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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Sex Offender Registration Act is amended by
5changing Sections 5-10, 8, and 11 as follows:
 
6    (730 ILCS 150/5-10)
7    Sec. 5-10. Verification Nonforwardable verification
8letters. The Illinois State Police shall send mail a quarterly
9nonforwardable verification letter or an electronic
10verification letter to each registered person who has been
11adjudicated to be sexually dangerous or is a sexually violent
12person and is later released, or found to be no longer sexually
13dangerous or no longer a sexually violent person and
14discharged, beginning 90 days from the date of his or her last
15registration. To any other person registered under this
16Article, the Illinois State Police shall send mail an annual
17nonforwardable verification letter or an electronic
18verification letter, beginning one year from the date of his
19or her last registration. A person required to register under
20this Article who is sent mailed a verification letter or an
21electronic verification letter shall complete, sign, and
22return the enclosed verification form to the Illinois State
23Police postmarked or time and date stamped within 10 days

 

 

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1after the mailing date or time and date stamp of the letter. A
2person's failure to return the verification form to the
3Illinois State Police within 10 days after the mailing date of
4the letter shall be considered a violation of this Article.
5(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
 
6    (730 ILCS 150/8)  (from Ch. 38, par. 228)
7    Sec. 8. Registration and DNA submission requirements.
8    (a) Registration. Registration as required by this Article
9shall consist of a statement in writing signed by the person
10giving the information that is required by the Illinois State
11Police, which shall may include the fingerprints and may,
12subject to appropriation, include the palm prints and shall
13must include a current photograph of the person, which
14photograph shall to be updated annually. If the sex offender
15is a child sex offender as defined in Section 11-9.3 or 11-9.4
16of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, he
17or she shall sign a statement that he or she understands that
18according to Illinois law as a child sex offender he or she may
19not reside within 500 feet of a school, park, or playground.
20The offender may also not reside within 500 feet of a facility
21providing services directed exclusively toward persons under
2218 years of age unless the sex offender meets specified
23exemptions. The registration information must include whether
24the person is a sex offender as defined in this Act the Sex
25Offender Community Notification Law. Within 3 days, the

 

 

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1registering law enforcement agency shall forward any required
2information to the Illinois State Police. The registering law
3enforcement agency shall enter the information into the
4Illinois State Police Sex Offender database Law Enforcement
5Agencies Data System (LEADS) as provided in Sections 6 and 7 of
6the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984.
7    (b) DNA submission. Every person registering as a sex
8offender pursuant to this Act, regardless of the date of
9conviction or the date of initial registration who is required
10to submit specimens of blood, saliva, or tissue for DNA
11analysis as required by subsection (a) of Section 5-4-3 of the
12Unified Code of Corrections shall submit the specimens as
13required by that Section. Registered sex offenders who have
14previously submitted a DNA specimen which has been uploaded to
15the Illinois DNA database shall not be required to submit an
16additional specimen pursuant to this Section.
17(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
 
18    (730 ILCS 150/11)
19    Sec. 11. Offender Registration Fund. There is created the
20Offender Registration Fund (formerly known as the Sex Offender
21Registration Fund). Moneys in the Fund shall be used to cover
22costs incurred by the criminal justice system to administer
23this Article and the Murderer and Violent Offender Against
24Youth Registration Act, and for purposes as authorized under
25this Section. Moneys in the Fund shall be allocated pursuant

 

 

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1to Section 3 of this Act and Section 10 of the Murderer and
2Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, respectively
3The Illinois State Police shall establish and promulgate rules
4and procedures regarding the administration of this Fund.
5Fifty percent of the moneys in the Fund shall be allocated by
6the Department for sheriffs' offices and police departments.
7The remaining moneys in the Fund received under this
8amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly shall be
9allocated to the Illinois State Police for education and
10administration of the Act.
11    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to
12any other transfers that may be provided by law, on the
13effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
14Assembly, or as soon thereafter as practical, the State
15Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall
16transfer the remaining balance from the Sex Offender
17Investigation Fund to the Offender Registration Fund. Upon
18completion of the transfers, the Sex Offender Investigation
19Fund is dissolved, and any future deposits into the Sex
20Offender Investigation Fund and any outstanding obligations or
21liabilities of the Sex Offender Investigation Fund pass to the
22Offender Registration Fund.
23(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 103-34, eff. 6-9-23.)