Bill Text: IL SB3222 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Allows parents of students to exempt their children from participation in a law enforcement drill.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3222 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3222-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3222 Introduced 2/10/2020, by Sen. Scott M. Bennett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 128/20
Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Allows parents of students to exempt their children from participation in a law enforcement drill.
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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 Safety Drill Act is amended by
changing Section 20 as follows:
(105 ILCS 128/20)
Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local
authority participation.
(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
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

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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
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

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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
additional bus evacuation drills. All drills shall be conducted
at each school building that houses school children.
(b-5) Notwithstanding the minimum requirements established
by this Act, private schools that do not utilize a bus to
transport students for any purpose are exempt from subsection
(b) of this Section, provided that the chief school
administrator of the private school provides written assurance

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to the State Board of Education that the private school does
not plan to utilize a bus to transport students for any purpose
during the current academic year. The assurance must be made on
a form supplied by the State Board of Education and filed no
later than October 15. If a private school utilizes a bus to
transport students for any purpose during an academic year when
an assurance pursuant to this subsection (b-5) has been filed
with the State Board of Education, the private school shall
immediately notify the State Board of Education and comply with
subsection (b) of this Section no later than 30 calendar days
after utilization of the bus to transport students, except
that, at the discretion of the private school, students chosen
for participation in the bus evacuation drill need include only
the subgroup of students that are utilizing bus transportation.
(c) During each academic year, schools must conduct a law
enforcement drill to address a school shooting incident. No
later than 90 days after the first day of each school year,
schools must conduct at least one law enforcement drill that
addresses an active threat or an active shooter within a school
building. Such drills must be conducted according to the school
district's or private school's emergency and crisis response
plans, protocols, and procedures to evaluate the preparedness
of school personnel and students. Law enforcement drills must
be conducted on days and times when students are normally
present in the school building and must involve participation
from all school personnel and students present at school at the

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time of the drill, except that administrators, or school
support personnel, or students' parents in their discretion may
exempt students from the drill. The appropriate local law
enforcement agency shall observe the administration of the
drill. 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
the drill without participation from the agency.
(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.

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(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.
(Source: P.A. 100-443, eff. 8-25-17; 100-996, eff. 1-1-19.)