Bill Title: Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In a provision regarding the Illinois Teaching Excellence Program, changes the definition of "hard-to-staff school" to mean a public school that either (i) is identified as hard-to-staff based on data reported on its school report card or (ii) does not have a school report card but serves a student population in which 30% or more of the student enrollment is considered low-income as determined by the State Board of Education using available enrollment or funding data, and provides that the State Board may not deny a National Board certified teacher a retention bonus solely because the public school at which the teacher is employed does not have a school report card.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)

Status: (Engrossed) 2026-04-27 - Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt [HB4792 Detail]

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Bill Drafts

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Engrossed	2026-04-08	HTML/Text	Link	View
Introduced	2026-02-02	HTML/Text	Link	View

Amendments

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Supplemental Documents

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