Illinois House Bill 5923 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-4)
Status: Failed on January 8 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Superintendent of Education has the authority to initiate a suspension of or revoke the license of any educator licensed under the Educator Licensure Article of the Code if he or she negligently fails to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect. Provides that, except for an educator licensed under the Educator Licensure Article of the Code, if a school board determines that any school district employee has willfully or negligently failed to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect, as required by the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, then the school board may dismiss that employee immediately upon that determination. Effective immediately.

SCH CD-SEX ABUSE-FAIL TO REPRT

Rep. Steven Reick [R]	Rep. Mary Flowers [D]	Rep. Thomas Morrison [R]	Rep. Linda LaVia [D]
Rep. Daniel Swanson [R]	Rep. David Welter [R]	Rep. Rita Mayfield [D]	Rep. Christopher Davidsmeyer [R]
Rep. Kelly Cassidy [D]	Rep. Margo McDermed [R]	Rep. John Cavaletto [R]	Rep. Mark Batinick [R]
Sen. Brian Stewart [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2018-11-07	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2018-11-07	House	First Reading
2018-09-19	House	Remove Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert W. Pritchard
2018-09-07	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary E. Flowers
2018-09-05	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Brian W. Stewart
2018-08-29	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Mark Batinick
2018-08-29	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. John Cavaletto
2018-08-27	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Margo McDermed
2018-08-23	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
2018-08-22	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer
2018-08-21	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield
2018-08-21	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. David A. Welter
2018-08-20	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel Swanson
2018-07-12	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
2018-06-27	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Thomas Morrison
2018-06-26	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert W. Pritchard
2018-06-25	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Steven Reick

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	10-23.12	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	21B-75	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	34-18.6	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5923&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB5923.htm