| IL | HB2527 | Engross | Amends the School Code. Authorizes eligible applicants (defined as a non-profit entity in partnership with a regional superintendent of schools, the chief administrator of an intermediate service center that has the authority to issue a high school d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-25
To House Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee |
| IL | HB2721 | Enroll | Amends the Illinois Insurance Code, the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, the Limited Health Service Organization Act, and the Volunt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-25
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2993 | Enroll | Amends the Department of Public Health Act and the School Code. Provides that school districts may serve students produce grown and harvested by students in school-owned or community gardens if the produce meets requirements adopted by rule by the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-25
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2977 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Provides that every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction practicing writing in cursive.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-25
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB4069 | Intro | Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Evidence-Based Funding for Student Success Act. Amends the Economic Development Area Tax Increment Allocation Act, State Finance Act, Property Tax Code, Illinois Pension Code, Innovation Development and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-25
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Thomas M. Bennett |
| IL | HB0370 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires each public school and charter school to post (1) the current toll-free telephone number of the Department of Children and Family Services' child abuse hotline; (2) instructions to call 9-1-1 for emergencies; and (3) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-24
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB1774 | Engross | Amends the Election Code. Provides for the election of the Chicago Board of Education starting with the 2019 consolidated election. Makes related changes. Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that a person shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-24
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3169 | Enroll | Amends the Children and Family Services Act by defining "youth in care" as persons placed in the temporary custody or guardianship of the Department of Children and Family Services pursuant to the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Amends various Acts by ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2950 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires each school, charter school, and non-public, non-sectarian elementary or secondary school to provide information on a quarterly basis to students concerning what to do if the student is being bullied and what resource...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3059 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires a school district's school report card to include average daily attendance by grade level. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2957 | Enroll | Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that every policy of accident and health insurance amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Act that provides coverage for prescription drugs shall provide for sync...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3139 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2018, every school district, charter school, or alternative school or any school receiving public funds shall collect and review its chronic absence data and determine what systems of support an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3215 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires a school district to make feminine hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in the bathrooms of school buildings. Provides that this requirement also applies to charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | SB1290 | Engross | Amends the School Code. In a Section concerning the debt limitations of school districts, provides that, in addition to all other authority to issue bonds, Waltham Community Consolidated School District 185 may incur indebtedness in an aggregate prin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Elementary & Secondary Education: Licensing, Administration & Oversight; 005-002-000 |
| IL | HB3437 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires school boards to give at least 60 days' notice of the closure of a school for at least one school year to all affected students, parents, and legal guardians. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3368 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to create model curriculum for use by school districts with secondary schools for the teaching of entrepreneur skills. Requires the State Board to encourage the input of business groups an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3369 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to establish guidelines for the creation of a high-skilled manufacturing curriculum to be used in vocational education programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3601 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Provides that students in grades 11 and 12 of East St. Louis School District 189 may take courses at Southwestern Illinois College for dual credit at no cost to the student. Amends the Public Community College Act to make conf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3507 | Enroll | Amends the Compulsory Attendance Article of the School Code. Allows a child to be absent from school on a particular day or days or at a particular time of day for the reason that his or her parent or legal guardian is an active duty member of the un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3820 | Enroll | Amends the Educator Licensure and Employment of Teachers Articles of the School Code. Provides that no one may be licensed to teach or supervise or be otherwise employed in the public schools of this State who is not at least 19 (instead of 20) years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3855 | Enroll | Creates the First 2017 General Revisory Act. Combines multiple versions of Sections amended by more than one Public Act. Renumbers Sections of various Acts to eliminate duplication. Corrects obsolete cross-references and technical errors. Makes styli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3903 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Provides that there shall be no place of detention or criminal processing established or maintained on the grounds of any school. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | SB2220 | Intro | Amends the State aid formula provisions of the School Code. With respect to the equalized assessed valuation used to calculate a school district's available local resources, removes provisions concerning school districts that contain a redevelopment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB0757 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. With respect to requiring the scores attained by a student on the State assessment that includes a college and career ready determination to be entered on the student's transcript, provides that these scores must be removed fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3052 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Provides for the combination of Chicago Heights School District 170 and Ford Heights School District 169 into a new Heights School District 170. Sets forth requirements concerning transitioning the school board and sets forth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
House Floor Amendment No. 4 Correctional Note Filed as Amended |
| IL | HB2794 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Provides that a school board shall require the school district's high schools, if any, to inform all 11th and 12th grade students of dual enrollment and dual credit opportunities at public community colleges for qualified stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2740 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Provides that the Illinois Community College Board shall establish alternative methods of credentialing for the issuance of high school equivalency certification throughout the State. Allows the Board to offer the credentialin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB4064 | Intro | Amends the General Assembly, State Employee, State Universities, Downstate Teacher, and Chicago Teacher Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Requires active Tier 1 employees to elect either to (i) have automatic annual increases in retirement and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB1846 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires the Department of Public Health to promulgate rules and regulations to include asthma in the standard school health examination. Makes conforming changes. Amends the Illinois Health Statistics Act. Requires the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2442 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. With respect to State assessments in high schools, provides that the assessment administered by the State Board of Education for the purpose of student application to or admissions consideration by institutions of higher educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-16
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2426 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the Early Childhood Education Block Grant, provides that (i) the requirement to fund programs for children ages 0-3 applies to funds distributed by this State and funds distributed to the Chicago schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-16
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2470 | Enroll | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that a career and technical educator or a part-time provisional career and technical educator endorsement may be issued to an applicant who, among other requirements, has a minimum of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-16
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2540 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. With respect to a school district petitioning to withdraw from its special education joint agreement program, provides that if the petition for withdrawal is not approved by all of the remaining member districts and the petiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-16
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2663 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Provides that early childhood programs receiving State Board of Education grants for preschool educational programs shall prohibit the expulsion of children. Provides instead that when persistent and serious challenging behavi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-16
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | SB1829 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning licensure of educators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-16
Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson |
| IL | SB2217 | Intro | Creates the FY2017 and FY2018 Budget Implementation Act. Amends various Acts to make the changes in State programs necessary to implement the FY2017 and FY2018 budgets. Provides that certain provisions in Article 55 are dependent on the enactment of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1796 | Enroll | Amends the Illinois School Student Records Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Thomas Cullerton |
| IL | HB1254 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the State Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-09
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB2369 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires a public school, including a charter school, to provide reasonable accommodations to a lactating pupil on a school campus to express breast milk, breastfeed an infant child, or address other needs related to breastfee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-09
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3869 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires in-service training for school personnel to include training on civil rights and in cultural diversity, including racial and ethnic sensitivity and implicit racial bias. Effective July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-09
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | HB3012 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Allows a specified school district to make a one-time transfer of certain excess funds to the Operations and Maintenance Fund of the district by proper resolution and following a public hearing. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
Sent to the Governor |
| IL | SB0001 | Engross | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction. Effective immediately, but this Act does not take effect at all unless Senate Bills 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of the 100th General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Terry Link |
| IL | SB1483 | Engross | Amends the Illinois School Student Records Act. Provides that a parent's or student's request to inspect and copy records under the Act must be granted no later than 5 business days (rather than 15 school days). Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB0444 | Engross | Amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning applications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) June 30, 2017 |
| IL | SB0446 | Engross | Amends the School Construction Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning referendum requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
House Committee Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Assignments Referred to Education |
| IL | HB1261 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning financial oversight panels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) June 30, 2017 |
| IL | HB1252 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) June 30, 2017 |
| IL | HB1259 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an early childhood education block grant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) June 30, 2017 |
| IL | SB0764 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires each public school and charter school to post, in a clearly visible location in a public area of the school that is readily accessible to students, a sign in English and in Spanish that contains the toll-free telephon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB0865 | Enroll | Amends the School Code. Requires a school district report card to include the total and per pupil normal cost amount the State contributed to the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois in the prior fiscal year for the district's employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
Passed Both Houses |
