Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB1269

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1269

Introduced 1/28/2025, by Rep. John M. Cabello

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 5/10-31 new

Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. Requires a school district that administers a self-report survey to its students that may reveal personal, protected information to obtain parental or guardian consent in writing if the student is under the age of 18 before the student may participate in the self-report survey. Requires a school district to afford a parent or guardian the opportunity to review, either electronically or in person, the scope of the questions to be asked. Provides that refusal to grant consent for a student to participate in the self-report survey shall not be a reason for disciplinary action, academic penalty, suspension, or expulsion or any other sanction of the student. Effective immediately.

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT MAY APPLY

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 Section 10-31 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/10-31 new)

Sec. 10-31. Self-report surveys.

(a) For purposes of this Section, "personal, protected information" means any information related to any topic protected under the federal Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment of 1978.

(b) If a school district administers a self-report survey to its students that may reveal personal, protected information, no student under the age of 18 is required to take or participate in the self-report survey unless parental or guardian consent is given in writing. Prior to the self-report survey being administered, a parent or guardian shall be afforded the opportunity to review, either electronically or in person, the scope of the questions to be asked. Refusal to grant consent for a student to participate in the self-report survey shall not be a reason for disciplinary action, academic penalty, suspension, or expulsion or any other sanction of the student.

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