Bill Text: IL HB1978 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the members of the State Board of Education.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 13-2)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB1978 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB1978-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1978
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1978 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 27-23.4 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-23.4)
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| 7 | Sec. 27-23.4. Violence prevention and conflict resolution | ||||||
| 8 | education. | ||||||
| 9 | (a)
School districts shall provide instruction and | ||||||
| 10 | training in violence prevention and conflict
resolution | ||||||
| 11 | education for all students in grades pre-kindergarten | ||||||
| 12 | kindergarten through 12 as part of the Illinois Learning | ||||||
| 13 | Standards for Social/Emotional Learning (SEL) and may include | ||||||
| 14 | such instruction
in
the courses of study regularly taught | ||||||
| 15 | therein. School districts may give
regular school credit for | ||||||
| 16 | satisfactory completion by the student of such
courses.
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| 1 | (b) As used in this Section, "violence prevention and | ||||||
| 2 | conflict resolution
education" means and includes instruction | ||||||
| 3 | in the following:
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| 4 | (1) The consequences of violent behavior.
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| 5 | (2) The causes of violent reactions to conflict.
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| 6 | (3) Nonviolent conflict resolution, which is an | ||||||
| 7 | approach to social and emotional learning that promotes a | ||||||
| 8 | student's self-awareness, self-management, social | ||||||
| 9 | awareness, relationship skills, and responsible | ||||||
| 10 | decision-making to establish and maintain positive | ||||||
| 11 | relationships with others techniques. Specific techniques | ||||||
| 12 | shall include the following: | ||||||
| 13 | (A) Empathy. | ||||||
| 14 | (B) Anger management. | ||||||
| 15 | (C) Impulse control. | ||||||
| 16 | (D) Problem-solving. | ||||||
| 17 | (E) Making appropriate, scientifically based | ||||||
| 18 | decisions. | ||||||
| 19 | (F) The relationship between drugs, alcohol, and | ||||||
| 20 | violence.
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| 21 | (4) (Blank). The relationship between drugs, alcohol | ||||||
| 22 | and violence.
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| 23 | (c) The State Board of Education shall prepare and make | ||||||
| 24 | available to all school
boards SEL-aligned, instructional | ||||||
| 25 | materials that may be used as guidelines for development
of an | ||||||
| 26 | evidence-based a violence
prevention program under this | ||||||
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| 1 | Section, including a new category column for program evaluation | ||||||
| 2 | that rates violence prevention programs as to ease of use, | ||||||
| 3 | provided that each school board
shall determine the appropriate | ||||||
| 4 | curriculum for satisfying the requirements of
this Section. | ||||||
| 5 | Regional offices of education The State
Board of Education | ||||||
| 6 | shall assist in training teachers to provide effective
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| 7 | instruction in the SEL-aligned, violence prevention | ||||||
| 8 | curriculum.
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| 9 | (d) The State Board of Education and local school boards | ||||||
| 10 | shall not be required
to implement the provisions of this | ||||||
| 11 | Section unless funding is grants of funds are made
available | ||||||
| 12 | and are received after July 1, 1993 from private sources, this | ||||||
| 13 | State, or from the
federal government in amounts sufficient to | ||||||
| 14 | enable the State Board and local
school boards to meet the | ||||||
| 15 | requirements of this Section. Any funds received
by the State | ||||||
| 16 | or a local educational agency pursuant to the federal Safe and
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| 17 | Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 shall first be | ||||||
| 18 | applied or
appropriated to meet the requirements and implement | ||||||
| 19 | the provisions of this
Section.
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| 20 | (e) The changes to this Section made by this amendatory Act | ||||||
| 21 | of the 98th General Assembly apply beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||||||
| 22 | school year. | ||||||
| 23 | (Source: P.A. 97-87, eff. 7-8-11.)
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| 24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 25 | becoming law.".
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