Bill Text: IL HB5575 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. With respect to any State statute or administrative rule that defines a general education classroom to be composed of a certain percentage of students with individualized education programs (IEPs), provides that students with individualized education programs shall exclude students for whom instruction in the general education classroom does not require modification to the content of the general education curriculum (instead of excluding students receiving only speech services outside of the general education classroom, provided that the instruction the students receive in the general education classroom does not require modification). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5575 Detail]

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5575 Introduced , by Rep. Roger L. Eddy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/14-2
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. With respect to any State statute or administrative rule that defines a general education classroom to be composed of a certain percentage of students with individualized education programs (IEPs), provides that students with individualized education programs shall exclude students for whom instruction in the general education classroom does not require modification to the content of the general education curriculum (instead of excluding students receiving only speech services outside of the general education classroom, provided that the instruction the students receive in the general education classroom does not require modification). 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 School Code is amended by changing Section
14-2 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/14-2)
Sec. 14-2. Definition of general education classroom for
special education students receiving services in the general
education classroom.
(a) With respect to any State statute or administrative
rule that defines a general education classroom to be composed
of a certain percentage of students with individualized
education programs (IEPs), students with individualized
education programs shall exclude students for whom instruction
receiving only speech services outside of the general education
classroom, provided that the instruction the students receive
in the general education classroom does not require
modification to the content of the general education
curriculum.
(b) In every instance, a school district must ensure that
composition of the general education classroom does not
interfere with the provision of a free and appropriate public
education to any student.

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(Source: P.A. 97-284, eff. 8-9-11.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.