104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB3618
 
Introduced 2/18/2025, by Rep. Joyce Mason
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
325 ILCS 3/1-30
    Amends the Department of Early Childhood Act. Requires the Department of Early Childhood to establish an Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS) to make equity driven, inclusive, and data-informed decisions that create a simpler, better, and fairer system for all Illinois children and families. Provides that the Department shall develop public analytic portals and query tools for parents and communities to access aggregated integrated data from the ECIDS system to the extent permitted by State and federal confidentiality requirements.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning children.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Department of Early Childhood Act is 
5amended by changing Section 1-30 as follows:
 
6    (325 ILCS 3/1-30)
7    Sec. 1-30. General powers and duties. 
8    (a) The Department shall exercise the rights, powers, 
9duties, and functions provided by law, including, but not 
10limited to, the rights, powers, duties, and functions 
11transferred to the Department.
12    (a-5) The Department shall establish an Early Childhood 
13Integrated Data System (ECIDS) to make equity driven, 
14inclusive, and data-informed decisions that create a simpler, 
15better, and fairer system for all Illinois children and 
16families. 
17    The Department shall develop public analytic portals and 
18query tools for parents and communities to access aggregated 
19integrated data from the ECIDS system to the extent permitted 
20by State and federal confidentiality requirements. 
21    (b) The Department may employ personnel (in accordance 
22with the Personnel Code and any applicable collective 
23bargaining agreements), provide facilities, contract for goods 
 
 
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1and services, and adopt rules as necessary to carry out its 
2functions and purposes, all in accordance with applicable 
3State and federal law.
4    The Department may establish such subdivisions of the 
5Department as shall be desirable and assign to the various 
6subdivisions the responsibilities and duties placed upon the 
7Department by the Laws of the State of Illinois. 
8    The Department shall adopt, as necessary, rules for the 
9execution of its powers. The provisions of the Illinois 
10Administrative Procedure Act are hereby expressly adopted and 
11shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of the 
12Department under this Act, except that Section 5-35 of the 
13Illinois Administrative Procedure Act relating to procedures 
14for rulemaking does not apply to the adoption of any rule 
15required by federal law in connection with which the 
16Department is precluded by law from exercising any discretion. 
17    (c) Procurements necessary for the Department of Early 
18Childhood to implement this Act are subject to the Illinois 
19Procurement Code, except as otherwise provided in paragraph 
20(25) of subsection (b) of Section 1-10 of that Code. The 
21Department of Early Childhood is subject to the Business 
22Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with 
23Disabilities Act.
24(Source: P.A. 103-594, eff. 6-25-24.)