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 1        AN ACT relating to education.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by changing
 5    Section 27-24.2 as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/27-24.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-24.2)
 7        Sec.  27-24.2.   Driver  education  course.  Any   school
 8    district  which  maintains  grades 9 through 12 shall offer a
 9    driver education course in any such school which it operates.
10    Both the classroom instruction part and the practice  driving
11    part  of  such  driver  education  course  shall be open to a
12    resident or non-resident pupil attending a non-public  school
13    in  the  district  wherein  the course is offered and to each
14    resident of the district who acquires or  holds  a  currently
15    valid  driver's license during the term of the course and who
16    is at least 15 but  has not reached 21 years of age,  without
17    regard  to  whether  any such person is enrolled in any other
18    course offered in any school that the district operates. Each
19    student attending any public or non-public high school in the
20    district must receive a passing grade in at least  8  courses
21    during  the  previous  2  semesters  prior  to enrolling in a
22    driver  education  course,  or  the  student  shall  not   be
23    permitted  to  enroll  in the course; provided that the local
24    superintendent  of  schools  (with  respect  to   a   student
25    attending  a  public  high  school  in the district) or chief
26    school administrator (with respect to a student  attending  a
27    non-public  high  school  in  the  district)  may  waive  the
28    requirement   if   the   superintendent   or   chief   school
29    administrator, as the case may be, deems it to be in the best
30    interest  of  the  student.  Any  school district required to
31    offer a driver education course or  courses  as  provided  in
 
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 1    this Section also is authorized to offer either the classroom
 2    instruction  part  or  the practice driving part or both such
 3    parts of a driver education course to  any  resident  of  the
 4    district  who  is  over age 55; provided that any such school
 5    district which elects to offer either or both parts  of  such
 6    course  to such residents shall be entitled to make either or
 7    both parts of such course available to such residents at  any
 8    attendance  center  or centers within the district designated
 9    by the school board; and provided further that no part of any
10    such driver education course shall be offered to any resident
11    of the district over age  55  unless  space  therein  remains
12    available  after  all persons to whom such part of the driver
13    education course is required to be open as provided  in  this
14    Section  and  who  have requested such course have registered
15    therefor, and unless such resident of the district  over  age
16    55  is  a  person  who  has not previously been licensed as a
17    driver under the laws of this or any other state or  country.
18    However,  a  student may be allowed to commence the classroom
19    instruction part of such driver  education  course  prior  to
20    reaching  age  15  if  such  student then will be eligible to
21    complete the entire  course  within  12  months  after  being
22    allowed to commence such classroom instruction.
23        A  driver  education  course  must  provide  at  least 30
24    minutes of classroom instruction relating to  organ,  tissue,
25    and  blood  donation  and  organ,  tissue, and blood donation
26    procedures.  No student shall be required to  participate  in
27    this  instruction  if  his  or  her  parent or guardian files
28    written objection  thereto  on  constitutional  grounds,  and
29    refusal  to  participate in this instruction on those grounds
30    shall not be reason for suspension or expulsion of a  student
31    or result in any academic penalty.
32        Such  a  driver  education  course  may include classroom
33    instruction on the safety rules and operation of  motorcycles
34    or motor driven cycles.
 
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 1        Such  a  course  may  be  commenced immediately after the
 2    completion of a prior course. Teachers of such courses  shall
 3    meet   the   certification   requirements  of  this  Act  and
 4    regulations of the State Board as to qualifications.
 5    (Source: P.A. 88-188.)

 6        Section 90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by  adding
 7    Section 8.27 as follows:

 8        (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
 9        Sec.  8.27.  Exempt  mandate.  Notwithstanding Sections 6
10    and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is  required
11    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
12    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

13        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
14    becoming law.