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Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton
Filed: 3/6/2024
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3768
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3768 as follows:
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| 3 | | by replacing line 12 on page 1 through line 4 on page 2 with |
| 4 | | the following: |
| 5 | | "(a) For the purpose of this Section, persons with |
| 6 | | deaf-blindness are (i) individuals with concomitant hearing |
| 7 | | and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such |
| 8 | | severe communication and other developmental and educational |
| 9 | | needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education |
| 10 | | programs solely for children with deafness or children with |
| 11 | | blindness, (ii) individuals with solely a hearing impairment, |
| 12 | | or (iii) individuals with solely a visual impairment. persons |
| 13 | | who have both auditory and visual impairments, the combination |
| 14 | | of which causes such severe communication and other |
| 15 | | developmental, educational, vocational and rehabilitation |
| 16 | | problems that such persons cannot be properly accommodated in |
| 17 | | special education or vocational rehabilitation programs solely |
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| 1 | | for persons with both hearing and visual disabilities. |
| 2 | | (b) To be eligible for deaf-blind services under this |
| 3 | | Section, a person must have (i) a visual impairment, a hearing |
| 4 | | and an auditory impairment, or both or (ii) a condition in |
| 5 | | which there is a progressive loss of hearing, or vision, or |
| 6 | | both that results in concomitant vision and hearing |
| 7 | | impairments and that adversely affects educational performance |
| 8 | | as determined by the multidisciplinary conference. For |
| 9 | | purposes of this paragraph and Section:"; and
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| 10 | | on page 2, line 15, by replacing "An auditory" with "A hearing |
| 11 | | An auditory"; and
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| 12 | | on page 3, lines 7 through 9, by deleting "The Philip J. Rock |
| 13 | | Center and School shall be located in the Chicago metropolitan |
| 14 | | area near public transportation."; and
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| 15 | | on page 4, by replacing lines 6 through 8 with the following: |
| 16 | | "(6) maintaining Maintaining a |
| 17 | | residential-educational training facility with or without |
| 18 | | a day program in the Chicago metropolitan area located |
| 19 | | near in an area accessible to public transportation;"; and
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| 20 | | on page 4, by replacing lines 23 through 25 with the following: |
| 21 | | "(11) serving Serving as the information referral |
| 22 | | clearinghouse for all persons who are deaf-blind, age 21 |