Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB4222

Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that the Department of State Police shall develop official information relating to the number of sexual offenders and sexual predators who are placed on supervision, probation, conditional discharge, parole, or mandatory supervised release and who are subject to electronic monitoring. Provides that the Criminal Justice Information Authority shall study the factors relating to the sentencing of sex offenders from the point of arrest through the imposition of sentencing by the sentencing court, including original charges, plea negotiations, trial dispositions, and sentences. Provides that the Department of Corrections, the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, the Department of State Police, and the State's Attorneys shall provide information deemed necessary for the study. Provides that the final report shall be presented by March 1, 2007. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person convicted of or placed on supervision for a sex offense as defined in the Sex Offender Management Board Act must wear an approved electronic monitoring device for the duration of the person's parole, mandatory supervised release, probation, conditional discharge, or supervision term if the unlawful activity involved a victim who was under 16 years of age and the person convicted of the sex offense is 18 years of age or older or if the person convicted of the sex offense is a sexual predator. Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Provides that a sexual predator who has been lawfully released from confinement or who has completed his or her term of supervision, probation, conditional discharge, parole, or mandatory supervised release, whichever is later, for at least 40 years, and who has not been arrested for a felony or misdemeanor since release may petition the circuit court for the purpose of no longer being classified as a sexual predator. Provides that it is Class 4 felony for a person who has reason to believe that a sexual predator is not complying, or has not complied, with the Act and who, with the intent to assist the sexual predator in eluding a law enforcement agency that is seeking to find the sexual predator to question the sexual predator about, or to arrest the sexual predator for, his or her noncompliance with the Act to withhold information from the law enforcement agency about the sexual predator or to conceal his or her whereabouts or to provide false information to the law enforcement agency about the sexual predator.

Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the original bill with the following changes. Further amends the Criminal Identification Act. Removes language requiring the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to study the factors relating to the sentencing of sex offenders from the point of arrest through the imposition of sentencing by the sentencing court and present a report to the General Assembly on their findings. Further amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that for a sex predator subject to electronic home monitoring under the listed Section, the Department of Corrections must use a system that actively monitors and identifies the offender's current location and timely reports or records the offender's presence and that alerts the Department of the offender's presence within a prohibited area and the offender's departure from specified geographic limitations. Further amends the Sex Offender Registration Act to remove language changing the duration of registration. Makes it a Class 3 felony (instead of a Class 4 felony) for any person, not covered by privilege under the listed Article of the Code of Civil Procedure or the Illinois Supreme Court's Rules of Professional Conduct, who has reason to believe that a sexual predator is not complying, or has not complied, with the requirements of the Article and who, with the intent to assist the sexual predator in eluding a law enforcement agency that is seeking to find the sexual predator to question the sexual predator about, or to arrest the sexual predator for noncompliance with the requirements of the Article, does any of the listed actions. Makes other changes.

Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Further amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that for a sex predator subject to electronic home monitoring under the listed Section, the Department of Corrections must use a system that actively monitors and identifies the offender's current location and timely reports or records the offender's presence and that alerts the Department of the offender's presence within a prohibited area and the offender's departure from specified geographic limitations, provided that funding is appropriated by the General Assembly for that purpose.

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