HB 2121

Abstract

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that an applicant for a school bus permit cannot be convicted of committing or attempting to commit the following offenses: (1) solicitation or solicitation of murder; (2) permitting sexual abuse of a child; (3) presence or loitering of a sexual predator or child sex offender in or near a public park; (4) aggravated battery; and (5) use of a dangerous place for the commission of a controlled substance or cannabis offense. Provides that an applicant for a school bus driver permit may not have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor offense defined in specified Sections of the Cannabis Control Act within the last 20 years, or an offense in any other state or against the laws of the United States, which if committed or attempted in this State would be punishable as one or more of the foregoing offenses. From the list of offenses disqualifying the issuance of a school bus driver permit, removes specified offenses under the Wrongs to Children Act, the Criminal Code of 2012, the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and the Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Restores the prohibition on school bus driver licensure of applicants who have been convicted of specified offenses under the Wrongs to Children Act, the Criminal Code of 2012, the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and the Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act. Deletes language providing that an applicant for a school bus driver permit may not have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor offense defined in specified Sections of the Cannabis Control Act within the last 20 years. Provides instead that an applicant must not have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit within the last 20 years specified Class A misdemeanors under the Cannabis Control Act.