Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB1913 Compare Versions

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1	1	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1913 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Mattie Hunter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 225 ILCS 10/4.1a new Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that an entity that contracts with the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Early Childhood, a child care facility, or a non-licensed service provider to provide a service that places the entity's employees in a child care facility shall require each employee who is placed or will be placed in such a facility to undergo a criminal background investigation. Provides that each entity shall submit an applicable employee's fingerprints to the Illinois State Police in the form and manner prescribed by the Illinois State Police. Sets forth provisions concerning the processing of an employee's fingerprints and actions that the Illinois State Police shall take regarding the criminal background investigation. Provides that information concerning the convictions of an entity's employee who is placed or will be placed in a child care facility and who is investigated, including the source of the information and any conclusions or recommendations derived from the information, shall be provided, upon request, to such entity and the entity's employee prior to final action by the Department of Children and Family Services or the Department of Early Childhood under the agencies' respective authority on the application. Sets forth provisions concerning the transmission of information about an employee's criminal charges and the protection of confidential information. Provides that any employee of the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Early Childhood, the Illinois State Police, or a child care facility receiving confidential information who gives or causes to be given any confidential information concerning any criminal convictions of an applicant, employee, or volunteer of a child care facility or non-licensed service provider or an employee who is placed in a child care facility by a contracted entity, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor unless release of such information is authorized by the provisions concerning criminal background investigations. LRB104 10458 AAS 20533 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1913 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Mattie Hunter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 225 ILCS 10/4.1a new 225 ILCS 10/4.1a new Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that an entity that contracts with the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Early Childhood, a child care facility, or a non-licensed service provider to provide a service that places the entity's employees in a child care facility shall require each employee who is placed or will be placed in such a facility to undergo a criminal background investigation. Provides that each entity shall submit an applicable employee's fingerprints to the Illinois State Police in the form and manner prescribed by the Illinois State Police. Sets forth provisions concerning the processing of an employee's fingerprints and actions that the Illinois State Police shall take regarding the criminal background investigation. Provides that information concerning the convictions of an entity's employee who is placed or will be placed in a child care facility and who is investigated, including the source of the information and any conclusions or recommendations derived from the information, shall be provided, upon request, to such entity and the entity's employee prior to final action by the Department of Children and Family Services or the Department of Early Childhood under the agencies' respective authority on the application. Sets forth provisions concerning the transmission of information about an employee's criminal charges and the protection of confidential information. Provides that any employee of the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Early Childhood, the Illinois State Police, or a child care facility receiving confidential information who gives or causes to be given any confidential information concerning any criminal convictions of an applicant, employee, or volunteer of a child care facility or non-licensed service provider or an employee who is placed in a child care facility by a contracted entity, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor unless release of such information is authorized by the provisions concerning criminal background investigations. LRB104 10458 AAS 20533 b LRB104 10458 AAS 20533 b A BILL FOR
2	2	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1913 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Mattie Hunter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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5	5	Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that an entity that contracts with the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Early Childhood, a child care facility, or a non-licensed service provider to provide a service that places the entity's employees in a child care facility shall require each employee who is placed or will be placed in such a facility to undergo a criminal background investigation. Provides that each entity shall submit an applicable employee's fingerprints to the Illinois State Police in the form and manner prescribed by the Illinois State Police. Sets forth provisions concerning the processing of an employee's fingerprints and actions that the Illinois State Police shall take regarding the criminal background investigation. Provides that information concerning the convictions of an entity's employee who is placed or will be placed in a child care facility and who is investigated, including the source of the information and any conclusions or recommendations derived from the information, shall be provided, upon request, to such entity and the entity's employee prior to final action by the Department of Children and Family Services or the Department of Early Childhood under the agencies' respective authority on the application. Sets forth provisions concerning the transmission of information about an employee's criminal charges and the protection of confidential information. Provides that any employee of the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Early Childhood, the Illinois State Police, or a child care facility receiving confidential information who gives or causes to be given any confidential information concerning any criminal convictions of an applicant, employee, or volunteer of a child care facility or non-licensed service provider or an employee who is placed in a child care facility by a contracted entity, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor unless release of such information is authorized by the provisions concerning criminal background investigations.
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning regulation.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by adding
15	15	5 Section 4.1a as follows:
16	16	6 (225 ILCS 10/4.1a new)
17	17	7 Sec. 4.1a. Criminal background investigations; contracted
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19	19	9 (a) An entity that contracts with the Department of
20	20	10 Children and Family Services, the Department of Early
21	21	11 Childhood, a child care facility, or a non-licensed service
22	22	12 provider to provide a service that places the entity's
23	23	13 employees in a child care facility shall require each employee
24	24	14 who is placed or will be placed in such a facility to undergo a
25	25	15 criminal background investigation. Each entity shall submit an
26	26	16 applicable employee's fingerprints to the Illinois State
27	27	17 Police in the form and manner prescribed by the Illinois State
28	28	18 Police. These fingerprints shall be checked against the
29	29	19 fingerprint records now and hereafter filed in the Illinois
30	30	20 State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal
31	31	21 history records databases. The Illinois State Police shall
32	32	22 charge a fee for conducting the criminal history records
33	33	23 check, which shall be deposited into the State Police Services
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37	37	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1913 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Mattie Hunter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
38	38	225 ILCS 10/4.1a new 225 ILCS 10/4.1a new
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40	40	Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that an entity that contracts with the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Early Childhood, a child care facility, or a non-licensed service provider to provide a service that places the entity's employees in a child care facility shall require each employee who is placed or will be placed in such a facility to undergo a criminal background investigation. Provides that each entity shall submit an applicable employee's fingerprints to the Illinois State Police in the form and manner prescribed by the Illinois State Police. Sets forth provisions concerning the processing of an employee's fingerprints and actions that the Illinois State Police shall take regarding the criminal background investigation. Provides that information concerning the convictions of an entity's employee who is placed or will be placed in a child care facility and who is investigated, including the source of the information and any conclusions or recommendations derived from the information, shall be provided, upon request, to such entity and the entity's employee prior to final action by the Department of Children and Family Services or the Department of Early Childhood under the agencies' respective authority on the application. Sets forth provisions concerning the transmission of information about an employee's criminal charges and the protection of confidential information. Provides that any employee of the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Early Childhood, the Illinois State Police, or a child care facility receiving confidential information who gives or causes to be given any confidential information concerning any criminal convictions of an applicant, employee, or volunteer of a child care facility or non-licensed service provider or an employee who is placed in a child care facility by a contracted entity, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor unless release of such information is authorized by the provisions concerning criminal background investigations.
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68	68	1 Fund and shall not exceed the actual cost of the records check.
69	69	2 The Illinois State Police shall provide information concerning
70	70	3 any criminal charges, and their disposition, now or hereafter
71	71	4 filed, against an entity's employee who will provide a service
72	72	5 in a child care facility, upon request of the Department of
73	73	6 Children and Family Services or the Department of Early
74	74	7 Childhood when the request is made in the form and manner
75	75	8 required by the Illinois State Police.
76	76	9 (b) Information concerning the convictions of an entity's
77	77	10 employee who is placed, either currently or in the future, in a
78	78	11 child care facility and who is investigated under this
79	79	12 Section, including the source of the information and any
80	80	13 conclusions or recommendations derived from the information,
81	81	14 shall be provided, upon request, to such entity and the
82	82	15 entity's employee prior to final action by the Department of
83	83	16 Children and Family Services or the Department of Early
84	84	17 Childhood under the agencies' respective authority on the
85	85	18 application. State conviction information provided by the
86	86	19 Illinois State Police regarding an entity's employee under
87	87	20 this Act shall be provided to the operator of such facility,
88	88	21 and, upon request, to such entity and the entity's employee.
89	89	22 Any information concerning criminal charges and the
90	90	23 disposition of such charges obtained by the Department of
91	91	24 Children and Family Services or the Department of Early
92	92	25 Childhood shall be confidential and may not be transmitted
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