HB4643 Summary

• Park districts are prohibited from knowingly employing any person adjudicated as a delinquent minor for specified criminal offenses including unlawful use of weapons, controlled substance violations, cannabis violations, forcible felonies, and methamphetamine offenses.

• The Illinois Department of State Police must conduct criminal history database searches for minor applicants to park district positions and provide results to the park district president, with records kept confidential and shared only with necessary decision-makers.

• Park district presidents are granted access to law enforcement records of juvenile applicants adjudicated delinquent under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, limited to specified offense categories listed in the Park District Code.

• Park districts cannot employ individuals convicted or adjudicated as minors for attempted first degree murder, first degree murder, Class X felonies, or enumerated offenses related to weapons, controlled substances, and violent crimes.

• The act takes effect immediately upon becoming law.