IL HJR0071 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: Engrossed on May 24 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-05-24 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on May 24 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-05-24 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Urges the State Board of Education to conduct a study on the number of schools, school districts, and other public school associations across the State that currently utilize Native American names, logos, and mascots. Urges the State Board of Education, through conversations with local schools and school districts, to collect findings on what the cost would be for these individual schools and districts to remove and change Native American names, mascots, and logos. Urges the State Board of Education to include its findings in a written report to the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2024. Urges schools, school districts, and other public school associations to consider and plan for changing these harmful Native American names, mascots, and logos. Urges the State Board of Education to use all tools available to work towards the immediate end of the practice of using racial slurs as team names in Illinois schools.
Title
NATIVE AMERICAN MASCOTS-SCHOOL
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-05-24 - House - Motion in House (Y: 75 N: 32 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Blair-Sherlock |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel Didech |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Faver Dias |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary Beth Canty |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Lilian Jiménez |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons |
| 2024-05-24 | House | Resolution Adopted 075-032-000 |
| 2024-05-15 | House | Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions |
| 2024-05-14 | House | Recommends Be Adopted Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee; 009-004-000 |
| 2024-05-06 | House | Assigned to Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee |
| 2024-05-01 | House | Referred to Rules Committee |
| 2024-04-30 | House | Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Maurice A. West, II |
