Bill Text: IL HB4647 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State shall adopt a policy that allows for a student to participate in interscholastic athletics immediately upon completing a transfer from one school to another school and enrolling in that other school. Provides that the policy may prohibit the student from participating in interscholastic athletics at that other school before the school transfer process is complete and the transfer has been accepted by the principal of the school from which the student is transferring and the principal of the school to which the student is transferring. Effective July 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB4647 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4647-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4647 Introduced , by Rep. Joe C. Sosnowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 25/1.25 new
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State shall adopt a policy that allows for a student to participate in interscholastic athletics immediately upon completing a transfer from one school to another school and enrolling in that other school. Provides that the policy may prohibit the student from participating in interscholastic athletics at that other school before the school transfer process is complete and the transfer has been accepted by the principal of the school from which the student is transferring and the principal of the school to which the student is transferring. Effective July 1, 2024.
LRB103 35942 RJT 66029 b
A BILL FOR
HB4647 LRB103 35942 RJT 66029 b
AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act
is amended by adding Section 1.25 as follows:
(105 ILCS 25/1.25 new)
Sec. 1.25. Student transfers. An association or other
entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring,
regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic
athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools
and students within this State shall adopt a policy that
allows for a student to participate in interscholastic
athletics immediately upon completing a transfer from one
school to another school and enrolling in the other school.
However, the policy may prohibit the student from
participating in interscholastic athletics at that other
school before the school transfer process is complete and the
transfer has been accepted by the principal of the school from
which the student is transferring and the principal of the
school to which the student is transferring.