Bill Text: IL HB4803 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that, to ensure that the education of a youth in care is not interrupted after the youth is placed in a residential treatment facility and held in the facility beyond medical necessity, on the date a youth is initially admitted to a residential treatment facility, the Department of Children and Family Services must update its records and list the address of the residential treatment facility as the official address of the youth in care so that the youth is eligible to receive education services from the school district in which the residential treatment facility is located, including services provided under a remote educational program as defined in the School Code.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4803 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4803-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4803 Introduced ___________, by SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 505/5.06 new
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that, to ensure that the education of a youth in care is not interrupted after the youth is placed in a residential treatment facility and held in the facility beyond medical necessity, on the date a youth is initially admitted to a residential treatment facility, the Department of Children and Family Services must update its records and list the address of the residential treatment facility as the official address of the youth in care so that the youth is eligible to receive education services from the school district in which the residential treatment facility is located, including services provided under a remote educational program as defined in the School Code.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
by adding Section 5.06 as follows:
(20 ILCS 505/5.06 new)
Sec. 5.06. Update residential address information; youth
in care. To ensure that the education of a youth in care is not
interrupted after the youth is placed in a residential
treatment facility and held in the facility beyond medical
necessity, on the date a youth is initially admitted to a
residential treatment facility, the Department must update its
records and list the address of the residential treatment
facility as the official address of the youth in care so that
the youth is eligible to receive education services from the
school district in which the residential treatment facility is
located, including services provided under a remote
educational program as defined in Section 10-29 of the School
Code.