Bill Text: IL HB5541 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that moneys in the Offender Registration Fund shall be allocated pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act and the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act (rather than just the Sex Offender Registration Act). Provides that the verification letters may be sent electronically. Clarifies that the registration information must include a photograph of the sex offender which shall be updated at each registration rather than annually. Makes technical changes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-24 - Referred to Assignments [HB5541 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5541-Engrossed.html

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

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

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

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