Bill Text: IL SB3955 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-07 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham [SB3955 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB3955-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB3955 Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Sue Rezin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/2-3.192 new
105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new
Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.
LRB102 24057 NLB 33277 b
A BILL FOR
SB3955 LRB102 24057 NLB 33277 b
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 Sections
2-3.192 and 3-14.32 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.192 new)
Sec. 2-3.192. Truancy; COVID-19. The State Board of
Education shall cooperate with a school district organized
under Article 34 to locate students that stopped attending
school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to
address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism.
(105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new)
Sec. 3-14.32. Truancy; COVID-19. To increase the regional
office of education's capacity to work with school districts
to locate students that stopped attending school since the
beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of
truancy and chronic absenteeism.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.