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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Campus Security Enhancement Act of 2008 is
5 amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 12/20)
7     Sec. 20. Campus security enhancement.
8     (a) In this Section, "higher education institution" means a
9 public university, a public community college, or an
10 independent, not-for-profit or for-profit higher education
11 institution located in this State.
12     (b) Each higher education institution is required to do the
13 following:
14         (1) develop a National Incident Management
15     System-compliant, all-hazards, emergency response plan in
16     partnership with the institution's county or major
17     municipal emergency management official, report the plan
18     to this official, and have training and exercises for the
19     plan annually at a minimum; and
20         (2) develop an inter-disciplinary and
21     multi-jurisdictional campus violence prevention plan,
22     including coordination of and communication among between
23     all available campus and local mental health and first

 

 

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1     response resources as well as communication with
2     governmental agencies and school districts contiguous to
3     the higher education institution's boundaries, in
4     partnership with the institution's county or major
5     municipal emergency management official, report the plan
6     to this official, and have training and exercises for the
7     plan annually at a minimum. The campus violence prevention
8     plan shall include the development and implementation of a
9     campus violence prevention committee and campus threat
10     assessment team.
11     (c) County and major municipal emergency managers and
12 Illinois Emergency Management Agency regional coordinators
13 shall assist in the planning and training process for the plans
14 specified in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (b) of this
15 Section with all resources available to them.
16     (d) County and major municipal emergency managers and
17 Illinois Emergency Management Agency regional coordinators
18 shall provide higher education institutions with appropriate
19 standards and guidelines for the plans specified in
20 subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (b) of this Section and
21 for the training and exercises for these plans.
22 (Source: P.A. 95-881, eff. 1-1-09.)