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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, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
| 5 | | 34-18.73 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.73) |
| 7 | | Sec. 34-18.73. Parental notification of student |
| 8 | | discipline. |
| 9 | | (a) In this Section, "misconduct" means an incident that |
| 10 | | involves offensive touching, a physical altercation, or the |
| 11 | | use of violence. |
| 12 | | (b) If a student commits an act or acts of misconduct |
| 13 | | involving offensive touching, a physical altercation, or the |
| 14 | | use of violence, the student's school shall provide written |
| 15 | | notification of that misconduct to the parent or guardian of |
| 16 | | the student. |
| 17 | | (c) If a student makes a written statement to a school |
| 18 | | employee relating to an act or acts of misconduct, whether the |
| 19 | | student is engaging in the act or acts or is targeted by the |
| 20 | | act or acts, the school shall provide the written statement to |
| 21 | | the student's parent or guardian, upon request and in |
| 22 | | accordance with federal and State laws and rules governing |
| 23 | | school student records. |
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| 1 | | (d) If the parent or guardian of a student involved in an |
| 2 | | act or acts of misconduct, whether the student is engaging in |
| 3 | | the act or acts or is targeted by the act or acts, requests a |
| 4 | | synopsis of any statement made by the parent's or guardian's |
| 5 | | child, the school shall provide any existing records |
| 6 | | responsive to that request, in accordance with federal and |
| 7 | | State laws and rules governing school student records. |
| 8 | | (e) A school shall make reasonable attempts to provide a |
| 9 | | copy of any disciplinary report resulting from an |
| 10 | | investigation into a student's act or acts of misconduct to |
| 11 | | the parent or guardian of the student receiving disciplinary |
| 12 | | action and to the parent or guardian of the student against |
| 13 | | whom the misconduct was committed, including any and all |
| 14 | | restorative justice measures, within 2 school days after the |
| 15 | | completion of the report. The disciplinary report shall |
| 16 | | include all of the following: |
| 17 | | (1) A description of the student's act or acts of |
| 18 | | misconduct that resulted in disciplinary action. The names |
| 19 | | and any identifying information of any other student or |
| 20 | | students involved must be redacted from or not included in |
| 21 | | the report, in accordance with federal and State student |
| 22 | | privacy laws and rules. |
| 23 | | (2) A description of the disciplinary action, if any, |
| 24 | | imposed on the parent's or guardian's child, including the |
| 25 | | duration of the disciplinary action. |
| 26 | | (3) The school's justification and rationale for the |
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| 1 | | disciplinary action imposed on the parent's or guardian's |
| 2 | | child, including reference to the applicable student |
| 3 | | discipline policies, procedures, or guidelines. |
| 4 | | (4) A description of the restorative justice measures, |
| 5 | | if any, used on the parent's or guardian's child. |
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 102-251, eff. 8-6-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.) |