Bill Text: IL HB5406 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that, for the benefit of the physical and mental health of athletes, beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, all practices, games, or contests by a State high school athletic program or team that is a part of 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 high schools and high school students within this State shall meet all specified requirements pertaining to athletic practice time limits. 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 enforce a penalty for a State high school athletic program or team exceeding practice maximums, which may include, but are not limited to, a loss of a practice day or other sanctions determined by the Illinois High School Association for each violation and shall be imposed as appropriate to the level, extent, and duration of the penalty. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5406 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5406-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5406 Introduced , by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 25/1.25 new
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that, for the benefit of the physical and mental health of athletes, beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, all practices, games, or contests by a State high school athletic program or team that is a part of 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 high schools and high school students within this State shall meet all specified requirements. 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 enforce a penalty for a State high school athletic program or team exceeding practice maximums, which may include, but are not limited to, a loss of a practice day or other sanctions determined by the Illinois High School Association for each violation and shall be imposed as appropriate to the level, extent, and duration of the penalty. 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 Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act
is amended by adding Section 1.25 as follows:
(105 ILCS 25/1.25 new)
Sec. 1.25. Athletic practice time limits.
(a) In this Section, "practice" means:
(1) any school team or individual activity organized
by the coach or a member of the athletics staff that is
intended to maintain or improve an athlete's skill
proficiency in a sport;
(2) any school team or individual activity that
includes skill drills, game situation drills, inter-squad
scrimmages or games, weight training, chalk talks, film
review, and meetings outside of school time, excluding
parent meetings that are explicitly or implicitly required
by the coach or a member of the athletics staff;
(3) any other coach-directed or supervised school team
or individual activity or instruction for a specific
sport; or
(4) any other team or individual instruction for a
specific sport organized or supervised by any team member,

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or anyone else associated with the high school athletic
program, team, or school.
(b) For the benefit of the physical and mental health of
athletes, beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, all
practices, games, or contests by a State high school athletic
program or team that is a part of 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 high schools and high school students within this State
shall meet all of the following requirements:
(1) A team may be allowed no more than 18 hours of
practice time per week and no more than 4 hours of practice
time in any single day.
(2) For golf only, a team is allowed a maximum of 2
days per week of 18-hole round of golf. A 18-hole round of
golf shall count as 4 hours of practice time.
(3) Any competition day shall count as 3 hours of
practice no matter the length of the competition.
Additional practice time may continue for one hour after
the competition, which shall include post-competition
cool-downs, stretching, and team discussion.
(4) An outside organizational activity may not be used
to circumvent any of the requirements of this subsection
(b).
(5) Team captains or other team leaders, such as

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upperclassmen, may not be used to circumvent any
requirements of this subsection (b) and may not organize
practice to circumvent any requirements of this subsection
(b). Student-led practices may occur but shall count
toward the practice limitation under this subsection (b).
(6) Other optional activities, including, but not
limited to, team dinners and team building, shall not be
considered practice time if the optional activities do not
fall under the definition of practice under subsection
(a). Optional activities must be approved by the principal
or the principal's administrative designee.
(c) 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 enforce a penalty for a State high school athletic
program or team exceeding practice maximums under this
Section, which may include, but are not limited to, a loss of a
practice day or other sanctions determined by the Illinois
High School Association for each violation of this Section and
shall be imposed as appropriate to the level, extent, and
duration of the penalty.