| IL | HB4895 | Pass | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, every public school shall provide instruction on climate change, which shall include, but not be limited to, identifying the environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0837 |
| IL | SB2872 | Pass | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that each school district shall provide to students, in addition to and not substituting recess, at least once a week, relaxation activities to enhance the mental and physical health of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0764 |
| IL | HB4417 | Pass | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that all public high schools, including charter schools, shall designate and annually observe a week known as "Workplace Readiness Week". Provides that students shall be provided inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Effective Date July 1, 2024 |
| IL | HB4616 | Intro
25% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that each school board may provide instruction in anti-litter education in all grades and include that instruction in the courses of study regularly taught in those grades. Provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5400 | Intro
25% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of Arab American...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB5489 | Intro
25% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, the school board of a school district that maintains any of grades 9 through 12 may provide to its students in grades 9 through 12 a unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB3644 | Intro
25% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, every public high school shall include instruction on climate change and the impacts and causes of climate change in grades 9 through 12 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB4826 | Intro
25% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education, in consultation with licensed clinical social workers and licensed social workers, shall develop a unit of instruction on m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB3195 | Intro
25% | 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 ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB3924 | Pass | Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, provides that in every State-required health course for grades 9 through 12, a school district shall provide ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0365 |
| IL | SB2348 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that all school districts shall provide instruction on relaxation activities such as yoga or meditation for at least one half-period of the school day to enhance both mental and physical health of students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB1004 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, the Chicago school district must include in its curriculum a unit of instruction on nursing. Requires the State Board of Education to prepare and make available to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB1243 | Intro
25% | Amends the Course of Study Article of the School Code. Requires each public school to provide a separate course of study on mental health that instructs students on how to recognize the signs of anxiety, depression, and other forms of mental illness....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB1485 | Intro
25% | Creates the Inclusive American History Act. Establishes the Inclusive American History Commission to (i) address the deficiencies and inadequacies in both perspective and content in traditional history course material and instruction and (ii) develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB2490 | Intro
25% | Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that every public school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of the civil rights movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968, the natural law a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | SB1729 | Intro
25% | 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 ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | HB2187 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, allows public schools to include in their curriculum, for students in grades 3 through 12, a course in the history and literature of the Old Testament era and a course in the history a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| IL | HB1011 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Sets forth a list of nonfiction, fiction, and children's books about racism that shall be required reading for students in every public elementary and secondary school beginning with the 2023-2024 school year. Requires that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-12
To House Rules Committee |
