Public Act 099-0596
 
HB3199 EnrolledLRB099 09102 NHT 29295 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 
27A-5.5 as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 5/27A-5.5 new)
    Sec. 27A-5.5. Charter school truancy.
    (a)  A charter school shall comply with all applicable 
absenteeism and truancy policies and requirements applicable 
to public schools under the laws of the State of Illinois.
    (b)  A charter school shall define a truant as a child who 
is subject to compulsory school attendance and who is absent 
without valid cause from such attendance for a school day or 
portion thereof.
    (c)  A charter school shall define a chronic or habitual 
truant as a child who is subject to compulsory school 
attendance and who is absent without valid cause from such 
attendance for 5% or more of the previous 180 regular 
attendance days.
    (d)  A charter school shall define a truant minor as a 
chronic truant to whom supportive services, including 
prevention, diagnostic, intervention, and remedial services, 
alternative programs, and other school and community resources 
have been provided and have failed to result in the cessation 
of chronic truancy or have been offered and refused.
    (e)  A charter school shall define a dropout as any child 
enrolled in grades 9 through 12 whose name has been removed 
from the charter school enrollment roster for any reason other 
than the student's death, extended illness, removal for medical 
non-compliance, expulsion, aging out, graduation, or 
completion of a program of studies and who has not transferred 
to another public or private school and is not known to be 
home-schooled by his or her parents or guardians or continuing 
school in another country.
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.