SB0077 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

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

Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections 2-3.196 and 3-14.32 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/2-3.196 new)

Sec. 2-3.196. Truancy; COVID-19. The State Board of Education shall cooperate with a school district organized under Article 34 to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism.

(105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new)

Sec. 3-14.32. Truancy; COVID-19. 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.

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