HB0263 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB097 05108 RLC 45153 b

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB0263

Introduced 01/25/11, by Rep. Dennis M. Reboletti

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

730 ILCS 5/3-6-3.2 new

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of State Police shall establish and maintain a Statewide First Degree Murderer Database for the purpose of identifying persons convicted of first degree murder, when the murder was committed before June 19, 1998, who have been released from a penal institution or other facility after the completion of their confinement and making that information available to the public. Provides that the information in the Database shall be the names, residence addresses, places of employment, and schools attended by these offenders, and photographs of the offenders. Provides that the Department of State Police shall require such first degree murderers to register with the Department for a period of 10 years following release.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by adding Section 3-6-3.2 as follows:

(730 ILCS 5/3-6-3.2 new)

Sec. 3-6-3.2. First degree murder committed before truth-in-sentencing; Database.

(a) The Department of State Police shall establish and maintain a Statewide First Degree Murderer Database for the purpose of identifying persons convicted of first degree murder, when the murder was committed before June 19, 1998, who have been released from a penal institution or other facility after the completion of their confinement and making that information available to the public. The Database shall be created from information obtained from the Department of Corrections and submitted to the Department of State Police. The information in the Database shall be the names, residence addresses, places of employment, and schools attended by these offenders, and photographs of the offenders.

(b) The Department of State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide First Degree Murderer Database accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "First Degree Murderer Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home page. The Department must make the information contained in the Statewide First Degree Murderer Database searchable via a mapping system which identifies first degree murderers described in subsection (a) living within 5 miles of an identified address. The Department of State Police must update that information as it deems necessary. The Department of State Police may require that a person who seeks access to the first degree murderer information submit biographical information about himself or herself before permitting access to the first degree murderer information. The Department of State Police must promulgate rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement this subsection (b) and those rules must include procedures to ensure that the information in the database is accurate.

(c) The Department of State Police shall require a person described in subsection (a) to register with the Department for a period of 10 years following release. The Department shall establish the procedures for registration.