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1 AN ACT concerning criminal law.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Sex Offender Registration Act is amended by
5 changing Sections 5-10, 8, and 11 as follows:
6 (730 ILCS 150/5-10)
7 Sec. 5-10. Verification Nonforwardable verification
8 letters. The Illinois State Police shall send mail a quarterly
9 nonforwardable verification letter or an electronic
10 verification letter to each registered person who has been
11 adjudicated to be sexually dangerous or is a sexually violent
12 person and is later released, or found to be no longer sexually
13 dangerous or no longer a sexually violent person and
14 discharged, beginning 90 days from the date of his or her last
15 registration. To any other person registered under this
16 Article, the Illinois State Police shall send mail an annual
17 nonforwardable verification letter or an electronic
18 verification letter, beginning one year from the date of his
19 or her last registration. A person required to register under
20 this Article who is sent mailed a verification letter or an
21 electronic verification letter shall complete, sign, and
22 return the enclosed verification form to the Illinois State
23 Police postmarked or time and date stamped within 10 days
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1 after the mailing date or time and date stamp of the letter. A
2 person's failure to return the verification form to the
3 Illinois State Police within 10 days after the mailing date of
4 the letter shall be considered a violation of this Article.
5 (Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
6 (730 ILCS 150/8) (from Ch. 38, par. 228)
7 Sec. 8. Registration and DNA submission requirements.
8 (a) Registration. Registration as required by this Article
9 shall consist of a statement in writing signed by the person
10 giving the information that is required by the Illinois State
11 Police, which shall may include the fingerprints and may,
12 subject to appropriation, include the palm prints and shall
13 must include a current photograph of the person, which
14 photograph shall to be updated annually. If the sex offender
15 is a child sex offender as defined in Section 11-9.3 or 11-9.4
16 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, he
17 or she shall sign a statement that he or she understands that
18 according to Illinois law as a child sex offender he or she may
19 not reside within 500 feet of a school, park, or playground.
20 The offender may also not reside within 500 feet of a facility
21 providing services directed exclusively toward persons under
22 18 years of age unless the sex offender meets specified
23 exemptions. The registration information must include whether
24 the person is a sex offender as defined in this Act the Sex
25 Offender Community Notification Law. Within 3 days, the
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1 registering law enforcement agency shall forward any required
2 information to the Illinois State Police. The registering law
3 enforcement agency shall enter the information into the
4 Illinois State Police Sex Offender database Law Enforcement
5 Agencies Data System (LEADS) as provided in Sections 6 and 7 of
6 the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984.
7 (b) DNA submission. Every person registering as a sex
8 offender pursuant to this Act, regardless of the date of
9 conviction or the date of initial registration who is required
10 to submit specimens of blood, saliva, or tissue for DNA
11 analysis as required by subsection (a) of Section 5-4-3 of the
12 Unified Code of Corrections shall submit the specimens as
13 required by that Section. Registered sex offenders who have
14 previously submitted a DNA specimen which has been uploaded to
15 the Illinois DNA database shall not be required to submit an
16 additional specimen pursuant to this Section.
17 (Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
18 (730 ILCS 150/11)
19 Sec. 11. Offender Registration Fund. There is created the
20 Offender Registration Fund (formerly known as the Sex Offender
21 Registration Fund). Moneys in the Fund shall be used to cover
22 costs incurred by the criminal justice system to administer
23 this Article and the Murderer and Violent Offender Against
24 Youth Registration Act, and for purposes as authorized under
25 this Section. Moneys in the Fund shall be allocated pursuant
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