Bill Text: IL SB1729 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district may offer a firearm safety training course to students in grades 9 through 12, which may include instruction on hunting safety. Provides that if a school district offers the course, a student may not be required to take the course. Provides that if a school board intends to offer a firearm safety training course, it must develop a policy to implement the course and must publish that policy on the district's website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-23 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Andrew S. Chesney [SB1729 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB1729-Introduced.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 | 27-23.17 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-23.17 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 27-23.17. Firearm safety training course. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) In this Section "firearm" and "firearm ammunition" | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | have the meanings given to those terms under Section 1.1 of the | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | (b) A school district may offer a firearm safety training | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | course to students in grades 9 through 12, which may include | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | instruction on hunting safety. If a school district offers the | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | course, a student may not be required to take the course. Any | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | firearm that is operable or any firearm ammunition that is | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | live may not be present during the course instruction. | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (c) If a school board intends to offer a firearm safety | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | training course under this Section, it must develop a policy | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | to implement the course and must publish that policy on the | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | district's website.
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