Bill Text: IL SB2279 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Specifies that provisions authorizing school districts to offer courses on hunting safety shall not be construed to allow anyone to bring certain weapons to school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2279 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2279-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB2279 Introduced 10/28/2019, by Sen. Ann Gillespie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-23.13
Amends the School Code. Specifies that provisions authorizing school districts to offer courses on hunting safety shall not be construed to allow anyone to bring certain weapons to school.
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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
27-23.13 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-23.13)
Sec. 27-23.13. Hunting safety. A school district may offer
its students a course on hunting safety as part of its
curriculum during the school day or as part of an after-school
program. The State Board of Education may prepare and make
available to school boards resources on hunting safety that may
be used as guidelines for the development of a course under
this Section. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
allow anyone to bring to school any object listed in
subdivision (1) or (2) of subsection (d) of Section 10-22.6.
(Source: P.A. 101-152, eff. 7-26-19.)