Full Text of HB5041 93rd General Assembly
HB5041 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB5041
Introduced 2/5/2004, by Calvin L. Giles - Marlow H. Colvin - Karen A. Yarbrough - Monique D. Davis - Charles E. Jefferson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/27-22 |
from Ch. 122, par. 27-22 |
105 ILCS 5/27-22.3 |
from Ch. 122, par. 27-22.3 |
105 ILCS 5/27-22.05 |
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30 ILCS 805/8.28 new |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that as a prerequisite to receiving a high school diploma, each student entering the 9th grade in the 2005-2006 school year or a subsequent school year must perform 40 hours of community service, unless the student is exempted by the school board. Provides that each school board shall determine what constitutes 40 hours of community service and the criteria for exempting a student from the community service requirement. Provides that a student granted an exemption must complete an alternative assignment. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
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STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT |
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 |
| 27-22, 27-22.05, and 27-22.3 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/27-22) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-22)
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| Sec. 27-22. Prerequisites for high school diploma
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| high school courses .
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| (a) As a prerequisite to receiving
a high school diploma, | 10 |
| each pupil entering the 9th grade in 1984-1985 and
subsequent | 11 |
| years must, in addition to other course requirements,
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| successfully complete the following courses:
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| 1. three years of language arts;
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| 2. two years of mathematics, one of which may be | 15 |
| related to computer
technology;
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| 3. one year of science;
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| 4. two years of social studies, of which at least one | 18 |
| year must be history
of the United States or a combination | 19 |
| of history of the United States and
American government; | 20 |
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| 5. One year chosen from (A) music, (B) art, (C) foreign | 22 |
| language,
which shall be deemed to include American Sign | 23 |
| Language or (D)
vocational education.
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| This amendatory Act of 1983 does not apply to pupils | 25 |
| entering the 9th grade
in 1983-1984 school year and prior | 26 |
| school years or to students
with disabilities whose course of | 27 |
| study is determined by an individualized
education program.
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| The provisions of this subsection (a)
Section are subject | 29 |
| to the provisions of Section
27-22.05.
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| (b) As a prerequisite to receiving a high school diploma, | 31 |
| each student entering the 9th grade in the 2005-2006 school | 32 |
| year or a subsequent school years must perform 40 hours of |
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| community service, unless the student is exempted by the school | 2 |
| board. In accordance with guidelines established by the State | 3 |
| Board of Education or its successor, each school board shall | 4 |
| determine what constitutes 40 hours of community service, which | 5 |
| may be incorporated into classroom instruction, and the | 6 |
| criteria for exempting a student from the community service | 7 |
| requirement. Criteria for exempting students shall include | 8 |
| without limitation consideration for students who have to work, | 9 |
| students with disabilities, students who experience family | 10 |
| illness, and students with child-rearing responsibilities that | 11 |
| prohibit them from fulfilling the community service | 12 |
| requirement. A student granted an exemption must complete an | 13 |
| alternative assignment, as defined by the school board.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-269; 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/27-22.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-22.3)
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| Sec. 27-22.3. Volunteer service credit program.
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| (a) A school district may establish a volunteer service | 18 |
| credit program
that enables secondary school students to earn | 19 |
| credit towards graduation
through performance of community | 20 |
| service. This community service may include
participation in | 21 |
| the organization of a high school or community blood drive or
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| other blood donor
recruitment campaign. Any program so | 23 |
| established shall
begin with students entering grade 9 in the | 24 |
| 1993-1994 school year or
later. The amount of credit given for | 25 |
| program participation shall not
exceed that given for | 26 |
| completion of one semester of language arts, math,
science or | 27 |
| social studies.
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| (b) Any community service performed as part of a course for | 29 |
| which credit
is given towards graduation shall not qualify | 30 |
| under a volunteer service
credit program. Any service for which | 31 |
| a student is paid shall not qualify
under a volunteer service | 32 |
| credit program. Any community work assigned as a
disciplinary | 33 |
| measure shall not qualify under a volunteer service credit
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| program. Community service performed as part of the | 35 |
| prerequisite to receiving a high school diploma under |
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| subsection (b) of Section 27-22 of this Code qualifies under a | 2 |
| volunteer service credit program if the community service | 3 |
| otherwise qualifies under this subsection (b).
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| (c) School districts that establish volunteer service | 5 |
| credit programs
shall establish any necessary rules, | 6 |
| regulations and procedures.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-547, eff. 8-19-03.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/27-22.05)
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| Sec. 27-22.05. Required course substitute. Notwithstanding | 10 |
| any other
provision of this Article or this Code except | 11 |
| subsection (b) of Section 27-22 , a school board that maintains | 12 |
| any of
grades 9 through 12 is authorized to adopt a policy | 13 |
| under which
a student who is enrolled in any of those grades
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| may satisfy one or more high school course or graduation | 15 |
| requirements,
including but not limited to any requirements | 16 |
| under Section
Sections 27-6 and subsection (a) of Section
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| 27-22, by
substituting for and successfully completing in place | 18 |
| of the high school course
or graduation requirement a related | 19 |
| vocational or technical education course.
A vocational or | 20 |
| technical education course shall not qualify as a related
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| vocational or technical education course within the meaning of | 22 |
| this Section
unless it contains at least 50% of the content of | 23 |
| the required course or
graduation requirement for which it is | 24 |
| substituted, as determined by the State
Board of Education in | 25 |
| accordance with standards that it shall adopt and
uniformly | 26 |
| apply for purposes of this Section. No vocational or technical
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| education course may be substituted for a required course or | 28 |
| graduation
requirement under any policy adopted by a school | 29 |
| board as authorized in this
Section unless the pupil's parent | 30 |
| or guardian first
requests the substitution and approves it in | 31 |
| writing on forms that the school
district makes available for | 32 |
| purposes of this Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-269.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding |
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| Section 8.28 as
follows:
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| (30 ILCS 805/8.28 new)
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| Sec. 8.28. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 4 |
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Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 5 |
| implementation of
any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 6 |
| the 93rd General Assembly.
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