Bill Text: IL HB5808 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State shall allow, in its rules and regulations, student-athletes in grades 9 through 12 to transfer to another school and be granted full athletic eligibility at the receiving school if both the sending school's and receiving school's principals or official representatives provide written consent to the association or entity for the transfer. Sets forth what the consent must include. Provides that if the student transfers in a given school year after the official start date of the athletic season for the activity the student was participating in at the sending school, the student is ineligible to participate in that athletic activity for the remainder of the school year. Provides that the receiving school shall enforce any period of ineligibility imposed upon the student by the sending school or that would have been imposed upon the student by the sending school had the student not transferred, even if the student is otherwise eligible under the provisions, which shall be for the remaining duration of the period of ineligibility or 365 days after the date of the transfer, whichever is less.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-08-25 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr [HB5808 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB5808-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB5808 Introduced , by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 25/1.30 new
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State shall allow, in its rules and regulations, student-athletes in grades 9 through 12 to transfer to another school and be granted full athletic eligibility at the receiving school if both the sending school's and receiving school's principals or official representatives provide written consent to the association or entity for the transfer. Sets forth what the consent must include. Provides that if the student transfers in a given school year after the official start date of the athletic season for the activity the student was participating in at the sending school, the student is ineligible to participate in that athletic activity for the remainder of the school year. Provides that the receiving school shall enforce any period of ineligibility imposed upon the student by the sending school or that would have been imposed upon the student by the sending school had the student not transferred, even if the student is otherwise eligible under the provisions, which shall be for the remaining duration of the period of ineligibility or 365 days after the date of the transfer, whichever is less.
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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 Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act
is amended by adding Section 1.30 as follows:
(105 ILCS 25/1.30 new)
Sec. 1.30. Student-athlete transfer.
(a) An association or other entity that has as one of its
purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner
providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of
athletic competition among schools and students within this
State shall allow, in its rules and regulations,
student-athletes in grades 9 through 12 to transfer to another
school and be granted full athletic eligibility at the
receiving school if both the sending school's and receiving
school's principals or official representatives provide
written consent to the association or entity for the transfer.
(b) The consent under subsection (a) shall include
confirmation that, to the best of the principal's or official
representative's knowledge, the principal or official
representative is not aware that any coach, athletic director,
or staff member affiliated with the receiving school's
athletic department conducted any recruitment or engaged in

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any other form of communication with the transferring student
that influenced the decision to transfer.
(c) If the principal or official representative provides
written consent to the association or entity under subsection
(a), the association or entity may not restrict the
transferring student's athletic eligibility, regardless of the
student's reason for transferring. However, if the student
transfers in a given school year after the official start date
of the athletic season for the activity the student was
participating in at the sending school, the student is
ineligible to participate in that athletic activity for the
remainder of the school year.
(d) The receiving school shall enforce any period of
ineligibility imposed upon the student by the sending school
or that would have been imposed upon the student by the sending
school had the student not transferred, even if the student is
otherwise eligible under this Section. This period of
ineligibility at the receiving school shall be for the
remaining duration of the period of ineligibility or 365 days
after the date of the transfer, whichever is less.