| IL | SB2006 | Intro
25% | Amends the evidence-based funding provisions of the School Code. Provides that the Minimum Funding Level is equal to $550,000,000 (instead of $350,000,000). Effective July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2236 | Engross
50% | Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. Removes the repeal date for the short-term substitute teacher training program. Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning short-term substitute teacher lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB2349 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish a grant program to support cultural and language immersion programs, gifted and talented programs, and advanced placement progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2327 | Intro
25% | Amends the Children With Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that for individual students with disabilities who attend tier 1 or 2 schools whose program costs exceed 3 times the district's per capita tuition rate, the costs in excess of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2237 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall distribute grants to early childhood education and care nonprofit organizations that are established as a Sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2222 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, all internships for school social workers must be paid internships. Provides that subject to appropriation, the State Board of Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2692 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district shall (instead of may) install a door security locking means on an entrance or classroom door (instead of a door) of a school building. Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Provides that during a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2689 | Engross
50% | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. By June 1, 2025, requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, to establish, by rule, a Montessori education endorsement to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB2753 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall provide stipends for teachers who participate in externships with a manufacturing company in this State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2265 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish a teacher recruitment and retention program, which shall encourage both new and experienced teachers to seek employment with qualifying public schools by providing for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2825 | Intro
25% | Amends the Transportation Article of the School Code. In provisions requiring a school district to provide free transportation for pupils residing one and one-half miles or more from school, provides that a pupil's parent or guardian may designate mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
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| IL | SB2677 | Intro
25% | Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to the Illinois Veteran grant program. Provides that a grant recipient is not required to pay any tuition or mandatory fees while attending a State-controlled university or public commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
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| IL | SB2754 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall pay one-half of the salary of an employee that is employed by a manufacturing company and working within a sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3316 | Intro
25% | Amends various Acts concerning children's mental health. Amends the School Code. Provides that on or before October 1, 2024, the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team, the Office of the Go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3286 | Intro
25% | Amends the Transportation Article of the School Code. With respect to the provision of free transportation for pupils, allows a school district to pay the public transit fees of pupils instead (rather than providing an exception for pupils for whom t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3610 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Deletes provisions stating that: the Department of Juvenile Justice School District Board of Education shall adopt an annual budget for the use of education moneys for the next school year which it deems necessary to defray al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3690 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish a librarian recruitment and retention program, which shall encourage both new and experienced librarians to seek employment with qualifying public schools by providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3553 | Intro
25% | Reinserts the contents of the bill as introduced with the following changes. In provisions concerning accelerated placement, provides that a school district's accelerated placement policy shall cover a student who exceeds State standards in specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3937 | Intro
25% | Creates the Metropolitan Mobility Authority Act, and establishes the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Provides that the Chicago Transit Authority, the Commuter Rail Division and the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3932 | Intro
25% | Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that construction agencies may procure construction and construction-related professional services via job order contracting through the use of competitive sealed proposals. Provides that proposal docume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
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| IL | SB2323 | Pass | Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning buildings for school purposes, provides that for Bloomington School District 87, no referendum shall be required for the purchase, construction, or building of any building...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam |
| IL | SB2235 | Intro
25% | Amends the Care of Students with Diabetes Act. Provides that a school shall maintain a supply of glucagon in any secure location that is immediately accessible to a school nurse or a delegated care aide if a student diagnosed with diabetes attends th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB0995 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1487 | Intro
25% | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that a specialized educator endorsement on an Educator License with Stipulations may be issued to an applicant who is employed in a teaching position at an accredited institution of h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Tom Bennett |
| IL | SB2823 | Intro
25% | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning the conviction of certain offenses as grounds for disqualification for licensure or suspension or revocation of a license, includes the sex offense of abuse by an educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3634 | Intro
25% | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning Substitute Teaching Licenses, requires an applicant who is enrolled in an approved educator preparation program to have either earned at least 75 credit hours or compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1282 | Pass | Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter |
| IL | SB3018 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3017 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2772 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires school boards to report, on their school district's website, a list of the learning materials and activities to be used for student instruction during the school year. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB0015 | Pass | Creates the Chicago Board of Education District Act. Divides the City of Chicago into 10 districts and 20 subdistricts for the purpose of identifying persons who will serve on the Chicago Board of Education. Amends the School Code. Provides that, by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
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| IL | SB1255 | Intro
25% | Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a health benefit plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024 that provides prescription drug coverage or its contracted pharmacy benefit manager shall not engage in or requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2810 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall develop and post on its Internet website a document that provides information to students and residents of a school district on how to pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2572 | Intro
25% | Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning infertility coverage, provides that no group policy of accident and health insurance providing coverage for more than 25 employees that provides pregnancy related benefits may be issued, am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2829 | Intro
25% | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the operating procedures of the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board may provide for the inclusion of nonvoting, ex officio members on the Board. With respect to a for-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2755 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall create and maintain a comprehensive training program in advanced manufacturing to ensure an adequate supply of trained and skilled indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3261 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, at least once every 2 years, a school board shall conduct in-service training for all school district employees on how to identify trafficking in persons under the Crimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3092 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes stylistic changes in provisions concerning institutes or inservice training workshops. In provisions concerning inservice training programs, removes the requirement that the training regarding health conditions of studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3225 | Intro
25% | Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a health benefit plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025 that provides prescription drug coverage through a medical or pharmacy health benefit or its contracted pharmac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3757 | Intro
25% | Creates the Chicago Board of Education District Act. Divides the City of Chicago into 10 districts and 20 subdistricts for the purposes of identifying persons who will serve on the Chicago Board of Education. Amends the School Code. Provides that, by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3777 | Intro
25% | Creates the Department of Early Childhood Act. Creates the Department of Early Childhood to begin operation on July 1, 2024 and transfers to it certain rights, powers, duties, and functions currently exercised by various agencies of State Government....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3644 | Intro
25% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, every public high school shall include instruction on climate change and the impacts and causes of climate change in grades 9 through 12 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3638 | Intro
25% | Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that, by the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, an association or other entity that has, as one of its purposes, promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2132 | Intro
25% | Amends the Pupils Article of the School Code. In provisions regarding compulsory school age, provides that a student absent from a school in which the student is regularly enrolled shall be considered as being in attendance if the reason for such abs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2347 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, the Election Code, the Children and Family Services Act, the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act, the Township Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the Public Library District Act of 1991, the Sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3635 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning daily pupil attendance calculation, removes provisions specifying that days of attendance by pupils through verified participation in an e-learning program adopted by a sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2874 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district may (instead of shall) make menstrual hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in bathrooms of every school building that are open for student use in grades 4 through 12 during the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3533 | Intro
25% | Amends the Transitional Bilingual Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, a program in transitional bilingual education shall include a unit of instruction that teaches English learners about Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3554 | Intro
25% | Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning alternative procedures for teacher evaluation, remediation, and removal for cause after remediation, provides that if after the alternative evaluation procedures ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3684 | Intro
25% | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that if the State Board declares a teacher shortage, then an applicant shall be deemed to have passed a test of content area knowledge. Provides that the State Board shall adopt rules...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
