Bill Text: IL HB4657 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Creates the Emotional Intelligence Education Task Force to develop curriculum guidelines on emotional intelligence; sets forth provisions concerning its membership, duties, administration, and dissolution. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying emotional intelligence. Requires this unit of instruction to include teaching how to recognize, direct, and positively express emotions. Permits a school board to use the Task Force's guidelines in developing this unit of instruction. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-11-30 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-1139 [HB4657 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4657-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4657 Introduced , by Rep. Natalie A. Manley SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-23.11 new
Amends the School Code. Creates the Emotional Intelligence Education Task Force to develop curriculum guidelines on emotional intelligence; sets forth provisions concerning its membership, duties, administration, and dissolution. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying emotional intelligence. Requires this unit of instruction to include teaching how to recognize, direct, and positively express emotions. Permits a school board to use the Task Force's guidelines in developing this unit of instruction. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
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 adding Section
27-23.11 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-23.11 new)
Sec. 27-23.11. Emotional intelligence education.
(a) The Emotional Intelligence Education Task Force is
created to develop curriculum guidelines on emotional
intelligence. The Task Force shall consist of the State
Superintendent of Education or his or her designee and all of
the following members, appointed by the State Superintendent:
(1) A representative of a school district organized
under Article 34 of this Code.
(2) A representative of a statewide organization
representing school boards.
(3) A representative of a statewide organization
representing individuals holding professional educator
licenses with school support personnel endorsements under
Article 21B of this Code, including school social workers,
school psychologists, and school nurses.
(4) A representative of a statewide organization
representing children's mental health experts.

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(5) A representative of a statewide organization
representing school principals.
(6) Representatives of other appropriate State
agencies, as determined by the State Superintendent.
Members appointed by the State Superintendent shall serve
without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their
reasonable and necessary expenses from funds appropriated to
the State Board of Education for that purpose, including
travel, subject to the rules of the appropriate travel control
board. The Task Force shall meet at the call of the State
Superintendent. The State Board of Education shall provide
administrative and other support to the Task Force.
The Task Force shall develop age-appropriate, emotional
intelligence curriculum guidelines for elementary schools and
high schools. The guidelines shall, at a minimum, include
teaching how to recognize, direct, and positively express
emotions. The Task Force shall complete the guidelines on or
before January 1, 2019. Upon completion of the guidelines the
Task Force is dissolved.
(b) Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, every public
elementary school and high school shall include in its
curriculum a unit of instruction studying emotional
intelligence. At a minimum, this unit of instruction must
include teaching how to recognize, direct, and positively
express emotions. In developing this unit of instruction, a
school board may use the guidelines developed by the Emotional

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Intelligence Education Task Force under subsection (a) of this
Section.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.