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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4    Section 5. The Sex Offender Registration Act is amended by
5changing Sections 5-10, 8, and 11 as follows:
6    (730 ILCS 150/5-10)
7    Sec. 5-10. Verification Nonforwardable verification    
8letters. The Illinois State Police shall send mail a quarterly
9nonforwardable verification letter or an electronic
10verification letter to each registered person who has been
11adjudicated to be sexually dangerous or is a sexually violent
12person and is later released, or found to be no longer sexually
13dangerous or no longer a sexually violent person and
14discharged, beginning 90 days from the date of his or her last
15registration. The person who is to receive the verification
16letter shall notify the Illinois State Police as to which
17method of notification the registered person receives. To any
18other person registered under this Article, the Illinois State
19Police shall send mail an annual nonforwardable verification
20letter or an electronic verification letter, beginning one
21year from the date of his or her last registration. A person
22required to register under this Article who is sent mailed a
23verification letter or an electronic verification letter shall

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1complete, sign, and return the enclosed verification form to
2the Illinois State Police postmarked or time and date stamped    
3within 10 days after the mailing date or time and date stamp of
4the letter. A person's failure to return the verification form
5to the Illinois State Police within 10 days after the mailing    
6date of the letter shall be considered a violation of this
7Article.
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
12shall consist of a statement in writing signed by the person
13giving the information that is required by the Illinois State
14Police, which may include the fingerprints and shall must    
15include a current photograph of the person, which shall to be
16updated annually. If the sex offender is a child sex offender
17as defined in Section 11-9.3 or 11-9.4 of the Criminal Code of
181961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, he or she shall sign a
19statement that he or she understands that according to
20Illinois law as a child sex offender he or she may not reside
21within 500 feet of a school, park, or playground. The offender
22may also not reside within 500 feet of a facility providing
23services directed exclusively toward persons under 18 years of
24age unless the sex offender meets specified exemptions. The
25registration information must include whether the person is a

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

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1Youth Registration Act, and for purposes as authorized under
2this Section. Moneys in the Fund shall be allocated pursuant
3to Section 3 of this Act and Section 10 of the Murderer and
4Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, respectively.    
5The Illinois State Police shall establish and promulgate rules
6and procedures regarding the administration of this Fund.
7Fifty percent of the moneys in the Fund shall be allocated by
8the Department for sheriffs' offices and police departments.
9The remaining moneys in the Fund received under Public Act
10101-571 shall be allocated to the Illinois State Police for
11education and administration of the Act.    
12(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 103-34, eff. 6-9-23;
13103-616, eff. 7-1-24.)
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
151, 2026.