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

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: SEX OFFENDERS-PROCEDURES

Status: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB5541 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5541-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

Filed: 4/12/2024

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5541
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5541 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"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

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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
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 at each registration 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

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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 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.)

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(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
to Section 3 of this Act and Section 10 of the Murderer and
Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, respectively
The Illinois State Police shall establish and promulgate rules
and procedures regarding the administration of this Fund.
Fifty percent of the moneys in the Fund shall be allocated by
the Department for sheriffs' offices and police departments.
The remaining moneys in the Fund received under this
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly shall be
allocated to the Illinois State Police for education and
administration of the Act.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to
any other transfers that may be provided by law, on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly, or as soon thereafter as practical, the State
Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall
transfer the remaining balance from the Sex Offender
Investigation Fund to the Offender Registration Fund. Upon
completion of the transfers, the Sex Offender Investigation

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