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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Medical School Matriculant Criminal History
5 Records Check Act is amended by changing Sections 10 and 15 as
6 follows:
 
7     (110 ILCS 57/10)
8     Sec. 10. Criminal history records check for matriculants.
9     (a) A public medical school located in Illinois must
10 conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's
11 Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must
12 require that each matriculant submit to a fingerprint-based
13 criminal history records check for violent felony convictions,
14 conducted by the Department of State Police and the Federal
15 Bureau of Investigation, as part of the medical school
16 admissions process. The medical school shall forward the name,
17 sex, race, date of birth, social security number, and
18 fingerprints of each of its matriculants to the Department of
19 State Police to be searched against the fingerprint records now
20 and hereafter filed in the Department of State Police and
21 Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history records
22 databases. The fingerprints of each matriculant must be
23 submitted in the form and manner prescribed by the Department

 

 

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1 of State Police. The Department of State Police shall furnish,
2 pursuant to positive identification, records of a
3 matriculant's violent felony convictions to the medical school
4 that requested the criminal history records check. Compliance
5 with the criminal history record checks required by this
6 subsection (a) may also be accomplished through the use of a
7 private entity that checks criminal history records for violent
8 felony convictions.
9     (b) A private medical school located in Illinois must
10 conduct an inquiry into the Department of State Police's
11 Statewide Sex Offender Database for each matriculant and must
12 require that each matriculant submit to an Illinois Uniform
13 Conviction Information Act fingerprint-based, criminal history
14 records check for violent felony convictions, conducted by the
15 Department of State Police, as part of the medical school
16 admissions process. The medical school shall forward the name,
17 sex, race, date of birth, social security number, and
18 fingerprints of each of its matriculants to the Department of
19 State Police to be searched against the fingerprint records now
20 and hereafter filed in the Department of State Police criminal
21 history records database. The fingerprints of each matriculant
22 must be submitted in the form and manner prescribed by the
23 Department of State Police. The Department of State Police
24 shall furnish, pursuant to positive identification, records of
25 a matriculant's violent felony convictions to the medical
26 school that requested the criminal history records check.

 

 

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1 Compliance with the criminal history record checks required by
2 this subsection (b) may also be accomplished through the use of
3 a private entity that checks criminal history records for
4 violent felony convictions.
5 (Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05; 94-837, eff. 6-6-06.)
 
6     (110 ILCS 57/15)
7     Sec. 15. Fees. The Department of State Police shall charge
8 each requesting medical school a fee for conducting the
9 criminal history records check under Section 10 of this Act,
10 which shall be deposited in the State Police Services Fund and
11 shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry. Each requesting
12 medical school is solely responsible for payment of this fee to
13 the Department of State Police. Each requesting medical school
14 is solely responsible for payment of any fees associated with
15 the use of a private entity that checks criminal history
16 records for violent felony convictions. Each medical school may
17 impose its own fee upon a matriculant to cover the cost of the
18 criminal history records check at the time the matriculant
19 submits to the criminal history records check.
20 (Source: P.A. 94-709, eff. 12-5-05.)
 
21     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22 becoming law.