SB2264 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2264

Introduced 1/27/2016, by Sen. William R. Haine

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 5/10-20.24	from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.24
105 ILCS 25/1.20 new

Amends the School Code and the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that provisions allowing part-time attendance in the regular education program of a school district by pupils enrolled in nonpublic schools shall include allowing resident pupils who are enrolled in nonpublic schools to participate in those school-sponsored or school-supported athletic or extracurricular activities that are not selective with respect to who may join or participate. Requires an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among elementary or secondary schools and students within this State to report, on or before July 1, 2016, to the General Assembly on the association's or entity's efforts to communicate its rules to public and nonpublic schools in this State. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

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 changing Section 10-20.24 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/10-20.24) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.24)

Sec. 10-20.24. Part-time Attendance. To accept in part-time attendance in the regular education program of the district pupils enrolled in nonpublic schools if there is sufficient space in the public school desired to be attended. For the purposes of this Section, allowing part-time attendance in the regular education program of the district shall include allowing resident pupils who are enrolled in nonpublic schools to participate in those school-sponsored or school-supported athletic or extracurricular activities that are not selective with respect to who may join or participate. Request for attendance in the following school year must be submitted by the nonpublic school principal to the public school before May 1. Request may be made only to those public schools located in the district where the child attending the nonpublic school resides.

To accept, pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-6.01, in part-time attendance resident pupils of the types described in Sections 14-1.02 through 14-1.07 who are enrolled in nonpublic schools.

(Source: P.A. 80-1509.)

Section 10. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act is amended by adding Section 1.20 as follows:

(105 ILCS 25/1.20 new)

Sec. 1.20. Reporting on communication with schools.

(a) On or before July 1, 2016, an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among elementary or secondary schools and students within this State shall report to the General Assembly on the association's or entity's efforts to communicate its rules to public and nonpublic schools in this State.

(b) This Section is repealed on July 1, 2017.

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