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Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
Filed: 4/12/2024
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5541
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5541 by replacing |
3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following: |
4 | | "Section 5. The Sex Offender Registration Act is amended |
5 | | by changing Sections 5-10, 8, and 11 as follows: |
6 | | (730 ILCS 150/5-10) |
7 | | Sec. 5-10. Verification Nonforwardable verification |
8 | | letters. The Illinois State Police shall send mail a quarterly |
9 | | nonforwardable verification letter or an electronic |
10 | | verification letter to each registered person who has been |
11 | | adjudicated to be sexually dangerous or is a sexually violent |
12 | | person and is later released, or found to be no longer sexually |
13 | | dangerous or no longer a sexually violent person and |
14 | | discharged, beginning 90 days from the date of his or her last |
15 | | registration. To any other person registered under this |
16 | | Article, the Illinois State Police shall send mail an annual |
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1 | | nonforwardable verification letter or an electronic |
2 | | verification letter , beginning one year from the date of his |
3 | | or her last registration. A person required to register under |
4 | | this Article who is sent mailed a verification letter or an |
5 | | electronic verification letter shall complete, sign, and |
6 | | return the enclosed verification form to the Illinois State |
7 | | Police postmarked or time and date stamped within 10 days |
8 | | after the mailing date or time and date stamp of the letter. A |
9 | | person's failure to return the verification form to the |
10 | | Illinois State Police within 10 days after the mailing date of |
11 | | the letter shall be considered a violation of this Article. |
12 | | (Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.) |
13 | | (730 ILCS 150/8) (from Ch. 38, par. 228) |
14 | | Sec. 8. Registration and DNA submission requirements. |
15 | | (a) Registration. Registration as required by this Article |
16 | | shall consist of a statement in writing signed by the person |
17 | | giving the information that is required by the Illinois State |
18 | | Police, which shall may include the fingerprints and may, |
19 | | subject to appropriation, include the palm prints and shall |
20 | | must include a current photograph of the person, which |
21 | | photograph shall to be updated at each registration annually . |
22 | | If the sex offender is a child sex offender as defined in |
23 | | Section 11-9.3 or 11-9.4 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the |
24 | | Criminal Code of 2012, he or she shall sign a statement that he |
25 | | or she understands that according to Illinois law as a child |
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1 | | sex offender he or she may not reside within 500 feet of a |
2 | | school, park, or playground. The offender may also not reside |
3 | | within 500 feet of a facility providing services directed |
4 | | exclusively toward persons under 18 years of age unless the |
5 | | sex offender meets specified exemptions. The registration |
6 | | information must include whether the person is a sex offender |
7 | | as defined in this Act the Sex Offender Community Notification |
8 | | Law . Within 3 days, the registering law enforcement agency |
9 | | shall forward any required information to the Illinois State |
10 | | Police. The registering law enforcement agency shall enter the |
11 | | information into the Illinois State Police Sex Offender |
12 | | database Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) as |
13 | | provided in Sections 6 and 7 of the Intergovernmental Missing |
14 | | Child Recovery Act of 1984 . |
15 | | (b) DNA submission. Every person registering as a sex |
16 | | offender pursuant to this Act, regardless of the date of |
17 | | conviction or the date of initial registration who is required |
18 | | to submit specimens of blood, saliva, or tissue for DNA |
19 | | analysis as required by subsection (a) of Section 5-4-3 of the |
20 | | Unified Code of Corrections shall submit the specimens as |
21 | | required by that Section. Registered sex offenders who have |
22 | | previously submitted a DNA specimen which has been uploaded to |
23 | | the Illinois DNA database shall not be required to submit an |
24 | | additional specimen pursuant to this Section. |
25 | | (Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.) |
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1 | | (730 ILCS 150/11) |
2 | | Sec. 11. Offender Registration Fund. There is created the |
3 | | Offender Registration Fund (formerly known as the Sex Offender |
4 | | Registration Fund). Moneys in the Fund shall be used to cover |
5 | | costs incurred by the criminal justice system to administer |
6 | | this Article and the Murderer and Violent Offender Against |
7 | | Youth Registration Act, and for purposes as authorized under |
8 | | this Section. Moneys in the Fund shall be allocated pursuant |
9 | | to Section 3 of this Act and Section 10 of the Murderer and |
10 | | Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, respectively |
11 | | The Illinois State Police shall establish and promulgate rules |
12 | | and procedures regarding the administration of this Fund. |
13 | | Fifty percent of the moneys in the Fund shall be allocated by |
14 | | the Department for sheriffs' offices and police departments. |
15 | | The remaining moneys in the Fund received under this |
16 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly shall be |
17 | | allocated to the Illinois State Police for education and |
18 | | administration of the Act . |
19 | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to |
20 | | any other transfers that may be provided by law, on the |
21 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General |
22 | | Assembly, or as soon thereafter as practical, the State |
23 | | Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall |
24 | | transfer the remaining balance from the Sex Offender |
25 | | Investigation Fund to the Offender Registration Fund. Upon |
26 | | completion of the transfers, the Sex Offender Investigation |