Illinois Senate Bill 2017

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on February 6 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-03-21 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Prohibits municipal ordinances that regulate truants from including a fine or fee for violations or providing for enforcement by citation. Amends the School Code. Requires a memorandum of understanding between a local law enforcement agency and a school district for any school district that uses a school resource officer; sets forth requirements for the memorandum. Provides that a student is prohibited from being issued a monetary fine or fee by any person (rather than providing that a student may not be issued a monetary fine or fee) as a disciplinary consequence. Prohibits school personnel of a school district from referring a student to any other local public entity or a local law enforcement agency for that entity or agency to issue the student a monetary fine or fee as a disciplinary consequence. Prohibits a school district from referring a truant, chronic truant, or truant minor to any other local public entity for that local public entity to issue the child's parent or guardian a fine or a fee as punishment for the child's truancy. Makes conforming and other changes.

STUDENTS-DISCIPLINE-NO FINES

Sen. Karina Villa [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-03-21	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2025-02-25	Senate	Assigned to Education
2025-02-06	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2025-02-06	Senate	First Reading
2025-02-06	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Karina Villa

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	10-20.68	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	10-22.6	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	26-12	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	27-23.7	Amended Code	Citation Text
65	5	11-5-9	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=2017&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=161423&SessionID=114
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?LegDocId=201211&DocName=10400SB2017&DocNum=2017&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=161423&GAID=18&SessionID=114&SpecSess=&Session=