Bill Text: IL HB1056 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois School Student Records Act. Provides that when a student transfers to a new school, the school or school district last attended may not refuse the new school's request to provide a copy of the student's school student record on the grounds that the student owes a debt.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1056 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1056-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1056 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 10/8.1 from Ch. 122, par. 50-8.1
Amends the Illinois School Student Records Act. Provides that when a student transfers to a new school, the school or school district last attended may not refuse the new school's request to provide a copy of the student's school student record on the grounds that the student owes a debt.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois School Student Records Act is
amended by changing Section 8.1 as follows:
(105 ILCS 10/8.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 50-8.1)
Sec. 8.1. (a) No school may refuse to admit or enroll a
student because of that student's failure to present his
student permanent or temporary record from a school previously
attended.
(b) When a new student applies for admission to a school
and does not present his school student record, such school
may notify the school or school district last attended by such
student, requesting that the student's school student record
be copied and sent to it; such request shall be honored within
10 days after it is received, and under no circumstances may
the school or school district last attended refuse the request
on the grounds that the student owes a debt. Within 10 days
after receiving a request from the Department of Children and
Family Services, the school district last attended by the
student shall send the student's school student record to the
receiving school district.
(c) In the case of a transfer between school districts of a

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student who is eligible for special education and related
services, when the parent or guardian of the student presents
a copy of the student's then current individualized education
program (IEP) to the new school, the student shall be placed in
a special education program in accordance with that described
in the student's IEP.
(d) Out-of-state transfer students may use unofficial
transcripts for admission to a school until official
transcripts are obtained from his or her last school district,
including children of military personnel that transfer into
this State, subject to Section 32 of the Educational
Opportunity for Military Children Act.
(Source: P.A. 97-216, eff. 1-1-12; 98-673, eff. 6-30-14.)