Bill Text: IL SB0489 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district may offer a firearm safety training course to students in grades 9 through 12, which may include instruction on hunting safety. Provides that if a school district offers the course, a student may not be required to take the course. Provides that if a school board intends to offer a firearm safety training course, it must develop a policy to implement the course and must publish that policy on the district's website.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-10 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Patrick J. Joyce [SB0489 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB0489-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB0489 Introduced 2/23/2021, by Sen. Neil Anderson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-23.15 new
Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district may offer a firearm safety training course to students in grades 9 through 12, which may include instruction on hunting safety. Provides that if a school district offers the course, a student may not be required to take the course. Provides that if a school board intends to offer a firearm safety training course, it must develop a policy to implement the course and must publish that policy on the district's website.
LRB102 14320 CMG 19672 b
A BILL FOR
SB0489 LRB102 14320 CMG 19672 b
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 Section
27-23.15 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-23.15 new)
Sec. 27-23.15. Firearm safety training course.
(a) In this Section "firearm" and "firearm ammunition"
have the meanings given to those terms under Section 1.1 of the
Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
(b) A school district may offer a firearm safety training
course to students in grades 9 through 12, which may include
instruction on hunting safety. If a school district offers the
course, a student may not be required to take the course. Any
firearm that is operable or any firearm ammunition that is
live may not be present during the course instruction.
(c) If a school board intends to offer a firearm safety
training course under this Section, it must develop a policy
to implement the course and must publish that policy on the
district's website.