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| Public Act 098-0048
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| SB1625 Enrolled | LRB098 09714 NHT 39863 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Safety Drill Act is amended by |
changing Sections 15 and 20 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 128/15)
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Sec. 15. Types of drills. Under this Act, the following |
school safety drills shall be instituted by all schools in this |
State: |
(1) School evacuation drills, which shall address and |
prepare students and school personnel for situations that |
occur when conditions outside of a school building are |
safer than inside a school building. Evacuation incidents |
are based on the needs of particular communities and may |
include without limitation the following: |
(A) fire; |
(B) suspicious items or persons; |
(C) incidents involving hazardous materials, |
including, but not limited to, chemical, incendiary, |
and explosives; and |
(D) bomb threats. |
(2) Bus evacuation drills, which shall address and |
prepare students and school personnel for situations that |
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occur when conditions outside of a bus are safer than |
inside the bus. Evacuation incidents are based on the needs |
of particular communities and may include without |
limitation the following: |
(A) fire; |
(B) suspicious items; and |
(C) incidents involving hazardous materials, |
including, but not limited to, chemical, incendiary, |
and explosives. |
(3) Law enforcement drills, which shall address and |
prepare students and school personnel for situations |
calling for the involvement of law enforcement when |
conditions inside a school building are safer than outside |
of a school building and it is necessary to protect |
building occupants from potential dangers in a school |
building. Law enforcement drills may involve situations |
that call for the reverse-evacuation or the lock-down of a |
school building. Evacuation or reverse-evacuation |
Evacuations incidents shall may include a shooting |
incident. without limitation the following: |
(A) shooting incidents; |
(B) bomb threats; |
(C) suspicious persons; and |
(D) incidents involving hazardous materials. |
(4) Severe weather and shelter-in-place drills, which |
shall address and prepare students for situations |
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involving severe weather emergencies or the release of |
external gas or chemicals. Severe weather and |
shelter-in-place incidents shall be based on the needs and |
environment of particular communities and may include |
without limitation the following: |
(A) severe weather, including, but not limited to, |
shear winds, lightning, and earthquakes; |
(B) incidents involving hazardous materials, |
including, but not limited to, chemical, incendiary, |
and explosives; and |
(C) incidents involving weapons of mass |
destruction, including, but not limited to, |
biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.
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(Source: P.A. 94-600, eff. 8-16-05.)
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(105 ILCS 128/20)
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Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local |
authority participation.
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(a) During each academic year, schools must conduct a |
minimum of 3 school evacuation drills to address and prepare |
students and school personnel for fire incidents. These drills |
must meet all of the following criteria: |
(1) One of the 3 school evacuation drills shall require |
the participation of the appropriate local fire department |
or district. |
(A) Each local fire department or fire district |
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must contact the appropriate school administrator or |
his or her designee no later than September 1 of each |
year in order to arrange for the participation of the |
department or district in the school evacuation drill. |
(B) Each school administrator or his or her |
designee must contact the responding local fire |
official no later than September 15 of each year and |
propose to the local fire official 4 dates within the |
month of October, during at least 2 different weeks of |
October, on which the drill shall occur. The fire |
official may choose any of the 4 available dates, and |
if he or she does so, the drill shall occur on that |
date. |
(C) The school administrator or his or her designee |
and the local fire official may also, by mutual |
agreement, set any other date for the drill, including |
a date outside of the month of October. |
(D) If the fire official does not select one of the |
4 offered dates in October or set another date by |
mutual agreement, the requirement that the school |
include the local fire service in one of its mandatory |
school evacuation drills shall be waived. Schools, |
however, shall continue to be strongly encouraged to |
include the fire service in a school evacuation drill |
at a mutually agreed-upon time. |
(E) Upon the participation of the local fire |
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service, the appropriate local fire official shall |
certify that the school evacuation drill was |
conducted. |
(F) When scheduling the school evacuation drill, |
the school administrator or his or her designee and the |
local fire department or fire district may, by mutual |
agreement on or before September 14, choose to waive |
the provisions of subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) of |
this paragraph (1). |
Additional school evacuation drills for fire incidents |
may involve the participation of the appropriate local fire |
department or district. |
(2) Schools may conduct additional school evacuation |
drills to account for other evacuation incidents, |
including without limitation suspicious items or bomb |
threats. |
(3) All drills shall be conducted at each school |
building that houses school children. |
(b) During each academic year, schools must conduct a |
minimum of one bus evacuation drill. This drill shall be |
accounted for in the curriculum in all public schools and in |
all other educational institutions in this State that are |
supported or maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds |
and that provide instruction in any of the grades kindergarten |
through 12. This curriculum shall include instruction in safe |
bus riding practices for all students. Schools may conduct |
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additional bus evacuation drills. All drills shall be conducted |
at each school building that houses school children. |
(c) During each academic year, schools must conduct a law |
enforcement drill to address a school shooting incident |
incidents, including without limitation reverse evacuations, |
lock-downs, shootings, bomb threats, or hazardous materials. |
Such drills must be conducted according to the school |
district's or private school's emergency and crisis response |
plans, protocols, and procedures, with the participation of the |
appropriate law enforcement agency. Law enforcement drills may |
be conducted on days and times when students are not present in |
the school building. All drills must be conducted at each |
school building that houses school children. |
(1) A law enforcement drill must meet all of the |
following criteria: |
(A) During each calendar year, the appropriate |
local law enforcement agency shall contact the |
appropriate school administrator to request to |
participate in a law enforcement drill. The school |
administrator and local law enforcement agency shall |
set, by mutual agreement, a date for the drill. |
(A-5) The drill shall require the on-site |
participation of the local law enforcement agency. If a |
mutually agreeable date cannot be reached between the |
school administrator and the appropriate local law |
enforcement agency, then the school shall still hold |
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the drill without participation from the agency. and |
may actively participate on-site in a drill. |
(B) Upon the participation of a local law |
enforcement agency in a law enforcement drill, the |
appropriate local law enforcement official shall |
certify that the law enforcement drill was conducted |
and notify the school in a timely manner of any |
deficiencies noted during the drill. |
(2) Schools may conduct additional law enforcement |
drills at their discretion. |
(3) (Blank). |
(d) During each academic year, schools must conduct a |
minimum of one severe weather and shelter-in-place drill to |
address and prepare students and school personnel for possible |
tornado incidents and may conduct additional severe weather and |
shelter-in-place drills to account for other incidents, |
including without limitation earthquakes or hazardous |
materials. All drills shall be conducted at each school |
building that houses school children.
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(Source: P.A. 94-600, eff. 8-16-05; 95-1015, eff. 12-15-08.)
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