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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB4986
Introduced 1/20/2006, by Rep. Donald L. Moffitt SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/2-3.80 |
from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.80 |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district that offers a secondary agricultural education program that is eligible for State and federal funding must ensure that, at a minimum, the following are available to its secondary agricultural education students: (1) an instructional sequence of courses approved by the State Board of Education; (2) a State and nationally affiliated FFA chapter that is integral to instruction and is not treated as an extracurricular activity; and (3) a mechanism for ensuring the involvement of all secondary agricultural education students in formal, supervised, agricultural-experience activities and programs.
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HB4986 |
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LRB094 16930 NHT 54605 b |
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 2-3.80 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.80) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.80)
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| Sec. 2-3.80. (a) The General Assembly recognizes that |
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| agriculture is
the most basic and singularly important industry |
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| in the State, that
agriculture is of central importance to the |
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| welfare and economic stability
of the State, and that the |
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| maintenance of this vital industry requires a
continued source |
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| of trained and qualified individuals for employment in
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| agriculture and agribusiness. The General Assembly hereby |
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| declares that it
is in the best interests of the people of the |
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| State of Illinois that a
comprehensive education program in |
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| agriculture be created and maintained by
the State's public |
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| school system in order to ensure an adequate supply of
trained |
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| and skilled individuals and to ensure appropriate |
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| representation of
racial and ethnic groups in all phases of the |
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| industry. It is the intent
of the General Assembly that a State |
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| program for agricultural education
shall be a part of the |
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| curriculum of the public school system K through
adult, and |
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| made readily available to all school districts which may, at
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| their option, include programs in education in agriculture as a |
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| part of the
curriculum of that district.
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| (b) The State Board of Education shall adopt such rules and |
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| regulations
as are necessary to implement the provisions of |
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| this Section. The rules
and regulations shall not create any |
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| new State mandates on school districts
as a condition of |
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| receiving federal, State, and local funds by those
entities. It |
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| is in the intent of the General Assembly that, although this
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| Section does not create any new mandates, school districts are |