Bill Text: IL HB0342 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall develop a school district-level Children's Adversity Index to measure community childhood trauma exposure for children by December 30, 2024. Requires teachers institutes to provide instruction on trauma-informed practices and certain defined terms. Adds information that must be included in the State Board of Education's school report cards. Requires in-service training to include certain defined terms. Provides that the State Superintendent of Education shall establish a committee of no more than 21 members to make recommendations to the State Board of Education to change the professional educator licensure requirements and Professional Educator License renewal requirements for teachers to include specified requirements. Sets forth the membership of the committee. Reestablishes the Whole Child Task Force created by Public Act 101-654. Provides that the Whole Child Task Force shall reconvene by March 2027 to review progress on a March 2022 report's recommendations and shall submit a new report on its assessment of the State's progress and any additional recommendations to the General Assembly, the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, the State Board of Education, and the Governor on or before December 31, 2027. Provides that the Whole Child Task Force provisions are repealed on February 1, 2029. Makes other changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-08-03 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0413 [HB0342 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB0342-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB0342 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/1-2 from Ch. 122, par. 1-2
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
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A BILL FOR
HB0342 LRB103 03869 RJT 48875 b
AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
1-2 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/1-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 1-2)
Sec. 1-2. Construction. The The provisions of this Act, so
far as they are the same as those of any prior statute, shall
be construed as a continuation of such prior provisions, and
not as a new enactment.
If in any other statute reference is made to an Act of the
General Assembly, or a section of such an Act, which is
continued in this School Code, such reference shall be held to
refer to the Act or section thereof so continued in this Code.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)