| IL | SB0008 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-01
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB1559 | Engross | Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, every public high school may include in its curriculum a unit of instruction on media literacy; defines "media literacy". Provides requirements for the unit of instructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-01
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB4306 | Engross | Amends the Charter Schools Law of the School Code. With respect to a charter school's retention of an outside, independent contractor to audit the charter school's finances, provides that the contractor shall not be an employee of the charter school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-01
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2918 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-01
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3601 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Within 10 days after a superintendent, regional office of education, or entity that provides background checks of license holders to public schools receives information of a pending criminal charge against a license holder for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-01
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB5832 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to establish and maintain a homeless student pilot program during the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years at Ryan Banks Academy ("the School") for at-risk homeless students or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-01
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB2281 | Intro | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that a student whose 22nd birthday occurs during the school year is eligible for special education services through the end of the school year (rather than being eligible for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB5752 | Intro | Amends the School Code and various Acts relating to the governance of public universities and community colleges in Illinois. Provides that the governing board of each school district, public university, and community college district must allow a st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5804 | Intro | Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that Juneteenth National Freedom Day shall be observed on June 19 of each year as a holiday throughout the State (currently, not a holiday and is observed on the third Saturday of June of each year)....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5809 | Intro | Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, in a municipality with at least one high school in a county of 175,000 or more inhabitants, the municipality shall include in its search for new hires for its police department candidates who are in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5817 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Sets forth a list of nonfiction, fiction, and children's books about racism that shall be required reading for students in every public elementary and secondary school beginning with the 2021-2022 school year. Requires that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5820 | Intro | Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the membership of the local school council for each secondary attendance center shall include 3 full-time student members (rather t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5851 | Intro | Creates the Inclusive American History Act. Establishes the Inclusive American History Commission to (i) address the deficiencies and inadequacies in both perspective and content in traditional history course material and instruction and (ii) develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5852 | Intro | Amends the School Code to create the Mental Health Task Force for Communication, Intelligence, Empathy, Emotion, and Empowerment. Provides that the purpose of the task force is to explore and determine a method and program for all students in primary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB0426 | Intro | Amends the Farm Fresh Schools Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-06
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB0449 | Engross | Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. With regard to a student who is a victim of gender-based violence and who seeks transfer to another school, provides that the school district the student transfers to must be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-06
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB2474 | Intro | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that a course in financial literacy may be taken towards the fulfillment of the mathematics requirement that each pupil entering the 9th grade must successfully complete to receive a hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson |
| IL | SB2364 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an early childhood education block grant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-20
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine |
| IL | SB1453 | Intro | Amends the Election Code, the Township Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, and the School Code to provide exemptions and requirements allowing a person previously convicted of an infamous crime to hold elective office. Amends the Unified Code of Corre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-12
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB4954 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Adds as commemorative holidays January 15 (to be known as Humanitarian Day and observed as a day of respect for the principles of human and civil rights and to involve the use of the color white as a visual affirmation to prac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-12
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB4011 | Intro | Amends the Compulsory Attendance of Pupils Article of the School Code. Provides that a child may be absent from a public school because of religious reasons, including the observance of a religious holiday or participation in religious instruction. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-09
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB4783 | Intro | Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that an association or other entity that has, as one of its purposes, promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3875 | Intro | Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that Juneteenth National Freedom Day shall be observed on June 19 of each year as a holiday throughout the State (currently, not a holiday and is observed on the third Saturday of June of each year)....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB0190 | Engross | Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, each school district must provide a parent or guardian of an at-risk student information about appropriate and available community-based or in-school academic support se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1268 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB2170 | Engross | Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following change. Provides that the minimum qualifying score for eligibility to receive the State Seal of Biliteracy must be established by the State Board of Education by rule (rather than mus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2360 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers and duties of the State Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2535 | Intro | Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3641 | Intro | Amends the Conversion and Formation of School Districts Article of the School Code. Provides that, upon dissolution of an elementary district, each individual parcel of that elementary district must be annexed by the school district closest geographi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB0052 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the State Board of Education shall develop and maintain a program aimed at facilitating education in advanced manufacturing technical skills. Provides that the program s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB0040 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school board must provide free transportation to and from the assigned public school in the school distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB0022 | Intro | Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Requires the Chicago Board of Education to establish a school nurse pilot program. Provides that under the program, the Board shall require the top 20% of the lowest performing schools in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB0431 | Intro | Amends the Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB2553 | Intro | Creates the Education Prioritization Act. Beginning with fiscal year 2020, requires the General Assembly to appropriate for the evidence-based funding formula under the School Code an amount that is equal to or exceeds the sum of: (i) the total amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3432 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Requires each school district to maintain an on-site trauma kit at each school of the district for bleeding emergencies. Provides that at least once every 2 years, a school board shall conduct in-service training for all schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB2047 | Engross | Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a health insurer that provides prescription drug benefits shall offer generic alternatives to brand name epinephrine and insulin auto-injectors, where available. Amends the State Employees Group Insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3685 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education, in cooperation with the Department of Human Services, must develop, publish, and make publicly available policies and procedures that comply with the federal Family Educational Right...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3700 | Intro | Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs shall provide coverage for prescription inhalants for those 18 years old or younger sufferi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3642 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the Chicago school district must include in its curriculum a unit of instruction on nursing. Requires the State Board of Education to prepare and make available to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3876 | Intro | Amends the Compulsory Attendance Article of the School Code. With respect to the exceptions to the compulsory attendance requirement, provides that absence for cause by illness shall include the mental or behavioral health of a student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3897 | Intro | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that a student whose 22nd birthday occurs during the school year is eligible for special education services through the end of the school year (rather than being eligible for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3847 | Intro | Amends the School Construction law. With regard to early childhood construction grants, provides that (i) a public school district assigned to Tier 1 under the evidence-based funding formula under the School Code or any other eligible entity in an ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3917 | Intro | Amends the evidence-based funding provisions of the School Code. Provides that funds received by the Chicago school district for low-income, English learner, and special education resources must be distributed to every school of the district in the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3928 | Intro | Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Adds e-cigarettes and other vapor devices as one of the educational areas the Comprehensive Health Education Program must include. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3935 | Intro | Amends the School Code. In provisions requiring parental notification of law enforcement detainment and questioning of a student on school grounds, specifies that notification and other actions must be made by a law enforcement officer, a school reso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3975 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Prohibits a school district employee or volunteer or an independent contractor of a school district from placing a student in seclusion; defines seclusion. Provides that this prohibition does not apply to the use of seclusion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3973 | Intro | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Allows a private special education facility in this State that is a nonprofit entity and that provides special education services only to students who are referred to it by a public sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3977 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Permits student instruction to be received electronically under a school district's program for e-learning days while students are not physically present because a school was selected to be a polling place under the Election C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3978 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Provides that the school board of a school district that maintains grades 9 through 12 shall offer home economics as an elective high school course not required for graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB4005 | Intro | Amends the School Code. Creates the School District Efficiency Commission. Provides for the membership and support of the Commission. Requires the Commission to make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on the number of school dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To House Rules Committee |
