Illinois Senate Bill 77

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-01-20 - Referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.

SCH CD-TRUANCY-COVID-19

Sen. Susan Rezin [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-20	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2023-01-20	Senate	First Reading
2023-01-20	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Sue Rezin

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	2-3.196	New Code	See Bill Text
105	5	3-14.32	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=77&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/SB/10300SB0077.htm