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| Public Act 096-1044 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Medical School Matriculant Criminal History | ||||
Records Check Act is amended by changing Sections 10 and 15 as | ||||
follows: | ||||
(110 ILCS 57/10)
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Sec. 10. Criminal history records check for matriculants.
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(a) A public medical school located in Illinois
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conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's | ||||
Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must
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require that each matriculant submit to a fingerprint-based | ||||
criminal history records check for violent felony convictions,
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conducted by the Department of State Police and the Federal | ||||
Bureau of Investigation, 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 and
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Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history records
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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,
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pursuant to positive identification, records of a | ||
matriculant's
violent felony convictions to the medical school | ||
that
requested the criminal history records check. Compliance | ||
with the criminal history record checks required by this | ||
subsection (a) may also be accomplished through the use of a | ||
private entity that checks criminal history records for violent | ||
felony convictions.
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(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.
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Compliance with the criminal history record checks required by | ||
this subsection (b) may also be accomplished through the use of | ||
a private entity that checks criminal history records for | ||
violent felony convictions. | ||
(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05; 94-837, eff. 6-6-06.) | ||
(110 ILCS 57/15)
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Sec. 15. Fees. The Department of State Police shall charge | ||
each requesting medical school a fee for conducting the | ||
criminal history records check under Section 10 of this Act, | ||
which shall be deposited in the State Police Services Fund and | ||
shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry. Each requesting | ||
medical school is solely responsible for payment of this fee to | ||
the Department of State Police. Each requesting medical school | ||
is solely responsible for payment of any fees associated with | ||
the use of a private entity that checks criminal history | ||
records for violent felony convictions. Each medical school may | ||
impose its own fee upon a matriculant to cover the cost of the | ||
criminal history records check at the time the matriculant | ||
submits to the criminal history records check.
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(Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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