Bill Text: IL HB5324 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Prohibits the State Board of Education, by rule, from defining a general education classroom as a classroom that is composed of a certain percentage of students with individualized education programs (IEPs). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5324 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5324-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5324 Introduced , by Rep. Dwight Kay SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/14-2
Amends the School Code. Prohibits the State Board of Education, by rule, from defining a general education classroom as a classroom that is composed of a certain percentage of students with individualized education programs (IEPs). Effective immediately.
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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
14-2 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/14-2)
Sec. 14-2. Definition of general education classroom for
special education students receiving services in the general
education classroom. The State Board of Education may not, by
(a) With respect to any State statute or administrative rule,
define that defines a general education classroom as a
classroom that is to be composed of a certain percentage of
students with individualized education programs (IEPs),
students with individualized education programs shall exclude
students receiving only speech services outside of the general
education classroom, provided that the instruction the
students receive in the general education classroom does not
require modification.
(b) In every instance, a school district must ensure that
composition of the general education classroom does not
interfere with the provision of a free and appropriate public
education to any student.
(Source: P.A. 97-284, eff. 8-9-11.)

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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.