| IL | HB5057 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Removes the restriction providing that no candidate may be allowed to student teach or serve as the teacher of record until the candidate has passed the applicable content area test. Provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Tom Bennett |
| IL | SB2824 | Enroll
75% | Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning residency and the payment of tuition, provides that a child who has been removed from the child's parent or guardian by the Department of Children and Family Services as pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Craig Wilcox |
| IL | HB4175 | Enroll
75% | Amends the School Code. Provides that school personnel of any school district, charter school, or nonpublic elementary or secondary school may not engage in corporal punishment of a student, inflict corporal punishment upon a student, or cause corpor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy |
| IL | SB3200 | Intro
25% | Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB4895 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, every public school shall provide instruction on climate change, which shall include, but not be limited to, identifying the environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy |
| IL | SB0458 | Engross
50% | Amends the School Code. Removes a requirement that school districts, special education nonpublic schools, and specified special education cooperatives accomplish, as part of the State Board of Education's goals, the systemic reduction of isolated tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB0457 | Engross
50% | Amends the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, including funding for any administrative costs reasonably incurred by the State Board of Education, upon the execution of one or more required statewide master contracts entered by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB0998 | Engross
50% | Amends the School Code. Provides that provisions requiring the filing of a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, an application for State financial aid, or a waiver do not apply for the 2023-2024 school year. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB1722 | Engross
50% | Amends the Treasurers Article of the School Code. In provisions regarding a Class II county school unit where the trustees of schools appoint a treasurer, removes the requirement that the treasurer shall be a resident of the township.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB2822 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall implement and administer a program to make New Arrival Student Grants available to school districts to support the needs of students who are newly arriving immigrant students, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB3497 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. Provides that if a school district is classified as a Tier 1 school under Section 18-8.15 of this Code, then school board shall direct the majority of the funds provided under Section 18-8.15 of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB4918 | 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] | 2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5008 | Intro
25% | Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that a local school council shall have and exercise the power and duty to contract with the Chicago Police Department to have police officers or school resource officers on schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB3156 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the contents of the bill as engrossed with the following changes. Removes changes concerning alternative school programs. Makes changes to the definitions of "local capacity percentage" and "low-income count". Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-26
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen |
| IL | SB3473 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the contents of the bill as introduced with the following changes. Provides that each school district and charter school shall post the informational materials on the school district's or charter school's website, if any. Removes the provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-26
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB5407 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Education for Homeless Children Act. In provisions concerning the Education of Homeless Children and Youth State Grant Program, provides that grants shall be awarded to applicant school districts based on the percentage of students experie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-26
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel |
| IL | SB3645 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning radon testing, provides that every school building of a school district that is occupied or will be occupied shall be tested by January 1, 2028 and shall be tested every 5 years thereafter for radon (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-26
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB0341 | Engross
50% | Amends the School Code. In the statement of affairs provisions, provides that, instead of completing, submitting, and making available a statement of affairs or any other summary, statement, or report required under the amended provision, a school di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 |
| IL | SB0238 | Intro
25% | Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Modifies the provisions of the Act to apply to veterans and veteran-owned businesses. Modifies a Section concerning the short title. Changes the title of the Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
To Senate Procurement Committee |
| IL | SB0459 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning downstate school finance authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 |
| IL | SB0455 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 |
| IL | SB0456 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning school district financial oversight panels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 |
| IL | HB3713 | Engross
50% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board shall require all school districts to supply all active classroom instructors, all school staff and administration, and district leadership with an educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 |
| IL | SB2568 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district that offers to the school district's employees a retirement savings plan under Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 may enter into a contract with only one vendor to administer th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 |
| IL | SB2609 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to include information on how a parent or guardian can safely store any firearms at home where other policies, rules, and standards concerning student conduct are posted and made available to parents an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
To Senate Firearms Committee |
| IL | HB4219 | Enroll
75% | Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Removes provisions concerning fentanyl education from the School Code. Provides that the Comprehensive Health Education Program shall include disaster pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III |
| IL | HB4441 | Engross
50% | Amends the Counties Code, the Township Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act, the Park District Code, the Illinois Local Library Act, the Public Library District Act of 1991, the School Code, and the Public Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
To Senate Executive Committee |
| IL | HB5184 | Engross
50% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning bullying prevention, provides that "policy on bullying" means a bullying prevention policy that is age and developmentally appropriate. Effective July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 |
| IL | SB3383 | Intro
25% | Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of election commissioners may use public school buildings as polling places only if a school board or a local school council approves the use of that school. Provides that, if the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-25
To Senate Elections Committee |
| IL | SB0461 | Enroll
75% | Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities in Illinois. Makes changes to the provisions concerning the in-state tuition charge to require that, beginning on July 1, 2026, an individual, other than an individual who has a no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB1400 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the contents of the bill as introduced with the following changes. Restores current law with respect to annually reviewing discipline policies. Requires the State Board of Education to consult with stakeholders in its drafted and published ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB3446 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the contents of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes the provisions concerning school report cards. In the provisions concerning the evidence-based funding formula, provides that organizational units that do not submit a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly |
| IL | SB3132 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Regional Superintendent of Schools Article of the School Code. Makes changes concerning high school equivalency testing. Amends the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Act. Removes provisions concerning funding transitional mathematics i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB3348 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. In a Section concerning the debt limitations of school districts, additionally provides that, in addition to all other authority to issue bonds, Bethel School District 82 may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB3349 | Enroll
75% | Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning State Global Scholar Certification, provides that 6 units of credit shall be required to achieve State Global Scholar Certification (instead of not specifying how many units of credit are required). Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB5250 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel |
| IL | HB5276 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning transition services, provides that the student's transition plan shall include consideration of the student's assistive technology needs, such as assistive tec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel |
| IL | SB3768 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the contents of the bill as engrossed with the following changes. Provides that priority of services shall be given to students referred to the Philip J. Rock Center and School who qualify as individuals with concomitant hearing and visual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB3646 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides for the amount of time a child performer who works in a television, motion picture, or related entertainment production may be permitted to be at the place of employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Lakesia Collins |
| IL | SB2744 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Further amends the Illinois Insurance Code. 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB3571 | Enroll
75% | Reinserts the contents of the bill as introduced, but provides that a school district shall require all attendance centers to have present during the school day and during a school-sponsored extracurricular activity on school grounds at least one aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB3606 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that the term "special educational facilities and services" includes private special schools (instead of special schools) and separate public special education day schools. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson |
| IL | SB3151 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning safety education and driver education courses, provides that the course instruction on special hazards existing at and required safety and driving precautions that must ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB5226 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning radon testing, provides that every school building of a school district that is occupied or will be occupied shall be tested by January 1, 2028 and shall be tested every 5 years thereafter for radon (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5430 | Engross
50% | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that a parent or guardian that moves out of the State after the parent's or guardian's child is placed in a nonpublic school or special education facility, public out-of-state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3599 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. 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 shall provide coverage for medically nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar |
| IL | SB3936 | 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] | 2024-05-22
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB5601 | Enroll
75% | Amends various Acts concerning various State programs, State funds, and State fund transfers. Deletes obsolete language and makes technical changes. Effective immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB4581 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that if a student who is 18 years of age or older with no legal guardian is placed residentially outside of the school district in which the student's parent lives and the pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Natalie Toro |
| IL | SB3432 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. In a provision requiring the Department of Human Service' Division of Mental Health to implement a direct support professional credential pilot program, delays the pilot prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
Passed Both Houses |
