Illinois Senate Bill 1480 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the School Districts of Innovation Act, the purpose of which is to grant school districts greater autonomy to implement innovative practices that improve student academic performance and benefit the whole child by removing obstacles that currently exist in law or rules. Provides that school districts seeking to obtain designation as a district of innovation from the State Superintendent of Education must establish an innovation committee to develop an innovation plan; sets forth provisions concerning the committee and plan. Contains provisions concerning statutory and regulatory mandates; innovation plan submission and designation; financial support for innovation planning; district of innovation review, renewal, and revocation; reporting; and rulemaking. Effective immediately.

SCH DISTRICTS OF INNOVATION

Sen. Bill Brady [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2018-09-04	Senate	Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. William E. Brady
2017-04-07	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2017-03-17	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 7, 2017
2017-03-15	Senate	To Subcommittee on Special Issues (ED)
2017-02-22	Senate	Assigned to Education
2017-02-09	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2017-02-09	Senate	First Reading
2017-02-09	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Karen McConnaughay

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	2-3.25g	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1480&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB1480.htm