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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. The person who is to receive the verification
16		letter shall notify the Illinois State Police as to which
17		method of notification the registered person receives. To any
18		other person registered under this Article, the Illinois State
19		Police shall send mail an annual nonforwardable verification
20		letter or an electronic verification letter, beginning one
21		year from the date of his or her last registration. A person
22		required to register under this Article who is sent mailed a
23		verification letter or an electronic verification letter shall

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1		complete, sign, and return the enclosed verification form to
2		the Illinois State Police postmarked or time and date stamped
3		within 10 days after the mailing date or time and date stamp of
4		the letter. A person's failure to return the verification form
5		to the Illinois State Police within 10 days after the mailing
6		date of the letter shall be considered a violation of this
7		Article.
8		(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
9		(730 ILCS 150/8)    (from Ch. 38, par. 228)
10		Sec. 8. Registration and DNA submission requirements.
11		(a) Registration. Registration as required by this Article
12		shall consist of a statement in writing signed by the person
13		giving the information that is required by the Illinois State
14		Police, which may include the fingerprints and shall must
15		include a current photograph of the person, which shall to be
16		updated annually. If the sex offender is a child sex offender
17		as defined in Section 11-9.3 or 11-9.4 of the Criminal Code of
18		1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, he or she shall sign a
19		statement that he or she understands that according to
20		Illinois law as a child sex offender he or she may not reside
21		within 500 feet of a school, park, or playground. The offender
22		may also not reside within 500 feet of a facility providing
23		services directed exclusively toward persons under 18 years of
24		age unless the sex offender meets specified exemptions. The
25		registration information must include whether the person is a

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

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1		Youth Registration Act, and for purposes as authorized under
2		this Section. Moneys in the Fund shall be allocated pursuant
3		to Section 3 of this Act and Section 10 of the Murderer and
4		Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, respectively.
5		The Illinois State Police shall establish and promulgate rules
6		and procedures regarding the administration of this Fund.
7		Fifty percent of the moneys in the Fund shall be allocated by
8		the Department for sheriffs' offices and police departments.
9		The remaining moneys in the Fund received under Public Act
10		101-571 shall be allocated to the Illinois State Police for
11		education and administration of the Act.
12		(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 103-34, eff. 6-9-23;
13		103-616, eff. 7-1-24.)
14		Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
15		1, 2026.