Public Act 100-0996
 
SB2350 EnrolledLRB100 17887 AXK 33071 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 Safety Drill Act is amended  by 
changing Section 20 as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 128/20)

    Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local 
authority participation. 

    (a)    During each academic year, schools must conduct a 
minimum of 3 school evacuation drills to address and prepare 
students and school personnel for fire incidents.  These drills 
must meet all of  the following criteria:
        (1)          One of the 3 school evacuation drills shall require 
    the participation of the appropriate local fire department 
    or district.
            (A)   Each local fire department or fire district 
        must contact the appropriate  school administrator or 
        his or her designee no later than September 1 of each 
        year in order to arrange for the participation of the 
        department or district in the school evacuation drill.
            (B)    Each school administrator or his or her 
        designee must contact the responding local fire 
        official no later than September 15 of each year and 
        propose to the local fire official 4 dates within the 
        month of October, during at least 2 different weeks of 
        October, on which the drill shall occur.  The fire 
        official may choose any of the 4 available dates, and 
        if he or she does so, the drill shall occur on that 
        date.
            (C)   The school administrator or his or her designee 
        and the local fire official may also, by mutual 
        agreement, set any other date for the drill, including 
        a date outside of the month of October.
            (D)   If the fire official does not select one of the 
        4 offered dates in October or set another date by 
        mutual agreement, the requirement that the school 
        include the local fire service in one of its mandatory 
        school evacuation drills shall be waived.  Schools, 
        however, shall continue to be strongly encouraged to 
        include the fire service in a school evacuation drill 
        at a mutually agreed-upon time.
            (E)           Upon the participation of the local fire 
        service, the appropriate local fire official shall 
        certify that the school evacuation drill was 
        conducted.
            (F)    When scheduling the school evacuation drill, 
        the school administrator or his or her designee and the 
        local fire department or fire district may, by mutual 
        agreement on or before September 14, choose to waive 
        the provisions of subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) of 
        this paragraph (1).
        Additional school evacuation drills for fire incidents 
    may involve the participation of the appropriate local fire 
    department or district.
        (2) Schools may conduct additional school evacuation 
    drills to account for other evacuation incidents, 
    including without limitation suspicious items or bomb 
    threats.
        (3) All drills shall be conducted at each school 
    building that houses school children.
    (b) During each academic year, schools must conduct a 
minimum of one bus evacuation drill. This drill shall be 
accounted for in the curriculum in all public schools and in 
all other educational institutions in this State that are 
supported or maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds 
and that provide instruction in any of the grades kindergarten 
through 12.  This curriculum shall include instruction in safe 
bus riding practices for all students. Schools may conduct 
additional bus evacuation drills.  All drills shall be conducted 
at each school building that houses school children.
    (b-5) Notwithstanding the minimum requirements established 
by this Act, private schools that do not utilize a bus to 
transport students for any purpose are exempt from subsection 
(b) of this Section, provided that the chief school 
administrator of the private school provides written assurance 
to the State Board of Education that the private school does 
not plan to utilize a bus to transport students for any purpose 
during the current academic year.  The assurance must be made on 
a form supplied by the State Board of Education and filed no 
later than October 15.  If a private school utilizes a bus to 
transport students for any purpose during an academic year when 
an assurance pursuant to this subsection (b-5) has been filed 
with the State Board of Education, the private school shall 
immediately notify the State Board of Education and comply with 
subsection (b) of this Section no later than 30 calendar days 
after utilization of the bus to transport students, except 
that, at the discretion of the private school, students chosen 
for participation in the bus evacuation drill need include only 
the subgroup of students that are utilizing bus transportation. 
    (c) During each academic year, schools must conduct a law 
enforcement drill to address a school shooting incident. No 
later than 90 days after the first day of each school year, 
schools must conduct at least one law enforcement drill that 
addresses an active threat or an active shooter within a school 
building. Such drills must be conducted according to the school 
district's or private school's emergency and crisis response 
plans, protocols, and procedures to evaluate the preparedness 
of school personnel and students , with the participation of the 
appropriate law enforcement agency.  Law enforcement drills 
must may be conducted on days and times when students are 
normally not present in the school building and must involve 
participation from all school personnel and students present at 
school at the time of the drill, except that administrators or 
school support personnel in their discretion may exempt 
students from the drill. The appropriate local law enforcement 
agency shall observe the administration of the drill. All 
drills must be conducted at each school building that houses 
school children. 
        (1) A  law enforcement drill must meet all of  the 
    following criteria:
            (A) During each calendar year, the appropriate 
        local law enforcement agency shall contact the 
        appropriate school administrator to request to 
        participate in a law enforcement drill. The school 
        administrator and local law enforcement agency shall 
        set, by mutual agreement, a date for the drill.
            (A-5) The drill shall require the on-site 
        participation of the local law enforcement agency.  If a 
        mutually agreeable date cannot be reached between the 
        school administrator and the appropriate local law 
        enforcement agency, then the school shall still hold 
        the drill without participation from the agency.
            (B) Upon the participation of a local law 
        enforcement agency in a law enforcement drill, the 
        appropriate local law enforcement official shall 
        certify that the law enforcement drill was conducted 
        and notify the school in a timely manner of any 
        deficiencies noted during the drill.
        (2) Schools may conduct additional law enforcement 
    drills at their discretion.
        (3) (Blank).
    (d) During each academic year, schools must conduct a 
minimum of one severe weather and shelter-in-place drill to 
address and prepare students and school personnel for possible 
tornado incidents and may conduct additional severe weather and 
shelter-in-place drills to account for other incidents, 
including without limitation earthquakes or hazardous 
materials.  All drills shall be conducted at each school 
building that houses school children.

(Source: P.A. 100-443, eff. 8-25-17.)