Bill Sponsors: IL SB3511 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

Bill Title: Creates the Let America Read Act. Provides that an entity or an entity's staff with oversight over the books, instructional materials, or curriculum used in a public school may not refuse to approve or prohibit the use of books, instructional materials, or a curriculum, including, but not limited to, memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies, based upon the depiction of matters of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, sexual and reproductive health, gender identity, religion, or human rights activism. Provides that these provisions do not restrict an entity with oversight over the books, instructional materials, or curriculum used in a public school from imposing limitations on the access to books, instructional materials, or a curriculum based upon the age and developmental level of the students who will have access. Amends the School Code to set forth a penalty for a school district that violates the Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III [SB3511 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Senator Mike Simmons [D]PrimarySponsored BillsSD-007N/ABallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Mary Edly-Allen [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-031FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Lakesia Collins [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-005FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Adriane Johnson [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-030N/ABallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Laura Ellman [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-021FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Javier Cervantes [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-001FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Laura Fine [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-009FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Rachel Ventura [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-043FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Ram Villivalam [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-008FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Karina Villa [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-025FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Emil Jones [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-014FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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