| IL | SB0863 | Engross | Amends the School Code. Provides that, for State Board of Education appointments made after the effective date of the amendatory Act, 3 of the members of the State Board must represent the educator community. Sets forth the qualifications for these m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-18
[Hearing: Oct 25 @ 8:30 am]
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB1262 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a school building code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-17
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate |
| IL | HB2977 | Veto | 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] | 2017-10-17
Motion Filed Override Governor Veto Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch |
| IL | HB4119 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Removes a provision allowing the corporate authorities of a school district to issue refunding bonds without submitting the question to the electors of the school district for approval. Instead, sets forth provisions requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-17
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3298 | Veto | Amends the School Code. With respect to the annual budget of a school district with under 500,000 inhabitants, provides that, beginning with the budget for the 2017-2018 school year, 85% of State funding under the State aid formula provisions of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-12
Motion Filed Override Governor Veto Rep. Sue Scherer |
| IL | HB3745 | Veto | Amends the School Code. Requires public and charter schools to post, in English and Spanish, information regarding local community after-school programs at each school campus in at least one high-traffic, highly and clearly visible, public area that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-12
Placed on Calendar Total Veto |
| IL | HB4089 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Creates the Tax Credit Scholarship Commission. Provides for the membership of the Commission. Provides that the Commission shall set standards for the tax credit scholarship program created under the Invest in Kids Act, gather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-12
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB4094 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to withhold a school district's evidence-based funding for any given school year in which the chief county assessment officer for any portion of the district intentionally fails to properl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-12
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB0013 | Intro | Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Provides that, for the 2017 and 2018 levy years, the term "taxing district" means all taxing districts in the State, including home rule units. Provides that, for the 2017 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-10
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1130 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning regional boards of school trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-10
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1154 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning grants for preschool educational programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-10
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1129 | Intro | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-10
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1155 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning recomputation of State aid claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-10
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2194 | Intro | Amends the 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 survivor's annuitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-10
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| 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] | 2017-09-28
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB2464 | Intro | Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to Illinois State University for its FY18 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-28
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB2545 | Engross | Amends the School Code. With regard to training to identify the warning signs of mental illness and suicidal behavior, requires all personnel (rather than specific personnel) to undergo the training annually. Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-28
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB2527 | Pass | 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] | 2017-09-22
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0514 |
| IL | SB1290 | Pass | 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] | 2017-09-22
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0531 |
| IL | SB1483 | Pass | 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] | 2017-09-22
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0532 |
| IL | HB0760 | Pass | Amends provisions of the School Code concerning debt limitations. Provides that notwithstanding other provisions of law, bonds issued by East Prairie School District 73 with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $47,353,147 and approved by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0503 |
| IL | HB2993 | Pass | 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] | 2017-09-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0505 |
| IL | HB2505 | 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, Brookfield LaGrange Park School District Number 95 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-13
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB0370 | Pass | 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] | 2017-09-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0468 |
| IL | SB1947 | Pass | 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] | 2017-08-31
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0465 |
| IL | SB0001 | Veto | 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] | 2017-08-30
Bill Dead - Amendatory Veto |
| IL | SB0444 | Engross | Amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning applications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-28
House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 005-000-000 |
| IL | HB0243 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Creates the police training academy job training program. Requires any school district with a high school to establish a partnership with a local police department, county sheriff, or police training academy to establish a job...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0331 |
| IL | HB0261 | Pass | Amends the Education for Homeless Children Act. Provides that if a child loses permanent housing and becomes a homeless person, within the meaning of the Act, and the parent or guardian of the child finds temporary housing or shelter that still rende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0332 |
| IL | HB0655 | Pass | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. With respect to the renewal of a Professional Educator License, provides that if a license holder's electronic mail address is available, the State Board of Education shall send him or her not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0339 |
| IL | HB0826 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Provides that it is the power of a school board to hire school social workers. Sets forth qualifications to use the title of "school social worker". Provides that school districts may employ a sufficient number of school socia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0356 |
| IL | SB0764 | Pass | 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] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0413 |
| IL | HB2461 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Requires school report cards to include the most current data collected and maintained (rather than possessed) by the State Board of Education. Requires the State Board to include in the school report cards certain demographic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0364 |
| IL | HB2612 | Pass | Amends the Boundary Changes Article of the School Code. Makes changes concerning the purpose and applicability of the Article; defining "legal resident voter"; school districts in educational service regions of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants; changing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0374 |
| IL | SB1351 | Veto | Amends the Illinois School Student Records Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Governor Vetoed |
| IL | SB1486 | Pass | Amends the School Code and the School Safety Drill Act. In provisions concerning home or hospital instruction, adds references to advanced practice nurses. In provisions concerning required high school courses, removes obsolete language. Provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0443 |
| IL | SB1532 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the compulsory school age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0448 |
| IL | SB1585 | Pass | Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal date of the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 from January 1, 2018 to January 1, 2028. Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. Reorganizes the Act by adding titles and renumberi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0453 |
| IL | HB0106 | Pass | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the holder of a master's degree in public administration who completes an additional 6 semester hours of internship in school business management from a regionally accredited ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-24
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0288 |
| IL | HB0425 | Pass | Amends the Regional Superintendent of Schools Article of the School Code with respect to the Section concerning salaries. Removes certain provisions concerning the abolition of the office of regional superintendent of schools in educational services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-24
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0294 |
| IL | SB1692 | Pass | Amends the School Code to make changes to provisions concerning student athletes and concussions and head injuries. Provides that a school may appoint a physician assistant to serve on its concussion oversight team. With respect to a student who has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-24
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0309 |
| IL | SB1796 | Pass | Amends the Illinois School Student Records Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-24
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0315 |
| IL | HB2898 | Pass | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Removes the date (of June 30, 2021) until which a principal endorsement may be affixed to the Professional Educator License of a person who has, among other qualifications, at least 4 total ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-22
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0267 |
| IL | SB0757 | Pass | 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] | 2017-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0222 |
| IL | SB0865 | Pass | 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] | 2017-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0227 |
| IL | HB2618 | Pass | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. For parties who agree to not use mediation during a challenge, provides that a parent shall have 10 days after a party declines to use mediation to file a request for a due process hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0122 |
| IL | HB2794 | Pass | 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] | 2017-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0133 |
| IL | HB2740 | Pass | 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] | 2017-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0130 |
| IL | HB3169 | Pass | 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] | 2017-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0159 |
| IL | HB2950 | Pass | 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] | 2017-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0137 |
