Bill Text: IL HB4021 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriates $340,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education to address shortages of school psychologists in this State through specified methods. Effective July 1, 2025.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced) 2026-03-25 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maurice A. West, II [HB4021 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4021-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB4021 Introduced , by Rep. Katie Stuart SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
Appropriates $340,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education to address shortages of school psychologists in this State through specified methods. Effective July 1, 2025.
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AN ACT concerning appropriations.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The sum of $340,000, or so much of that sum as
may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue
Fund to the State Board of Education to address shortages of
school psychologists in this State by hiring or contracting
for a school psychology liaison within the State Board of
Education, providing a grant to fund a program within the
Illinois School Psychology Internship Consortium to recruit
and retain doctoral interns in faculty positions within public
universities, and funding a school psychologist retention
program with a group consultation model.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2025.