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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3055

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 3055  by  replacing
 3    lines 4 through 31 on page 1 and lines 1 through 29 on page 2
 4    with the following:

 5        "Section  5.  The  Illinois School Student Records Act is
 6    amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

 7        (105 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 122, par. 50-2)
 8        Sec. 2.  As used in this Act,
 9        (a)  "Student" means any person  enrolled  or  previously
10    enrolled in a school.
11        (b)  "School"   means  any  public  preschool,  day  care
12    center,  kindergarten,  nursery,  elementary   or   secondary
13    educational    institution,    vocational   school,   special
14    educational facility or any  other  elementary  or  secondary
15    educational  agency  or institution and any person, agency or
16    institution which maintains school student records from  more
17    than one school, but does not include a private or non-public
18    school.
19        (c)  "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
20        (d)  "School  Student  Record" means any writing or other
21    recorded information concerning a  student  and  by  which  a
22    student  may  be  individually  identified,  maintained  by a
 
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 1    school or at its direction or by an  employee  of  a  school,
 2    regardless  of  how  or  where the information is stored. The
 3    following shall not be deemed school  student  records  under
 4    this  Act:  writings or other recorded information maintained
 5    by an employee of a school or other person at  the  direction
 6    of  a  school for his or her exclusive use; provided that all
 7    such writings and other recorded  information  are  destroyed
 8    not   later   than  the  student's  graduation  or  permanent
 9    withdrawal from the school; and provided further that no such
10    records or recorded information may be released or  disclosed
11    to  any  person except a person designated by the school as a
12    substitute unless they are first  incorporated  in  a  school
13    student  record  and made subject to all of the provisions of
14    this  Act.  School  student   records   shall   not   include
15    information   maintained  by  law  enforcement  professionals
16    working in the school.
17        (e)  "Student  Permanent  Record"   means   the   minimum
18    personal  information  necessary to a school in the education
19    of the student and contained  in  a  school  student  record.
20    Such  information may include the student's name, birth date,
21    address,  grades  and  grade  level,   parents'   names   and
22    addresses,  attendance records, and such other entries as the
23    State Board may require or authorize.
24        (f)  "Student Temporary  Record"  means  all  information
25    contained in a school student record but not contained in the
26    student  permanent  record.   Such  information  may  include
27    family  background  information,  intelligence  test  scores,
28    aptitude  test  scores,  psychological  and  personality test
29    results, teacher evaluations, and other information of  clear
30    relevance  to  the  education  of the student, all subject to
31    regulations of the State Board. The information shall include
32    information provided under Section  8.6  of  the  Abused  and
33    Neglected  Child  Reporting  Act.  In  addition,  the student
34    temporary record shall include information regarding  serious
 
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 1    disciplinary   infractions   that   resulted   in  expulsion,
 2    suspension, or the imposition of punishment or sanction.  For
 3    purposes of this provision, serious disciplinary  infractions
 4    means:  infractions  involving drugs, weapons, or bodily harm
 5    to another.
 6        (g)  "Parent" means a person who is the natural parent of
 7    the  student  or   other   person   who   has   the   primary
 8    responsibility  for  the  care and upbringing of the student.
 9    All rights and privileges accorded to a parent under this Act
10    shall become exclusively those of the student upon  his  18th
11    birthday, graduation from secondary school, marriage or entry
12    into  military  service, whichever occurs first.  Such rights
13    and privileges may also be exercised by the  student  at  any
14    time with respect to the student's permanent school record.
15    (Source: P.A. 90-590, eff. 1-1-00.)"; and

16    on  page  2,  line  31, by changing "Sections 7.8 and 7.9" to
17    "Section 7.9"; and

18    on page 3, by deleting lines 1 through 30; and

19    on page  4,  by  replacing  lines  26  through  32  with  the
20    following:
21        "Sec.  8.6.  Reports  to a child's school. Within 10 days
22    after completing an  investigation  of  alleged  physical  or
23    sexual  abuse under this Act, if the report is indicated, the
24    Child Protective Service Unit shall send a copy of its  final
25    finding  report  to  the  school  that  the  child who is the
26    indicated victim of the report attends. If the final  finding
27    report  is  sent  during the summer when the school is not in
28    session, the report shall be sent to the last school that the
29    child attended. The final finding report  shall  be  sent  as
30    "confidential",  and  the  school  shall  be  responsible for
31    ensuring that the report remains confidential  in  accordance
32    with   the  Illinois  School  Student  Records  Act.   If  an
33    indicated finding is overturned in an appeal or  hearing,  or
 
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 1    if  the Department has made a determination that the child is
 2    no longer at risk of physical or sexual harm, the  Department
 3    shall  request  that  the final finding report be purged from
 4    the student's record, and the school shall  purge  the  final
 5    finding  report  from  the  student's  record  and return the
 6    report to the Department. If an indicated report is  expunged
 7    from the central register, and that report has been sent to a
 8    child's  school,  the Department shall request that the final
 9    finding report be purged from the student's record,  and  the
10    school   shall  purge  the  final  finding  report  from  the
11    student's record and return the report to  the  Department.";
12    and

13    on page 5, by deleting lines 1 and 2.

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