Full Text of HB0834 93rd General Assembly
HB0834sam001 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. J. Bradley Burzynski
Filed: 5/18/2004
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 834
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 834 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | 5 |
| adding Section 11-1-8a as follows: | 6 |
| (65 ILCS 5/11-1-8a new) | 7 |
| Sec. 11-1-8a. Agreements with school districts concerning | 8 |
| truancy. The corporate authorities of each municipality may | 9 |
| enter into agreements and cooperate with a school district for | 10 |
| purposes related to the enforcement of the provisions of | 11 |
| Article 26 of the School Code. | 12 |
| Section 10. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 13 |
| 26-2a and 26-5 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/26-2a) (from Ch. 122, par. 26-2a)
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| Sec. 26-2a. A "truant" is defined as a child subject to | 16 |
| compulsory school
attendance and who is absent without valid | 17 |
| cause from such attendance for
a school day or portion thereof.
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| "Valid cause" for absence shall be illness, observance of a | 19 |
| religious
holiday, death in the immediate family,
family | 20 |
| emergency, and shall include such other situations beyond the | 21 |
| control
of the student as determined by the board of education | 22 |
| in each district,
or such other circumstances which cause |
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| reasonable concern to the parent
for the safety or health of | 2 |
| the student.
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| "Chronic or habitual truant" shall be defined as a child | 4 |
| subject to compulsory
school attendance and who is absent | 5 |
| without valid cause from such attendance
for 10% or more of the | 6 |
| previous 180 regular attendance days.
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| "Truant minor" is defined as a chronic truant to whom | 8 |
| supportive
services, including prevention, diagnostic, | 9 |
| intervention and remedial
services, alternative programs and | 10 |
| other school and community resources
have been provided and | 11 |
| have failed to result in the cessation of chronic
truancy, or | 12 |
| have been offered and refused.
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| "Truant officer" means any person designated as the truant | 14 |
| officer of a school district or a county or any person | 15 |
| designated as a truant officer in accordance with an agreement | 16 |
| between a municipality and a school district under Section | 17 |
| 11-1-8a of the Illinois Municipal Code.
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| A "dropout" is defined as any child enrolled in grades 1 | 19 |
| through 12 whose
name has been removed from the district | 20 |
| enrollment roster for any reason
other than his death, extended | 21 |
| illness, graduation or completion of a
program of studies and | 22 |
| who has not transferred to another public or private school.
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| "Religion" for the purposes of this Article, includes all | 24 |
| aspects of
religious observance and practice, as well as | 25 |
| belief.
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| (Source: P.A. 84-1308; 84-1420; 84-1424; 84-1438.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/26-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 26-5)
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| Sec. 26-5. Duties
of truant officers.
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| The truant officer of the school district or any other | 30 |
| person designated as a truant officer in accordance with an | 31 |
| agreement between a municipality and a school district under | 32 |
| Section 11-1-8a of the Illinois Municipal Code , whenever | 33 |
| notified by the
Superintendent, teacher, or other person of |
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| violations of this Article, or
the county truant officer, when | 2 |
| notified by the County Superintendent,
shall investigate all | 3 |
| cases of truancy or non-attendance at school in their
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| respective jurisdictions, and if the children complained of are | 5 |
| not exempt
under the provisions of this Article, the truant | 6 |
| officer shall proceed as
is provided in this Article. The | 7 |
| county truant officer, within the county
and the district | 8 |
| truant officers, within their respective districts, shall
in | 9 |
| the exercise of their duties be conservators of the peace and | 10 |
| shall keep
the same, suppress riots, routs, affray, fighting, | 11 |
| breaches of the peace,
and prevent crime; and may arrest | 12 |
| offenders on view and cause them to be
brought before proper | 13 |
| officials for trial or examination.
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| (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 16 |
| becoming law.".
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