Illinois House Bill 2490

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on February 15 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-03-10 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that every public school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of the civil rights movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968, the natural law and natural rights principles that the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., drew from and that informed his leadership of the civil rights movement, and the tactics and strategies of nonviolent resistance that he championed in response to the Jim Crow laws of that era. Provides that the curriculum shall include an additional unit of instruction studying other acts of discriminatory injustice, such as genocide, elsewhere around the globe. Provides that the State Board of Education shall prepare and make available to all school boards instructional materials that may be used as guidelines for development of the units of instruction. Allows a school board to determine the minimum amount of instructional time required. Effective immediately.

SCH CD-CIVIL RIGHTS STUDY

Rep. Kambium Buckner [D]	Rep. Kevin Olickal [D]	Rep. Lilian Jimenez [D]	Rep. Rita Mayfield [D]
Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-10	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2023-03-10	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2023-03-01	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid
2023-03-01	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield
2023-03-01	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Lilian Jiménez
2023-03-01	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
2023-02-28	House	Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee
2023-02-15	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2023-02-15	House	First Reading
2023-02-15	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Kam Buckner

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	27-23.17	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2490&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB2490.htm