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| | 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB3955 Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Sue Rezin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 105 ILCS 5/2-3.192 new | | 105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new | |
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Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.
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| | SB3955 | | LRB102 24057 NLB 33277 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections |
| 5 | | 2-3.192 and 3-14.32 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.192 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 2-3.192. Truancy; COVID-19. The State Board of |
| 8 | | Education shall cooperate with a school district organized |
| 9 | | under Article 34 to locate students that stopped attending |
| 10 | | school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to |
| 11 | | address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism.
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| 12 | | (105 ILCS 5/3-14.32 new) |
| 13 | | Sec. 3-14.32. Truancy; COVID-19. To increase the regional |
| 14 | | office of education's capacity to work with school districts |
| 15 | | to locate students that stopped attending school since the |
| 16 | | beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of |
| 17 | | truancy and chronic absenteeism.
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| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 19 | | becoming law.
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