant's name, sex, race, date of birth, social
3security number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as
4prescribed by the Department of State Police, to the
5Department. The regional superintendent submitting the
6requisite information to the Department of State Police shall
7promptly notify the school districts in which the applicant is
8seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
9teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee
10that the check of the applicant has been requested. The
11Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
12Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based
13criminal history records check, records of convictions,
14forever and hereinafter, until expunged, to the president of
15the school board for the school district that requested the
16check, or to the regional superintendent who requested the
17check. The Department shall charge the school district or the
18appropriate regional superintendent a fee for conducting such
19check, which fee shall be deposited in the State Police
20Services Fund and shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry; and
21the applicant shall not be charged a fee for such check by the
22school district or by the regional superintendent. Subject to
23appropriations for these purposes, the State Superintendent of
24Education shall reimburse the school district and regional
25superintendent for fees paid to obtain criminal history records
26checks under this Section.

 

 

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1    (a-5) The school district or regional superintendent shall
2further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database,
3as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law,
4for each applicant.
5    (a-6) The school district or regional superintendent shall
6further perform a check of the Statewide Murderer and Violent
7Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the Murderer
8and Violent Offender Against Youth Community Notification Law,
9for each applicant.
10    (b) Any information concerning the record of convictions
11obtained by the president of the board of education or the
12regional superintendent shall be confidential and may only be
13transmitted to the general superintendent of the school
14district or his designee, the appropriate regional
15superintendent if the check was requested by the board of
16education for the school district, the presidents of the
17appropriate board of education or school boards if the check
18was requested from the Department of State Police by the
19regional superintendent, the State Board of Education and the
20school district as authorized under subsection (b-5), the State
21Superintendent of Education, the State Teacher Certification
22Board or any other person necessary to the decision of hiring
23the applicant for employment. A copy of the record of
24convictions obtained from the Department of State Police shall
25be provided to the applicant for employment. Upon the check of
26the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and

 

 

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1Violent Offender Against Youth Database, the school district or
2regional superintendent shall notify an applicant as to whether
3or not the applicant has been identified in the Database as a
4sex offender. If a check of an applicant for employment as a
5substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent
6educational support personnel employee in more than one school
7district was requested by the regional superintendent, and the
8Department of State Police upon a check ascertains that the
9applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated
10criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or
11has not been convicted, within 7 years of the application for
12employment with the school district, of any other felony under
13the laws of this State or of any offense committed or attempted
14in any other state or against the laws of the United States
15that, if committed or attempted in this State, would have been
16punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and so
17notifies the regional superintendent and if the regional
18superintendent upon a check ascertains that the applicant has
19not been identified in the Sex Offender Database or Statewide
20Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database as a sex
21offender, then the regional superintendent shall issue to the
22applicant a certificate evidencing that as of the date
23specified by the Department of State Police the applicant has
24not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
25offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or has not been
26convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment

 

 

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1with the school district, of any other felony under the laws of
2this State or of any offense committed or attempted in any
3other state or against the laws of the United States that, if
4committed or attempted in this State, would have been
5punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and
6evidencing that as of the date that the regional superintendent
7conducted a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or
8Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth
9Database, the applicant has not been identified in the Database
10as a sex offender. The school board of any school district may
11rely on the certificate issued by any regional superintendent
12to that substitute teacher, concurrent part-time teacher, or
13concurrent educational support personnel employee or may
14initiate its own criminal history records check of the
15applicant through the Department of State Police and its own
16check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide
17Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database as
18provided in this Section subsection (a). Any unauthorized
19release of confidential information may be a violation of
20Section 7 of the Criminal Identification Act.
21    (b-5) If a criminal history records check or check of the
22Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and
23Violent Offender Against Youth Database is performed by a
24regional superintendent for an applicant seeking employment as
25a substitute teacher with the school district, the regional
26superintendent may disclose to the State Board of Education

 

 

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1whether the applicant has been issued a certificate under
2subsection (b) based on those checks. If the State Board
3receives information on an applicant under this subsection,
4then it must indicate in the Educator Licensure Information
5System for a 90-day period that the applicant has been issued
6or has not been issued a certificate. Notwithstanding
7subsection (b), the school district may use the information in
8the Educator Licensure Information System rather than
9initiating its own criminal history records check or check of
10the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and
11Violent Offender Against Youth Database under this Section.
12    (c) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a
13person who has been convicted of any offense that would subject
14him or her to license suspension or revocation pursuant to
15Section 21B-80 of this Code. Further, the board of education
16shall not knowingly employ a person who has been found to be
17the perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under
1818 years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the
19Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
20    (d) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a
21person for whom a criminal history records check and a
22Statewide Sex Offender Database check has not been initiated.
23    (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a
24finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate issued
25pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the School
26Code, the State Superintendent of Education may initiate

 

 

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1certificate suspension and revocation proceedings as
2authorized by law.
3    (e-5) The general superintendent of schools shall, in
4writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education of any
5certificate holder whom he or she has reasonable cause to
6believe has committed an intentional act of abuse or neglect
7with the result of making a child an abused child or a
8neglected child, as defined in Section 3 of the Abused and
9Neglected Child Reporting Act, and that act resulted in the
10certificate holder's dismissal or resignation from the school
11district. This notification must be submitted within 30 days
12after the dismissal or resignation. The certificate holder must
13also be contemporaneously sent a copy of the notice by the
14superintendent. All correspondence, documentation, and other
15information so received by the State Superintendent of
16Education, the State Board of Education, or the State Teacher
17Certification Board under this subsection (e-5) is
18confidential and must not be disclosed to third parties, except
19(i) as necessary for the State Superintendent of Education or
20his or her designee to investigate and prosecute pursuant to
21Article 21 of this Code, (ii) pursuant to a court order, (iii)
22for disclosure to the certificate holder or his or her
23representative, or (iv) as otherwise provided in this Article
24and provided that any such information admitted into evidence
25in a hearing is exempt from this confidentiality and
26non-disclosure requirement. Except for an act of willful or

 

 

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1wanton misconduct, any superintendent who provides
2notification as required in this subsection (e-5) shall have
3immunity from any liability, whether civil or criminal or that
4otherwise might result by reason of such action.
5    (f) After March 19, 1990, the provisions of this Section
6shall apply to all employees of persons or firms holding
7contracts with any school district including, but not limited
8to, food service workers, school bus drivers and other
9transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
10the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of
11criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex
12Offender Database on employees of persons or firms holding
13contracts with more than one school district and assigned to
14more than one school district, the regional superintendent of
15the educational service region in which the contracting school
16districts are located may, at the request of any such school
17district, be responsible for receiving the authorization for a
18criminal history records check prepared by each such employee
19and submitting the same to the Department of State Police and
20for conducting a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database
21for each employee. Any information concerning the record of
22conviction and identification as a sex offender of any such
23employee obtained by the regional superintendent shall be
24promptly reported to the president of the appropriate school
25board or school boards.
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1information obtained by the school district pursuant to
2subsection (f) of this Section within the last year must be
3made available to the requesting school or school district.
4    (g) Prior to the commencement of any student teaching
5experience or required internship (which is referred to as
6student teaching in this Section) in the public schools, a
7student teacher is required to authorize a fingerprint-based
8criminal history records check. Authorization for and payment
9of the costs of the check must be furnished by the student
10teacher to the school district. Upon receipt of this
11authorization and payment, the school district shall submit the
12student teacher's name, sex, race, date of birth, social
13security number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as
14prescribed by the Department of State Police, to the Department
15of State Police. The Department of State Police and the Federal
16Bureau of Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a
17fingerprint-based criminal history records check, records of
18convictions, forever and hereinafter, until expunged, to the
19president of the board. The Department shall charge the school
20district a fee for conducting the check, which fee must not
21exceed the cost of the inquiry and must be deposited into the
22State Police Services Fund. The school district shall further
23perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, as
24authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law, and
25of the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth
26Database, as authorized by the Murderer and Violent Offender

 

 

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1Against Youth Registration Act, for each student teacher. The
2board may not knowingly allow a person to student teach for
3whom a criminal history records check, a Statewide Sex Offender
4Database check, and a Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender
5Against Youth Database check have not been completed and
6reviewed by the district.
7    A copy of the record of convictions obtained from the
8Department of State Police must be provided to the student
9teacher. Any information concerning the record of convictions
10obtained by the president of the board is confidential and may
11only be transmitted to the general superintendent of schools or
12his or her designee, the State Superintendent of Education, the
13State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, or, for
14clarification purposes, the Department of State Police or the
15Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and
16Violent Offender Against Youth Database. Any unauthorized
17release of confidential information may be a violation of
18Section 7 of the Criminal Identification Act.
19    The board may not knowingly allow a person to student teach
20who has been convicted of any offense that would subject him or
21her to license suspension or revocation pursuant to Section
2221B-80 of this Code or who has been found to be the perpetrator
23of sexual or physical abuse of a minor under 18 years of age
24pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court
25Act of 1987.
26    (h) (Blank).

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 99-21, eff. 1-1-16; 99-667, eff. 7-29-16.)
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3becoming law.