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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
514-8.02f as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/14-8.02f)
7    Sec. 14-8.02f. Individualized education program meeting
8protections.
9    (a) (Blank).
10    (b) This subsection (b) applies only to a school district
11organized under Article 34. No later than 10 calendar days
12prior to a child's individualized education program meeting or
13as soon as possible if a meeting is scheduled within 10
14calendar days with written parental consent, the school board
15or school personnel must provide the child's parent or
16guardian with a written notification of the services that
17require a specific data collection procedure from the school
18district for services related to the child's individualized
19education program. The notification must indicate, with a
20checkbox, whether specific data has been collected for the
21child's individualized education program services. For
22purposes of this subsection (b), individualized education
23program services must include, but are not limited to,

 

 

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1paraprofessional support, an extended school year,
2transportation, therapeutic day school, and services for
3specific learning disabilities.
4    (c) Beginning on July 1, 2020, no later than 3 school days
5prior to a meeting to determine a child's eligibility for
6special education and related services or to review a child's
7individualized education program, or as soon as possible if an
8individualized education program meeting is scheduled within 3
9school days with the written consent of the child's parent or
10guardian, the local education agency must provide the child's
11parent or guardian copies of all written material that will be
12considered by the individualized education program team at the
13meeting so that the parent or guardian may participate in the
14meeting as a fully-informed team member. The parent or
15guardian shall have the option of choosing from the available
16methods of delivery, which must include regular mail and
17picking up the materials at school. The notice provided to the
18parent or guardian prior to the meeting pursuant to subsection
19(g) of Section 14-8.02 shall inform the parent or guardian of
20the parent's or guardian's right to receive copies of all
21written material under this subsection (c) and shall provide
22the date when the written material will be delivered or made
23available to the parent or guardian.
24    For a meeting to determine the child's eligibility for
25special education, the written material must include all
26evaluations and collected data that will be considered at the

 

 

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1meeting. For a child who is already eligible for special
2education and related services, the written material must
3include a copy of all individualized education program
4components that will be discussed by the individualized
5education program team, other than the components related to
6the educational and related service minutes proposed for the
7child and the child's placement.
8    Parents shall also be informed of their right to review
9and copy their child's school student records prior to any
10special education eligibility or individualized education
11program review meeting, subject to the requirements of
12applicable federal and State law.
13    (d) Local education agencies must make logs that record
14the delivery of related services administered under the
15child's individualized education program and the minutes of
16each type of related service that has been administered
17available to the child's parent or guardian at any time upon
18request of the child's parent or guardian. For purposes of
19this subsection (d), related services for which a log must be
20made are: speech and language services, occupational therapy
21services, physical therapy services, school social work
22services, school counseling services, school psychology
23services, and school nursing services. The local education
24agency must inform the child's parent or guardian within 20
25school days from the beginning of the school year or upon
26establishment of an individualized education program of his or

 

 

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1her ability to request those related service logs.
2    (d-5) If, at a meeting to develop or revise a child's
3individualized education program, the individualized education
4program team determines that a certain service is required in
5order for the child to receive a free, appropriate public
6education and that service is not implemented within 10 school
7days after the service was to be initiated as set forth by the
8child's individualized education program, then the local
9education agency shall provide the child's parent or guardian
10with written notification that the service has not yet been
11implemented. The notification must be provided to the child's
12parent or guardian within 3 school days of the local education
13agency's non-compliance with the child's individualized
14education program and must inform the parent or guardian about
15the school district's procedures for requesting compensatory
16services. In this subsection (d-5), "school days" does not
17include days where a child is absent from school for reasons
18unrelated to a lack of individualized education program
19services or when the service is available, but the child is
20unavailable.
21    (e) The State Board of Education may create a telephone
22hotline to address complaints regarding the special education
23services or lack of special education services of a school
24district subject to this Section. If a hotline is created, it
25must be available to all students enrolled in the school
26district, parents or guardians of those students, and school

 

 

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1personnel. If a hotline is created, any complaints received
2through the hotline must be registered and recorded with the
3State Board's monitor of special education policies. No
4student, parent or guardian, or member of school personnel may
5be retaliated against for submitting a complaint through a
6telephone hotline created by the State Board under this
7subsection (e).
8    (f) A school district subject to this Section may not use
9any measure that would prevent or delay an individualized
10education program team from adding a service to the program or
11create a time restriction in which a service is prohibited
12from being added to the program. The school district may not
13build functions into its computer software that would remove
14any services from a student's individualized education program
15without the approval of the program team and may not prohibit
16the program team from adding a service to the program.
17(Source: P.A. 100-993, eff. 8-20-18; 101-515, eff. 8-23-19;
18101-598, eff. 12-6-19; 101-643, eff. 6-18-20.)
 
19    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20becoming law.