Bill Amendment: IL SB0467 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

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Bill Title: EDUCATION-TECH

Status: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [SB0467 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB0467-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Cristina Castro

Filed: 4/16/2024

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 467
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 467 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Illinois Articulation Initiative Act is
amended by changing Sections 5 and 25 and by adding Section 35
as follows:
(110 ILCS 152/5)
Sec. 5. Legislative findings. The General Assembly finds
and declares that in January of 1993, the Board of Higher
Education, the Illinois Community College Board, and transfer
coordinators from Illinois colleges and universities jointly
launched the Illinois Articulation Initiative to ease the
transfer of students among Illinois public and independent
associate and baccalaureate degree-granting institutions. The
General Assembly finds and declares that the Illinois
Articulation Initiative was driven by the following

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foundational ideas:
(1) that associate and baccalaureate degree-granting
institutions are equal partners in educating college
freshmen and sophomores;
(2) that faculties should take primary responsibility
for developing and maintaining program and course
articulation;and
(3) that institutions are expected to work together to
facilitate transfer for lower-division baccalaureate
programs; and .
(4) that nearly 300 common course descriptor codes are
used to identify approved courses with common course
content and learning outcomes.
The General Assembly finds and declares that students have
benefited by receiving the General Education Core Curriculum
and transferring across institutions of higher education.
(Source: P.A. 99-636, eff. 1-1-17.)
(110 ILCS 152/25)
Sec. 25. Board of Higher Education and the Illinois
Community College Board duties.
(a) The Board of Higher Education and the Illinois
Community College Board shall co-manage the implementation,
oversight, and evaluation of the Illinois Articulation
Initiative, including determining when panels must be
discontinued or convened and the specific requirements of the

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General Education Core Curriculum. Panels must be convened
across the fields of General Education, Communications,
Humanities and Fine Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences,
Social and Behavioral Sciences, Mathematics, Elementary and
Secondary Education, and other fields as determined by the
Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College
Board.
(b) The Board of Higher Education and the Illinois
Community College Board shall provide a joint report on an
annual basis to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the
Illinois P-20 Council on the status of the Illinois
Articulation Initiative and the implementation of this Act.
(c) On or before September 1, 2024, the Board of Higher
Education and the Illinois Community College Board, in
collaboration with public institutions, shall establish a
workgroup to develop a comprehensive implementation plan for
the adoption of a common course numbering system. The common
course numbering system shall be consistent with course codes
assigned through the Illinois Articulation Initiative. The
common course numbering system shall be student-facing to
ensure that comparable courses across all public institutions
have the same course number.
The implementation plan shall be adopted by both the Board
of Higher Education and Illinois Community College Board on or
before June 30, 2025. The workgroup established under this
subsection (c) shall convene annually thereafter to review

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progress toward fully implementing the developed common course
numbering system.
(Source: P.A. 103-469, eff. 1-1-24.)
(110 ILCS 152/35 new)
Sec. 35. Common course numbering.
(a) Beginning with the 2026-2027 academic year, all public
institutions shall adopt a common course numbering system for
all Illinois Articulation Initiative General Education Core
Curriculum courses based on the implementation plan of the
workgroup established under subsection (c) of Section 25.
(b) Beginning with the 2027-2028 academic year, all public
institutions shall adopt a common course numbering system for
all Illinois Articulation Initiative major courses based on
the implementation plan of the workgroup established under
subsection (c) of Section 25.
(c) Each public institution shall incorporate common
course numbers from the adopted common course numbering system
developed by the workgroup established under subsection (c) of
Section 25 in each public institution's course catalog.