Illinois House Bill 223 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-04-11 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Rita
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to establish a hotline for the purpose of receiving reports on instances of sexual abuse or sexual assault by a licensed educator or any other school employee or volunteer. Provides that the number of the hotline and its anonymous nature must be posted in every school in this State. Requires each school report card to include the most current data possessed by the State Board on the number of allegations of sexual assault or sexual abuse by a licensed educator or any other school district employee or volunteer reported at a school and any pertinent information related to an allegation. Provides that if an employee of a school district or a regional office of education fails to perform a criminal history records check or a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database as required under the Code for an applicant seeking employment with the school district or ignores the results of any of those checks, he or she must be suspended from employment. Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. With regard to the requirement to report to the Department of Children and Family Services a child who may be an abused child or a neglected child, increases the penalty for a person who knowingly and willfully violates the requirement to a Class 4 felony (rather than a Class A misdemeanor) for a first violation and a Class 3 felony (rather than a Class 4 felony) for a second or subsequent violation.

CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT-VARIOUS

Rep. Mary Flowers [D]

Rep. Anne Stava-Murray [D]

Rep. Robert Rita [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-04-11	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Rita
2019-03-29	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2019-02-14	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray
2019-02-14	House	To Special Issues Subcommittee (ESS)
2019-01-29	House	Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee
2019-01-09	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2019-01-09	House	First Reading
2019-01-07	House	Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Mary E. Flowers

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	10-17a	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	10-21.9	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	2-3.176	New Code	See Bill Text
105	5	34-18.5	Amended Code	Citation Text
325	5	4	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=223&GAID=15&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/HB/10100HB0223.htm