Public Act 102-0173
 
HB2748 EnrolledLRB102 05136 CMG 15157 b


  
    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 Section 
14-17 as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 5/14-17 new)
    Sec. 14-17. COVID-19 recovery post-secondary transition 
recovery eligibility.
    (a) If a student with an individualized education program 
(IEP) reaches the age of 22 during the time in which the 
student's in-person instruction, services, or activities are 
suspended for a period of 3 months or more during the school 
year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the student is 
eligible for such services up to the end of the regular 
2021-2022 school year.
    (b) This Section does not apply to any student who is no 
longer a resident of the school district that was responsible 
for the student's IEP at the time the student reached the 
student's 22nd birthday.
    (c) The IEP goals in effect when the student reached the 
student's 22nd birthday shall be resumed unless there is an 
agreement that the goals should be revised to appropriately 
meet the student's current transition needs.
    (d) If a student was in a private therapeutic day or 
residential program when the student reached the student's 
22nd birthday, the school district is not required to resume 
that program for the student if the student has aged out of the 
program or the funding for supporting the student's placement 
in the facility is no longer available.
    (e) Within 30 days after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, each school 
district shall provide notification of the availability of 
services under this Section to each student covered by this 
Section by regular mail sent to the last known address of the 
student or the student's parent or guardian.

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

Effective Date:  7/28/2021