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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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FIRST CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT
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ON HOUSE BILL 3801
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6     To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House
7 of Representatives:
8     We, the conference committee appointed to consider the
9 differences between the houses in relation to Senate Amendments
10 Nos. 1 and 2 to House Bill 3801, recommend the following:
11     (1) that the Senate recede from Senate Amendments Nos. 1
12 and 2; and
13     (2) that House Bill 3801 be amended as follows:
 
14 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
15 following:
 
16     "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
17 Medical School Matriculant Criminal History Records Check Act.
 
18     Section 5. Definitions.
19     "Matriculant" means an individual who is conditionally
20 admitted as a student to a medical school located in Illinois,
21 pending the medical school's consideration of his or her
22 criminal history records check under this Act.
23     "Sex offender" means any person who is convicted pursuant
24 to Illinois law or any substantially similar federal, Uniform
25 Code of Military Justice, sister state, or foreign country law
26 with any of the following sex offenses set forth in the
27 Criminal Code of 1961:
28         (1) Indecent solicitation of a child.
29         (2) Sexual exploitation of a child.
30         (3) Custodial sexual misconduct.
31         (4) Exploitation of a child.

 

 

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1         (5) Child pornography.
2     "Violent felony" means any of the following offenses, as
3 defined by the Criminal Code of 1961:
4         (1) First degree murder.
5         (2) Second degree murder.
6         (3) Predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.
7         (4) Aggravated criminal sexual assault.
8         (5) Criminal sexual assault.
9         (6) Aggravated arson.
10         (7) Aggravated kidnapping.
11         (8) Kidnapping.
12         (9) Aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm
13     or permanent disability or disfigurement.
 
14     Section 10.Criminal history records check for
15 matriculants. A medical school located in Illinois must require
16 that each matriculant submit to a fingerprint-based criminal
17 history records check for violent felony convictions and any
18 adjudication of the matriculant as a sex offender conducted by
19 the Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
20 Investigation as part of the medical school admissions process.
21 A medical school shall forward the name, sex, race, date of
22 birth, social security number, and fingerprints of each of its
23 matriculants to the Department of State Police to be searched
24 against the the Statewide Sex Offender Database and the
25 fingerprint records now and hereafter filed in the Department
26 of State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal
27 history records databases. The fingerprints of each
28 matriculant must be submitted in the form and manner prescribed
29 by the Department of State Police. The Department of State
30 Police shall furnish, pursuant to positive identification,
31 records of a matriculant's violent felony convictions and any
32 record of a matriculant's adjudication as a sex offender to the
33 medical school that requested the criminal history records

 

 

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1 check.
 
2     Section 15. Fees. The Department of State Police shall
3 charge each requesting medical school a fee for conducting the
4 criminal history records check under Section 10 of this Act,
5 which shall be deposited in the State Police Services Fund and
6 shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry. Each requesting
7 medical school is solely responsible for payment of this fee to
8 the Department of State Police. Each medical school may impose
9 its own fee upon a matriculant to cover the cost of the
10 criminal history records check at the time the matriculant
11 submits to the criminal history records check.
 
12     Section 20.Admissions decision. The information collected
13 under this Act as a result of the criminal history records
14 check must be considered by the requesting medical school in
15 determining whether or not to officially admit a matriculant.
16 Upon a medical school's evaluation of a matriculant's criminal
17 history records check, a matriculant who has been convicted of
18 a violent felony conviction or adjudicated a sex offender may
19 be precluded from gaining official admission to that medical
20 school; however, a violent felony conviction or an adjudication
21 as a sex offender shall not serve as an automatic bar to
22 official admission to a medical school located in Illinois.
 
23     Section 25. Civil immunity. Except for wilful or wanton
24 misconduct, no medical school acting under the provisions of
25 this Act shall be civilly liable to any matriculant for any
26 decision made pursuant to Section 20 of this Act.
 
27     Section 30. Applicability. This Act applies only to
28 matriculants who are conditionally admitted to a medical school
29 located in Illinois on or after the effective date of this Act.
 

 

 

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1     Section 90. The Department of State Police Law of the
2 Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding
3 Section 2605-327 as follows:
 
4     (20 ILCS 2605/2605-327 new)
5     Sec. 2605-327. Conviction and sex offender information for
6 medical school. Upon the request of a medical school under the
7 Medical School Matriculant Criminal History Records Check Act,
8 to ascertain whether a matriculant of the medical school has
9 been convicted of any violent felony or has been adjudicated a
10 sex offender. The Department shall furnish this information to
11 the medical school that requested the information.
12     Pursuant to the Medical School Matriculant Criminal
13 History Records Check Act, the Department shall conduct a
14 fingerprint-based criminal history records check of the
15 Statewide Sex Offender Database, the Illinois criminal history
16 records database, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
17 criminal history records database. The Department may charge
18 the requesting medical school a fee for conducting the
19 fingerprint-based criminal history records check. The fee
20 shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry and shall be deposited
21 into the State Police Services Fund.
 
22     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23 becoming law.".
 

 

 

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1     Submitted on November 3, 2005.
2
/s/ Jacqueline Y. Collins


/s/ Robin Kelly

3 Senator CollinsRepresentative Kelly
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/s/ John J. Cullerton


/s/ Deborah L. Graham

5 Senator CullertonRepresentative Graham
6
/s/ Kwame Raoul


/s/ Barbara Flynn Currie

7 Senator RaoulRepresentative Currie
8
/s/ Edward Petka


/s/ Brent Hassert

9 Senator PetkaRepresentative Hassert
10
/s/ Kirk W. Dillard


/s/ Patricia Reid Lindner

11 Senator DillardRepresentative Lindner
12 Committee for the SenateCommittee for the House