Bill Sponsors: IL SB1488 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

Bill Title: Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning educator testing, provides that beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act through August 31, 2025, no candidate completing a teacher preparation program or other candidate is required to pass a teacher performance assessment. Makes conforming changes. Creates the Teacher Performance Assessment Task Force to evaluate potential teacher performance assessment systems for implementation in this State, with the intention of supporting a thoughtful and well-rounded licensure system that is performance-based and has consistency across programs and objectivity. Sets forth the membership of the Task Force. Provides that members of the Task Force shall serve without compensation. Provides that the State Board of Education shall provide administrative and other support to the Task Force. Provides that on or before August 1, 2024, the Task Force shall report on its work, including recommendations on a teacher performance assessment system in this State, to the State Board of Education and General Assembly. Provides that the Task Force is dissolved upon submission of this report. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-4)

Status: (Passed) 2023-08-04 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0488 [SB1488 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Senator Thomas Bennett [R]PrimarySponsored BillsSD-053FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Laura Murphy [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-028FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Meg Loughran Cappel [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-049FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Cristina Pacione-Zayas [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-020FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Craig Wilcox [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-032FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Mike Porfirio [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-011FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Sally Turner [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-044FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Adriane Johnson [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-030N/ABallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Mary Edly-Allen [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-031FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Katie Stuart [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-112FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Laura Faver Dias [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-062FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Lance Yednock [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-076FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Sue Scherer [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-096FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Terra Costa Howard [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-042FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Jason Bunting [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-106FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaN/A
Representative Carol Ammons [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-103FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Joyce Mason [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-061FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Sharon Chung [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-091FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaN/A

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