| IL | SB3635 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning daily pupil attendance calculation, removes provisions specifying that days of attendance by pupils through verified participation in an e-learning program adopted by a sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2874 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district may (instead of shall) make menstrual hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in bathrooms of every school building that are open for student use in grades 4 through 12 during the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3533 | Intro
25% | Amends the Transitional Bilingual Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, a program in transitional bilingual education shall include a unit of instruction that teaches English learners about Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3684 | Intro
25% | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that if the State Board declares a teacher shortage, then an applicant shall be deemed to have passed a test of content area knowledge. Provides that the State Board shall adopt rules...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3554 | Intro
25% | Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning alternative procedures for teacher evaluation, remediation, and removal for cause after remediation, provides that if after the alternative evaluation procedures ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3642 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. In the provisions requiring the State Board of Education to develop and make available training opportunities for educators, provides that the training may include the creation of an onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3773 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning the board of school directors, provides that, beginning July 1, 2025, a school district or unit school district with at least one high school shall have at least one studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3382 | Intro
25% | Amends the Evaluation of Certified Employees Article of the School Code. Provides that on July 1, 2024, the State Superintendent of Education shall convene a Performance Evaluation Advisory Committee for the purpose of maintaining and improving the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3461 | 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 social studies course pertaining to American history shall include in its curriculum a uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3330 | Intro
25% | Amends the Charter Schools Law of the School Code. Provides that an initial charter shall be granted for a period of no more than 3 school years (instead of for a period of 5 school years). Provides that a charter may be renewed in incremental period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3295 | Intro
25% | Amends the Employment of Teachers Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning holidays, provides that no deduction shall be made from the time or compensation of a school employee, including an educational support personnel employee, on acco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3379 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning State Global Scholar Certification, provides that 6 units of credit shall be required to achieve State Global Scholar Certification (instead of not specifying how many units of credit are required). Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments 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 | SB3252 | Intro
25% | Amends the Chicago Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if an Employer fails to transmit to the Fund contributions required of the Employer under the Article or contributions required of teachers for more than 180 days after t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB0292 | Intro
25% | Amends the Charter Schools Law of the School Code. Provides that charter schools that accept funding directly from the State or through a school district directed by the State to administer the funds after the effective date of the amendatory Act and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3088 | Intro
25% | Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB3117 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2771 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2024-2025 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 dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB0991 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers and duties of the State Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB0992 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers and duties of the State Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2901 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2895 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Allows an elementary school district to withdraw from its special education joint agreement program if the district (i) maintains grades up to and including grade 8, (ii) had a 2022-2023 best 3 months' average daily attendance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2873 | Intro
25% | Amends the Transportation Article of the School Code. Allows the use of a multi-function school activity bus that is manufactured to transport not more than 15 persons, including the driver, or a vehicle manufactured to transport not more than 10 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2721 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Provides that school boards shall allow all educators to have daily continuous uninterrupted individual classroom planning time. Provides that the planning period shall be equal to one class period but no less than 45 minutes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2821 | Intro
25% | Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that the Chicago Board of Education may not contract with a third party on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act for services relating to custodial, dietary, or daily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2733 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. In provisions requiring referendum approval to build or purchase a school building, provides that for any school district: (i) that is designated as a Tier 1 or Tier 2 school district under the evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2679 | Intro
25% | Amends the Employment of Teachers Article of the School Code. With regard to the Section concerning contractual continued service, removes provisions specifying that the probationary periods are only for service in which a teacher holds a Professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB0156 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires school boards to report, on their school district's website, a list of the learning materials and activities to be used for student instruction during the school year. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2610 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Authorizes the Chicago Board of Education, by resolution, to provide for the compensation of its members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-11-03
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2627 | Intro
25% | Amends the Downstate Teachers Article of Illinois Pension Code. Specifies that the provision that requires an employer to make an additional contribution to the System for certain salary increases greater than 6% excludes salary increases necessary t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-25
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB2252 | Intro
25% | Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that for all schools operating a school breakfast program, the State Board of Education shall collect information about whether the school is operating a breakfast after the bell program and, if so, wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-19
To Senate Assignments Committee |
| IL | SB1352 | Pass | Reinserts the contents of the engrossed bill but specifies that the amendatory provisions apply to the termination of service by a teacher (instead of the termination of contractual continued service by a teacher).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0549 |
| IL | SB0090 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Reinserts the contents of Senate Amendment No. 2 with the following changes. Makes changes concerning the data collection requirements required by the amendatory provisions of the School Code. Makes changes to certain referenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0472 |
| IL | SB0183 | Pass | Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Provides that the information to be received by a student's parents or guardians shall include any extracurricular activities that may be offered (in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0473 |
| IL | SB1488 | Pass | Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning educator testing, provides that beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act through August 31, 2025, no candidate completing a teacher preparation program or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0488 |
| IL | SB1446 | Pass | Provides that, by no later than July 1, 2024, the State Board of Education shall make available to schools resource materials developed in consultation with stakeholders regarding a student wearing or accessorizing the student's graduation attire wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0463 |
| IL | SB1787 | Pass | Reinserts the contents of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Makes changes concerning the functions and membership of the council. Specifies that the expense reimbursement is subject to the rules of the appropriate travel control board. P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0497 |
| IL | SB2039 | Pass | Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the Prioritization of Urgency of Need for Services database, makes changes to the findings, and changes references from "Prioritization of Urgency of Need for Services" to "PUNS". Provides that the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0504 |
| IL | SB2031 | Pass | Reinserts the contents of Senate Amendment No. 1 but changes the name of the report from "Expanded School Snapshot Report" to "Expanded High School Snapshot Report". Makes conforming changes by changing references of "school" to "high school" and oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0503 |
| IL | SB2017 | Pass | Amends the Employment of Teachers Article of the School Code. Provides that educational support personnel employees shall not be required to work on a legal school holiday. Provides that no deduction shall be made from the time or compensation of a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0395 |
| IL | SB1994 | Pass | Reinserts the contents of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the amendatory language applies only to the school board of a school district that does not receive federal impact aid funding. Provides that the operational funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0394 |
| IL | SB1993 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Provides that prior to approving a new contract for any district-administered assessment, the school board must hold a public vote at a regular meeting of the school board, at which the terms of the proposal must be substantia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0393 |
| IL | SB2243 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall adopt and make available to school districts, by July 1, 2024, a rubric by which districts may evaluate curricula and select and implement evidence-based, culturally inclusive c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0402 |
| IL | SB2218 | Pass | Amends the Employment of Teachers Article of the School Code. Provides that a school board's sequence of honorable dismissal list shall include the race or ethnicity of a teacher if provided by the teacher. Effective January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0398 |
| IL | SB2391 | Pass | Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a community school may also be a nonpublic school. Restores provisions describing what a community school is in the legislative findings. Restores certain grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0265 |
| IL | SB2390 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Requires a non-public school to perform a check of the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database (in addition to the Statewide Sex Offender Database) of applicants and once every 5 years and persons employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt |
| IL | SB2337 | Pass | Reinserts the contents of the introduced bill with the following changes. Makes changes to the amendatory language concerning the school report card data on school characteristics and student demographics and the school environment. Replaces referenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0263 |
| IL | SB2374 | Pass | Amends the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall establish a competitive grant program to support the development or enhancement of computer science programs in the K-12 schools. Provides that eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0264 |
| IL | SB1924 | Pass | Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In a provision concerning service credit for accumulated unused sick leave, provides that if the employee was in the service of more than one employer or regional off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0110 |
| IL | SB0997 | Intro
25% | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee |
