Bill Text: IL HB3179 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that a chronic or habitual truant shall be defined as a child who is subject to compulsory school attendance and who is absent without valid cause from such attendance for 5% (instead of 10%) or more of the previous 180 regular attendance days. Effective immediately.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 7)
Status: (Passed) 2011-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0218 [HB3179 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB3179-Chaptered.html
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| Public Act 097-0218 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||
26-2a as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/26-2a) (from Ch. 122, par. 26-2a) | ||||
Sec. 26-2a. A "truant" is defined as a child subject to | ||||
compulsory school
attendance and who is absent without valid | ||||
cause from such attendance for
a school day or portion thereof. | ||||
"Valid cause" for absence shall be illness, observance of a | ||||
religious
holiday, death in the immediate family,
family | ||||
emergency, and shall include such other situations beyond the | ||||
control
of the student as determined by the board of education | ||||
in each district,
or such other circumstances which cause | ||||
reasonable concern to the parent
for the safety or health of | ||||
the student. | ||||
"Chronic or habitual truant" shall be defined as a child | ||||
who is subject to compulsory
school attendance and who is | ||||
absent without valid cause from such attendance
for 5% 10% or | ||||
more of the previous 180 regular attendance days. | ||||
"Truant minor" is defined as a chronic truant to whom | ||||
supportive
services, including prevention, diagnostic, | ||||
intervention and remedial
services, alternative programs and | ||||
other school and community resources
have been provided and | ||
have failed to result in the cessation of chronic
truancy, or | ||
have been offered and refused. | ||
A "dropout" is defined as any child enrolled in grades 9 | ||
through 12 whose
name has been removed from the district | ||
enrollment roster for any reason
other than the student's | ||
death, extended illness, removal for medical non-compliance, | ||
expulsion, aging out, graduation, or completion of a
program of | ||
studies and who has not transferred to another public or | ||
private school and is not known to be home-schooled by his or | ||
her parents or guardians or continuing school in another | ||
country. | ||
"Religion" for the purposes of this Article, includes all | ||
aspects of
religious observance and practice, as well as | ||
belief. | ||
(Source: P.A. 96-1423, eff. 8-3-10.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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