Rep. Lou Lang
Filed: 10/21/2013
 
 

 

 

 
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1
AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1955




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1955, AS AMENDED, 
3with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 
42, as follows:
 
5on page 1, line 6, after "85,", by inserting "95,"; and
 
6on page 24, line 22, by replacing "3" with "2"; and
 
7on page 28, immediately below line 21, by inserting the 
8following:


 
9    "(410 ILCS 130/95)
10    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)

11    Sec. 95. Background checks. 
12    (a)   The Department of Agriculture through the Department of 
13State Police shall conduct a fingerprint-based criminal 
14background check of the prospective cultivation center agents. 
 
 
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1Each
prospective cultivation center agent shall submit his
or 
2her fingerprints to the Department of State Police in the
form 
3and manner prescribed by the Department of State Police.
These 
4fingerprints shall be checked against the fingerprint
records 
5filed in the Department of State Police and Federal
Bureau of 
6Investigation criminal history records databases. The 
7Department of
State Police shall furnish, pursuant to positive

8identification, all Illinois conviction information to the 
9Department of Agriculture.  The Department of State Police shall 
10be reimbursed for the cost of the background check by the 
11Department of Agriculture. In order to carry out this 
12provision, each person applying as a cultivation center agent 
13shall submit a full set of fingerprints to the Department of 
14Agriculture for the purpose of obtaining a State and federal 
15criminal records check.  The Department of Agriculture may 
16exchange this data with the Department of State Police and the 
17Federal Bureau of Investigation without disclosing that the 
18records check is related to this Act.  The Department of 
19Agriculture shall destroy each set of fingerprints after the 
20criminal records check is complete.


21    (b)   When applying for the initial permit, the background 
22checks for the principal officer, board members, and registered 
23agents shall be completed prior to submitting the application 
24to the Department of Agriculture.


25(Source: P.A. 98-122, eff. 1-1-14.)"; and
 
 
 
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1on page 34, by replacing lines 11 through 25 with the 
2following:
3"Regulation shall conduct a fingerprint-based criminal 
4background check of the prospective
dispensing organization 
5agents in order to carry out this
provision. Each
prospective 
6dispensing organization agent shall submit his
or her 
7fingerprints to the Department of State Police in the
form and 
8manner prescribed by the Department of State Police.
These 
9fingerprints shall be checked against the fingerprint
records 
10filed in the Department of State Police and Federal
Bureau of 
11Investigation criminal history records databases. The 
12Department of
State Police shall furnish, pursuant to positive

13identification, all Illinois conviction information to the 
14Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation. The 
15Department of State Police shall be reimbursed
for the cost of 
16the background check by the Department of
Financial and 
17Professional Regulation. Each person applying as
a dispensing 
18organization agent shall submit a full set of
fingerprints to 
19the Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation for the 
20purpose of obtaining a state and federal
criminal records 
21check. The Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation 
22may exchange this data with the
Department of State Police and 
23the Federal Bureau of
Investigation without disclosing that the 
24records check is
related to this Act. The Department of 
25Financial and
Professional Regulation shall destroy each set of 
26fingerprints
after the criminal records check is completed.".