Bill Text: IL HB5093 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Creates the Student Bill of Rights Act. Provides that the State Board of Education and the Board of Higher Education shall jointly establish, no later than January 1, 2025, a student bill of rights to outline that students in public schools and public institutions of higher education have a right to educational equity and to be free from discrimination based on race, sex, gender, socioeconomic status, and mental or physical ability. Provides that the State Board of Education and the Board of Higher Education shall publish the student bill of rights on their Internet websites and make a handout available. Provides that each public institution of higher education, the Illinois Community College Board, and the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall have on their Internet websites a link to the student bill of rights published on the Board of Higher Education's Internet website. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5093 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5093-Introduced.html

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5093

Introduced , by Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act

Creates the Student Bill of Rights Act. Provides that the State Board of Education and the Board of Higher Education shall jointly establish, no later than January 1, 2025, a student bill of rights to outline that students in public schools and public institutions of higher education have a right to educational equity and to be free from discrimination based on race, sex, gender, socioeconomic status, and mental or physical ability. Provides that the State Board of Education and the Board of Higher Education shall publish the student bill of rights on their Internet websites and make a handout available. Provides that each public institution of higher education, the Illinois Community College Board, and the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall have on their Internet websites a link to the student bill of rights published on the Board of Higher Education's Internet website. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning education.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5Student Bill of Rights Act.
6 Section 5. Findings. The General Assembly finds that a
7student has a right to educational equity and to be free from
8discrimination based on race, sex, gender, socioeconomic
9status, and mental or physical ability.
10 Section 10. Student bill of rights. The State Board of
11Education and the Board of Higher Education shall jointly
12establish, no later than January 1, 2025, a student bill of
13rights to outline that students in public schools and public
14institutions of higher education have a right to educational
15equity and to be free from discrimination based on race, sex,
16gender, socioeconomic status, and mental or physical ability.
17The State Board of Education and the Board of Higher Education
18shall publish the student bill of rights on their Internet
19websites and make a handout available. Each public institution
20of higher education, the Illinois Community College Board, and
21the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall have on their
22Internet websites a link to the student bill of rights

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1published on the Board of Higher Education's Internet website.
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