Bill Text: IL HB2627 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that, before detaining and questioning a student on school grounds who is under 18 years of age and who is suspected of committing a criminal act, a law enforcement officer, school resource officer, or other school security personnel must comply with certain requirements; defines "school grounds". Provides that the requirements do not limit the authority of a law enforcement officer to make an arrest on school grounds and do not apply to specified circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that urgent and immediate action is necessary. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-23 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0478 [HB2627 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2627-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that, before detaining and questioning a student on school grounds who is under 18 years of age and who is suspected of committing a criminal act, a law enforcement officer, school resource officer, or other school security personnel must comply with certain requirements; defines "school grounds". Provides that the requirements do not limit the authority of a law enforcement officer to make an arrest on school grounds and do not apply to specified circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that urgent and immediate action is necessary. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-23 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0478 [HB2627 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2627-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
| 5 | 22-85 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/22-85 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 22-85. Detainment by law enforcement personnel, | ||||||
| 8 | school resource officers, or other security personnel on school | ||||||
| 9 | grounds. No student under 18 years of age may be questioned or | ||||||
| 10 | detained by law enforcement personnel, a school resource | ||||||
| 11 | officer, or other security personnel on school grounds in | ||||||
| 12 | connection with a suspected or alleged criminal activity | ||||||
| 13 | without the presence of the student's parent or guardian or a | ||||||
| 14 | designee requested by the parent or guardian. A student 18 | ||||||
| 15 | years of age or older may request the presence of his or her | ||||||
| 16 | parent or guardian if he or she is questioned or detained under | ||||||
| 17 | this Section, and the student must be notified of this right.
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| 18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 19 | becoming law.
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