Bill Text: IL HB4276 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. With respect to school action and facility master planning, defines "co-location" as a school action in which 2 or more separate schools, each under the direction of its own principal and local school council and maintaining a distinct program and attendance area or other enrollment, are assigned by the Chicago Board of Education to operate entirely within the same school building, but provides that the term does not include an existing school's temporary use of available, vacant, or underutilized space in a second school building to increase capacity or relieve overcrowding if: (1) that school continues to additionally operate in its current building under its own principal and local school council and to serve the same attendance area or population; and (2) the Board designates the use of the second building's space as a temporary measure for a specified period of time.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-01-14 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4276 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4276-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB4276 Introduced , by Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/34-200
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. With respect to school action and facility master planning, defines "co-location" as a school action in which 2 or more separate schools, each under the direction of its own principal and local school council and maintaining a distinct program and attendance area or other enrollment, are assigned by the Chicago Board of Education to operate entirely within the same school building, but provides that the term does not include an existing school's temporary use of available, vacant, or underutilized space in a second school building to increase capacity or relieve overcrowding if: (1) that school continues to additionally operate in its current building under its own principal and local school council and to serve the same attendance area or population; and (2) the Board designates the use of the second building's space as a temporary measure for a specified period of time.
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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 changing Section
34-200 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/34-200)
Sec. 34-200. Definitions. For the purposes of Sections
34-200 through 34-235 of this Article:
"Capital improvement plan" means a plan that identifies
capital projects to be started or finished within the
designated period, excluding projects funded by locally raised
capital not exceeding $10,000.
"Co-location" means a school action in which 2 or more
separate schools, each under the direction of its own
principal and local school council and maintaining a distinct
program and attendance area or other enrollment, are assigned
by the board to operate entirely within the same school
building. "Co-location" does not include an existing school's
temporary use of available, vacant, or underutilized space in
a second school building to increase capacity or relieve
overcrowding if:
(1) that school continues to additionally operate in
its current building under its own principal and local

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school council and to serve the same attendance area or
population; and
(2) the board designates the use of the second
building's space as a temporary measure for a specified
period of time.
"Community area" means a geographic area of the City of
Chicago defined by the chief executive officer as part of the
development of the educational facilities master plan.
"Space utilization" means the percentage achieved by
dividing the school's actual enrollment by its design
capacity.
"School closing" or "school closure" means the closing of
a school, the effect of which is the assignment and transfer of
all students enrolled at that school to one or more designated
receiving schools.
"School consolidation" means the consolidation of 2 or
more schools by closing one or more schools and reassigning
the students to another school.
"Phase-out" means the gradual cessation of enrollment in
certain grades each school year until a school closes or is
consolidated with another school.
"School action" means any school closing; school
consolidation; co-location; boundary change that requires
reassignment of students, unless the reassignment is to a new
school with an attendance area boundary and is made to relieve
overcrowding; or phase-out.

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(Source: P.A. 97-473, eff. 1-1-12; 97-474, eff. 8-22-11;
97-813, eff. 7-13-12.)