Public Act 094-0837
 
SB0622 Enrolled LRB094 04352 RCE 34381 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
2605-327 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2605/2605-327)
    Sec. 2605-327. Conviction and sex offender information for
medical school. Upon the inquiry request of a medical school
under the Medical School Matriculant Criminal History Records
Check Act, to ascertain whether a matriculant of the medical
school has been convicted of any violent felony or has been
adjudicated a sex offender.
    The Department shall make sex offender information
available to the inquiring medical school through the Statewide
Sex Offender Database. Medical schools in this State must
conduct an inquiry into the Statewide Sex Offender Database on
all matriculants as part of the admissions process. furnish
this information to the medical school that requested the
information.
    Pursuant to the Medical School Matriculant Criminal
History Records Check Act, the Department shall conduct a
fingerprint-based criminal history records check of the
Statewide Sex Offender Database, the Illinois criminal history
records database, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
criminal history records database upon the request of a public
medical school. Pursuant to the Medical School Matriculant
Criminal History Records Check Act, the Department shall
conduct a fingerprint-based, Illinois Uniform Conviction
Information Act check of the Illinois criminal history records
database upon the request of a private medical school. The
Department may charge the requesting public or private medical
school a fee for conducting the fingerprint-based criminal
history records check. The fee shall not exceed the cost of the
inquiry and shall be deposited into the State Police Services
Fund.
(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05.)
 
    Section 10. The Medical School Matriculant Criminal
History Records Check Act is amended by changing Sections 10
and 25 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,
and any adjudication of the matriculant as a sex offender
conducted by the Department of State Police and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, as part of the medical school
admissions process. The A 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 Statewide Sex Offender
Database and 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 and any record of a matriculant's adjudication as a
sex offender to the medical school that requested the criminal
history records check.
    (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.
(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05.)
 
    (110 ILCS 57/25)
    Sec. 25. Civil immunity. Except for wilful or wanton
misconduct, no medical school acting under the provisions of
this Act shall be civilly liable to any matriculant for
reporting any required information to the Department of State
Police or for any decision made pursuant to Section 20 of this
Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.