Illinois Senate Bill 78 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the School Code. With regard to the textbook block grant program, provides that the textbooks authorized to be purchased must include the roles and contributions of all people protected under the Illinois Human Rights Act and must be non-discriminatory as to any of the characteristics under the Act. Provides that textbooks purchased with grant funds must be non-discriminatory. Provides that in public schools only, the teaching of history of the United States shall include a study of the roles and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history of this country and this State. Effective July 1, 2020.

SCH CD-HISTORY-LGBT

Sen. Heather Steans [D]

Sen. Laura Murphy [D]

Sen. Cristina Castro [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2019-04-09	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
2019-03-29	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
2019-03-22	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2019-03-20	Senate	Postponed - Education
2019-01-23	Senate	Assigned to Education
2019-01-23	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-01-23	Senate	First Reading
2019-01-23	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Heather A. Steans

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	2-3.155	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	27-21	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=78&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB0078.htm