Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that every public elementary school shall include in its 6th, 7th, and 8th grade curriculum, beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, at least one semester of civics education. Sets forth requirements for the course content. Allows school districts to utilize private funding available for the purposes of offering civics education. Effective July 1, 2018.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4916 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

---

PolitiCorps Conversations

Start PolitiCorps Debate

Title	PolitiCorps	Access	Comments	Views	Last Post
There are no visible public or private PolitiCorps discussions concerning the 2017 Illinois HB4916 at this time.