Public Act 0837 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB0622 Enrolled LRB094 04352 RCE 34381 b

Public Act 094-0837

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.

Effective Date: 6/6/2006