Illinois Senate Bill 1303 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to create the Freshman Success pilot program. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board must award grants to school districts to implement Freshman Success plans; specifies grant eligibility requirements. Provides that, on or before December 1, 2019 and on or before each December 1 thereafter, the State Board shall make grant applications available and issue a list of all school districts eligible to apply. Requires each grant applicant to describe its plan and how the grant funds will be allocated; provides for allowable grant uses. Provides that the State Board must review all submitted applications to determine if an applicant has developed a promising plan to increase on-track freshman rates and has demonstrated the leadership and capacity to implement its plan with the grant assistance. If so, provides that the State Board may award the applicant a grant of up to $100,000 per qualifying high school in the school district. Effective immediately.

FRESHMAN SUCCESS GRANT PROGRAM

Sen. Andy Manar [D]

Sen. Elgie Sims [D]

Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant [D]

Sen. Emil Jones [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2019-03-28	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2019-03-27	Senate	Postponed - Education
2019-03-25	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.
2019-03-22	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 28, 2019
2019-03-20	Senate	Postponed - Education
2019-03-05	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2019-03-05	Senate	Postponed - Education
2019-03-04	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant
2019-02-20	Senate	Postponed - Education
2019-02-13	Senate	Assigned to Education
2019-02-07	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-02-07	Senate	First Reading
2019-02-07	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Andy Manar

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	2-3.176	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1303&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB1303.htm