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| Public Act 097-1037
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| HB5689 Enrolled | LRB097 19926 NHT 65872 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
22-75 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/22-75 new) |
Sec. 22-75. The Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force. |
(a) There is hereby created the Eradicate Domestic Violence |
Task Force. The Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force shall |
develop a statewide effective and feasible prevention course |
for high school students designed to prevent interpersonal, |
adolescent violence based on the Step Back Program for boys and |
girls. The Clerk of the Circuit Court in the First Judicial |
District shall provide administrative staff and support to the |
task force. |
(b) The Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force shall do the |
following: |
(1) Conduct meetings to evaluate the effectiveness and |
feasibility of statewide implementation of the curricula |
of the Step Back Program at Oak Park and River Forest High |
School, located in Cook County, Illinois, for the |
prevention of domestic violence. |
(2) Invite the testimony of and confer with experts on |
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relevant topics as needed. |
(3) Propose content for integration into school |
curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence. |
(4) Propose a method of training facilitators on the |
school curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence. |
(5) Propose partnerships with anti-violence agencies |
to assist with the facilitator roles and the nature of the |
partnerships. |
(6) Evaluate the approximate cost per school or school |
district to implement and maintain school curricula aimed |
at preventing domestic violence. |
(7) Propose a funding source or sources to support |
school curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence and |
agencies that provide training to the facilitators, such as |
a fee to be charged in domestic violence, sexual assault, |
and related cases to be collected by the clerk of the court |
for deposit into a special fund in the State treasury and |
to be used to fund a proposed eradicate domestic violence |
program in the schools of this State. |
(8) Propose an evaluation structure to ensure that the |
school curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence is |
effectively taught by trained facilitators. |
(9) Propose a method of evaluation for the purpose of |
modifying the content of the curriculum over time, |
including whether studies of the program should be |
conducted by the University of Illinois' Interpersonal |
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Violence Prevention Information Center. |
(10) Recommend legislation developed by the task |
force, such as amending Sections 27-5 through 27-13.3 and |
27-23.4 of this Code, and legislation to create a fee to be |
charged in domestic violence, sexual assault, and related |
cases to be collected by the clerk of court for deposit |
into a special fund in the State treasury and to be used to |
fund a proposed eradicate domestic violence program in the |
schools of this State. |
(11) Produce a report of the task force's findings on |
best practices and policies, which shall include a plan |
with a phased and prioritized implementation timetable for |
implementation of school curricula aimed at preventing |
domestic violence in schools. The task force shall submit a |
report to the General Assembly on or before April 1, 2013 |
on its findings, recommendations, and implementation plan. |
Any task force reports must be published on the State Board |
of Education's Internet website on the date the report is |
delivered to the General Assembly. |
(c) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the |
House of Representatives shall each appoint one co-chairperson |
of the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force. The Minority |
Leader of the Senate and the Minority Leader of the House of |
Representatives shall each appoint one member to the task |
force. In addition, the task force shall be comprised of the |
following members appointed by the State Board of Education and |
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shall be representative of the geographic, racial, and ethnic |
diversity of this State: |
(1) Four representatives involved with a program for |
high school students at a high school that is located in a |
municipality with a population of 2,000,000 or more and the |
program is a daily, 6-week to 9-week, 45-session, |
gender-specific, primary prevention course designed to |
raise awareness of topics such as dating and domestic |
violence, any systematic conduct that causes measurable |
physical harm or emotional distress, sexual assault, |
digital abuse, self-defense, and suicide. |
(2) A representative of an interpersonal violence |
prevention program within a State university. |
(3) A representative of a statewide nonprofit, |
nongovernmental, domestic violence organization. |
(4) A representative of a different nonprofit, |
nongovernmental domestic violence organization that is |
located in a municipality with a population of 2,000,000 or |
more. |
(5) A representative of a statewide nonprofit, |
nongovernmental, sexual assault organization. |
(6) A representative of a different nonprofit, |
nongovernmental, sexual assault organization based in a |
county with a population of 3,000,000 or more. |
(7) The State Superintendent of Education or his or her |
designee. |
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(8) The Chief Executive Officer of City of Chicago |
School District 299 or his or her designee or the President |
of the Chicago Board of Education or his or her designee. |
(9) A representative of the Department of Human |
Services. |
(10) A representative of a statewide, nonprofit |
professional organization representing law enforcement |
executives. |
(11) A representative of the Chicago Police |
Department, Youth Services Division. |
(12) The Clerk of the Circuit Court in the First |
Judicial District or his or her designee. |
(13) A representative of a statewide professional |
teachers organization. |
(14) A representative of a different statewide |
professional teachers organization. |
(15) A representative of a professional teachers |
organization in a city having a population exceeding |
500,000. |
(16) A representative of an organization representing |
principals. |
(17) A representative of an organization representing |
school administrators. |
(18) A representative of an organization representing |
school boards. |
(19) A representative of an organization representing |
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school business officials. |
(20) A representative of an organization representing |
large unit school districts. |
(d) The following underlying purposes should be liberally |
construed by the task force convened under this Section: |
(1) Recognize that, according to the Centers for |
Disease Control and Prevention, National Intimate Partner |
and Sexual Violence Survey, December 2010 Summary Report, |
on average 24 people per minute are victims of rape, |
physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in |
the United States, equaling more than 12 million women and |
men. |
(2) Recognize that abused children and children |
exposed to domestic violence in their homes may have short |
and long-term physical, emotional, and learning problems, |
including increased aggression, decreased responsiveness |
to adults, failure to thrive, posttraumatic stress |
disorder, depression, anxiety, hypervigilance and |
hyperactivity, eating and sleeping problems, and |
developmental delays, according to the Journal of |
Interpersonal Violence and the Futures Without Violence |
organization. |
(3) Recognize that the Illinois Violence Prevention |
Authority has found that children exposed to violence in |
the media may become numb to the horror of violence, may |
gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems, may |
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imitate the violence they see, and may identify with |
certain characters, victims, or victimizers. |
(4) Recognize that crimes and the incarceration of |
youth are often associated with a history of child abuse |
and exposure to domestic violence, according to Futures |
Without Violence. |
(5) Recognize that the cost of prosecuting crime in |
this State is unnecessarily high due to a lack of |
prevention programs designed to eradicate domestic |
violence. |
(6) Recognize that sexual violence, stalking, and |
intimate partner violence are serious and widespread |
public health problems for children and adults in this |
State. |
(7) Recognize that intervention programs aimed at |
preventing domestic violence may yield better results than |
programs aimed at treating the victims of domestic |
violence, because treatment programs may reduce the |
likelihood that a particular woman will be re-victimized, |
but might not otherwise reduce the overall amount of |
domestic violence. |
(8) Recognize that uniform, effective, feasible, and |
widespread prevention of sexual violence and intimate |
partner violence is a high priority in this State. |
(9) Recognize that the Step Back Program at Oak Park |
and River Forest High School in Cook County, Illinois, is a |
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daily, 6 to 9 week, 45-session, gender-specific, primary |
prevention course for high school students designed to |
raise awareness of topics, including dating and domestic |
violence, bullying and harassment, sexual assault, digital |
abuse, self-defense, and suicide. The Step Back Program is |
co-facilitated by the high school and a nonprofit, |
nongovernmental domestic violence prevention specialist |
and service provider. |
(10) Develop a statewide effective prevention course |
for high school students based on the Step Back Program for |
boys and girls designed to prevent interpersonal, |
adolescent violence. |
(e) Members of the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force |
shall receive no compensation for their participation, but may |
be reimbursed by the State Board of Education for expenses in |
connection with their participation, including travel, if |
funds are available. |
(f) Nothing in this Section or in the prevention course is |
intended to infringe upon any right to exercise free expression |
or the free exercise of religion or religiously based views |
protected under the First Amendment to the United States |
Constitution or under Section 3 or 4 of Article 1 of the |
Illinois Constitution.
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law.
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