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Rep. Aaron M. Ortiz
Filed: 5/13/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 654
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 654 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
| 5 | | 27-6.3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-6.3 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 27-6.3. Play time required in elementary school. |
| 8 | | (a) All public schools shall provide daily time for |
| 9 | | supervised, unstructured, child-directed play for all students |
| 10 | | in kindergarten through grade 5. Play time must allow |
| 11 | | unstructured play, and may include organized games, but shall |
| 12 | | not include the use of computers, tablets, phones, or videos. |
| 13 | | Schools are encouraged to provide play time outdoors, but it |
| 14 | | may be held indoors. If play time is held indoors, schools are |
| 15 | | encouraged to provide it in a space that promotes physical |
| 16 | | activity. Time spent dressing or undressing for outdoor play |
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| 1 | | time shall not count towards the daily time for play. |
| 2 | | (b) Play time shall not count as a course of physical |
| 3 | | education that fulfills the requirements of Section 27-6, nor |
| 4 | | shall time spent in a course of physical education count |
| 5 | | towards the daily time for play. |
| 6 | | (c) Play time shall be considered clock hours for the |
| 7 | | purposes of Section 10-19.05. For any school day 5 clock hours |
| 8 | | or longer in length, the total time allotted for play for |
| 9 | | students in kindergarten through grade 5 must be at least 30 |
| 10 | | minutes. For any school day less than 5 clock hours in length, |
| 11 | | the total time allotted for play each school day must be at |
| 12 | | least one-tenth of a day of attendance for the student |
| 13 | | pursuant to Section 10-19.05. Play time may be divided into |
| 14 | | play periods of at least 15 consecutive minutes in length. |
| 15 | | (d) For students with disabilities, play time shall comply |
| 16 | | with a student's applicable individualized education program |
| 17 | | (IEP) or federal Section 504 plan. |
| 18 | | (e) All public schools shall prohibit the withholding of |
| 19 | | play time as a disciplinary or punitive action, except when a |
| 20 | | student's participation in play time poses an immediate threat |
| 21 | | to the safety of the student or others. School officials shall |
| 22 | | make all reasonable efforts to resolve such threats and |
| 23 | | minimize the use of exclusion from play to the greatest extent |
| 24 | | practicable and in accordance with subsection (d).
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| 25 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |