Bill Text: IL HB4697 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires each school district maintaining any elementary grades to provide its public school pupils enrolled in kindergarten through grade 8 with age-appropriate, active-transportation safety training. Sets forth the requirements for the active-transportation safety training. Allows a nonpublic school maintaining any elementary grades to provide its nonpublic school pupils enrolled in kindergarten through grade 8 with active-transportation safety training. Establishes timing requirements for receiving active-transportation safety training for students who have not previously received active-transportation safety training. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to maintain a comprehensive collection of active-transportation safety training materials. Makes other changes.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-03-27 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4697 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4697-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB4697 Introduced , by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-23.19 new
Amends the School Code. Requires each school district maintaining any elementary grades to provide its public school pupils enrolled in kindergarten through grade 8 with age-appropriate, active-transportation safety training. Sets forth the requirements for the active-transportation safety training. Allows a nonpublic school maintaining any elementary grades to provide its nonpublic school pupils enrolled in kindergarten through grade 8 with active-transportation safety training. Establishes timing requirements for receiving active-transportation safety training for students who have not previously received active-transportation safety training. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to maintain a comprehensive collection of active-transportation safety training materials. Makes other changes.
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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
27-23.19 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-23.19 new)
Sec. 27-23.19. Active-transportation safety training.
(a) As used in this Section, "active transportation" means
bicycling, pedestrian activities, and other forms of
nonmotorized transportation.
(b) Each school district maintaining any elementary grades
must provide its public school pupils enrolled in kindergarten
through grade 3 with age-appropriate, active-transportation
safety training. At a minimum, the active-transportation
safety training must include pedestrian safety, including
crossing roads.
(c) Each school district maintaining any elementary grades
must provide its public school pupils enrolled in grades 4
through 8 with age-appropriate, active-transportation safety
training. At a minimum, the active-transportation safety
training must include:
(1) pedestrian safety, including crossing roads safely
using the technique of searching left, right, and left for

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vehicles in traffic;
(2) bicycle safety, including relevant traffic laws,
the use and proper fit of protective headgear, bicycle
parts and safety features, and safe biking techniques; and
(3) electric-assisted bicycle safety, including that a
person under the age of 16 is not allowed to operate an
electric-assisted bicycle.
(d) A nonpublic school maintaining any elementary grades
may provide its nonpublic school pupils enrolled in
kindergarten through grade 8 with active-transportation safety
training as specified in subsections (b) and (c).
(e) Students under subsection (b) who are enrolled during
the first or second week of school and have not previously
received active-transportation safety training as specified in
subsection (b) must receive the active-transportation safety
training by the end of the third week of school.
(f) Students under subsection (c) who are enrolled during
the first or second week of school and have not previously
received active-transportation safety training as specified in
subsection (c) must receive the active-transportation safety
training by the end of the sixth week of school.
(g) Students under subsection (b) or (c) who enroll in a
school after the second week of school and have not received
the appropriate active-transportation safety training from
their previous school must undergo the training or receive
active-transportation safety instructional materials within 4

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weeks after the first day of attendance.
(h) A school district and a nonpublic school may provide
kindergarten pupils with active-transportation safety training
under this Section before the first day of school.
(i) A school district may provide active-transportation
safety training under this Section through an online program
or course.
(j) A school district and a nonpublic school must make
reasonable accommodations under this Section for the
active-transportation safety training of pupils known to speak
English as a second language and pupils with disabilities.
(k) The Secretary of Transportation must maintain a
comprehensive collection of active-transportation safety
training materials that meets the requirements of this
Section.
(l) This Section is in addition to any other
transportation-safety training laws.