Illinois House Bill 3659 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on August 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0291
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Amends the Charter Schools Article of the School Code. Provides that, no later than one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a charter school's board of directors or other governing body must include at least one parent or guardian of a pupil currently enrolled in the charter school who may be selected through the charter school or a charter network election, appointment by the charter school's board of directors or other governing body, or by the charter school's Parent Teacher Organization or its equivalent. Provides that, no later than one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act or within the first year of his or her first term, every voting member of a charter school's board of directors or other governing body shall complete a minimum of 4 hours of professional development leadership training to ensure that each member has sufficient familiarity with the board's or governing body's role and responsibilities, including financial oversight and accountability of the school, evaluating the principal's and school's performance, adherence to the Freedom of Information Act and the Open Meetings Acts, and compliance with education and labor law. Provides that in each subsequent year of his or her term, a voting member of a charter school's board of directors or other governing body shall complete a minimum of 2 hours of professional development training in those same areas.

CHARTER SCHOOL-BOARD TRAINING

Rep. Yehiel Kalish [D]	Rep. Sue Scherer [D]	Sen. Emil Jones [D]	Sen. Iris Martinez [D]
Sen. Chuck Weaver [R]	Sen. Jason Barickman [R]	Sen. Jason Plummer [R]

2019-05-22 - Senate - Third Reading in Senate (Y: 58 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-04-03 - House - Third Reading in House (Y: 111 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-08-09	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0291
2019-08-09	House	Effective Date January 1, 2020
2019-08-09	House	Governor Approved
2019-06-20	House	Sent to the Governor
2019-05-22	House	Passed Both Houses
2019-05-22	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000
2019-05-16	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 17, 2019
2019-05-16	Senate	Second Reading
2019-05-15	Senate	Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Jason Plummer
2019-05-08	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 9, 2019
2019-05-08	Senate	Do Pass Education; 013-000-000
2019-05-07	Senate	Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Jason A. Barickman
2019-05-07	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez
2019-05-01	Senate	Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Chuck Weaver
2019-04-30	Senate	Assigned to Education
2019-04-04	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-04-04	Senate	First Reading
2019-04-04	Senate	Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2019-04-03	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 4, 2019
2019-04-03	Senate	Arrive in Senate
2019-04-03	House	Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 111-000-000
2019-04-02	House	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
2019-04-02	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
2019-03-29	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
2019-03-27	House	Do Pass / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter School; 008-000-000
2019-03-27	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sue Scherer
2019-03-27	House	Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Yehiel M. Kalish
2019-03-05	House	Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter School
2019-02-15	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2019-02-15	House	First Reading
2019-02-15	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Aaron M. Ortiz

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	27A-5	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3659&GAID=15&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/HB/10100HB3659.htm
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/HB/10100HB3659eng.htm
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/HB/10100HB3659enr.htm
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/101/101-0291.htm
Roll Call	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/101/house/10100HB3659_04032019_016000T.pdf
Roll Call	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/101/senate/10100HB3659_05222019_019000T.pdf