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Full Text of SB0077  103rd General Assembly

SB0077 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB0077

 

Introduced 1/20/2023, by Sen. Sue Rezin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/2-3.196 new
105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new

    Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.


LRB103 25128 RJT 51465 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

SB0077LRB103 25128 RJT 51465 b

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 adding Sections
52-3.196 and 3-14.32 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.196 new)
7    Sec. 2-3.196. Truancy; COVID-19. The State Board of
8Education shall cooperate with a school district organized
9under Article 34 to locate students that stopped attending
10school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to
11address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism.
 
12    (105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new)
13    Sec. 3-14.32. Truancy; COVID-19. To increase the regional
14office of education's capacity to work with school districts
15to locate students that stopped attending school since the
16beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of
17truancy and chronic absenteeism.
 
18    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19becoming law.