Bill Text: IL HB1493 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that a school board shall require its schools to either connect at-risk students with anger management classes offered in the community or conduct their own anger management classes for at-risk students. Provides that if the school board requires a school to conduct these classes, the classes do not have to be implemented until the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Third Reading - Short Debate - Lost 041-053-003 [HB1493 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB1493-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB1493 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/10-20.56 new
105 ILCS 5/34-18.49 new
Amends the School Code. Provides that a school board shall require its schools to either connect at-risk students with anger management classes offered in the community or conduct their own anger management classes for at-risk students. Provides that if the school board requires a school to conduct these classes, the classes do not have to be implemented until the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
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 School Code is amended by adding Sections
10-20.56 and 34-18.49 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/10-20.56 new)
Sec. 10-20.56. Anger management classes. A school board
shall require its schools to either connect at-risk students
with anger management classes offered in the community or
conduct their own anger management classes for at-risk
students. If the school board requires a school to conduct
these classes, the classes do not have to be implemented until
the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year.
(105 ILCS 5/34-18.49 new)
Sec. 34-18.49. Anger management classes. The board shall
require its schools to either connect at-risk students with
anger management classes offered in the community or conduct
their own anger management classes for at-risk students. If the
board requires a school to conduct these classes, the classes
do not have to be implemented until the beginning of the
2017-2018 school year.

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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.