Rep. Edward J. Acevedo

Filed: 5/29/2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2688

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2688 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The School Safety Drill Act is amended by
5 changing Section 20 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 128/20)
7     Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local
8 authority participation.
9     (a) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
10 minimum of 3 school evacuation drills to address and prepare
11 students and school personnel for fire incidents. These drills
12 must meet all of the following criteria:
13         (1) One of the 3 school evacuation drills shall require
14     the participation of the appropriate local fire department
15     or district.
16             (A) Each local fire department or fire district

 

 

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1         must contact the appropriate school administrator or
2         his or her designee no later than September 1 of each
3         year in order to arrange for the participation of the
4         department or district in the school evacuation drill.
5             (B) Each school administrator or his or her
6         designee must contact the responding local fire
7         official no later than September 15 of each year and
8         propose to the local fire official 4 dates within the
9         month of October, during at least 2 different weeks of
10         October, on which the drill shall occur. The fire
11         official may choose any of the 4 available dates, and
12         if he or she does so, the drill shall occur on that
13         date.
14             (C) The school administrator or his or her designee
15         and the local fire official may also, by mutual
16         agreement, set any other date for the drill, including
17         a date outside of the month of October.
18             (D) If the fire official does not select one of the
19         4 offered dates in October or set another date by
20         mutual agreement, the requirement that the school
21         include the local fire service in one of its mandatory
22         school evacuation drills shall be waived. Schools,
23         however, shall continue to be strongly encouraged to
24         include the fire service in a school evacuation drill
25         at a mutually agreed-upon time.
26             (E) Upon the participation of the local fire

 

 

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1         service, the appropriate local fire official shall
2         certify that the school evacuation drill was
3         conducted.
4             (F) When scheduling the school evacuation drill,
5         the school administrator or his or her designee and the
6         local fire department or fire district may, by mutual
7         agreement on or before September 14, choose to waive
8         the provisions of subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) of
9         this paragraph (1).
10         Additional school evacuation drills for fire incidents
11     may involve the participation of the appropriate local fire
12     department or district.
13         (2) Schools may conduct additional school evacuation
14     drills to account for other evacuation incidents,
15     including without limitation suspicious items or bomb
16     threats.
17         (3) All drills shall be conducted at each school
18     building that houses school children.
19     (b) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
20 minimum of one bus evacuation drill. This drill shall be
21 accounted for in the curriculum in all public schools and in
22 all other educational institutions in this State that are
23 supported or maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds
24 and that provide instruction in any of the grades kindergarten
25 through 12. This curriculum shall include instruction in safe
26 bus riding practices for all students. Schools may conduct

 

 

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1 additional bus evacuation drills. All drills shall be conducted
2 at each school building that houses school children.
3     (c) During each academic year, schools must may conduct a
4 strongly encouraged law enforcement drill drills to address and
5 prepare students and school personnel for incidents, including
6 without limitation reverse evacuations, lock-downs, shootings,
7 bomb threats, or hazardous materials. Such drills must be
8 conducted according to the school district's or private
9 school's emergency and crisis response plans, protocols, and
10 procedures, with the participation of the appropriate law
11 enforcement agency. Law enforcement drills may be conducted on
12 days and times when students are not present in the school
13 building.
14         (1) A If conducted, a law enforcement drill must meet
15     all of the following criteria:
16             (A) During each calendar year, the appropriate
17         local law enforcement agency shall contact the
18         appropriate school administrator to request to
19         participate in a law enforcement drill and may actively
20         participate on-site in a drill.
21             (B) Upon the participation of a local law
22         enforcement agency in a law enforcement drill, the
23         appropriate local law enforcement official shall
24         certify that the law enforcement drill was conducted.
25         (2) Schools may conduct additional law enforcement
26     drills at their discretion.

 

 

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1         (3) (Blank). All drills shall be conducted at each
2     school building that houses school children.
3     (d) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
4 minimum of one severe weather and shelter-in-place drill to
5 address and prepare students and school personnel for possible
6 tornado incidents and may conduct additional severe weather and
7 shelter-in-place drills to account for other incidents,
8 including without limitation earthquakes or hazardous
9 materials. All drills shall be conducted at each school
10 building that houses school children.
11 (Source: P.A. 94-600, eff. 8-16-05.)
 
12     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
13 Section 8.32 as follows:
 
14     (30 ILCS 805/8.32 new)
15     Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
16 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
17 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
18 the 95th General Assembly.
 
19     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
20 2008.".