Bill Text: IL HB5238 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Articulation Initiative Act. Requires the Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board to provide increased access to higher education for students with intellectual disabilities by incorporating vocational training, continuing education certificates, individualized learning paths, life skills, and significantly modified curricula into the Illinois Articulation Initiative. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5238 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5238-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5238 Introduced , by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 152/25
Amends the Illinois Articulation Initiative Act. Requires the Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board to provide increased access to higher education for students with intellectual disabilities by incorporating vocational training, continuing education certificates, individualized learning paths, life skills, and significantly modified curricula into the Illinois Articulation Initiative. Effective immediately.
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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 Illinois Articulation Initiative Act is
amended by changing Section 25 as follows:
(110 ILCS 152/25)
Sec. 25. Board of Higher Education and the Illinois
Community College Board duties.
(a) The Board of Higher Education and the Illinois
Community College Board shall co-manage the implementation,
oversight, and evaluation of the Illinois Articulation
Initiative, including determining when panels must be
discontinued or convened and the specific requirements of the
General Education Core Curriculum. Panels must be convened
across the fields of General Education, Communications,
Humanities and Fine Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences,
Social and Behavioral Sciences, Mathematics, and other fields
as determined by the Board of Higher Education and the Illinois
Community College Board.
(b) The Board of Higher Education and the Illinois
Community College Board shall provide a joint report on an
annual basis to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the
Illinois P-20 Council on the status of the Illinois

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Articulation Initiative and the implementation of this Act.
(c) The Board of Higher Education and the Illinois
Community College Board shall provide increased access to
higher education for students with intellectual disabilities
by incorporating vocational training, continuing education
certificates, individualized learning paths, life skills, and
significantly modified curricula into the Illinois
Articulation Initiative.
(Source: P.A. 99-636, eff. 1-1-17.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.