Bill Text: IL HB4082 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act. Provides that an elementary or secondary school must provide notification to the student and his or her parent or guardian that the elementary or secondary school may, upon court order, require a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student's account or profile on a social networking website. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4082 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB4082-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB4082 Introduced , by Rep. Dwight Kay SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 75/15
Amends the Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act. Provides that an elementary or secondary school must provide notification to the student and his or her parent or guardian that the elementary or secondary school may, upon court order, require a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student's account or profile on a social networking website. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act
is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
(105 ILCS 75/15)
Sec. 15. Notification. An elementary or secondary school
must provide notification to the student and his or her parent
or guardian that the elementary or secondary school may request
or, upon court order, require a student to provide a password
or other related account information in order to gain access to
the student's account or profile on a social networking website
if the elementary or secondary school has reasonable cause to
believe that the student's account on a social networking
website contains evidence that the student has violated a
school disciplinary rule or policy. The notification must be
published in the elementary or secondary school's disciplinary
rules, policies, or handbook or communicated by similar means.
(Source: P.A. 98-129, eff. 1-1-14.)