Bill Text: IL SB0077 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-20 - Referred to Assignments [SB0077 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB0077-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB0077 Introduced 1/20/2023, by Sen. Sue Rezin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/2-3.196 new
105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new
Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.
LRB103 25128 RJT 51465 b
A BILL FOR
SB0077 LRB103 25128 RJT 51465 b
AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections
2-3.196 and 3-14.32 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.196 new)
Sec. 2-3.196. Truancy; COVID-19. The State Board of
Education shall cooperate with a school district organized
under Article 34 to locate students that stopped attending
school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to
address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism.
(105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new)
Sec. 3-14.32. Truancy; COVID-19. To increase the regional
office of education's capacity to work with school districts
to locate students that stopped attending school since the
beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of
truancy and chronic absenteeism.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.