Bill Text: IL HB3903 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that there shall be no place of detention or criminal processing established or maintained on the grounds of any school. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-14)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-18 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0204 [HB3903 Detail]

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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
10-20.60 and 34-18.53 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/10-20.60 new)
Sec. 10-20.60. Booking stations on school grounds.
(a) As used in this Section, "place of detention or
criminal processing" means a building, office, or room or any
indefinitely established space or site, mobile or fixed, that
is exclusively, predominantly, or regularly a place of
operation for a municipal police department, county sheriff
department, or other law enforcement agency at which students
are or may be held in detention in connection with criminal
charges or allegations against those students, questioned on
suspicion of criminal actions, taken into custody, or engaged
with law enforcement personnel in any process that creates a
permanent record of that contact with law enforcement personnel
or processes.
(b) There shall be no place of detention or criminal
processing established or maintained on the grounds of any
school.
(c) This prohibition shall be applied to places of

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detention or criminal processing only, and shall not be
construed so as to infringe on the ability or capacity of law
enforcement officers to perform their duties within schools as
otherwise prescribed by law and performed in schools that do
not have places of detention or criminal processing.
(105 ILCS 5/34-18.53 new)
Sec. 34-18.53. Booking stations on school grounds.
(a) As used in this Section, "place of detention or
criminal processing" means a building, office, or room or any
indefinitely established space or site, mobile or fixed, that
is exclusively, predominantly, or regularly a place of
operation for a municipal police department, county sheriff
department, or other law enforcement agency at which students
are or may be held in detention in connection with criminal
charges or allegations against those students, questioned on
suspicion of criminal actions, taken into custody, or engaged
with law enforcement personnel in any process that creates a
permanent record of that contact with law enforcement personnel
or processes.
(b) There shall be no place of detention or criminal
processing established or maintained on the grounds of any
school.
(c) This prohibition shall be applied to places of
detention or criminal processing only, and shall not be
construed so as to infringe on the ability or capacity of law

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enforcement officers to perform their duties within schools as
otherwise prescribed by law and performed in schools that do
not have places of detention or criminal processing.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.