State of Illinois
Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Katie Stuart
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
Appropriates $340,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education to address shortages of school psychologists in this State through specified methods. Effective July 1, 2024.
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AN ACT concerning appropriations.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The sum of $340,000, or so much of that sum as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education to address shortages of school psychologists in this State by hiring or contracting for a school psychology liaison within the State Board of Education, providing a grant to fund a program within the Illinois School Psychology Internship Consortium to recruit and retain doctoral interns in faculty positions within public universities, and funding a school psychologist retention program with a group consultation model.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2024.