Bill Text: IL HB5689 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Creates the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force. Requires the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force to develop a statewide effective and feasible prevention course for high school students designed to prevent interpersonal, adolescent violence based on the Step Back Program at Oak Park and River Forest High School. Sets forth the duties of the task force, the composition of the task force, and the underlying purposes of the task force. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-20 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-1037 [HB5689 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5689-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5689 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/22-75 new
Amends the School Code. Creates the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force. Requires the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force to develop a statewide effective and feasible prevention course for high school students designed to prevent interpersonal, adolescent violence based on the Step Back Program at Oak Park and River Forest High School. Sets forth the duties of the task force, the composition of the task force, and the underlying purposes of the task force. Effective immediately.
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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
22-75 as follows:
(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 State Board of Education 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
relevant topics as needed.

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(3) Propose content for integration into school
curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence.
(4) Propose the curricula content that should be
mandatory versus voluntary to best provide the desired
result of eradication of domestic violence.
(5) Propose a method of training facilitators on the
school curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence.
(6) Propose partnerships with anti-violence agencies
to assist with the facilitator roles and the nature of the
partnerships.
(7) Evaluate the approximate cost per school or school
district to implement and maintain school curricula aimed
at preventing domestic violence.
(8) 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.
(9) Propose an evaluation structure to ensure that the
school curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence is
effectively taught by trained facilitators.
(10) Propose a method of evaluation for the purpose of
modifying the content of the curriculum over time,

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including whether studies of the program should be
conducted by the University of Illinois' Interpersonal
Violence Prevention Information Center.
(11) Recommend legislation developed by the task
force, such as amending to Sections 27-5 through 27-13.3,
27-23.4, and 27-23.7 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.
(12) 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. In addition to
the 2 co-chairpersons, the task force shall be comprised of the
following members, appointed by the State Board of Education,

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and shall be representative of the geographic, racial, ethnic,
and cultural diversity of this State:
(1) Two representatives of Sarah's Inn, a nonprofit,
nongovernmental domestic violence prevention specialist
and service provider.
(2) A representative of the Interpersonal Violence
Prevention Information Center at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.
(3) A representative of the Illinois Coalition Against
Domestic Violence, a statewide nonprofit, nongovernmental,
domestic violence organization.
(4) A representative of the Chicago Metropolitan
Battered Women's Network, a nonprofit, nongovernmental,
domestic violence organization.
(5) Two representatives of the Illinois Coalition
Against Sexual Assault, a statewide nonprofit,
nongovernmental, sexual assault organization.
(6) A representative of Rape Victim Advocates, a
nonprofit, nongovernmental, sexual assault organization.
(7) A representative of Rape Aggression Defense
Systems, a nonprofit, nongovernmental, physical
self-defense organization.
(8) The State Superintendent of Education or his or her
designee.
(9) The Chief Executive Officer of City of Chicago
School District 299 or his or her designee or the President

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of the Chicago Board of Education or his or her designee.
(10) Two representatives of Oak Park and River Forest
High School in Cook County, Illinois.
(11) A representative of the Department of Human
Services.
(12) A representative of the Illinois Association of
Chiefs of Police.
(13) A representative of the Chicago Police
Department, Youth Services Division.
(14) The Clerk of the Circuit Court for the First
Judicial District or his or her designee.
(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, hyper vigilance and

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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
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

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

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becoming law.