Bill Amendment: IL HB2521 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: SCH CD-CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECK

Status: 2025-07-01 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2521 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB2521-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Mary Edly-Allen

Filed: 5/6/2025

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2521
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2521 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act
is amended by adding Section 1.30 as follows:
(105 ILCS 25/1.30 new)
Sec. 1.30. Licensing of game officials.
(a) The Illinois High School Association shall be
responsible for licensing all game officials as defined in
subsection (b) of Section 22-80 of the School Code.
(b) Each applicant for licensure under this Section is
required, as a condition of licensure, to authorize a
fingerprint-based criminal history records check to determine
if such applicant has been convicted of any disqualifying,
enumerated criminal or drug offenses as set forth in Section
21B-80 of the School Code. The applicant shall submit his or

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her fingerprints to the Illinois State Police in an electronic
format that complies with the form and manner for requesting
and furnishing criminal history record information prescribed
by the Illinois State Police. Such fingerprints shall be
transmitted through a livescan fingerprint vendor licensed by
the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The
fingerprints submitted under this Section shall be checked
against the Illinois State Police criminal history databases
prior to their submission to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation criminal history record databases, now and
hereafter filed, including, but not limited to, civil,
criminal, and latent fingerprint databases. The Illinois State
Police shall charge applicants a fee for conducting the
criminal history records check, which shall be deposited into
the State Police Services Fund and shall not exceed the actual
cost of the records check. The Illinois State Police shall
furnish, pursuant to positive identification, records of State
convictions and shall forward the national criminal history
record information to the Illinois High School Association.
Any information obtained by the Illinois High School
Association may only be disseminated as authorized by law.
(c) The Illinois High School Association shall perform a
check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and the Statewide
Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as
authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law and
the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Community

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Notification Law, for each applicant for licensure under this
Section. The check of these databases must be conducted by the
Illinois High School Association's Executive Director or the
Executive Director's designee once every 5 years that an
applicant remains licensed by the Illinois High School
Association.
(d) Pending full check clearance under subsections (b) and
(c), a prospective game official must be supervised at all
times by an individual who has received full check clearance
under subsections (b) and (c).".