Bill Text: IL HB5348 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Allows a school board to discontinue, by publicly adopted resolution, any instructional mandate in the Courses of Study Article of the School Code unless a separate State appropriation is made for the school district that provides full funding for the specific instructional mandate (with exceptions). Provides that if a student requests information on any instructional mandate that has been discontinued, then the school district shall provide the student with the requested information. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-18 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5348 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB5348-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB5348 Introduced , by Rep. Thomas M. Bennett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-2.5 new
Amends the School Code. Allows a school board to discontinue, by publicly adopted resolution, any instructional mandate in the Courses of Study Article of the School Code unless a separate State appropriation is made for the school district that provides full funding for the specific instructional mandate (with exceptions). Provides that if a student requests information on any instructional mandate that has been discontinued, then the school district shall provide the student with the requested information. 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 adding Section
27-2.5 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-2.5 new)
Sec. 27-2.5. Instructional mandate discontinuance.
(a) For the purposes of this Section, "instructional
mandate" means any State law in this Article that requires a
school district to devote any amount of time to the
instruction of or engagement by students in a subject or
course.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 2-3.25g or any other provision
of this Code, a school board may discontinue, by publicly
adopted resolution, any instructional mandate in this Article
unless a separate State appropriation, other than funding
received by the school district under Section 18-8.15 of this
Code, is made for the school district that provides full
funding for the specific instructional mandate. This Section,
however, does not permit a school board to discontinue by
resolution the requirements set forth in Sections 27-5, 27-6,
27-7, and 27-22 of this Code and Sections 27-24 through
27-24.8 of this Code.

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(c) If a student requests information on any instructional
mandate that has been discontinued under this Section, then
the school district shall provide the student with the
requested information.
(d) The State Board of Education may adopt any rules that
it deems necessary for the implementation of this Section.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.