Bill Text: IL HB5902 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the inspection of schools, provides that the regional superintendent shall utilize a local building inspector to verify that a school complies with the Health/Life Safety Code for Public Schools. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-17 - Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sidney H. Mathias [HB5902 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB5902-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB5902 Introduced 2/10/2010, by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock - Sandra M. Pihos SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/3-14.21 from Ch. 122, par. 3-14.21
Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the inspection of schools, provides that the regional superintendent shall utilize a local building inspector to verify that a school complies with the Health/Life Safety Code for Public Schools. 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
3-14.21 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/3-14.21) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-14.21)
Sec. 3-14.21. Inspection of schools.
(a) The regional superintendent shall inspect and survey
all public schools under his or her supervision and notify the
board of education, or the trustees of schools in a district
with trustees, in writing before July 30, whether or not the
several schools in their district have been kept as required by
law, using forms provided by the State Board of Education which
are based on the Health/Life Safety Code for Public Schools
adopted under Section 2-3.12. The regional superintendent
shall report his or her findings to the State Board of
Education on forms provided by the State Board of Education.
The regional superintendent shall utilize a local building
inspector to verify that a school complies with the Health/Life
Safety Code for Public Schools adopted under Section 2-3.12 of
this Code.
(b) If the regional superintendent determines that a school
board has failed in a timely manner to correct urgent items

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identified in a previous life-safety report completed under
Section 2-3.12 or as otherwise previously ordered by the
regional superintendent, the regional superintendent shall
order the school board to adopt and submit to the regional
superintendent a plan for the immediate correction of the
building violations. This plan shall be adopted following a
public hearing that is conducted by the school board on the
violations and the plan and that is preceded by at least 7
days' prior notice of the hearing published in a newspaper of
general circulation within the school district. If the regional
superintendent determines in the next annual inspection that
the plan has not been completed and that the violations have
not been corrected, the regional superintendent shall submit a
report to the State Board of Education with a recommendation
that the State Board withhold from payments of general State
aid due to the district an amount necessary to correct the
outstanding violations. The State Board, upon notice to the
school board and to the regional superintendent, shall consider
the report at a meeting of the State Board, and may order that
a sufficient amount of general State aid be withheld from
payments due to the district to correct the violations. This
amount shall be paid to the regional superintendent who shall
contract on behalf of the school board for the correction of
the outstanding violations.
(c) The Office of the State Fire Marshal or a qualified
fire official, as defined in Section 2-3.12 of this Code, to

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whom the State Fire Marshal has delegated his or her authority
shall conduct an annual fire safety inspection of each school
building in this State. The State Fire Marshal or the fire
official shall coordinate its inspections with the regional
superintendent. The inspection shall be based on the fire
safety code authorized in Section 2-3.12 of this Code. Any
violations shall be reported in writing to the regional
superintendent and shall reference the specific code sections
where a discrepancy has been identified within 15 days after
the inspection has been conducted. The regional superintendent
shall address those violations that are not corrected in a
timely manner pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section. The
inspection must be at no cost to the school district.
(d) If a municipality or, in the case of an unincorporated
area, a county or, if applicable, a fire protection district
wishes to perform new construction inspections under the
jurisdiction of a regional superintendent, then the entity must
register this wish with the regional superintendent. These
inspections must be based on the building code authorized in
Section 2-3.12 of this Code. The inspections must be at no cost
to the school district.
(Source: P.A. 96-734, eff. 8-25-09.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.