Bill Text: IL SB1295 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act to require 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 high schools and high school students within this State to adopt a rule requiring all softball pitchers to wear protective facial gear. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1295 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1295-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB1295 Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 25/1.25 new
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act to require 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 high schools and high school students within this State to adopt a rule requiring all softball pitchers to wear protective facial gear. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
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 1.25 as follows:
(105 ILCS 25/1.25 new)
Sec. 1.25. Protective gear for softball pitchers. 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 high schools and high school students within
this State shall, before January 1, 2018, adopt a rule
requiring all softball pitchers to wear protective facial gear.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.