Bill Text: IL SB0096 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires a school board to allow a student who resides in the school district but attends a nonpublic school to participate in extracurricular athletic activities sponsored by the district without being required to enroll or complete coursework at a public school within the district if certain conditions are met. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - Referred to Assignments [SB0096 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB0096-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0096 Introduced 1/17/2025, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/10-20.24a new
105 ILCS 5/34-18.88 new
Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires a school board to allow a student who resides in the school district but attends a nonpublic school to participate in extracurricular athletic activities sponsored by the district without being required to enroll or complete coursework at a public school within the district if certain conditions are met. Effective immediately.
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STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT MAY APPLY
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 adding Sections
10-20.24a and 34-18.88 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/10-20.24a new)
Sec. 10-20.24a. Nonpublic school student participation in
athletic activities. Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year,
a school board must allow a student who resides in the school
district but attends a nonpublic school, including a
home-schooled student, to participate in extracurricular
athletic activities sponsored by the school district without
being required to enroll or complete coursework at a public
school within the school district if the student's parent or
guardian is paying real estate taxes on property owned by the
parent or guardian that is located within the school district
and provides satisfactory proof of such to the school
district.
(105 ILCS 5/34-18.88 new)
Sec. 34-18.88. Nonpublic school student participation in
athletic activities. Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year,
the board must allow a student who resides in the school

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district but attends a nonpublic school, including a
home-schooled student, to participate in extracurricular
athletic activities sponsored by the school district without
being required to enroll or complete coursework at a public
school within the school district if the student's parent or
guardian is paying real estate taxes on property owned by the
parent or guardian that is located within the school district
and provides satisfactory proof of such to the school
district.