| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
|
 Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 02/2013 |
Community College | Community College Funding
H.B. 1864
Provides that as of July 1, 2013, a community college district eligible to receive an equalization grant must maintain a minimum required co...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 01/2013 |
P-12 | Respective Powers of State Charter School Commission and State Board, Superintendent
H.B. 5825
Provides that the State Charter School Commission is established as an independent commission (instead of state agency). Provides that the c...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Adopted 10/2012 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
23 IL ADC 650.10 through .110
From Illinois Register: Amends charter school provisions to conform with P.A. 97-152, effective July 20, 2011, which created the State Chart...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Commission for High School Graduation Achievement and Success
S.B. 3259
Creates the Commission for High School Graduation Achievement and Success to study the issue of high school graduation in the state. Directs...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Bilingual Education and Parent Involvement
H.B. 3819
Provides that once established, each parent advisory committee for transitional bilingual education programs autonomously conduct its affair...
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Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Drivers Education
S.B. 3367
Amends procedures for a local board, joint agreement of districts, or regional superintendent to apply to the state board for a waiver or mo...
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Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Enhance Physical Education Task Force
S.B. 3374
Establishes the Enhance Physical Education Task Force. Establishes various purposes of the task force. Directs the task force to (1) make re...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Local Tax Rates for Recently Consolidated Districts
S.B. 3252
Allows greater flexibility for recently consolidated districts when setting their local tax rate in the four years after consolidation. htt...
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Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Financial Reporting by State Agencies, Including Postsecondary Institutions
S.B. 3794
Establishes the Financial Reporting Standards Board Act. Includes in definition of "agencies" all departments, officers, commissions, boards...
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Health |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Making Immunization Data Publicly Available
H.B. 5013
Requires district and registered nonpublic school to make publicly available by December 1 of each year the immunization data they are requi...
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P-3 Child Care |
Adopted 08/2012 |
P-12 | Licensing Standards for Day Care Centers
89 IL ADC 407.45, 50, 55, 60, 100, 130, 350
Partially from Illinois Register: Defines "Gateways to Opportunity Registry" as a program administered by the department of human services t...
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P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Early Intervention Services and Illinois Interagency Council on Early Intervention
S.B. 820
Amends provisions regarding early intervention services. Provides services are to be provided in natural environments to the maximum extent ...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
Postsec. | Sprinker Systems in Postsecondary Dorms
H.B. 4757
Extends deadline for fire-sprinker system in a postsecondary dormitory from 2013 to September 2014 for institutions that file a compliance p...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
Community College | Bids for Contracts and Community College Grants, Gifts, and Bequests
S.B. 3635
Provides that certain statutory provisions regarding bids for contracts do not prevent a community college from complying with the terms and...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
Community College | Illinois Community College Board Membership
S.B. 3428
Provides that one of the 11 gubernatorally-appointed members of the Illinois Community College Board, by and with the advice and consent of ...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
Community College | Community Colleges and Procurement of Domestic Products Act
S.B. 2929
Provides that the provisions of the Procurement of Domestic Products Act (http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2622&ChapterI...
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Religion |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary Students and Religious Observance
S.B. 2949
Requires that any student who, because of his/her religious beliefs, is unable to attend classes or to participate in any examination, study...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | High School Course for Preventing Interpersonal, Adolescent Violence (including Dating Violence)
H.B. 5689
Creates the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force to develop a statewide prevention course for high school students designed to prevent int...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Prioritization of School Construction Projects
S.B. 639
Amends the School Construction Law. Includes the rehabilitation of aging buildings to alleviate classroom shortages and the rehabilitation o...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Contracts for Pupil Transportation
H.B. 4029
In a provision concerning the powers of a school board with regard to the awarding of contracts, deletes references to (1) work/contracts wi...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Service Animals
H.B. 3826
Amends provisions related to service animals. Replaces certain references to "guide dog" with "service animal." Includes miniature horse in ...
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Special Education |
Adopted 08/2012 |
P-12 | "Medical Review" for Special Education Students
23 IL ADC 226.840
From Illinois Register: Authorizes certified school nurses (CSN), physicians, registered nurses with bachelor's degrees, and advanced practi...
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Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Non-Profit Providers of Transition Services Not Subject to Bidding Requirements
S.B. 2958
Existing statute permits supplies and services to be procured without advertising or calling for bids from any qualified not-for-profit agen...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Students' Criminal Records and Information about Current Police Investigations
H.B. 5602
Clarifies individuals and circumstances by which information surrounding a child's detainment under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 may be us...
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Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Emergency Rules 08/2012 |
P-12 | Substituting ACT or SAT Composite for Passing Score on Illinois Test of Basic Skills
23 IL ADC 25.720
On June 21, 2012, the state board adopted a policy to allow candidates for entry into educator preparation programs and applicants for Illin...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Retirement Pensions for Limited-Employment Returning Teachers
S.B. 3597
Provides the service retirement pension must not be cancelled for a pensioner who is re-employed as a teacher on a temporary and non-annual ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
Postsec. | Foster Youth Scholarships
S.B. 2818
Amends provisions regarding scholarships for foster youth. Former language limited scholarship eligibility to children under care, or childr...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
Postsec. | Members of Investment Advisory Panel - Statement of Economic Interests
H.B. 4116
Requires members of the investment advisory panel created under the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Act to file verified written statements of econ...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
Postsec. | Use of Search Firms at Public Four-Year Postsecondary Institutions
H.B. 5914
Limits permissible charges for use of an external search firm at four-year public postsecondary institutions to (1) the hiring of the presid...
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Curriculum--Mathematics |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Mathematics Curriculum Models
S.B. 3244
Provides legislative findings. Directs the state board, immediately upon the effective date of this amendatory act, to coordinate the acquis...
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Governance--Regional Entities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Consolidation of Educational Service Regions
S.B. 2706
Requires that, after July 1, 2015, each educational service region contain at least 61,000 inhabitants (previously at least 43,000). Provide...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Instruction in CPR and Using an AED
H.B. 5114
Existing policy permits districts to provide safety education instruction in all grades. Provides that the definition of "safety education" ...
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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Administrative Certificates
H.B. 4993
Amends the School Code. With respect to administrative certificates, provides that a candidate (i) who has enrolled and began coursework pri...
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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 | Evaluation of Certified Employees Under Articles 24A and 34 of the School Code
23 IL ADC 50.10, 20, 30, 100, 110, 120, 140, 200, 300, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420; 23 IL ADC 50.App. A
From Illinois Register: Sets forth the minimum requirements for both student growth and professional practice that all school districts must...
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P-3 |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 | Kindergarten Readiness Survey Implementation, "K" in State Standards
23 IL ADC 1.420; 23 IL ADC 1.APP. D
From Illinois Register: This rulemaking resulted from the State Board of Education's application for funding under the American Recovery and...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 06/2012 |
Postsec. | Monetary Award Program (MAP)
23 IL ADC 2735.30, 40
Restricts MAP payment for graduate-level coursework based on school practices found during program reviews. Introduces changes to limit the ...
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State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 | Area Career and Technical Education and Vocational Centers Task Force
H.J.R. 79
Creates the Area Career and Technical Education and Vocational Centers Task Force. Directs the task force to study the issue of funding of a...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Educator Licensure for Service Member or Spouse
S.B. 275
Authorizes issuance of expedited temporary occupational or professional license to a service member or spouse of a service member who holds ...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Alternative Teacher Certification
S.B. 638
From ILGA website: Provides that no one may be admitted to an Alternative Teacher Certification program or Alternative Route to Teacher Cert...
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Attendance |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 | School Success Task Force Extended
H.J.R. 67
Extends the School Success Task Force established during the 96th General Assembly and adds a member to the Task Force representing City of ...
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P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Block Grant
23 IL ADC 235.20, 30, 40, 45, 50, 60, 70; 23 IL ADC 235.APP. A, B, C
From Illinois Register: This rulemaking resulted from the state board's application for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 05/2012 |
Postsec. | Task Force - New Rules for Monetary Award Program
S.J.R. 69
Directs the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to convene a task force to deliberate options for the adoption of new rules for the Monet...
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Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 | Urging Congressional Passage of Talent Act
H.J.R. 51
Urges Congress to pass the Talent Act as either a separate act or an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or another Act ...
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Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Adopted 04/2012 |
P-12 | Waivers Approved
S.J.R. 61
Resolves that all requests for waivers identified in the state board of education's report on Waiver of School Code Mandates, dated March 1,...
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Postsecondary Accountability |
Adopted 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Program Review (Private Colleges and Universities)
23 IL ADC 1030.10, 20, 30, 60, 70, 90
Guides the reviews of private colleges' and universities' (a) applications to establish new colleges and universities in the state and (b) a...
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Postsecondary Accountability |
Adopted 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Approval of New Units of Instruction, Research and Public Service at Public Institutions
23 IL ADC 1050.10, 20, 30
This rule guides the reviews of (a) applications for new degree programs at public universities and community colleges and (b) proposals fro...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Adopted 03/2012 |
P-12 | Urging Passage of Pathways Back to Work Legislation
S.R. 596
Urges President Obama and Congress to pass the $5 billion Pathways Back to Work legislation as soon as possible to create an employment prog...
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Finance--District |
Adopted 03/2012 |
P-12 | Equal Funding for All Chicago Students
H.R. 843
Urges the administration of the Chicago Public School District to allocate equal funding for each student, regardless of where that student ...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 01/2012 |
P-12 | State, District and School Report Cards
H.B. 605
Directs the state board of education, through the state superintendent of education, by October 31, 2013 and each October 31 thereafter, to ...
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Finance--Student Fees |
Signed into law 01/2012 |
P-12 | Family Costs at Illinois School for the Deaf and Illinois School for the Visually Impaired
S.B. 274
Removes language requiring the department of human services to complete a financial analysis on each student attending the Illinois School f...
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Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 12/2011 |
Postsec. | Private Business and Vocational Schools Act of 2012
S.B. 1795
Repeals the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act. Enacts the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act of 2012. Provides that certi...
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Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 11/2011 |
P-12 | Regional Offices, Regional Superintendents, Regional Assistant Superintendents
S.B. 2147
Permits payments into the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund to be distributed to regional offices and officials for fiscal year 2012. P...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Adopted 10/2011 |
P-12 | Transitional Bilingual Education
23 IL ADC 228.35
Amends certification requirements for administrators of transitional bilingual education program, to bring into compliance with other change...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Adopted 10/2011 |
P-12 | Requirements for Adminstrators of Bilingual Education Programs
23 IL ADC 1.705, 783
From administrative register: In 2006, the state board established for the first time requirements for administrators of bilingual education...
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Accountability |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Financial Oversight Panels
S.B. 2149
Requires that if an Annual Financial Report resulting from a mandated audit reflects a deficit, the district must, within 30 days after acce...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Full-Year School Plan
H.B. 1415
Provides that if certain specified schools remain on academic watch status for two years, subject to the availability of federal appropriati...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Transfer of Suspended or Expelled Students to Alternative Education
H.B. 2086
Permits a student who has been suspended for more than 20 days to be immediately transferred to an alternative program. Provides that an eli...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Stalking No Contact Orders
H.B. 192
Directs the court, when issuing a stalking no contact order, to weigh specified considerations when the petitioner and the respondent attend...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Children of Active Dury Parents
H.B. 2870
Provides that at the time of annual enrollment or at any time during the school year, a school district or a recognized non-public school se...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Criminal Background Checks
H.B. 1240
Provides that upon request of a school, school district, community college district, or private school, any information obtained by a school...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Advisory Council on Bilingual Education
H.B. 3109
By no later than December 1, 2011, directs the Advisory Council on Bilingual Education to submit a report to the state superintendent of edu...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Green Jobs and Technology Act
H.B. 166
Creates the Higher Education Green Jobs and Technology Act. Permits representatives from each state university and community college, in con...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Comprehensive Healthcare Workforce Planning Act
S.B. 1945
Creates the Comprehensive Healthcare Workforce Planning Act. Establishes the State Healthcare Workforce Council to provide an ongoing assess...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Fiscal Efficiency and Shared Services
S.B. 2134
Encourages each regional superintendent of schools to offer districts the opportunity to share in joint educational or operational programs,...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | School Action and Facility Master Planning
S.B. 630
Very similar to S.B. 620 (http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/SB/PDF/09700SB0620lv.pdf). Differs from S.B. 620 in definition of "school actio...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | School Action and Facility Master Planning for Chicago Public Schools
S.B. 620
Creates new sections 105 ILCS 5/34-200 through -235 regarding school action and facility master planning for Chicago Public Schools. By Dece...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Block Grants; Chicago Educational Block Grants
S.B. 1742
Requires a school district that receives an Early Childhood Block Grant to report to the state board of education on its use of the block gr...
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Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect
H.B. 2093
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Extends the list of persons required to report child abuse or neglect to include any ph...
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Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | State and District Reporting
H.B. 3464
Provides that the first teacher supply and demand report following the initial report must be provided by January 2012, rather than January ...
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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Overhaul of Teacher and Administrator Licensure
S.B. 1799
Effective June 30, 2012, repeals 105 ILCS 5/21-1a on teacher certification exams. Effective June 30, 2013, repeals statutory provisions on (...
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Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Commission to End the Disparities Facing the African-American Community
H.B. 1547
Creates the Commission to End the Disparities Facing the African-American Community Act. Provides that the Commission consists of 24 members...
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Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Remote Educational Program Funding
H.B. 3223
Amends the instructional time during which the remote educational program may be delivered (to disassociate from the traditional school cale...
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Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. | Admission, Retention and Graduation of 1st-Generation College-Goers
S.B. 122
Directs the board of higher education to include in a specified annual report to the governor and general assembly information on each publi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. | Institutional Tuition Waiver Limitation Pilot
S.B. 1798
Directs the board of higher education, in formulating the annual budget request, to consider undergraduate tuition and fee waiver programs (...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. | Public University Debt
H.B. 466
Permits an agency to delete from its records debts certified as uncollectible for public university debts of $1,000 or more when the debt is...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. | Performance-Based Funding
H.B. 1503
Directs the board of higher education to form a broad-based group of individuals representing specified stakeholders to devise a system for ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Criminal Trespass to a Safe School Zone
H.B. 78
Defines the offense of criminal trespass to a safe school zone as entering or remaining in a safe school zone, both (1) for a student or emp...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Student Suspension and Expulsion and Electronic Communications
H.B. 3281
Permits a district to expel a student guilty of gross disobedience or misconduct perpetuated by electronic means. Permits a student to be su...
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School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | School District Realignment and Consolidation Commission
H.B. 1216
Establishes the School District Realignment and Consolidation Commission. Provides the purpose of the commission is to make recommendations ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Illinois Accessibility Task Force and Press Box Accessibility
S.B. 2096
Repeals the provision concerning the Illinois Accessibility Task Force. Also provides that a school board does not have to comply with the I...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Multifunction School-Activity Bus
H.B. 2265
Provides that "multifunction school-activity bus" means a school bus manufactured for the purpose of transporting 11 or more persons (rather...
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STEM |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. | Diversity in Engineering Scholarship Program
H.B. 1256
Creates the Diversity in Engineering Scholarship Program. Defines ''targeted group member" as a person belonging to a class of race, color o...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Certification of Special Education Teachers
S.B. 1794
Removes a provision requiring the state teacher certification board to categorically certify a special education teacher in one or more of c...
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Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Educational Support Personnel Attendance at Workshops
S.B. 1578
Provides that of the 4 days annually that a regional superintendent may arrange for or conduct district, regional or county institutes, 2 da...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | Textbook Block Grant Program
H.B. 3115
Defines "textbook"; includes electronic textbooks. Creates the textbook block grant program. Subject to appropriation, authorizes the state ...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Operation of Chicago Charters for Re-Enrolled Dropouts
H.B. 2401
Provides that each campus of a Chicago charter school devoted exclusively to re-enrolled high school dropouts must be operated through a con...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Adopted 07/2011 |
P-12 | Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives for English Language Learners
23 IL ADC 1.30
Previously, "progress" in terms of English language proficiency was determined by the percentage of students whose scores on any of the four...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 79
Creates the State Charter School Commission, and makes it responsible for authorizing charter schools statewide. Establishes membership of t...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Technology Entrepreneur Center Act
H.B. 1876
Creates the Higher Education Technology Entrepreneur Center Act. Authorizes the board of trustees of each public university and community co...
| More... |
Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Adopted 07/2011 |
P-12 | Appealing a Decision Regarding a Request for an Exemption
23 IL ADC 1.110
Establishes procedures under 105 ILCS 5/22-60 for a school district, private school or district resident to appeal to the state superintende...
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Health |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Concussions
H.B. 200
Directs each school board to adopt a policy on student athlete concussions and head injuries that is in compliance with the protocols, polic...
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Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Promotion of Minimum Reading Opportunities Daily
H.B. 2397
Directs each school board to promote at least 60 minutes of minimum reading opportunities daily for students in grades K-3 whose reading lev...
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Summer Remediation in Reading and Math
H.B. 139
Provides that if a student has performed below grade level for two consecutive years, a remedial summer school program must provide an empha...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Violence Prevention and Conflict Resolution
H.B. 1204
Requires districts to provide instruction in violence prevention and conflict resolution in grades K-12 (rather than in grades 4-12, as prev...
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STEM |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Science and Mathematics Partnership School
S.B. 621
Permits 4 or more contiguous districts at least partially in the same municipality to jointly operate, through an institution of higher educ...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Chicago Charter Schools for Students from Low-Performing or Overcrowded Schools, or Serving Dropouts
H.B. 190
Allows at least 5 charter schools devoted exclusively to students from low-performing or overcrowded schools to operate at any one time in C...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Seniority Should Not Be Used in Hiring Decisions
S.B. 7 - Seniority Should Not Be Used in Hiring Decisions
(Does not apply to Chicago Public Schools (CPS), as CPS already requires hiring for new and vacant positions to be based on seniority.) Spec...
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Governance--School Boards--Training |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | School Board Member Training
S.B. 7 - School Board Member Training
(Does not apply to Chicagp school board members.) Requires every school board member elected or appointed after the effective date of this a...
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Health |
Adopted 06/2011 |
P-12 | Recess in Schools Task Force
H.J.R. 4
Extends the date by which the Recess in Schools Task Force must submit its final report to December 31, 2011. http://www.ilga.gov/legislatio...
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Length of School Day and Year in Collective Bargaining Agreements
S.B. 7 - Length of School Day and Year in Collective Bargaining Agreements
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Specifies that Chicago collective bargaining agreements may address decisions to determ...
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Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Teacher Evaluation
S.B. 7 - Teacher Evaluation
Applies to all districts: Permits a school district and its teachers' exclusive bargaining representative to agree to an earlier implementat...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Reductions in Force and Teacher Recalls
S.B. 7 - Reductions in Force and Teacher Recalls
(Does not apply to Chicago Public Schools (CPS), as CPS is already required to base layoffs on performance rather than seniority.) Makes cha...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Statewide Survey on Learning Conditions
S.B. 7 - Statewide Survey on Learning Conditions
Directs the state board to select an instrument to survey, statewide, students in grades 6-12 and teachers on the instructional environment ...
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Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Teacher Dismissal; Suspension or Revocation of Teacher Licensure
S.B. 7 - Teacher Dismissal; Suspension or Revocation of Teacher Licensure
Repeals provision allowing teacher to be dismissed for failure to complete a 1-year remediation plan with a "satisfactory" or better rating;...
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Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Teacher Employment (Attainment of Tenure)
S.B. 7 - Teacher Employment (Attainment of Tenure)
Applies to all districts (Note: The probationary period has been 4 years since 1998): Increases teacher probationary period to 4 consecutive...
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Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Dismissal of Teacher in Continued Service
S.B. 7 - Dismissal of Teacher in Continued Service
Applies to all districts: Requires that the dismissal notice of a teacher in continued service (other than an honorable dismissal) include a...
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Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Collective Bargaining/Strikes
H.B. 1197
Provides the following changes take place if and only if S.B. 7 as passed by the 97th General Assembly becomes law:
Provides that, with res...
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Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Impasse, Mediation, Fact-Finding, Strikes
S.B. 7 - Impasse, Mediation, Fact-Finding, Strikes
Specifies that certain existing impasse procedures do not apply to Chicago Public Schools. Directs the Illinois Educational Labor Relations ...
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Attendance |
Adopted 05/2011 |
P-12 | School Success Task Force
H.J.R. 7
Extends the School Success Task Force established during the 96th General Assembly. Directs the task force to submit a report by December 31...
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Civic Education |
Adopted 05/2011 |
P-12 | Illinois Democracy Schools
S.R. 149
Commends the efforts of those schools that have already taken the necessary steps to become Illinois Democracy Schools; encourages all secon...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Adopted 05/2011 |
P-12 | Kids Eat Right Initiative
S.R. 214
Urges localities, schools, non-profit organizations, businesses, other entities, and the people of Illinois to promote Kids Eat Right, an in...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Adopted 05/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | College Board Advocacy and Policy Center Policy Recommendations
H.R. 321
Urges the members of the Illinois House of Representatives to resolve to work toward the 10 recommendations set by the College Board Advocac...
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Postsecondary Faculty |
Adopted 05/2011 |
Postsec. | Resolution re: Faculty Furloughs and Tuition Waiver Programs
H.R. 326
Urges Governor Pat Quinn, the Board of Higher Education, and all public universities in the state to do all that is in their power to preven...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Adopted 05/2011 |
Postsec. | Reduction in Energy and Water Consumption at Public Universities
H.R. 120
Resolves that each public university report to the general assembly by January 2012 on its efforts regarding use of energy and water at its ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Adopted 04/2011 |
Postsec. | Out-of-State Tuition and Fees
H.R. 4
Requests the Illinois Board of Higher Education to conduct a cost-neutral analysis of all relevant out-of-state tuition and fees charged by ...
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Special Education |
Adopted 04/2011 |
P-12 | Peer Buddies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
H.R. 43
Urges the state board of education to encourage the establishment of a peer buddy program in each school district for children with autism s...
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School Safety |
Adopted 03/2011 |
P-12 | Railroad Crossing Warnings
S.R. 44
Urges K-12 schools to include railroad crossing warnings in their student handbooks. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/SR/PDF/09700SR0044lv...
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Assessment |
Adopted 02/2011 |
P-12 | Definition of Grade 11
23 ADC 1.30
Clarifies that students in grade 11 must be administered the Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) or the Illinois Alternate Assessme...
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Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
P-12 | Preventing Sexual Abuse of Children
S.B. 2843
Creates the Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children in the department of Children and Family Services. Includes the state s...
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No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Adopted 02/2011 |
P-12 | Providers of Supplemental Educational Services
23 ADC 675.50, 250
From Illinois Register: Change in Section 675.50 enables supplemental education services (SES) providers of various sizes to submit financia...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Adopted 01/2011 |
P-12 | Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives for English Language Learners
23 IL ADC 1.88
From summary in Illinois Register: Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAOs) for English language learners. Section 1.88 of the rules...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 01/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Cooperation with Task Force on Private Student Loans
S.B. 647
2010 legislation has created the Task Force on Private Student Loans (see http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-0880.pdf). T...
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Health |
Signed into law 12/2010 |
P-12 | Care of Students with Diabetes
H.B. 6065
Creates the Care of Students with Diabetes Act. Requires that a diabetes care plan serve as the basis of a student's Section 504 plan, and t...
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Health |
Adopted 12/2010 |
P-12 | Recess in Schools Task Force
S.J.R. 80
Creates a Recess in Schools Task Force. Charges the task force with examining the barriers facing schools in providing daily recess to every...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
Signed into law 12/2010 |
P-12 | Authorizations for Substitute Teachers
H.B. 5863
Authorizes a fee, not to exceed the cost of the background check, to be charged to applicants seeking employment as a substitute teacher. Pr...
| More... |
Health |
Adopted 11/2010 |
P-12 | Influenza Mass Vaccinations
H.R. 1165
States the House of Representatives' support for school-based influenza mass vaccination collaborations among local health departments and e...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Adopted 11/2010 |
P-12 | Code of Ethics for Illinois Educators
23 IL ADC 22.10, 20
The Code of Ethics for Illinois Educators was written in response to a need identified in the process of developing the Illinois Professiona...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2010 |
P-12 | Certification Exams
23 IL ADC 25.710, 720, 765
Partially from summary in Illinois Register:
Sections 25.710 and 25.720: Reflects new practice that allows certification candidates to "ban...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Definition of "Dropout"
S.B. 3681 - Section 105 ILCS 5/26-2a
Amends definition of "dropout". Previous language allowed student in any grades 1-12 to be classified as a dropout; new provision limits dro...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 08/2010 |
P-12 | Hope and Opportunity Pathways Through Education (IHOPE) Program
23 IL ADC 210.10, 20, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60, 70, 75, 80, 90, 100, 110, 200, 210, 220, 230
P.A. 96-106 (S.B. 1796), effective July 30, 2009, establishes the Illinois Hope and Opportunity Pathways through Education (IHOPE) program w...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Purposes of Transitional Bilingual Education Programs
S.B. 3681 - Section 105 ILCS 5/14C-1
Provides that one of the purposes of Article 14C of the School Code, "Transitional Bilingual Education", is to allow the state to directly o...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Adopted 08/2010 |
P-12 | Transitional Bilingual Education
23 IL ADC 228
Addresses districts' plans for continuing services for students who leave a transitional bilingual education (TBE) program or a transitional...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Adopted 08/2010 |
P-12 | Preschool Bilingual Education Programs
23 IL ADC 235.20, 30, 120
Clarifies that teachers of children ages 3-5 in a transitional bilingual program or a transitional program of instruction administered by a ...
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Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | State Physical Education Report
S.B. 3681 - Section 105 ILCS 5/2-3.97
Repeals the section concerning the state board of education's biennial physical education report to the governor and general assembly. Page ...
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Finance |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Unfunded Mandates Prohibited
H.B. 4711
Provides that no public school district or private school is obligated to comply with any new unfunded mandate adopted by the legislature or...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Districts That Are Likely to Fail to Meet Payroll or Debt Payments
S.B. 3681 - Section 105 ILCS 5/1A-8
Adds that one of the circumstances under which (1) the state superintendent may require a district to share financial information relevant t...
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Governance--Mandates |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Report on Waivers Granted
S.B. 3681 - (105 ILCS 5/2-3.25g(f)
Deletes language requiring that on or before February 1, 1998, and each year thereafter, the state board of education submit a cumulative re...
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Health |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Students with Asthma
H.B. 5836
Clarifies provisions related to student self-administration of asthma medication or student use of an epinephrine auto-injector. Provides th...
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Leadership--District Superintendent |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Qualifications for an administrative certificate
S.B. 3681 - Section 105 ILCS 5/21-7.1
Amends qualifications for an administrative certificate. Provides that a candidate may possess either a master's degree or its equivalent.
...
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Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
Postsec. | Approval of Private Business and Vocational Schools
H.B. 4984
Amends procedures for business and vocational schools seeking approval to operate in Illinois, or seeking approval to teach supplementary co...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Chicago Public Schools Violence Prevention Hotline
H.B. 4647
Directs the board of the Chicago Public Schools, in consultation with the Chicago Police Department, to establish a violence prevention hotl...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Annual School Meal Report
S.B. 3681 - Section 105 ILCS 125/4
Amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act to delete provisions requiring the state board to provide to the governor and general asse...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Data on Teacher Certification Tests
S.B. 3681 - Section 2-3.11d
Moves from August 2009 to October 2012 the date by which the state board of education must file with the general assembly and governor, and ...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Salary and Benefit Survey
S.B. 3681 - Section 105 ILCS 5/2-3.103
Requires that only districts serving 1,000 or more students provide information on education support personnel for the state board's annual ...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Consumer Education Proficiency Test
S.B. 3608
Repeals policies relating to the Annual Consumer Education Proficiency Test, for students in grades 9-12 who elected to take the test. Stude...
| More... |
Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12,
Community College | Extension of College and Career Readiness Pilot Program
S.B. 3705
On July 1, 2010, subject to appropriation, directs the state community college board to extend the College and Career Readiness Pilot Progra...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Use of Bilingual Education Funds
S.B. 3635
In provisions concerning the account of expenditures for transitional bilingual education programs, requires that at least 60% of state bili...
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Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Nutrition and Physical Activity Best Practices Database
S.B. 3706
Directs the state board of education to develop and maintain a nutrition and physical activity best practices database, to contain the resul...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Holocaust and Genocide Courses and Awareness
H.B. 6059
Establishes the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission, including ex officio membership by the state superintendent of education and the...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. | Sharing New Energy Technologies
H.B. 6153
Authorizes the department of commerce and economic opportunity to, subject to appropriation, create financial incentive and grant programs t...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Eligibility for School Construction Grants
H.B. 5633
Amends the School Construction Law. Requires the grant index to be calculated for each of the school districts forming a reorganized school ...
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Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | School Board Business, Conflicts of Interest
S.B. 3515
Allows a school treasurer to pay recurring bills upon certification by the clerk or secretary of the school board (instead of requiring an o...
| More... |
Governance--Mandates |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Instructional Mandates Task Force
H.B. 4209
Defines "instructional mandate" as any state law that requires a district to devote any amount of time to the instruction of or engagement b...
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Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Diversity in Persons at Supervisory, Technical, Professional and Managerial Levels
S.B. 3531
Establishes the African American Employment Plan Act. Provides that the purposes of the act are to:
(a) improve the delivery of state serv...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Superintendent and Chief School Business Official Endorsements
S.B. 2537
Provides that one of the paths by which an administrative certificate recipient may also earn the chief school business official endorsement...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Construction Grants
S.B. 3460
In provisions concerning early childhood construction grants, provides that a public school district or other eligible entity must provide l...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Reimbursement for Transportation of Early Learning Pupils
H.B. 4879
Provides that when calculating the state reimbursement for transportation costs, the state board of education may not deduct the number of p...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. | MIA/POW Scholarships
S.B. 3630
Revises residency criteria for MIA/POW scholarships. Provides that an "eligible veteran or serviceperson" includes a veteran or serviceperso...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Financial Aid to Encourage Transfer to Four-Year Institutions
S.B. 3699
Establishes the Community College Transfer Grant Program Act. Creates the Community College Transfer Grant Program to provide financial assi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. | Student Data and Postsecondary Service Providers
S.B. 1332
Provides that the prohibition on a higher education institution providing a student's name, address, telephone number, social security numbe...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. | Limitation on Tuition Increase
S.B. 3222
Amends provisions related to four-year public postsecondary institutions in the state. Provides that an undergraduate student who is an Illi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. | Prepaid Tuition Use at Out-of-State Institutions
H.B. 6206
Amends Illinois Prepaid Tuition Act. Repeals part of definition of "eligible institution" (*was* public and nonpublic institutions whose stu...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Adopted 07/2010 |
Postsec. | Private Colleges and Universities Capital Distribution Formula
23 IAC 1039.10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Primarily from summary in Administrative Register: On July 13, 2009, Public Act 96-37 was signed into law, creating the Private Colleges and...
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Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Eligibility for Transition Services
H.B. 5688
Provides that a child with a disability who receives residential and educational services from or paid by the department of human services i...
| More... |
Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Education of Homeless Children and Youth State Grant Program
H.B. 4755
Establishes a state grant program that parallels and supplements, but operates independently of, the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assista...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. | P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System
H.B. 6092
Amends the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act. Provides that beginning July 2012, the board of higher education is authorized to co...
| More... |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Commission to End Hunger
S.B. 3158
Establishes the Commission to End Hunger Act. Establishes legislative findings, including that the state currently ranks 51st among all stat...
| More... |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Illinois Athlete Agents Act
S.B. 2542
Creates the Illinois Athlete Agents Act. Requires licensure of agents for student-athletes with the department of financial and professional...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Electronic Textbooks
S.B. 3547
Provides that among other purposes (i.e., purchasing textbooks and software), the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Prog...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 | School District Intergovernmental Cooperation Renewable Energy Act
H.B. 6419
Authorizes any two or more school districts to form an agency, by establishment of an intergovernmental agreement, to acquire and construct ...
| More... |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 | Suicide Prevention
H.B. 4672
Adds school social workers who work with students in grades 7-12 to the list of persons who must be trained to identify the warning signs of...
| More... |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 | Principal Certification
S.B. 226
Amends administrator certification provisions. Authorizes a state board-approved not-for-profit entity to individually, or in collaboration ...
| More... |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Adopted 06/2010 |
P-12 | Mentoring Program for New Principals
23 IAC 35.10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60
Primarily from administrative register: Public Act 96-373, effective August 13, 2009, amended Section 2-3.53a of the School Code to also aut...
| More... |
P-3 |
Issued 06/2010 |
P-12 | Office of Early Childhood Development
Executive Order 8
Creates the Office of Early Childhood Development in the governor's office. Provides that the purpose of the office is to coordinate the wor...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 | Grants for Preschool Educational Programs
S.B. 2594
Deletes language providing that the state board of education must provide the primary source of funding through appropriations for the grant...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 | Grants for Preschool Educational Programs
H.B. 5322
Removes obsolete provision requiring the state board of education to provide the primary source of funding for the voluntary preschool progr...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Indebtedness
S.B. 2615
From General Assembly summary: Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that for a period of 3 years after the effective date of th...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec. | University Borrowing
S.B. 642
Provides that the governing board of each public university has the power to borrow money as necessary in anticipation of receiving tuition,...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 | Bullying and Gang Prevention
S.B. 3266
Makes changes concerning the general assembly's findings concerning bullying prevention education and gang resistance education and training...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Adopted 05/2010 |
P-12 | Temporary Relocation Expenses
23 IAC 145.10, .20, .30, .50, .60
These proposed amendments make numerous changes to the way in which the Temporary Relocation Program operates that respond to various circum...
| More... |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 | Educational Service Centers
H.B. 16
Permits educational service centers to provide training in the area of financial planning. Eliminates the Suburban Cook County Regional Offi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 05/2010 |
Postsec. | General Assembly Scholarships
S.B. 365
Makes changes concerning General Assembly scholarships. Permits a member of the general assembly to forfeit the privilege of nominating pers...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Finance Study Commission
S.J.R. 88
Directs the board of higher education to establish a Higher Education Finance Study Commission. Tasks the commission with:
(1) Examining th...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
Postsec. | Task Force on Higher Education Private Student Loans
S.B. 1698
Cites legislative findings, including that (1) private loans currently constitute 20% of total education loan money, as opposed to 5% of stu...
| More... |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Discrimination
H.B. 59
Relates to the procedure for filing a complaint with the Director of Human Rights relating to discrimination in employment, credit, public a...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Adopted 01/2010 |
P-12 | Certification of Persons with Certificates Previously Denied, Suspended or Revoked
23 IAC 25.485
Requires each applicant for issuance, renewal or registration of an Illinois certificate or for the addition of another credential (e.g., en...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Automated External Defibrillators
S.B. 1371
Differentiates between an indoor and outdoor "physical fitness facility" owned or operated by a public or private elementary or secondary sc...
| More... |
Leadership |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Performance Evaluation Reform Act of 2010
S.B. 315
Amends 105 ILCS 5/2-3.25g. After effective date, bars districts, joint agreements of districts or regional superintendents from seeking a wa...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Professional Development for Department of Human Services Staff; 1st Grade Start Age for Certain Students
H.B. 806
Requires the department of human services to operate a comprehensive professional development system called the Gateways to Opportunity prog...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 01/2010 |
P-12 | Interventions for Educator Preparation Programs
23 IAC 25.130
Provides a mechanism for a review and intervention when issues with one or more preparation programs or an educational unit become apparent ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Alternative Teacher and Administrator Certification
S.B. 616
Provides that alternative certification programs may be provided by various types of qualified providers, including institutions of higher e...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Adopted 01/2010 |
P-12 | Workloads for Those Mentoring New Teachers
23 IAC 25.910
Amends provisions related to mentors assigned to new teachers. Provides that mentors holding a full-time teaching assignment may be assigned...
| More... |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | American Sign Language Courses
H.B. 725
Encourages school boards to include American Sign Language courses in schools' foreign language curricula. Provides that the foreign languag...
| More... |
Finance--Federal |
Adopted 12/2009 |
P-12 | Federal Funding of School Districts
23 IAC 100.120, .130, .Table C
Adapted from Illinois Register: Amends rules to provide for uniformity in accounting for the federal funds that school districts receive und...
| More... |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12 | Competitive Bids and Electronic Processes
H.B. 613
In provisions requiring certain contracts to be awarded by competitive bid, provides that the acceptance of bids sealed by a bidder and the ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 12/2009 |
Postsec. | Tuition Waivers
23 IAC 1075.700
Existing rule provides that the amount of undergraduate tuition revenue a public university may waive is limited to 3% of total available un...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Adopted 11/2009 |
P-12 | Public Schools Evaluation, Recognition and Supervision
23 IAC 1.20, .30, .100, .240, .420, .465, .480, .510, .737
Partially from "Notice of Adopted Amendments" in Illinois Register (changes from this rulemaking but not listed below are technical in natur...
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Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Adopted 11/2009 |
P-12 | Drivers' Education
23 IAC 252.20, .30, .40
Amends rules to provide flexibility for school districts with students who require adaptive driver's education for the behind-the-wheel comp...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Adopted 11/2009 |
P-12 | Supplemental Education Service Providers
23 IAC 675.50, Appendix B
Eliminates requirement that supplemental education service (SES) provider's three years of experience serving youth be in the community wher...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 11/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Civil Rights
H.B. 2547
Provides that the exercise of free speech, free expression, free exercise of religion or expression of religiously based views by any indivi...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
To governor 11/2009 |
P-12 | School Bus Safety
S.B. 932
Directs the secretary of state to suspend a school bus driver permit for 3 years upon receiving notice from the employer that the holder fai...
| More... |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 11/2009 |
P-12 | Streamlining Illinois' Educational Delivery Systems Task Force
S.B. 1882
Establishes a Streamlining Illinois' Educational Delivery Systems Task Force. Directs the task force to explore and examine the duties of th...
| More... |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 11/2009 |
P-12 | Chicago Educational Facilities Task Force
H.B. 363
Requires the establishment of a Chicago Educational Facilities Task Force in order to ensure that school facility-related decisions are made...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Adopted 11/2009 |
P-12 | New Teacher Induction and Mentoring
23 IAC 65.20, .130, .140, .160
Amends rule to eliminate the current focus of this program as a pilot program and restructure it along the lines of a continuing grant that ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
Signed into law 11/2009 |
P-12 | Interference with a Public Institution of Education
H.B. 557
Expands the statute concerning interference with a public institution of higher education to also include interference with public elementar...
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Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 11/2009 |
P-12 | Labor Relations Board
H.B. 2445
Requires the Labor Relations Board to employ a specified number of attorneys and investigators. Provides that evidence submitted to the boar...
| More... |
Accountability |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Reporting, Accountability and Data
S.B. 1977 - Reporting, Accountability and Data
Requires teacher supply and demand reports to be published every three years instead of annually. Deletes provision that adequate yearly pro...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Leadership of Districts in Financial Trouble
H.B. 2674
Authorizes a district under the authority of a Financial Oversight Panel to appoint a district superintendent with a specified certification...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Prairie State Achievement Exam
S.B. 2014
Reduces the number of opportunities to take the Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) from two to one during the spring semester of g...
| More... |
Attendance--Compulsory |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Sick Leave and Compulsory Schooling Exemptions
H.B. 645
Allows a school board to require a certificate from a licensed chiropractic physician as a basis for pay after an absence of 3 days for pers...
| More... |
Attendance--Truancy |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Truancy Reporting
S.B. 1977 - Truancy Reporting
Existing language requires reporting of truancy data only in Chicago. Amendment requires all regional superintendents, district superintende...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Teacher Conduct, Licensure Suspension and Revocation
S.B. 2071
Provides that it is a state attorney's duty to notify the state superintendent of education, the applicable regional superintendent of schoo...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 1977 - Charter Schools
Requires charter schools to run criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Yout...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Green CTE Programs
H.B. 740
Defines "green industries." Requires the state board of education, subject to appropriation, to establish a competitive grant program for th...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Construction Grants for Area Vocational Centers
S.B. 1926
Defines school district to include a jointly owned Type 40 area vocational center, if a joint agreement includes language that specifies how...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Agricultural Science Teacher Preparation
H.B. 3600
Requires the state board of education, subject to appropriation, to provide grants to institutions of higher education that offer state-appr...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Disability History and Awareness
H.B. 1035
Requires the state board of education to promote an annual campaign about disability history and awareness in the state. Requires a school d...
| More... |
Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Credit Card Marketing Act of 2009
H.B. 2352
Creates the Credit Card Marketing Act of 2009. Requires institutions of higher education that enter into an agreement to market credit cards...
| More... |
Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Cancer Prevention
S.B. 1665
Requires that the Comprehensive Health Education Program include information about cancer, including types of cancer, signs and symptoms, ri...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | U.S. History Curriculum
S.B. 1557
Provides that, to reinforce the study of the role and contributions of Hispanics, the U.S. history curriculum must include the study of the ...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Alternate Fuels Commission
H.B. 4245
Creates the Alternate Fuels Commission to investigate and recommend strategies for promoting the use of alternate fuels and vehicles that us...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | 21st Century Workforce Development Fund
H.B. 852
Creates the 21st Century Workforce Development Fund Act. Creates the 21st Century Workforce Development Fund. Provides the Fund is intended ...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Certain School Treasurers
H.B. 325
Allows, with respect to a school board of an elementary school, high school or unit school district that forms a part of a Class II county s...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Chicago School Finance Authority
S.B. 235
Provides that upon the abolition of the Chicago School Finance Authority, all of its rights and property shall pass to and be vested in the ...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Districts in Financial Difficulty
H.B. 944
Provides that no school district may be certified by the state board of education to be in financial difficulty solely by reasons arising as...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Traffic Fines in School Zones
S.B. 2024
Provides that $50 of the additional fine charged for (1) speeding in a school zone or (2) failure to yield to a pedestrian in a school zone ...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Holidays, Inservice and Parent-Teacher Conference Days
S.B. 1956
Amends provisions concerning average daily attendance under the state aid formula. Makes changes with respect to days that are used for an i...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Health Emergencies, Certification Requirements
H.B. 2675
Provides that, if a district closes one or more (but not all) schools during a public health emergency, the district may claim a full day of...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Calculating Average Daily Attendance
S.B. 1977 - Calculating Average Daily Attendance
Provides that if a school district is precluded from offering the minimum hours of instruction for a full attendance day due to inclement we...
| More... |
Finance--Student Fees |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Alternative Process for Determining Eligibility for Student Fee Waivers
H.B. 475
Allows school districts to verify a family's eligibility for waivers of school fees separate from the verification process used for free mea...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Calculation of a District's Spending/Taxation Cap
S.B. 2051
Provides that, with respect to equalized assessed valuation data, if a school district has approved or does not approve an increase in its l...
| More... |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Community College | Electronic
H.B. 862
Provides that electronic bid submissions to community colleges must be considered a sealed document for competitive bid requests if they are...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Application of Lawn Care Products
S.B. 1769
Requires school districts to adopt a procedure to comply with the Lawn Care Products Application and Notice Act and the Structural Pest Cont...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Life-Threatening Food Allergies
H.B. 281
Requires the state board of education, in conjunction with the department of public health, to develop and make available to each school boa...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Obesity Prevention Initiative Act
H.B. 3767
Creates the Obesity Prevention Initiative Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to organize at least three hearings on the health an...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | MRSA Prevention in Residential Schools and Juvenile Corrections Centers
H.B. 185
Creates the MRSA Prevention, Control, and Reporting Act to to improve the prevention of infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococc...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Ensuring Success in School Task Force
H.B. 605
Requires the Ensuring Success in School Task Force, created to address the educational and related needs of elementary and secondary educati...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Awarding of Credit for Courses Taken in Middle Grades
H.B. 4038
Relates to the authorization of students in grade 7 or 8 to enroll in a high school course. Allows a student to participate in the course wh...
| More... |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Dual Credit Quality Act
H.B. 1079
Creates the Dual Credit Quality Act. Requires the Illinois Community College Board and the Board of Higher Education to develop policies to ...
| More... |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Repeals Minimum Age for Postsecondary Admission
S.B. 263
Removes a provision that prohibits a student from being admitted to instruction in any of the departments of the university who has not atta...
| More... |
Leadership |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Principal Mentoring and Master Principal Designation Program
H.B. 737
Amends provisions related to the new principal mentoring program. Provides that principals hired on or after July 1, 2008 may participate in...
| More... |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Remote Educational Programs
H.B. 2448
Defines "remote educational program" as program delivered to students in the home or other location outside of a school building that meets ...
| More... |
P-3 |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | MOUs Between State and Head Start Programs
S.B. 79
Requires grantees under the Preschool for All Children program to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the appropriate local ...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Education Block Grant
S.B. 1412
Relates to the Early Childhood Education Block Grant. Replaces provision that 11% of grant to be used to fund programs for children age 0-3 ...
| More... |
Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Visiting a Student with Disabilities at School
H.B. 628
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that a parent, an independent educational evaluator, or a qualifi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Consolidation of Teacher Recruitment Programs
H.B. 3999
Consolidates the "Future Teacher Corps Program" and the Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching's "Golden Apple Scholars Program"...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | State Scholars
H.B. 4039
Provides that an applicant for the State Scholar program is eligible to be designated a State Scholar if he or she is a resident attending a...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | EMS Memorial Scholarship and Training Fund
H.B. 2433
Provides for the award of scholarships to children and spouses of emergency medical services personnel killed in the course of their employm...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Robert C. Byrd Federal Scholarship Program
S.B. 1977 - Robert C. Byrd Federal Scholarship Program
Establishes the state board as the administrator of the Robert C. Byrd federal scholarship program. Provides that this does not preclude the...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | College Textbooks
H.B. 461
Creates the Transparency in College Textbook Publishing Practices Act. Requires each publisher of college textbooks to disclose to a faculty...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Tuition Savings Program
S.B. 81
Requires an addition modification to the base income of an amount equal to the contribution component of any nonqualified withdrawal or refu...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Administrator and Teacher Salaries
H.B. 2235
Requires the governing board of each school district, public university, and community college to report to the state board of education or ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Faculty and Staff Political Displays
H.B. 899
Provides that a university or community college may not prohibit any faculty or staff member from: (1) displaying political buttons, sticker...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Rights of Postsecondary Faculty and Staff
H.B. 898
Provides that all faculty and staff members of a university or community college are free to communicate their views on any matter of privat...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Officers of the Peace
H.B. 2253
Repeals and rewrites provisions related to the appointment, duties and training of law enforcement officer and non-law enforcement officer m...
| More... |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Collaborative Baccalaureate Degree Development Grant Program
S.B. 1883
Requires the board of higher education to implement the Collaborative Baccalaureate Degree Development Grant Program to help deliver upper-d...
| More... |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Veterans Campus Service Act
S.B. 1624
Creates the Higher Education Veterans Campus Service Act. Requires all public colleges and universities to conduct a survey of the services ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary Affordability and Access
H.B. 4094
Requires the Board of Higher Education's master plan to include higher education affordability and accessibility measures. http://www.ilga.g...
| More... |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | School Technology Revolving Loan Fund
S.B. 611 - School Technology Revolving Loan Fund
Allows nonpublic schools that are recognized by the state board of education to apply for a loan under the School Technology Revolving Loan ...
| More... |
Public Involvement |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Community Schools
H.B. 684
Defines "community school" as a school that partners with its community to provide enrichment and life skill opportunities for students, par...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Summer Food Service
S.B. 1977 - Summer Food Service
Clarifies that districts must continue to operate a summer breakfast and lunch program as long as they have one or more schools (i) in which...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Bomb Threats to Schools
H.B. 4049
Provides that a person who makes a false or terrorist threat that a bomb or explosive device has been placed in a school must be required by...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Day/Temporary Labor Service Agencies
H.B. 866
Bars any day and temporary labor service agency in Chicago from operating or transacting business at a location within 1,000 feet of a schoo...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Campus Violence Prevention Plans
H.B. 336
Amends the Campus Security Enhancement Act of 2008. Requires the inter-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional campus violence prevention plan...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Private College Campus Police
H.B. 2507
Relates to the peace officer powers granted to members of a private college or university campus police department. Provides that such power...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Cell Phone Use in School Speed Zones
H.B. 72
Provides that a person, regardless of age, may not use a wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle on a roadway in a school speed z...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Threat of Destruction or Violence at School
H.B. 1105
Provides that a person commits disorderly conduct when he or she knowingly transmits or causes to be transmitted a threat of destruction of ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Safety Education and Driver Education
S.B. 1977 - Safety Education and Driver Education
Clarifies that Internet safety component must be taught at least once a school year to students in grades 3-12. Requires one class period a ...
| More... |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Student Expulsion
S.B. 1718
Clarifies "weapon" for purposes of student eligibility for expulsion. Provides for the expulsion of a student who is determined to have brou...
| More... |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Teen Dating Violence
H.B. 973
Allows the Comprehensive Health Education Program in grades 8-12 to include instruction on teen dating violence. http://www.ilga.gov/legisla...
| More... |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Sexual Harassment Laws and Policies
H.B. 2573
Requires every institution of higher education to post in a prominent location a poster stating sexual harassment laws and policies. Require...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | School Breakfast Program
S.B. 1957
Makes changes concerning the the breakfast incentive program. Adds subsection making grants available to school boards and welfare centers t...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Transportation of Special Needs Students
H.B. 2362
Adds contracts providing for the transportation of pupils with special needs or disabilities to the list of exceptions to the requirement th...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Regional Office of Education Advisory Boards
H.B. 1108
Makes changes with respect to the establishment and purpose of a regional office of education advisory board by providing that, beginning Oc...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Community College | Wind and Solar Power Generation
S.B. 1570
Creates the School Wind and Solar Generation Program to fund wind and solar generation projects for school and community college districts. ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Joint Agreements to Provide Special Education Services
S.B. 611 - Joint Agreements to Provide Special Education Services
Amends the Local Government Property Transfer Act to include in the definition of "transferee municipality" two or more districts operating ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Asbestos Abatement
S.B. 2145
Amends the Asbestos Abatement Act. Deletes a provision requiring the department of public health to require local educational agencies to su...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Radon Testing
H.B. 4223
Recommends that school buildings be tested for radon every five years. Recommends that schools be built using radon resistant construction t...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Farm Fresh Schools Program
H.B. 78
Creates the Farm Fresh Schools Program to increase access to and promoting the consumption of locally grown fruits and vegetables in schools...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Student Transportation
H.B. 3982
Removes a provision in the School Code that allows a school district to transport not more than 15 students to and from an interscholastic a...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Fees for School Bus Driver Courses
S.B. 269
Amends provisions concerning the duty of the regional superintendent of schools to conduct courses of instruction for school bus drivers. Al...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Reporting School Bus Driver Performance
H.B. 353
Amends text to appear on the rear of each school bus regarding reporting driver performance. Adds that the area code must precede the phone ...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Special Education--Personnel, Costs, Instruction in Home or Hospital
H.B. 1190
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Amends job titles defined under staff working on behalf of children who ha...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Joint Agreements for Provision of Special Education
H.B. 809
In a section allowing school boards to enter into joint agreements with other school boards with respect to special education matters, provi...
| More... |
Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Transitions for Students with Disabilities
H.B. 979
Amends provisions concerning transition goals, supports and services. Removes certain provisions concerning transition goals and supports. P...
| More... |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | "Twice-Exceptional" Students
H.B. 900
Requires the Advisory Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities and the Advisory Council on the Education of Gifted and Talente...
| More... |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Interscholastic Association Defamation Act
S.B. 1556
Creates the Interscholastic Association Defamation Act. Defines association as the Illinois High School Association. Provides that any assoc...
| More... |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Performance-enhancing Substance Testing
H.B. 272
Repeals provision effective July 2011. Requires the Illinois High School Association to prohibit a student from participating in an associat...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Vetoed 08/2009 |
Postsec. | Data Security on State Computers Act
S.B. 2218 -- pp 1-4
Amends and adds to the Data Security on State Computers Act. Directs each public university's governing board to implement and administer
th...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Confidentiality of Information
S.B. 1508
Provides that nothing contained in the Illinois School Student Records Act may be construed to impair or limit the confidentiality of inform...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Revocation of Licensure
H.B. 2337
Provides that no person or entity whose license, certificate or authority has been revoked by the department of professional regulations may...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Leave and Pay for Reservists
S.B. 337
Requires that a full-time employee of the state, local government or a school district who is a member of a reserve component of the armed f...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Credit for Former Private School Teachers, Administrators
H.B. 1148
Allows a member to establish optional credit for up to 2 years of service as a teacher or administrator employed by a private school recogni...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Crediting Sick Days
H.B. 3672
Provides that if an employee was in the service of more than one school district, then the sick leave days from all such employers must be c...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Grow Your Own Teacher Act
H.B. 4117
Provides that for purposes of the Grow Your Own Teacher Act to prepare highly skilled, committed teachers to teach in hard-to-staff schools,...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Grow Your Own Teacher Program
H.B. 392
Amends the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Act. Eliminates provision that a goal of the program is to achieve an average teacher retention p...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Salary and Collective Bargaining Information
S.B. 2270
Requires school districts to post on their Web site an itemized salary compensation report for every administrative employee in the district...
| More... |
Technology--Equitable Access |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Children's Low-Cost Laptop Act
S.B. 613
Creates the Children's Low-Cost Laptop Act. Requires the state board of education to establish a pilot project schools serving students in a...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Textbook Digital Technology
S.B. 2277
Requires the state board of education to implement a pilot program, subject to appropriation, to test digital technologies in three geograph...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Textbooks and Fees
H.B. 475
Prior legislation required districts to set aside free textbooks and provide fee waivers to children eligible for free meals under the Commu...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 612
Increases statewide charter school cap and charter school cap for Chicago. Above and beyond caps, permits five Chicago charters (and specifi...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Innovation, Intervention, and Restructuring Task Force
S.B. 2119
Creates, in accordance with the goals outlined in the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Innovation, Intervention, ...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Community College | Dropout Recovery
S.B. 1796
Establishes the Illinois Hope and Opportunity Pathways through Education (IHOPE) Program, to be adminstered by the state board of education,...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Educational Labor Relations Act
S.B. 1984
Requires that a charter school comply with all provisions of the Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that "educational employer" under...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Congressional Medal of Honor Film
S.B. 1675
Provides that each school district must require all students in grade 7 and all high school students enrolled in a course concerning U.S. hi...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Speeding Fine Funds
S.B. 75
Amends provisions specifying which programs may receive funds realized from fines for violating special speed limit in school zone. Adds the...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Diplomas for Vietnam Veterans
H.B. 3731
Allows school boards to award high school diplomas to honorably discharged veterans who served in the armed forces of the United States duri...
| More... |
Leadership |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | School Business Official Endorsement
S.B. 187
Allows for a chief school business official endorsement to an administrative certificate if, among other conditions, the certificate holder ...
| More... |
Leadership |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Mentoring for New Superintendents
S.B. 1276
Requires any individual, with exceptions, who begins serving as a first-time superintendent in the state on or after July 1, 2009 to partici...
| More... |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System
S.B. 1828
Creates the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act. Requires the state board of education, the community college board, and the board o...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 07/2009 |
Postsec. | Federal Family Education Loan Program
23 IAC 2720.20, .40, .50
Amends rule to respond to market changes and client suggestions, to implement state and federal statutory amendments, to clarify issues that...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. | Private Postsecondary Facilities
H.B. 2424 - Article 25
Establishes the Private Colleges and Universities Capital Distribution Formula Act. Creates a distribution formula for funds appropriated fr...
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Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Moment of Silence on Veterans' Day
H.B. 972
Provides that if a public school, university, or community college holds any type of event at the institution on November 11, Veterans' Day,...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Aggravated Battery with a Firearm
H.B. 867
Provides that aggravated battery with a firearm is also committed if the firearm is discharged on school grounds at a person known to be a s...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Construction Projects
H.B. 2424 - Article 30, Section 30-20
Requires school construction projects supported by grants from the Capital Development Board to receive silver certification from the United...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | School Bus Drivers Called to Active Duty
H.B. 3787
Provides that when a school bus driver permit holder who is a service member is called to active duty, the employer must notify the secretar...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Sick Leave
S.B. 35 and H.B. 548
Provides that a school board may require a certificate from a physician, advanced practice nurse, physician assistant or spiritual adviser a...
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Curriculum--Drivers Education |
To governor 06/2009 |
P-12 | Drivers' Education
S.B. 2217
Amends the definition of an approved driver education course to include any driver education course given at an approved Department of Defen...
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No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Adopted 06/2009 |
P-12 | Providers of Supplemental Education Services
23 IAC 675.30, .50, .70, .90, .175, .210, .220, .230, Appendix B, Appendix C
Amends rules concerning providers of supplemental educational services (SES). Adds a statement to the "Code of Ethics" section to make clear...
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Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Issued 06/2009 |
Postsec. | Executive Order 912
Admissions Review Commission
Creates an Admissions Review Commission. Directs the commission to:
--Examine and evaluate the standards and criteria used to evaluate appl...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 | Lines of Credit
H.B. 999
Allows a school district, entity such as a special education cooperative or other joint agreement, or regional superintendent to establish a...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
Postsec. | State University Certificates of Participation
H.B. 1200
Creates the State University Certificates of Participation Act. Authorizes the board of any state university to enter into financing agreeme...
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Middle School |
Adopted 04/2009 |
P-12 | Middle Grades Certification
23 IAC 1.75, .705, .720
1.75: Updates language regarding student information systems to reflect that the system is now compatible with all districts' local data pac...
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Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Adopted 04/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | NCATE Certification
23 IAC 25.115
In acknowledgment of the high cost to institutions and the current fiscal environment, NCATE (National Council for the Accreditation of Teac...
| More... |
P-3 |
Adopted 03/2009 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Block Grant
23 IAC 235.100
Extends sunset for Preschool for All Children program from June 2008 to June 2010. Pages 336-339 of 372: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/d...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community Colleges
S.B. 2603
Revises provisions of the Public Community College Act regarding violations by members of related boards. Provides that fees to cover the co...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Adopted 03/2009 |
P-12 | Reading Improvement Block Grant Program
23 IAC 260.100, .110, .120, .130, .140
Establishes rules concerning the Reading Improvement Block Grant Program. Identifies the applicants eligible to apply for professional devel...
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Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 | Education of Homeless Children
23 IAC 245.10, .20, .30, .40, .50
Creates new rules relating to education of homeless children and youth state grant program. Pages 322-329 of 365: http://www.cyberdriveillin...
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Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Adopted 01/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Approval of New Units
23 IAC 1050.10, 1050.20, 1050.30, 1050.40, 1050.50, 1050.ILLUSTRATIONA
Clarifies requirements for program approval, procedures for obtaining approval, and requirements for reviews of existing programs at public ...
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Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Adopted 01/2009 |
Postsec. | Program Approval
23 IAC 1030.10, 1030.20, 1030.30, 1030.60, 1030.70, 1030.80,1030.ILLUSTRATION A
Provides exemptions from program approval requirements. Requires any institution offering online instruction where the core academic support...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 12/2008 |
P-12 | Truancy
S.B. 2743
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a code violation involves a municipal ordinance regulating truants, the hearing date mu...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 12/2008 |
P-12 | School Council Members, Law Enforcement Drills
S.B. 2688
Amends Chicago School District Article of School Code. Provides if the child of a parent school council member dies during term in office, t...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Emergency Rule Adoption 12/2008 |
P-12 | Teacher Preparation Program Review
23 IAC 25.115
Explains that the state board rules for the review process of institutions' teacher preparation programs were written many years ago to refl...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Adopted 11/2008 |
P-12 | School Food Service
23 IAC 305.5, .10, .15, .17, APPENDIX A, B
Requires every public school, at the beginning of each school year, to publicly announce the availability of free lunches and, as applicable...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 10/2008 |
P-12 | Lowest Responsible Bidder
S.B. 2293
Revises laws requiring contracts involving an expenditure in excess of a specified amount or lower to be awarded to the lowest responsible b...
| More... |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 10/2008 |
P-12 | Teaching Excellence Program and P-20 Council Membership
S.B. 2687
Revises the Teaching Excellence Program. Provides an annual payment of $3,000 to a teacher or counselor who holds both a Master Certificate ...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Student Records
23 IAC 375.10, .75
Adds that student records will include an unique student identifier to facilitate transfer of records among K-12 institutions, and between K...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Adopted 10/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Evaluations
23 IAC 1501.303
Amends policies relating to review and evaluation of community college programs. Eliminates reference to opportunity for a college to reques...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 10/2008 |
Community College | Use of Community College Buildings During an Emergency
S.B. 2690
Authorizes the board of trustees of a community college district to make the buildings of a community college available for emergency purpos...
| More... |
Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2008 |
P-12 | Education of Homeless Children
23 IAC 245.10, .20, .30, .40, .50, .60
Creates new rules relating to education of homeless children and youth state grant program. See pages 209-211, 233-241 of 261: http://www.cy...
| More... |
Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2008 |
P-12 | Education of Homeless Children
23 IAC 245.10, .20, .30, .40, .50, .60
Creates new rules relating to education of homeless children and youth state grant program. Pages 209-211 and 233-241 of 261: http://www.cyb...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 09/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Study of Current and Projected Shortages in Critical Occupations and Skill Sets
S.B. 2632
Subject to appropriation, requires the department of commerce and economic opportunity to conduct a study to identify current and projected ...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Governor's line-item veto overridden by both houses 09/2008 |
P-12 | Funding for School Libraries
H.B. 4527
Amends the Library System Act. Increases the amount of grants from the state to public and school libraries. Provides that if moneys appropr...
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Health |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 09/2008 |
P-12 | Prevalent Student Chronic Health Conditions
S.B. 2685
Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, requires teachers' institutes to include instruction on prevalent student chronic health condition...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Child Abuse Reporting
H.B. 4252
Provides that if a school district employee has made a report of suspected child abuse to the department of children and family services inv...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Assorted Amendments to the School Code
S.B. 2482
Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must ...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Commission on Children and Youth
H.B. 4456
Creates the Commission on Children and Youth Act. Provides for membership, appointments, goals, recommendations, and reports. Provides that ...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Homeownership Education
S.B. 2387
Adds homeownership, including the basic process of obtaining a mortgage and the concepts of fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, subprime lo...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | State Treasurer Financial Education and Savings Not-For-Profit Corporation
S.B. 2098
Authorizes the state treasurer to create the State Treasurer Financial Education and Savings Not-For-Profit Corporation to promote financial...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Police Association License Plates
H.B. 5607
Provides for the issuance of Police Association License Plates. Provides that certain amounts of the license plate issuance and renewal fees...
| More... |
P-3 |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Commission on the Elimination of Poverty
H.B. 4369
Creates the Commission on the Elimination of Poverty to develop a poverty elimination strategic plan to reduce extreme poverty in Illinois b...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
Postsec. | Alcohol in State University Buildings
S.B. 2231
Allows alcohol to be served or sold in state university buildings during public events and not related student activities. Requires the boar...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Postsecondary Grant Assistance
S.B. 1908
Relates to the Monetary Award grant assistance program. Provides that the maximum grant amount must not exceed specified amounts for the 200...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 08/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Districts
H.B. 4189
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Classifies community college districts as units of local government that must adopt res...
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Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Weather-related and Other School Closures
H.B. 4309
Provides that if, during any school day, a school district closes one or more school buildings due to a condition beyond the control of the ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Internet Safety Education
S.B. 2512
Relates to Internet safety education curriculum. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, requires districts to incorporate an age-appropri...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Higher Education Emergency Response Plans
S.B. 2691
Amends the Campus Security Enhancement Act. Requires each institution of higher education in the state to develop an emergency response plan...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Wind Generation Turbine Farms
H.B. 4646
Provides that a county, municipality, school district, community college district or other unit of local government may either individually ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Conversion and Formation of School Districts
S.B. 2487
Makes modifications to district consolidations and the establishment of collaborative high schools. Makes adjustments to how revenues are es...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Residential Programs
S.B. 2042
Amends the School Code and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Distinguishes funding provisions for students in residential programs who are not...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Job-Related Felony
H.B. 4700
Provides that the State's Attorney must notify the board of trustees for the retirement system or pension fund if an employee is convicted o...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Return to Teaching in Shortage Area
H.B. 4536
Relates to provisions allowing retired teachers to return to teaching in subject shortage areas without impairing retirement status or retir...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Employment of Teachers on Disability
H.B. 5699
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows a teacher receiving a disability, occupational disability, or disa...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Illinois Future Teacher Corps Program
H.B. 1334
Requires the commission of higher education to allocate a minimum of 200 Illinois Future Teacher Corps Program scholarship awards each year ...
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Health |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 | Health Exams for Students Entering Grade 6
H.B. 5717
Provides that any child who received a health examination within one year prior to entering the fifth grade for a certain school year is not...
| More... |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | State Scholars
H.B. 4567
Requires the student assistance commission to conduct a study detailing in 2008 and 2009 the number of students designated State Scholars, t...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Sexual Assault Awareness Education
H.B. 3677
Provides that a comprehensive health education program must include sexual assault awareness in secondary schools. Requires universities and...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 | Recycled Paper, Paper Products and Solid Waste Management
H.B. 4159
Requires each school district to periodically review its procurement procedures on the purchase of products and supplies. Requires the schoo...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
Adopted 07/2008 |
P-12 | School Libraries
23 IAC 1.100 thru .515
Pages 485-487 of 902: Specifies requirements that school libraries must meet, in terms of general function, financial resources, facilities ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 | Crossing Railroad Tracks
S.B. 2182
Requires a driver of a school bus to open the service door and driver's window before crossing a railroad track or tracks. http://www.ilga.g...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Heartsaver AED Fund
H.B. 1058
Makes nonpublic schools eligible for matching grants from the department of public health's Heartsaver AED Fund to help purchase Automated E...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 | Preschool for All Children Funds
H.B. 4705
Allows for the continuation of the distribution of funds by the state board of education to achieve a goal of Preschool for All Children by ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | State Scholars and Merit Recognition Scholarship
S.B. 437
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Provides that each State Scholar who enrolls in an institution of higher learning shall ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 | Special Education Facilities
23 IAC 401.10, .30, .210
Emergency rule (expires 8-18-08) includes a new provision expressly prohibiting the "use of a behavioral intervention strategy relying upon ...
| More... |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 02/2008 |
P-12 | Master Principal Designation
23 IAC 25.10 thru .770 (non seq.)
Establishes the requirements for the new "master principal" designation, the last new initiative that was created by the "SAELP legislation'...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Adopted 02/2008 |
P-12 | Providers of Supplemental Education Services
23 IAC 675
Adds clarifying language regarding providers of supplemental education services. Amends various provisions related to providers' code of eth...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 01/2008 |
P-12 | Special Education Funding
H.B. 4148
Guarantees that school districts will receive at least as much special education funding in the 2007-08 school year and each year thereafter...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Adopted 01/2008 |
P-12 | Summer Bridges Program
23 IAC 232.50, .60
Strengthen recipient districts' accountability with respect to implementation of the program, chiefly by providing for some quality assuranc...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 11/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Election Judges and Election Day
S.B. 662
Amends the Election Code. Allows high school juniors to serve as election judges. Allows an individual not entitled to vote in a precinct or...
| More... |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 11/2007 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | College and Career Readiness Pilot Program
S.B. 858
Requires the state community college board to create a 3-year college and career readiness pilot program, beginning with the high school cla...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Community College | We Want to Learn English Initiative
S.B. 1446
Authorizes the community college board to establish and administer a We Want to Learn English Initiative to provide resources for immigrants...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 10/2007 |
P-12 | School Facility Occupation Tax
S.B. 835
Creates the "school facility occupation tax". This tax for up to 1% of the cost of business transactionsmust be voted on in a county wide r...
| More... |
Health |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 10/2007 |
P-12 | Eye Examinations
S.B. 641
In the section concerning health examinations and immunizations, provides that all children enrolling in kindergarten or enrolling for the f...
| More... |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12 | Mentoring Program for New Principals
23 IAC 35.10 thru .70
Creates new sections establishing rules for program created in statute to pair first-year principals with experienced principals in a year-l...
| More... |
Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 10/2007 |
P-12 | Period of Silence
S.B. 1463
Amends the Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act. Provides that a teacher must observe a brief period of silence at the opening of every ...
| More... |
High School--GED (General Education Development) |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | GED Testing Program
S.B. 853
Provides with respect to the high school equivalency testing program, that an individual is eligible to apply if he or she is 17 years of ag...
| More... |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | P-20 Council
H.B. 1648
Abolishes the state joint education committee. Creates the P-20 Council to study and make recommendations concerning education at all levels...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Reckless Homicide in a Posted School Zone
S.B. 363
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person commits reckless homicide if he or she unintentionally kills an individual while dr...
| More... |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Criminal Sexual Offense by an Employee
H.B. 3512
Amends the Privacy of Child Victims of Criminal Sexual Offenses Act. Provides that when a criminal sexual offense is committed or alleged to...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Renewal of School Service Personnel Certificates
H.B. 1647
Provides that school service personnel certificates are renewable every 5 years. Sets forth the requirements and procedures for renewal, inc...
| More... |
Special Education |
Adopted 09/2007 |
P-12 | Testing, Professional Development and Background Checks at Special Education Facilities
23 IAC 401.10 thru .260 (non seq.)
Amends policies regarding the assessment of special education students at nonpublic, public out-of-state, public residential or private spec...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Agricultural Science Teacher Training Continuum and Incentive Funding Grants
H.B. 1922
Subject to appropriation, requires the state board of education to develop a secondary-level agricultural science teacher training continuum...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Civic Education Advancement
H.B. 2787
Provides that funding for civic education professional development for high school teachers must be provided by line item appropriation made...
| More... |
Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Distracted Driving as a Major Traffic Safety Issue
S.B. 1557
Requires a driver education course to include classroom instruction on distracted driving as a major traffic safety issue. http://www.ilga.g...
| More... |
Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Drivers Education
S.B. 172
Eliminates provision allowing driver education courses to allow, in lieu of 5 clock hours of practice driving in a dual control car, the equ...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Funding for Affordable Multifamily Housing Units
S.B. 220
Provides schools districts with funding for each affordable multifamily housing unit located in their district. The additional funding equat...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Calculation of a School Day
H.B. 1910
Provides that for state aid purposes, if during a school day, a district has provided at least one clock hour of instruction but must dismis...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Agriculture in the Classroom Fund
H.B. 1024
Creates the Agriculture in the Classroom Fund in the State treasury. Provides for the issuance of Agriculture in the Classroom license plate...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Scholarship Funds from License Plates
S.B. 169
Specifies that scholarship awards from moneys deposited into the state college and university trust fund are to support Illinois residents. ...
| More... |
Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Waiver/Modification of Physical Education Mandate
H.B. 1839
Provides that a state-board approved waiver from or modification to a physical education mandate may remain in effect for a period not to ex...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Green Cleaning Schools Act
H.B. 895
Creates the Green Cleaning Schools Act. Requires the Green Government Coordinating Council, in consultation with other agencies and interest...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Training in CPR and Using a Defibrillator
H.B. 258
Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Requires the state board of education, subject to appropriation,...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Integrated Pest Management
H.B. 425
Relates to Integrated Pest Management Programs. Provides that required notification that such program is not economically feasible must be g...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Health Data Task Force
S.B. 547
Provides that a Health Data Task Force be convened to create a system for public access to integrated health data. Requires the state superi...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Mandated Child Abuse Reporters
S.B. 1428
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Adds members of a school board, the Chicago Board of Education, or the governing body o...
| More... |
Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | School Health Center Act
S.B. 715
Creates the School Health Center Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to initiate 20 new school health centers over a five-year pe...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Students in Grades 7 and 8 Completing High School Courses
S.B. 424
Provides that the school board of a school district that maintains any of grades 9 through 12 is authorized to adopt a policy under which a ...
| More... |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Advanced Placement Exam Fees
S.B. 841
Requires the state board of education to create, under the College and Career Success for All Students program, a program in public schools ...
| More... |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Dual Enrollment Data
S.B. 1165
Directs the state board of education to annually assemble all data reported by district superintendents on the number of high school student...
| More... |
High School--GED (General Education Development) |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | GED
S.B. 1391
Provides that when the subject of a parole or mandatory supervised release is in compliance with all conditions of his or her parole or mand...
| More... |
Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Task Force on the Condition of African American Men
S.B. 776
Finds and declares that African American men: (1) are disproportionately less likely to complete high school and to obtain a postsecondary e...
| More... |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Internet Safety Education Act
S.B. 1472
Creates the Internet Safety Education Act. Provides that each school may adopt an age-appropriate curriculum for Internet safety instruction...
| More... |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Compulsory School Age
S.B. 543
Requires a person having custody or control of a child who is below the compulsory school age but enrolled in kindergarten in a public schoo...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Postsec. | Scholarships for Children of Veterans
H.B. 486
Concerns scholarships for children of veterans. Adds Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom to the list of periods of hostil...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Prepaid Tuition Act
H.B. 1656
Amends the Prepaid Tuition Act. Changes status of Illinois Prepaid Tuition Act savings from federally "tax deferred" to "tax exempt." http:/...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Board of Trustees Meetings
S.B. 402
Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that for all meetings of a board of trustees, a quorum of members must be physically prese...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 08/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. | State Officials and Employees Ethics Act
H.B. 3504
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Classifies community college districts as units of local government that must adopt res...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Board Meetings
S.B. 401
Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that public notice of the schedule of regular meetings of a board of trustees for the next...
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Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Postsec. | Information Technology Access Act
S.B. 511
Creates the Information Technology Access Act. Requires the department of human Services to convene an advisory working group to develop acc...
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Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Postsec. | College Student Remediation
S.B. 313
Provides that if a state university determines that a student needs remedial coursework, then the university must require the student to com...
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Private Schools |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Background Checks of Private School Employees
S.B. 143
Provides that a nonpublic elementary or secondary school may not obtain Nonpublic School Recognition status unless the school requires all a...
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Public Involvement |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Community Organization Use of School Facilities During Non-School Hours
S.B. 538
Encourages school boards to allow community organizations to use school facilities during non-school hours. Provides that if a school board ...
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Summer Breakfast/Lunch Program
H.B. 1964
Directs a district to develop a plan to have a summer breakfast or lunch (or both) program for each school (i) in which at least 50% of the ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Safety Education
H.B. 3327
Provides safety education in public schools includes instruction on the consequences of alcohol consumption and the operation of a motor veh...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Right-of-Way to a Pedestrian in a Crosswalk in a School Zone
S.B. 441
Creates the offense of failure to stop for or yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk in a school zone. Provides that a first ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Pre-service Safety Education Instruction
S.B. 395
Requires the curriculum for preservice teachers to include instruction in safety education. Provides that this instruction must be appropria...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Sex Offenders' Polling Places
H.B. 263
Provides that when a sex offender's precinct polling place is a school and the offender will be unable to enter the school to vote because t...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Reckless Driving
H.B. 508
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Amends the Vehicle Code. Provides that, if a defendant commits reckless driving on a public thoroughfare w...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Gang Resistance Education and Training
H.B. 438
Defines "gang resistance education and training" as instruction in conflict resolution, cultural sensitivity, personal goal setting and resi...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Anti-Bullying Policies
H.B. 18
Directs each school district to create and maintain a policy on bullying, and to file this policy with the state board of education. Require...
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School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Amendatory Veto by Governor 08/2007 |
P-12 | Prohibition of Sexual Harassment in K-12 Education
H.B. 1268
Amends provisions of the Human Rights Act prohibiting sexual harassment in higher education so that they also apply to sexual harassment in ...
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School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Transfer of Educational Support Employees
H.B. 1847
Regulates how the positions at school facilities being deactivated that are held by educational support personnel employees at the time of t...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Renewable Energy Source Grants
H.B. 285
Subject to appropriation, authorizes the department of commerce and economic opportunity to establish and operate a renewable energy grant p...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Green Cities and Smart Cities Grant Program
H.B. 3394
Authorizes the department of commerce and economic opportunity to establish and administer a Green Cities grant program and a Smart Cities g...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12,
Community College | Wind Generation Turbine Farms
S.B. 843
Allows school districts and community college districts to own and operate wind generation turbine farms that directly or indirectly reduce ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Green School Construction Projects
S.B. 505
Amends 105 ILCS 230/5-40. Provides that school construction projects for which a district first applies for a grant on or after July 1, 2007...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Contract with a Third Party for Non-Instructional Services
H.B. 1347
Adds to provisions allowing a local board of education to contract with a third party for non-instructional services currently performed by ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Reporting Erratic School Bus Driving
H.B. 3624
Requires each school bus to display a readable sign indicating the telephone number of the owner of the school bus, and indicating that the ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Post-Trip Inspection Policy for School Buses
S.B. 166
Requires each school district, by January 1, 2008, to have in place a policy to ensure that the school bus driver is the last person leaving...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | IEPs for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
S.B. 79
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that in the development of the individualized education program f...
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Special Education--Finance |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | District Expenditures on Special Education
H.B. 1030
Provides that the state board of education's annual report to the general assembly and governor must include the total expenditures made by ...
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Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Transfer of Rights to Special Education Student
S.B. 396
Provides that when a student eligible for special education reaches the age of 18, rights accorded to the student's parents transfer to the ...
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Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Special Education Classes for Wards of the State
S.B. 398
Amends the School Code regarding special education classes for children from orphanages, foster family homes, children's homes, or in-state ...
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State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Unique Student Identifier System
H.B. 574
Amends the Social Security Number Protection Task Force Act. Places the task force within the office of the attorney general, and makes the ...
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State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Illinois Suicide Prevention Alliance
H.B. 1643
Deletes references to the Illinois Suicide Prevention Strategic Planning Committee and the Committee and replaces them with references to th...
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State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Ensuring Success in School Task Force
H.B. 1330
Requires the state board of education to convene an Ensuring Success in School Task Force to develop policies and procedures for addressing ...
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Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | School Psychology Internship Consortium
H.B. 1363
Provides that, subject to appropriations, the state board of education must provide grants to the School Psychology Internship Consortium fo...
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Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Definition of Professional Worker
S.B. 122
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Adds school counselor and school counselor intern to the list of professio...
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Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Educational Partnership Act
H.B. 223
Amends the Educational Partnership Act. Provides that public institutions of higher education that have approved teacher education programs ...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Electronic Recordings in School Buses
S.B. 665
Exempts from an eavesdropping violation an electronic recording, motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio recording, mad...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Missing Children Records
H.B. 250
Amends the Missing Children Records Act. Requires a preschool educational program, child care facility, or day care home or group day care h...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Biometric Information
S.B. 1702
Defines ""biometric information" as any information collected through an identification process based on individuals' unique behavioral or p...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | College Campus Press Act
S.B. 729
Creates the College Campus Press Act. Provides that all campus media produced primarily by students at a state-sponsored institution of high...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Provisional Alternative Teaching Certificates
S.B. 306
Relates to the Alternative Teacher Certification program. Provides that a provisional alternative teaching certificate may be issued to an a...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Sick Leave
H.B. 1877
Relates to school districts other than the Chicago school district. Allows sick leave for birth, adoption, or placement for adoption. http:/...
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Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Educational Support Personnel Employees
S.B. 1560
Relates to a section concerning educational support personnel employees. Provides that if the hours the employee works are reduced for certa...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Teacher Homebuyer Assistance Act
S.B. 1224
Creates the Teacher Homebuyer Assistance Act. Subject to appropriation, requires the Illinois Housing Development Authority to establish and...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Grow Your Own Teacher Education Act
S.B. 446
Amends the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Act regarding the definition of hard-to-staff school. Changes the term "target schools" to "eligi...
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Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Whistleblower Act
H.B. 742
Amends the Whistleblower Act. Provides that an "employer" as defined in the act includes:
(1) A political subdivision of the state
(2) A uni...
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Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Alternative Procedures for Teacher Evaluation, Remediation and Removal for Cause
S.B. 1474
pp 29-30: Authorizes the Chicago school board and the exclusive representative of the district's teachers to establish alternative procedure...
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Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Technology Immersion Pilot Project
S.B. 746
Extends the technology immersion pilot project established by the state board of education for another 3 years. Extends the repeal of provis...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Textbooks for Print-Disabled Children
S.B. 397
Specifies that the state board of education must require textbook publishers to furnish an electronic file set of contracted print material ...
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Whole Child |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Life-Skills Programs
S.B. 850
Provides that it is the duty of a county board to allow, when the county board deems it proper, reasonable expenses of the regional superint...
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Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 | Upper Statutory Age for a Student with Disabilities
H.B. 817
In the definition of children with disabilities, provides that an eligible student who requires continued public school educational experien...
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Health |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Smoking Ban in Schools and Dormitories
S.B. 500
Creates the Smoke Free Illinois Act. Prohibits smoking in schools and student dormitories of both public and private postsecondary instituti...
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Health--Mental Health |
Adopted 07/2007 |
P-12 | Children's Mental Health Initiative Grants
23 IAC 555.10 thru .160, and Appendix A
Creates new Part of rules, "Children's Mental Health Initiative Grants." Subpart A, "School Mental Health Support Grants," (pages 136-141 of...
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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
Adopted 07/2007 |
P-12 | Certification
23 IAC 25.30, .85, .314, .335, .620, .750, .755
From description in Illinois Register:
This rulemaking presents proposed requirements for two new certification-related initiatives that w...
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Special Education--Finance |
Adopted 07/2007 |
P-12 | Task Force to Study Special Education Finance
H.J.R. 24
Creates a task force to study special education funding needs and to make recommendations as to how the state can increase special education...
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State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Adopted 07/2007 |
P-12 | Task Force to Improve School Leadership
H.J.R. 66
Directs the state board of education, the board of higher education, and the office of the governor to jointly appoint a task force to recom...
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No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12 | Use of Outside Experts in School and District Improvement Plans
23 IAC 1 (Subpart A-F)
Provides that, for purposes of compliance with 105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d (which requires all school and district improvement plans to be developed ...
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P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Assistance Grant
23 IAC 70.10, .20, .30, .40, .50, .60, .70, .80.
Goal of the grant program is to address the shortages experienced by all state-funded preschool education programs of teachers holding Type ...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Special Education Procedures
S.B. 2796
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Makes changes concerning identification, evaluation, and placement of chil...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Special Education Students and Physical Education
S.B. 2762
Provides that an individualized education program team may determine that a pupil must utilize time set aside for physical education to rece...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Adopted 02/2007 |
P-12 | "Grow Your Own" Teacher Education Initiative
23 IAC 60.20, .80, .90, .100
Clarifies rules regarding the "Grow Your Own" program. Amends definitions of "hard-to-staff school" and "hard-to-staff teaching position" to...
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No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12 | Achievement Objectives for Districts Serving Limited English Proficient Students
23 IAC 1.88
Establishes "Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives" (AMAOs) related to proficiency, progress, and adequate yearly progress (AYP) for educ...
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Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12 | Technology Immersion Pilot Project
23 IAC 365.10, .20, .30, .40, .50, .60
Provides for the distribution of wireless laptop computers, associated hardware and software, and professional development to seven pilot di...
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Class Size |
Adopted 09/2006 |
P-12 | Class Size Reduction Grants
23 IAC 565.10, .20, .30, .40, .50, .60, .110, .120, .130, .140, .150,.160
Establishes rules regarding the K-3 class size reduction grant program, and a class size reduction pilot project. Specifies that eligible di...
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Parent/Family |
Issued 09/2006 |
P-12 | Parent Leadership Council
E.O. 2006-10
Creates the Parent Leadership Council to serve as an advisory body to the state board of education and office of the governor. Provides tha...
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Parent/Family |
Adopted 09/2006 |
P-12 | Parental Participation Pilot Project
23 IAC 560.10, .20, .30, .40, .50
Establishes rules regarding the Parental Participation Pilot Project. Pages 259-264 of 405: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/in...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 09/2006 |
P-12 | Highly Qualified Teachers, P.E. and Denial of Enrollment
23 IAC 1.77, .242, .420, .430, .720
New section (p 243 of 405 http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume30_issue41.pdf) institutes a requireme...
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No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 | Providers of Supplemental Educational Services
23 IAC 675.30, .60, .70, .90, .100, 150, .175, .210, .240, .245, Appendix A, B, C
Establishes increased regulation of the supplemental educational services industry and additional assistance for districts with implementati...
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School Safety |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 | School Emergency and Crisis Response Plans
29 IAC 1510.10, .20, .30
Establishes rules regarding the School Safety Drill Act. Mandates the conduct of school evacuation drills, bus evacuation drills, and severe...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 | Chronic Truants
S.B. 2197
Provides that counties and municipalities may adopt ordinances to regulate truants within their jurisdiction and may impose a graduated fine...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 | PreK for At-Risk Children
S.B. 1497
Relates to grants for a preschool educational program administered by the state board July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008. Provides that appr...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Lifelong Learning Accounts
S.B. 2931
Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to establish and maintain a pilot program to provide for and test the use of ...
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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 | Principal Certification, Mentoring and Evaluation
S.B. 860
Requires the state board to establish a new principal mentoring program to allow experienced principals to serve as mentors to new principal...
| More... |
P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Teacher Certification
S.B. 2202
Amends the Teacher Certification Article of the School Code. Relates to an early childhood certificate. Provides that the student teaching p...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Nurse Educator Assistance Act
S.B. 931
Establishes the Nurse Educator Assistance Act to attract capable and promising students to the nursing educator profession, increase employm...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Monetary Award Program Grants
S.B. 2225
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Requires the Student Assistance Commission to receive and consider applications for mone...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 07/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Teach Illinois Scholarship Program
23 IAC 2768.10, 15, 20, 30, 40
Clarifies rules to reflect the statutory changes contained in public law, which created this new program to encourage students to become tea...
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Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Illinois GEAR UP
S.B. 2328
Establishes the Steps for Attaining Higher Education through Academic Development (Illinois Steps AHEAD) program as the state's GEAR UP prog...
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School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 | Failure to Disclose Sex Offense
S.B. 859
Amends the Teacher Certification Article of the School Code. Includes as unprofessional conduct for which a certificate may be suspended the...
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School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 | School District Conversion and Formation
S.B. 2795
Amends the School Code. Creates a new Article concerning the conversion and formation of school districts. Contains provisions concerning sc...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | School/District Improvement Plans
S.B. 2829 - School/District Improvement Plans
Deletes existing provisions related to the approval of a district improvement plan for a district on academic early warning status or watch ...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | No Pass No Drive
H.B. 1463
Amends the Vehicle Code and the School Code. Provides for cancellation or refusal to renew a driver's license or learner's permit of a perso...
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Class Size |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Class Size Reduction Pilot Program
S.B. 2882
Creates a pilot class size reduction grant program, in addition to the existing class size reduction grant program, to be implemented and ad...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Agricultural Education Programs
H.B. 4986
Provides that a school district offering a secondary agricultural education program approved for state and federal funding must ensure compo...
| More... |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Arts and Foreign Language Education Grant Program
S.B. 176
Creates an arts and foreign language education grant program to fund arts education and foreign language education programs in the public sc...
| More... |
Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Financial Literacy
S.B. 2191
Requires the state board to develop curricula, materials, and guidelines for school boards to use in implementing a program of instruction o...
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Curriculum--Sex Education |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act
S.B. 2455
Deletes provision that requires all sex education courses to advise pupils of the provisions of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act ...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Community College | Mobile Response Workforce Training Pilot Program
H.B. 5429
Requires the community college board to implement and administer a 3-year, mobile response workforce training pilot program at three communi...
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Finance--Bonds |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Debt Limitations
S.B. 857
Relates to the debt limitations of school districts. Provides that bonds issued by a community consolidated school district maintaining grad...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | District Financial Reporting
S.B. 2829 - District Financial Reporting
Revises provisions related to districts' public reporting of finances. Specifies content that must be included in annual statement of affai...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Additional State Aid for Cooperative High Schools
H.B. 4365
Allows cooperative high schools to receive some of the same supplementary state aid that new districts receive; relates to multiple agreemen...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Duties of School Boards
H.B. 4310
Requires school board members other than of the Chicago Board of Education to take an oath of office. Sets forth the contents of that oath. ...
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Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Reporting Child Abuse
H.B. 5375
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Clarifies that administrators and certified and non-certified school employees are mand...
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Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Sex Offenders
H.B. 5249
Amends the Criminal Code. Prohibits a child sex offender to knowingly operate, manage, be employed by, volunteer at, be associated with, or ...
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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Definition of Administrator
H.B. 4541
Amends the definition of administrator in the Illinois Pension Code to exclude a member on the Chicago teachers' or Chicago charter school t...
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P-3 Finance |
Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2006 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Block Grant
23 IAC 235.10, .60, .70, .100, .200, .300, .400, .500
Establishes emergency rules regarding the Preschool for All Children program; provides educational services to all 3 to 5 year old children ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Financial Aid for Certain Low-Income Students
H.B. 4406
Provides that grant assistance is available to an individual who:
(1) has been in the legal custody of his or her grandparent and received p...
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Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec. | Recruitment and Training of Masters-Prepared Nurses
H.B. 4461
Provides that the department of commerce and economic opportunity may conduct a study regarding the recruitment and training of masters-prep...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Student Member of Higher Ed. Board
S.B. 2312
Adds an additional student member to the Board of Higher Education, who must be a non-traditional undergraduate student who is at least 24 y...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Bullying Prevention
S.B. 2630
Defines "bullying prevention" as instruction in all of the following:
(1) Intimidation.
(2) Student victimization.
(3) Sexual harassment.
(...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Facilities Inspectors/Inspections
H.B. 5416
Provides that the qualifications of persons performing reviews and inspections of school facilities must include requirements for training, ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | School Breakfast and Lunch Programs
S.B. 2336
Amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act and the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Makes changes concerning the breakfast incentive prog...
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Service-Learning |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Community Service Education Act
H.B. 4832
Creates the Community Service Education Act. Establishes the Community Service Education Program. with voluntary district participation. Ide...
| More... |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Local Learning Objectives and Assessment
S.B. 2829 - Local Learning Objectives
Deletes language related to local learning objectives and assessment. Makes districts' setting of student learning objectives optional rath...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Teacher Certification Testing Data
S.B. 2546
Requires the state board to collect and maintain all of the following data for each institution of higher education engaged in teacher prepa...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Behavior Analyst
H.B. 4987
Defines behavior analyst to mean a person who is certified by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board to provide special education to stude...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Teaching Excellence Program
H.B. 4308
Requires the state board of education's annual budget to set out by separate line item the appropriation for the Teaching Excellence Program...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Adopted 06/2006 |
P-12 | Beginning Teacher Induction Pilot Program
23 IAC 65.10, .20, .110, .120, .130, .140, .150, .160
Establishes rules regarding the "Beginning Teacher Induction Pilot Program," which provides for statewide induction and mentoring programs b...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Teacher Professional Development
S.B. 2829 - Teacher Professional Development
Deletes language requiring state board to approve staff development programs. Deletes language requiring state board, subsequent to approva...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Grow Your Own Teacher Act
S.B. 2235
Amends the Grow Your Own Teacher Act. Defines developmental classes and makes changes to the definition of parent and community leaders and ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Keeping Retired Teachers in Workforce
H.B. 5331
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Pension Code. Extends to 2011 the period during which an annuitant receiving a retirement annuit...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 | Textbook Loans
H.B. 5550
Relates to the loan of textbooks by the State Board of Education. Provides that certain requirements do not apply to the loan of textbooks. ...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 05/2006 |
P-12 | Task Force on Re-enrolling Students Who Dropped Out Of School
H.J.R. 87
Creates the Task Force on Re-enrolling Students Who Dropped Out Of School in order to examine and develop ways to address the growing issue ...
| More... |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Adopted 05/2006 |
P-12 | Education Purchasing Program
44 IAC 1110.10 thru .60
Authorizes the Education Purchasing Program. Designates the state board as the state education purchasing entity. States criteria on which c...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
Postsec. | Smoking Ban in Dorms
S.B. 2465
Provides that smoking is prohibited in any portion of a building used in whole or in part as a student dormitory that is owned, operated or ...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | Epinephrine Auto-Injector
S.B. 2898
Adds the requirement that a school permit a pupil to use an epinephrine auto-injector in provisions that require a public or nonpublic schoo...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | Educational Materials on Meningitis
S.B. 2728
Requires the Department of Public Health to develop educational materials on meningitis for distribution in elementary and secondary schools...
| More... |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | GED Incentives
S.B. 2320
Eliminates the provision that the additional good conduct credit awarded to a prisoner who passes the high school level Test of General Educ...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 | Deadline for Status Appeal
23 IAC 1.95
Modifies deadline for a district's status appeal to within 30 days of receipt of notification from the state board of the school's or distri...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 | High Technology School-to-Work
14 IAC 110.170
Identifies 10 criteria the department must use when reviewing grant proposals and making awards for the High Technology School-to-Work Progr...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 | High School Graduation Requirements
23 IAC 1.440
Changes reference to "career education" to "career and technical education." Clarifies differences between courses high schools must offer,...
| More... |
Private Schools |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 | Nonpublic Special Education Facilities
23 IAC 401.5, 10, 20, 30, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 210, 220, 230,240, 250, 260, 270, 280
Clarifies rules to acknowledge that facilities may be established not only by nonpublic entities but also public out-of-state schools and pu...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 | Accrediting Units in Teacher Preparation Programs
23 IAC 25.100, 115, 125, 127, 142, 145, 147, 155, 160, 165, 225, 444,490, 710, 720, Appendix E
Establishes rules regarding the system for accrediting educational units in institutions that prepare educators and approving their respecti...
| More... |
Accountability |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 | CODE OF REGULATIONS
74 IAC 420.130, 140, 310, 320, 410, 420, 430, 630, 640, 710, 720
Provides standards for the conduct of financial audits of regional offices of education and certain educational service centers. http://www....
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Block Grant
23 IAC 235.10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, Appendix A, B
Establishes rules regarding the Early Childhood Block Grant program. Allows entities other than school districts to apply for preschool and...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Adopted 02/2006 |
Postsec. | Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Act
23 IAC 1080.100, 110, 200, 210, 220, 230, 300, 310, 320, 330
Establishes the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Program (DFI), which combines two former programs, the Illinois Consortium...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Adopted 02/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Interdistrict Cooperative Agreements
23 IAC 1501.307
Expands the rules for cooperative agreements to allow one community college to award a degree or certificate offered by another community co...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 | Highly Qualified Teachers
23 IAC 25 Appendix D
Clarifies rules regarding criteria by which teachers may be identified as "highly qualified" in the core academic subject areas. Bars indiv...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 01/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | The "Grow Your Own" Teacher Education Initiative
23 IAC 60.10 thru 100
Establishes rules to implement the Grow Our Own Teacher Education Act. Allows consortia of at least one postsecondary institution, at least...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 |
23 IAC 1.10, thru .70, .75, .80,
.85, .90, .95,
Makes changes in the accountability system for public schools. Changes the requirement for adequate yearly progress and the indicators that ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2005 |
Postsec. | College Savings Pool
23 IAC 2500.30, 80
Removes the minimum initial contribution amount associated with the application process into the College Savings Pool, in order to open up p...
| More... |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 11/2005 |
P-12 | Department of Juvenile Justice
S.B. 92
Amends various Acts to create the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Juvenile Division of the Department of Corrections. Transfers pers...
| More... |
STEM |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 | High Technology School-to-Work
14 IAC 110.170
The goal of the High Technology School-to-Work Program is to improve education and to prepare Illinois' students to transition from school t...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2005 |
P-12 | Substitute Teaching Permits for Katrina Victims
23 IAC 25.105
Offers individuals from the geographic area drastically affected by Hurricane Katrina a temporary permit for substitute teaching in Illinois...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | The Parental Participation Pilot Project
S.B. 10
Provides that by the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, the State Board of Education shall by rule establish a parental participation p...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Testing English Language Learners
H.B. 678
Provides that for elementary school students who are in a state-approved transitional bilingual education program or transitional program of...
| More... |
Class Size |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Control of Class Size Reduction Funding
H.B. 2589
Under the K-3 class size reduction grant program, provides that if a school board determines that a school is using funds awarded under the...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Study of Acts of Genocide
H.B. 312
Provides that in addition to the unit of instruction studying the events of the Holocaust, the curriculum of every public elementary school ...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Cost of Drivers Education
S.B. 69
Adds that the total amount from driver education fees and reimbursement from the state for driver education must not exceed the total cost o...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Advanced Placement and pre-Advanced Placement
S.B. 574
Creates the College and Career Success for All Students Act. Requires a teacher of an Advanced Placement course to obtain appropriate traini...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Amendatory veto 08/2005 |
P-12 | Expenditure and Revenue Disclosure
H.B. 3480
Provides that the annual budget of a school district under 500,000 inhabitants shall separately identify cash on hand from taxes and cash on...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | School Board Members and Group Health Insurance
H.B. 881 -- Board Member Health Insurance
Clarifies that nothing in statute may preclude an elected school board member from participating in a group health insurance program provide...
| More... |
Health |
Vetoed 08/2005 |
P-12 | School Wellness Policies
H.B. 733
Requires the State Board of Education to establish a state goal that all school districts have a wellness policy consistent with Centers for...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | High School Graduation Requirements
S.B. 575
Increases high school graduation requirements in math from 2 to 3 units, effective with the Class of 2009. Effective with the Class of 2010,...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | No Child Left Behind Accountability
H.B. 3678
Makes changes to the state's accountability provisions under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, effective with the 2005-2006 school year....
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Early Learning Funding and Programs
H.B. 3822
Specifies that grants for preschool educational programs may go both to local districts and to "eligible entities" as defined by the State B...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Students Called to Active Military Service
H.B. 3724
Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities in Illinois and amends the Public Community College Act. Requires publ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Veteran Grants for Postsecondary Education
H.B. 815
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Makes changes concerning veteran grants with regard to who qualifies for assistance, the...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 08/2005 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Governing Board Membership
H.B. 1487
Beginning on July 1, 2005, requires one of the members of the Illinois Community College Board appointed by the Governor to be a faculty mem...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Transfer Courses
H.B. 2515
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Requires the Board to implement and administer a statewide program, using the World Wide Web, to a...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Safety Drills
H.B. 2693
Creates the School Safety Drill Act to establish minimum requirements and standards for public and private schools to follow when conducting...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Transportation When Hazardous Walking
H.B. 3680
In a provision allowing a school board to provide free transportation when conditions are such that walking constitutes a serious safety haz...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Safe Routes to School Construction Program
H.B. 744
Provides that, upon enactment of a federal transportation bill with a dedicated fund available to states for safe routes for schools, the De...
| More... |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Vetoed 08/2005 |
P-12 | GED Incentive Program for Prisoners
S.B. 326
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the rules and regulations for the early release of a prisoner on account of good condu...
| More... |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Gifted and Talented Programs
H.B. 881 -- Gifted and Talented Programs
Sets forth requirements concerning gifted and talented programs. Provides definition of "gifted and talented children." Establishes non-disc...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Change of Residence Due to Parent's Military Service Obligation
H.B. 156
Provides that if a pupil's change of residence is due to the military service obligation of a person who has legal custody of the pupil, the...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Extension of Background Checks
H.B. 3451
The Illinois State Police will be required to conduct, in addition to a fingerprint-based background check, a check of the Sex Offender Regi...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12,
Community College | Vocational Academies Act
H.B. 3646
Creates the Vocational Academies Act to integrate workplace competencies and career and technical education with core academic subjects.
A ...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Character Education
H.B. 1336
Amends the School Code. Requires teachers to teach students character education, which includes the teaching of respect, responsibility, fai...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Physical Education
H.B. 1540
A physical education course of study must include a developmentally planned and sequential curriculum that fosters the development of moveme...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Amistad Commission
H.B. 383
Creates the Amistad Commission. Contains provisions concerning the membership and duties of the Commission. These duties include:
(i) provi...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | School Finance Authority
S.B. 1853
Amends the Downstate School Finance Authority Law of the School Code. Provides that the purpose of an Authority's power to appoint a chief e...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Student Representation
S.B. 1638
Allows a board of school directors (except for the Chicago board of education) to appoint a student to the board to serve in an advisory cap...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Health Program Recognition
H.B. 1541
Requires the state board of education to establish a school health recognition program that: (1) publicly identifies those schools that have...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Wellness Policy
S.B. 162
Requires the state board to establish a state goal that all school districts have a wellness policy that is consistent with recommendations ...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Collaborative Efforts in Nutrition and Health Areas
H.B. 210
Requires that the Illinois Early Learning Council guide collaborative efforts to improve and expand upon existing early childhood programs a...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12,
Community College | GED Testing
S.B. 463
Transfers all powers and duties of the State Board of Education and State Superintendent of Education with regard to high school equivalency...
| More... |
Leadership |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Reclassification of Principals
S.B. 427
In a Section regarding reclassification of principals in school districts other than the Chicago school district, provides that upon non-ren...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2005 |
P-12 | Providers of Supplemental Educational Services
23 IAC 675.10, thru .100, .150, .200, .210, thru .240
Creates rules for providers of Supplemental Education Services, addressing a code of ethics, programmatic requirements, approval criteria, p...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Postsecondary Aid for TANF Recipients
H.B. 2421
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot program to provide TANF recipients with ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Board Membership
S.B. 2112
Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that beginning on July 1, 2005, one of the 11 members appointed to the Illinois Community ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Deactivation of an Elementary School Facility
H.B. 1324
Allows for the deactivation of an elementary school facility in the same manner as the deactivation of a high school facility, when it is de...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | School Facility Plans and Inspections
S.B. 383
Requires the state board of education to adopt rules for the documentation of school plan reviews and inspections of school facilities and t...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Giant Steps Autism Center for Excellence
S.B. 3
Requires that the state board implement and administer a Giant Steps Autism Center for Excellence pilot program for the study and evaluation...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Tuition Paid for Special Education
H.B. 728
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that the reimbursement of a school district for the amount of pai...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Transition Specialists
S.B. 768
Amends the Interagency Coordinating Council Act. With respect to the annual report that the Council is required to make to the Governor and ...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Special Education Services
S.B. 87
In a provision concerning the notification of a child's possible eligibility to receive services from the Illinois School for the Deaf or th...
| More... |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Credit for GED
H.B. 611
Provides that the rules and regulations for the early release of a prisoner on account of good conduct shall also provide that an additional...
| More... |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Gifted and Talented
S.B. 223
Changes certain references from recognition by the state board to approval by the state board. Provides that a local program for the educati...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Social Security Numbers
S.B. 445
Prohibits a university or community college from printing an individual's social security number on any card or other document required for ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | School Employee Benefits
S.B. 479
Amends the School Employee Benefit Act. Includes in the definition of "school district" a vocational education district, a special education...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Preservice Teaching Requirements
H.B. 384
Prior to completing an approved teacher preparation program, a preservice education candidate must satisfactorily pass the test of subject m...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Scholarships for Teachers
H.B. 1051
Makes changes concerning Minority Teachers of Illinois scholarships with respect to exceptions to the teaching obligation requirement. Makes...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Teach Illinois Scholarship Program
H.B. 60
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Requires the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to implement and administer a teache...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | Steroid Abuse Prevention Education
S.B. 64
Requires a school district to provide steroid abuse prevention education to students who participate in interscholastic athletic programs. h...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | Consolidation of Elementary and High School Districts
S.B. 1493
Establishes procedures for 2 elementary districts in a Class II county school unit to join with a high school district provided specified re...
| More... |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Adopted 02/2005 |
P-12 | Access to Information
2 IAC 5001.100 thru .600 (non seq)
Clarifies rules regarding access to information of the state board of education under the Freedom of Information Act. http://www.isbe.state....
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2005 |
P-12 | Heartsaver Automated External Defibrillator
S.B. 2216
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law. Authorizes the Department of Public Health to make matching grants to any publ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 02/2005 |
P-12 | Childhood Hunger Relief Act
H.B. 756
Relates to the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that every public school must have a free breakfast program. Strongly encourages all di...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 01/2005 |
P-12 | School Code
H.B. 757
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code to allow a child with a disability who has completed four years of high sch...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 12/2004 |
P-12 | Speech-Language Pathology License
S.B. 2395
Amends the School Code. Amends requirements for a speech-language pathologist who provides speech- language pathology services pursuant to a...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Total Veto Stands. 11/2004 |
P-12 | Speed Limits for School Buses
S.B. 2374
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides for maximum speed limits for vehicles of specified weights and school buses inside and outside ur...
| More... |
Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
Signed into law 10/2004 |
P-12 | Funding Rapid Growth
H.B. 766
Amends the Common School Fund Article of the School Code. Provides for a grant to be paid to a school district if there has been an increas...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 10/2004 |
P-12 | School District Tax Levy
H.B. 759
Amends the School Code. Provides that a community unit school district may issue bonds up to a specified amount if the district has a specif...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 10/2004 |
Postsec. | Definition: Graduate Teaching Assistants
S.B. 1070
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a change in a section concerning definitions to include graduate students who are...
| More... |
Governance |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Education Reform and Accountability Act of 2004
S.B. 3000
Under the School Employee Benefit Act, provides the prescription drug benefit program shall be maintained on an ongoing, affordable basis, a...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Student Financial Assistance
S.B. 1971
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Makes changes concerning the Monetary Award Program. Provides for a maximum amount. Prov...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Student Achievement Improvement Grant Program
S.B. 2360
Requires the State Board of Education to implement and administer a student achievement improvement grant program to provide 2- year grants ...
| More... |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Prairie State Achievement Exam
S.B. 2769
Amends the School Code. Provides that no student shall receive a regular diploma without taking the Prairie State Achievement Exam. Provides...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Student Dropout Rate Report
S.B. 3109
Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to establish a system for accurate tracking of transfer students. Requires tha...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | African-American Family Commission Act
S.B. 3208
Creates the African-American Family Commission Act. Establishes a 15-member African-American Family Commission to serve as a coordinating an...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Compulsory School Age; Alternative Education
S.B. 2918
Increases the compulsory school age from 16 to 17 years of age, with exceptions. Provides that certain provisions that apply to truant offic...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Criminal Background Investigation
H.B. 3977
Amends the School Code, the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code and the Juvenile Court Act with respect to crimi...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Sex Offender Registration Act
S.B. 2607
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections and the Sex Offender Registration Act, including amending the definition of school to include public ...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Charter Schools Attendance Boundaries
H.B. 5562
Amends the Charter Schools Law of the School Code. Allows the Chicago Board of Education to designate attendance boundaries for a specified ...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | State Aid Formula Local Resources Exclusion
S.B. 2362
Amends the School Code. In the State aid formula provisions, provides that calculation of Available Local Resources shall exclude tax amnest...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Fire Sprinkler Dormitory Act
H.B. 4361
Creates the Fire Sprinkler Dormitory Act. The installation of fire sprinklers is required in all dormitories by 2013, unless excepted. Provi...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | School District Conversion Article
H.B. 758
Amends the School District Conversion Article of the School Code. Relates to election of board members, election format, at-large formats an...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Obesity
S.B. 2940
Amends the School Code and the Illinois Health Statistics Act. Provides that health examinations shall include the collection of data relati...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Student Dental Exams
H.B. 752
Requires all children in specified grades in public, private and parochial school to have a dental examination. Provides that a school may h...
| More... |
Leadership |
Emergency Rule Adoption 08/2004 |
P-12 | Requirements for Renewal of Certificates
23 IAC 25.11 thru .945(non seq), Appendix D
Clarifies rules regarding changes made to the requirements for renewal of teaching and administrative certificates, teachers' movement from ...
| More... |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Technical Immersion Project
H.B. 4944; S.B.2732
Amends the School Code and the State Finance Act. Requires the State Board of Education to establish a 3-year technology immersion pilot pro...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
Postsec. | Nursing Education Scholarship
S.B. 2756
Amends the Nursing Education Scholarship Law. Authorizes scholarships for registered nurses pursuing graduate degrees in nursing. Provides t...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | National Guard Grant
S.B. 2755
Provides that if the recipient of an Illinois National Guard Grant ceases to be a member of the Illinois National Guard while enrolled in a ...
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Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Diversifying Higher Faculty Program Act
S.B. 3107
Amends the Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Act. Changes the short title to the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illi...
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Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Transit Ridership: Low-Income Student Access
H.B. 2587
Adds to the list of programs to be funded with the West Central Transit District. Provides for routes, vehicle purchase and Community Colleg...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Gang Recruitment on School Grounds
H.B. 4788
Creates the offense of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds when a person on school grounds threatens the use of physical forc...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Special Education Reimbursement
H.B. 4225
Amends the Children With Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that reimbursement for individual students with disabilities whos...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 | Qualified Teachers
H.B. 6906
Provides that if a school district has a shortage of highly qualified teachers, as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, or a sho...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. | FY 2005 Budget Implementation (Education) Act
S.B. 2205
Creates the FY2005 Budget Implementation (Education) Act. Creates several education related funds for receipt of federal moneys for educatio...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 | Student Enrollment
S.B. 2115
Amends the School Code. Allows a school or school district to deny enrollment to a student 16 years of age or older for one semester for fai...
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Class Size |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 | K-3 Class Size Reduction Grant Program
S.B. 2135
Creates a K-3 class size reduction grant program. Provides that only schools that are on the early academic warning list or academic watch l...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 | Military Dependents Tuition
S.B. 2444
Provides that if, at the time of enrollment, dependents of United States military personnel are housed in temporary housing located outside ...
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Finance--Facilities |
Veto overridden by both houses of legislature 07/2004 |
P-12 | Condemned School Repair Financing
H.B. 753
Amends the Property Tax Code and the School Code. Allows a school district located in a county subject to the Property Tax Extension Limitat...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 | State Aid Formula Foundation Support Level
H.B. 4266
Amends the School Code. In the State aid formula provisions, increases the foundation level of support from $4,810 to $5,060. Effective July...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 | State Aid Claim
S.B. 2349
Amends the School Code. Relates to recomputing a general State aid claim. Provides for a qualifying reduction in equalized assessed valuatio...
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Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 | School Code Waivers
S.B. 3091
Amends the School Code. Allows a joint agreement made up of school districts or a regional superintendent of schools on behalf of schools an...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 | Great START Program for Child Care
S.B. 2171
Amends the Department of Human Services Act; deletes a provision that includes beginning and ending dates for the operation of a Great START...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | MIA and POW Scholarships
H.B. 4491
Amends the School Code. In a provision concerning MIA/POW scholarships, defines "eligible veteran or serviceperson" to include an Illinois N...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
Postsec. | Nursing Scholarships
S.B. 2381
Increases the amount of moneys in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund to be appropriated to the Department of Public Health for nurs...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Student Tuition Savings Tax Deductions
H.B. 4914
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Authorizes a deduction of up to $10,000 per taxable year for amounts contributed in the taxable year to ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
Postsec. | University Military In-state Tuition
H.B. 3877
Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities in Illinois. Provides that if a person is on active military duty and ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Education Related Military Service Rights
H.B. 4372
Provides that persons in military service with the State or in federal active duty service pursuant to the orders of the President of the Un...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Public Hate Crimes
H.B. 4506
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is a Class 3 felony for a first offense to commit a hate crime in an administrative facil...
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Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 | Grow Our Own Teacher Education Act
S.B. 1550
Creates the Grow Our Own Teacher Education Act. Establishes the Grow Our Own Teacher Education Initiative to prepare highly skilled, committ...
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Finance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 | State Aide to Schools
S.B. 1553
Amends the School Code. Relates to the basis for apportionment of general State financial aid and supplemental State aid to the common schoo...
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Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. | Private Business and Vocational Schools
H.B. 3088
Amends the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act. Provides that certain educational institutions that enroll students in one or more b...
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Private Schools |
Signed into law 02/2004 |
P-12 | Voluntary Non-public Schools Registration
S.B. 1014
Amends the School Code. Provides for the voluntary registration and recognition of non-public elementary and secondary schools. Requires ass...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 02/2004 |
P-12 | Transportation Costs
H.B. 763
Allows reimbursement for allowable direct costs of transporting pupils for regular, vocational and special education. Relates to reimburseme...
| More... |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Signed into law 12/2003 |
P-12 | Unsafe Schools Choice Option
S.B. 1957
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning charter schools. Requires the State Board of Education to maintain ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 12/2003 |
P-12 | Charter Bus Services
S.B. 150
Amends the Vehicle Code. Provides that a person may also operate a certain type of charter bus if he or she holds a valid school bus driver ...
| More... |
Accountability |
Total veto stands 11/2003 |
P-12 | Accountability Council
S.B. 564
Extends the repeal date of a Section requiring the establishment of the Chicago Schools Academic Accountability Council (from June 30, 2004 ...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Amendatory veto by Governor - Bill Dead 11/2003 |
P-12 | School Improvement and Student Achievement
S.B. 207
Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to implement and administer a student achievement improvement grant program to...
| More... |
Class Size |
Amendatory veto by Governor - Bill dead 11/2003 |
P-12 | Class Size Reduction Grant
S.B. 902
Amends the School Code. Creates a K-3 class size reduction grant program to be implemented and administered by the state board of education....
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Curriculum |
Total veto stands 11/2003 |
P-12 | Driver Education and Practice Driving
S.B. 70
Removes a provision that allows a school district to adopt a policy to permit proficiency examinations for the practice driving part of the ...
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Finance--District |
Bill dead - amendatory veto 11/2003 |
P-12 | Special Educational Funding
H.B. 1180
Amends the School Code. Relates to provisions concerning the special educational services block grant for a school district having a populat...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Amendatory Veto - Overridden by Legislature 11/2003 |
P-12 | Funding for Specific Types of Students
S.B. 1333
Amends the School Code with respect to reimbursement to school districts for certain costs relating to children from orphanages, foster fami...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Bill Dead - Amendatory Veto 11/2003 |
P-12 | School Tax Equalized Assessed Valuation
S.B. 1321
Amends the school code. States that in recomputing a general state aid claim that was originally calculated using an extension limitation eq...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Veto overridden: Restored items became law 11/2003 |
P-12 | Appropriations for the State Board of Education
H.B. 2663
Makes appropriations to the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2004. Effective July 1, 2003. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Veto Overridden: Restored Items Became Law. 11/2003 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Appropriations for Postsecondary Education
H.B. 2671
Amends appropriations to the Board of Higher Education, the Department of Public Health, for medical education scholarships, the Mathematics...
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Special Education |
Total VEto stands 11/2003 |
P-12 | Children with Disabilities Reimbursement
S.B. 192
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides administrative expenses incurred by a responsible school district...
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Special Education |
Total Veto stands 11/2003 |
P-12 | Special Education
S.B. 191
Provides that if a child who was eligible to receive special education services while in an orphanage, foster family home, children's child ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Vetoed 11/2003 |
P-12 | Teachers Return to Employment
H.B. 1185
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows certain retired teachers to remain in retirement status and contin...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Total Veto Stands 11/2003 |
P-12 | Housing Assistance for New Teachers
H.B. 2345
Creates the Illinois Housing Initiative Act of 2003. Provides a program of financial assistance for new teachers purchasing a first home. Re...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Total veto stands 11/2003 |
P-12 | Textbooks
S.B. 618
Amends the School Code. Concerns the loan of textbooks to students free of charge, provides that "textbook" includes science curriculum mate...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Illinois Future Teacher Corps Program
23 IAC 2764.10, .20, .30, .40
Establishes the Illinois Future Teacher Corps (IFTC) Program to encourage academically talented Illinois students, especially minority stude...
| More... |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | School Accountability
S.B. 878
Makes changes concerning school recognition standards for student performance and school improvement, recognition levels, rewards and acknow...
| More... |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Student Assessment
H.B. 2352
Makes provisions regarding state goals and assessments. Provides for student testing and limits maximum time allowed for all state testing i...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Crime Prevention
S.B. 1107
Requires the Chicago Board of Education to establish a pilot program to prevent crime by developing guidelines to identify students at risk ...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Criminal History Records Checks
H.B. 564
Amends various Acts relating to criminal history records checks. Provides that applicants for various occupations, including prospective sch...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Community Service
S.B. 372
Provides that community service may include participation in a high school or community blood drive or other blood recruitment campaign. Pro...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Asian History Requirement
S.B. 890
Amends the School Code. Provides that the teaching of United States History shall include a study of the role and contributions of Asian Ame...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Drivers Education
H.B. 1491
Public schools and educational facilities may not contract with an entity engaged in giving instruction in the driving of motor vehicles or ...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Chicago School Finance Authority
S.B. 1368
Amends the School Finance Authority Act of the School Code. Provides that the powers and responsibilities granted to or imposed upon the Chi...
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Health |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Health Screening
S.B. 1081
Provides that a diabetes screening be included in the health examination of each school child, but that diabetes testing is not required. ht...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Vision Examinations
S.B. 805
Provides that parents are encouraged to have their children undergo vision examinations at the same points in time required for health exami...
| More... |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Summer Kindergarten
S.B. 903
Allows a school board to establish, maintain, and operate a summer kindergarten program for grade one readiness. Provides the summer kinderg...
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Parent/Family |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Homework Assistance Information for Parents
S.B. 891
Amends the School Code. Relates to homework assistance information for parents. Provides that the State Board of Education shall provide inf...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Student Grant Program
H.B. 1119
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Changes the name of the Illinois Incentive for Access Grant Program to the Silas Purnell...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
Postsec. | Educational Labor Relations Act
S.B. 1360
Amends the Labor Relations Act to restore a provision that provides the sole appropriate bargaining unit for academic faculty at the Univers...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
Postsec. | Board of Higher Education Membership Requirement
H.B. 2805
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that one of the 10 members of the Board of Higher Education that is appointed by the Gove...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Public Community College Board
S.B. 1980
Amends the Public Community College Act to provide for the election of board of trustee members by trustee district rather than at-large. ht...
| More... |
Public Involvement |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | School Code Waivers
S.B. 206
Amends provisions of the School Code relating to waivers and modifications of School Code mandates. Requires the local public hearing on a d...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Chartered and School Buses
H.B. 2840
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the School Code. Provides for chartered bus drivers under specified conditions. Provides that school bo...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Student Records Privacy
H.B. 761
Amends the School Code, various Acts relating to the governance of the public universities and the Public Community College Act. Prohibits a...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Children's Privacy Protection
S.B. 404
Amends the Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act to define a child as a person under age 16. Changes requirements for i...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Free and Reduced-price School Lunches
S.B. 490
Requires the State Board of Education, regional superintendents, school boards and their schools, and nonpublic schools that receive funds f...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Teaching Certificates and Citizenship
H.B. 3587
Provides that an applicant for a teaching certificate who is not a citizen of the United States must sign and file with the state board a le...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 | Employee Representative Organizations
H.B. 3396
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that the respective Boards shall designate ...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Sale of Tobacco to Minors
S.B. 1030
Amends the Sale of Tobacco to Minors Act. Provides that the sale or distribution at no charge of cigarettes from a lunch wagon engaging in a...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Children With Disabilities
S.B. 566
Amends the School Code. Makes provisions regarding the State Board of Education's rules to determine the eligibility of children to receive ...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Minor Voting Program
H.B. 30
Requires the State Board of Elections and State Board of Education to jointly develop a program for K-12 students in participating school di...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Sex Education
H.B. 2298
Requires sex education materials and instruction to advise pupils of the provisions of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act, responsi...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | School District Additional or Supplemental Budgets
H.B. 3101
Provides if a school district adopts, in a fiscal year, an additional or supplemental budget as a result of the voters in the school distric...
| More... |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | State Budget Transfers
H.B. 765
Amends the School Code concerning interfund transfers. Provides that certain limitations on transfers, one of which requires the transfer to...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Autism Diagnosis Education Program
H.B. 1809
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administration Act to require the Department of Human Services to contract for autis...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Lead Poisoning Screening
H.B. 207
Amends the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act. Provides that physicians, health care providers, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants...
| More... |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Early Learning Council Act
S.B. 565
Creates the Illinois Early Learning Council Act. Establishes the Illinois Early Learning Council to coordinate existing state programs and s...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Education Block Grant
H.B. 2235
Provides that 11% (instead of 8%) of the Early Childhood Education Block Grant shall be used to fund programs for children ages 0-3. http://...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. | Scholarships
H.B. 3274
Provides that each member of the General Assembly may annually nominate two students for scholarships at any state supported university (now...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. | Tuition Increase Limitation
H.B. 1118
Makes provisions regarding students and tuition, including tuition increase limitations; amends various acts relating to governance of publ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Appropriation Requirements
H.B. 1543
Amends the State Finance Act. Requires appropriations for higher education to be by separate line items and not by lump sum. Provides that e...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Academic Employees of Community College
H.B. 1457
Amends the Educational Relations Act to provide that an academic employee of a community college who provides less than 3 credit hours of in...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Community College Federal Trust Fund
S.B. 1375
Amends the Public Community College Act. Creates the ICCB Federal Trust Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that money re...
| More... |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. | False Academic Degrees
H.B. 1448
Provides it is unlawful for a person to knowingly manufacture or produce a false academic degree or for a person to knowingly use a false ac...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | After School Academic Assistance Programs
S.B. 66
Provides the state board of education should be the designated agency responsible for the administration of programs under Part I of Subchap...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | School Board Election Eligibility
H.B. 338
Provides that in order to be eligible for election to a school board (or in Chicago to be eligible for appointment), a person must not be a ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Disaster Relief Organizations and School Boards
S.B. 877
Requires a school board to cooperate with disaster relief organizations, including the Red Cross, with regard to civil defense shelters. htt...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Arson Involving School Facilities
H.B. 2446
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that aggravated arson includes the arson of a school building when other elements of the offense ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Stopped School Bus
S.B. 311
Provides that a driver must stop his vehicle before meeting or overtaking, from either direction, a school bus stopped at any location for t...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Non-certified Personal
H.B. 2350
Provides the state board of education shall accept, as qualifications for non-certified personnel, relevant life experiences as determined b...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Teachers Medicare Coverage
H.B. 79
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Directs the System to conduct a divided Medicare coverage referendum, ope...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Speech and Language Pathologist
H.B. 2797
Amends the School Code. Changes definition of speech-language pathologist. Allows a school district or cooperative to contract for speech pa...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | School Service Personnel Certificates
H.B. 2864
Amends the School Code. Provides that a School Service Personnel Certificate with a speech-language pathologist endorsement shall be issued ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | School Counselor Requirements
H.B. 514
Amends the School Code concerning school counselors. Provides that in lieu of holding or qualifying for a teaching certificate in addition t...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Standard Teaching Certificate Renewal
H.B. 210
Amends the Teacher Certification Article of the School Code. Provides that if a standard teaching certificate has been maintained as valid a...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2003 |
P-12 | Teacher Certification
23 IAC 25.11, .20, .30, .40, .80, 92
Establishes rules assuring Illinois school districts that individuals they hire will be considered highly qualified under the federal No Chi...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Retired Teacher Employment
S.B. 195
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows retired teachers to remain in retirement status and continue to re...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Teacher Induction and Mentoring Program
S.B. 533
Provides a public school that has an existing teacher induction and mentoring program that does not meet program requirements may have two a...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Teacher Organization Officers
S.B. 230
Provides if a teacher is elected to serve as an officer of a state or national teacher organization that represents teachers in collective b...
| More... |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | School Technology Revolving Loan Program
H.B. 2354
Amends a Section of the School Code concerning the School Technology Revolving Loan Program. Provides that funds may be used for the purpose...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 | Science Curriculum Materials
H.B. 2332
In a Section concerning the loan of textbooks to students free of charge, provides that "textbook" includes science curriculum materials in ...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Block Grant Program
S.B. 201
Creates the Mathematics and Science Block Grant Program in order to provide greater flexibility and efficiency in the distribution and use o...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | FY2004 Budget Implementation (Education) Act
S.B. 744
Creates the FY2004 Budget Implementation (Education) Act with the purpose of the Act to make changes relating to education that are necessar...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Riverboat Gambling Act
S.B. 1606
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Increases the admission tax and the wagering tax. Provides that the additional wagering tax revenues shal...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Riverboat Gambling Act
S.B. 1607
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Provides intent to assist economic development and increase revenue to support education. http://www.legi...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Tax Delinquency Amnesty Act
S.B. 969
Creates the Tax Delinquency Amnesty Act for the payment of certain taxes due to the state. Provides that interest and penalties for taxes pa...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. | Prepaid Tuition Fund
S.B. 1047
Prohibits the State Comptroller from deducting for payments to institutions from the Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund. Provides that the Comptroll...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Reading Improvement Grants
S.B. 381
Provides that the state board has the power and duty to improve the reading and study skills of children from grades 7 through 12 in school ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Chicago School District Personnel Committee
H.B. 1235
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Changes the name of an attendance center's professional personnel advisory co...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 | Impact fees
H.B. 528 -- Public Act 93-330
Adds a new authorization to the Counties Code and Municipal Code for purposes of implementing ordinances regarding developer donations or im...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
Postsec. | Higher Education In-State Tuition
H.B. 60
Requires an individual who is not a citizen or permanent resident of the United States to be classified as an Illinois resident if they grad...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Chicago Educational Labor Relations
S.B. 19
Provides that amendatory Act may be referred to as the Chicago Education Reform Act of 2003. Amends requirements for Chicago area charter sc...
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Governance |
Signed into law 01/2003 |
P-12 | Regional School Superintendents
S.B. 616
Amends the School Code. Removes a provision relating to the election of a regional superintendent of schools for a consolidated region, fili...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Adopted 01/2003 |
Postsec. | Eastern Ilinois University Board of Trustees governance
2 IAC 6000.110 thru .250
Establishes rules intending to explain what the Board of Trustees of Eastern Illinois University is, how the Board is organized, and how the...
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No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Adopted 09/2002 |
P-12 | Supplemental Education Services
N/A
Illinois State Board of Education adopted criteria for approving supplemental education service providers on 9/19/2002. (no policy number gi...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 09/2002 |
P-12 | Definition of Highly Qualified Teacher
N/A
State Board of Education adopted their definition of "highly qualified teacher on September 19, 2002: http://www.isbe.state.il.us/news/2002/...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec. | Grant assistance and National Guard members
SB 2204
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. In provisions
concerning the Illinois National Guard grant program, provides t...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec. | Teacher recruitment/shortage scholarships
H.B. 4912
Relates to the Minority Teachers Scholarship Program; allows a qualified person enrolled at the freshman level or graduate level to qualify ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec. | An Act concerning higher education student assistance
HB 4037
Act creates scholarships for students to study optometry and work in state. Recipients must practice in state for each year awarded scholar...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 | Conflict Resolution
H.B. 1692
Provides that only a school board that adopts a policy to incorporate activities to address intergroup conflict must make information availa...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 | Cellular Telecommunications Devices
H.B. 3938
Rescinds former ban on student use or possession of of cellular radio telecommunication devices by a student while in a school or on school ...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 | Teacher Certification
H.B. 1436
Amends the Teacher Certification Article of the School Code. Makes provision regarding issuance of the Standard Teaching Certificate before ...
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Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 | Short-Term Empoyees
H.B. 1720
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act; provides that the employee must not have a reasonable expectation (instead a reasonable...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 | School Report Cards
H.B. 5663
Amends the School Code. Provides that the school report card assessing the performance of a school district's schools and students must spec...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 | High School Recitation of Pledge of Allegiance
S.B. 1634
Requires the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited each school day by pupils in elementary and secondary educational institutions supported or ...
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Health |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 | Psychotropic Drugs
H.B. 3744
Relates to psychotropic and psychostimulant drugs. Requires a school board to adopt and implement a policy that prohibits any disciplinary ...
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P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 | Child Care
H.B. 3662
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969; excludes certain programs operated by private entities on the grounds of public or private elementary or ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Student Assistance Act
H.B. 4351
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act; removes the requirement that a student be enrolled for at least six semester or six quar...
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Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 | Year-Round School Aid
S.B. 1524
Amends the State aid formula provisions of the School Code. Provides that in districts in which all buildings hold year-round classes, days ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 | School Crisis Assistance Team
H.B. 6038
Amends the School Code. Allows a school board to utilize volunteer personnel from a regional School Crisis Assistance Team to provide assist...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 | Special Education Teachers
S.B. 1777, H.B. 4466
Requires the State Teacher Certification Board to categorically certify a special education teacher in one or more specialized categories or...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 | Basic Skills for Certification
S.B. 1953
Amends the Teacher Certification Article of the School Code. Provides that a student may not enroll in a teacher preparation program at a re...
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Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Illinois Century Network
H.B. 5911
Amends the Illinois Century Network Act. Provides that the Illinois Century Network shall be a service creating and maintaining high speed t...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | NAEP Testing, School Report Cards, Parental Notification of Child Placement in Bilingual Program, Supplemental Aid to Low-Income Districts
S.B. 1983
Requires schools that are part of the sample drawn by the National Center for Education Statistics to administer the biennial State academic...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Active 06/2002 |
P-12 | Academic Watch Process
N/A
In 1992 the Academic Watch List was enacted into law in Illinois; the Academic Early Warning List
(AEWL) became law in 1996. Schools with lo...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Financial Oversight Panel
H.B. 5734
Allows the Chicago Board of Education to levy a capital improvement tax; allows a Financial Oversight Panel, whose purposes are to exercise ...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Cigarette Tax and School Infrastructure Fund
H.B. 539
Amends the Cigarette Tax and the Cigarette Use Tax; increases the tax from 58 cents per pack of cigarettes to 98 cents per pack; provides fo...
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Governance |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Auditor General to Audit Educational Service Regions
S.B. 1534
Provides that the Auditor General, instead of the State Board of Education, shall annually cause an audit to be made of the financial statem...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Emergency Medical Information Form for Bus Drivers and EMTs
H.B. 5939
Amends the School Code; provides that school districts are encouraged to create and use an emergency medical information form for bus driver...
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No Child Left Behind |
Active 06/2002 |
P-12 | 2002 Consolidated Plan
N/A
2002 Consolidated Plan (dated 6/12/02): http://www.isbe.state.il.us/nclb/csa/toc.htm...
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No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Active 06/2002 |
P-12 | Standards, Assessments
N/A
Illinois' content standards and assessment system were reviewed by the USDE. They were approved as of
September 2001, with a waiver on the a...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Incomplete Service of Illinois National Guard Grant Program Recipients
S.B. 2204
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Provides, in section concerning the Illinois National Guard grant program, that if the r...
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Religion |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Silent Reflection Act
H.B. 4117
Amends the Silent Reflection Act. Changes the short title of the Act to the Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act. Allows students in the...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | School Building Safety/Fire Inspections
S.B. 1545
Allows for only one one-year extension to be granted a school to make improvements to bring buildings up to school building safety code stan...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Resident Teacher Licensure
S.B. 1707
Increases from 2 years to 4 years the term during which a resident teacher certificate is valid for employment as a resident teacher in a pu...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 12/2001 |
P-12 | Military Recruiting On School Campus
S.B. 384
Amends the School Code; provides that the access allowed official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of Illinois and the United ...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2001 |
P-12 | Reporting District Finance Information On the Web
S.B. 898
Public Act No. 92-438., Requires a school district to post its current annual budget, itemized by receipts and expenditures, on the district...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 08/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Illinois Future Teacher Corps Scholarships
S.B. 1521
Public Act No. 92-445., Amends the State Finance Act, the Higher Education Student Assistance Act, and the Illinois Vehicle Code; creates a ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2001 |
P-12 | Safe to learn Program
H.B. 678
Public Act No. 92-409. Amends the Illinois Violence Protection Act of 1995; concerns the Safe to Learn Program; provides for a pilot program...
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Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 08/2001 |
P-12 | Workforce taskforce for persons with disabilities
H.B. 3392
Public Act No. 92-303., Amends the Developmental Disability and the Mental Disability Services Act; creates a workforce taskforce for person...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
P-12 | Limits on Substitute Teachers
S.B. 1293
Public Act No. 92-184., Provides that a teacher holding an early childhood, elementary, high school, or special certificate may substitute t...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Changes in the State's At-Risk Programs
H.B. 1096
Makes changes to the definition of student at risk of academic failure; defines alternative educational opportunities for at-risk students t...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | High Technology School-to-Work Program
S.B. 845
Establishes a High Technology School-to-Work Program in the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to increase the number of students ...
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Finance |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Elections for School Bonds
S.B. 975
Public Act No. 92-06., Amends the Election Code and the School Code; provides that notice of a referendum concerning the issuance of certain...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Makes Changes In the State Funding Formula
H.B. 3050
Amends the School Code; increases the foundation level of support, the average daily attendance figures utilized in the computation of gener...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Changes in The States Funding Formula
H.B. 2255
Provides that for the purpose of calculating the grant index, school districts are grouped into categories to compute equalized assessed val...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Encourage School Personnel to Learn Life-saving Techniques
H.B. 3137
Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act; provides that a school board shall encourage that all teachers a...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Student Self Administration of Asthma Medication
S.B. 979
Public Act No. 92-402., Requires a school board to permit self administration by a pupil of prescribed asthma medication; requires the paren...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Student Assistance Act
S.B. 406
Public Act No. 92-45., Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act; increases the maximum Monetary Award Program grant for full time ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. | Donations to the College Savings Account Pool
S.B. 902
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act; allows a deduction for individuals for moneys contributed in the taxable year to a college savings pool ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. | Prepaid Tuition Program
H.B. 841
Amends the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Act; removes a provision that provides that if a qualified beneficiary is awarded a grant or scholarship...
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Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Reading Improvement Block Grant Program
H.B. 3566
Amends the School Code; provides that under the Reading Improvement Block Grant Program, programs provided with grant funds shall not replac...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | New Provisions for Student Discipline
H.B. 646
Amend the School Code; changes the amendatory language to provide instead that a school board, in consultation with its parent-teacher advis...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Keeping Child Abuse Reports in Student Records
H.B. 3055
Amends the Illinois School Records and Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act; provides that after completing an investigation of alleged ...
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School Safety |
Amendatory Veto by GOVERNOR 06/2001 |
P-12 | Alcohol on School Property
H.B. 445
Provides that any person who has alcoholic liquor in his or her possession on school district property (instead of on school property during...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Assisting in completing a functional behavioral assessment,
S.B. 116
Amends the School Code; provides that school social work services may include assisting in completing a functional behavioral assessment, as...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
Vetoed 06/2001 |
P-12 | Substitute Teacher Rules
H.B. 2425
Amends the School Code; provides that, for the 2001-2002, 2002-2003, and 2003-2004 school years, a teacher holding an early childhood, eleme...
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Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Teacher Internship Programs
S.B. 329
Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code; removes the limitation that teaching interns be employed on a part-time basis; provides...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Posting Teaching Openings On the Web
H.B. 1048
Amends the School Code; requires the most current version of an unfilled teaching positions list to be linked to the regional office of educ...
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Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | History Standards
S.B. 109
Amends the School Code; adds Hispanics to the list of the specific ethnic groups whose role and contributions to the history of this country...
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Health |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. | Meningitis Information
S.B. 168
Relates to the governance of the public universities in Illinois; provides that at the beginning of each semester, the university shall info...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. | Rules for the Higher Ed. Board
H.B. 260
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act and various Acts relating to the governance of the public universities in Illinois; requires the go...
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Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. | Rules for Private Universities
S.B. 317
Amends the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act; provides that an educational institution that on January 2, 2001 enrolls a majority ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Preventing a child from attending school
S.B. 1026
Amends the School Code; provides that whoever by threat, menace, or intimidation prevents a child entitled to attend a nonpublic school in t...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Out-of-state Students and Suspension/Expulsion
S.B. 376
Public Act No. 92-64., Amends the School Code; allows a school district to adopt a policy providing that if a student is suspended or expell...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Protection Order for Students
S.B. 187
Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act; provides that a petitioner for an order of protection who is seeking to have a child protected by...
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State Policymaking |
Issued 04/2001 |
P-12 | Commission on revising Illinois School Code
Executive Order 7 (2001)
Creates the Governor's Commission on Revising the School Code (GCRSC) to conduct a comprehensive analysis of existing school code and prepar...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Community College Trustees
H.B. 258
Public Act No. 92-01., Amends the Public Community College Act; provides that division of community college district No. 522 into trustee di...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2000 |
P-12 | Keeping Sex Offenders Away From Children
H.B. 4045
Public Act No., Amends the Criminal Code of 1961; prohibits child sex offenders from residing within 500 feet of a school attended by person...
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School Safety |
Vetoed 07/2000 |
P-12 | Alternative Education for Violent Students
S.B. 1426
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 and the Unified Code of Corrections; provides that a minor who is placed on probation or supervision, ...
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Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Community Colleges take charge of Adult Education
H.B. 4266
Public Act No. 91-830; On July 1, 2001, transfers all State Board of Education powers and duties
concerning adult education to the Illinoi...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Background Checks on School Board Members
H.B. 3840
Public Act No. 91-728; Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code; makes changes concerning the ineligibility of persons ...
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Equity |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. | Gender Equity In Intercollegiate Sports
S.B. 1589
Public Act No. 91-792., Amends the Board of Higher Education Act; removes the provision repealing the Section concerning gender equity in in...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. | State Board's Ability to Adjust Payments
H.B. 2917
Amends the School Code; prohibits the State Board of Education from making audit adjustments to general state aid claims paid in fiscal year...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Tax-Equivalent Grants
H.B. 3406
Public Act No. 91-723; When state institution is located in a district in which the state owns 45% or more of the total land area, the distr...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Prepaid Tuition Program
S.B. 1537
Amends the Prepaid Tuition Act and the Probate Act of 1975; provides that the Section exempting the assets and income of the Prepaid Tuition...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Changes provisions for certification of tax levy
H.B. 3435
Amends the School Code; changes when a school board may amend a certificate of tax levy to when a change in the assessed valuation resulting...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Closed Door Meetings For School Boards
H.B. 3881
Public Act No. 91-730; Amends the Open Meetings Act; provides that a school board may hold a closed meeting to consider security procedures ...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Lunch & Breakfast Program
H.B. 2379
Public Act No., Creates the Childhood Hunger Prevention Act and amends the School Free Lunch Program Act; changes the name of the Act to the...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Health Care Screenings
H.B. 2067
Public Act No. 91-842., Amends the School Code; allows a school district to access federally funded health care resources if the school dist...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Nuses Can Administer Drugs
H.B. 2977
Public Act No. 91-719., Amends the School Code; allows a school board to permit a school employee that is a non-certificated registered prof...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Medicaid Funds To Schools
H.B. 2067
Public Act No., Amends the School Code; allows a school district to access federally funded health care resources if the school district pro...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Preschool special education programs
H.B. 2940
Public Act No. 91-765; Amends the School Code; exempts all persons holding a special certificate with a special education endorsement from p...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Retaining Teachers for Child Care
H.B. 4021
Public Act No. 91-831; Provides that beginning October 1, 2000, the Department of Human Services shall operate a Great Start (Strategy to At...
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Parent/Family |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Changes in Special Education
S.B. 1447
Public Act No. 91-784., Provides that the provision (Article of the School Code) requiring the assignment of a surrogate parent for educatio...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. | Scholarships to Children of Fire Fighters Killed In action.
H.B. 2870
Public Act No. 91-832., Amends the Vehicle Code; provides that moneys in the Fire Fighters Memorial Fund shall, subject to appropriation by ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Increase Higher Ed. Grant
S.B. 1538
Public Act No. 91-747., Relates to the Higher Education Student Assistance Act; increases the maximum Monetary Award Program grant for full-...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. | College Savings Pool
S.B. 1862
Public Act No. 91-829, Amends the State Treasurer Act; makes a technical change in the College Savings Pool Section; provides that the Colle...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. | Open Meetings for Higher Ed.
H.B. 2580
Public Act No. 91-715; Relates to the governance of the public universities in Illinois; provides that at each regular and special meeting o...
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Special Education |
Passed 06/2000 |
P-12 | Certification of Special Education Teachers
SJR 61
Directs the state board to refrain from implementing any new system for the certification of special education teachers until January 1, 200...
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Students |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Students may be excused from dissections
H.B. 3254
Public Act No. 91-771., Relates to the Dissection Alternatives Act; creates the Dissection Alternatives Act; provides that schools may excus...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 | Safety, School Report Cards, Background Checks, Summer School
H.B. 4587
Public Act No. 91-4587; Amends the School Code to provide that the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Program shall provi...
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Special Education |
Adopted 03/2000 |
P-12 | New Special Education Teacher Certification Rules
Beginning January 1, 2003 the state of Illinois will have a new system for certifying Special Education teachers. Teachers will have to be ...
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P-3 |
Adopted 01/2000 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Care and Education
Position Statement
State Board of Education position statement, adopted January 20, 2000, committing to develop, deliver and support early childhood programs, ...
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