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Full Text of HB1476  95th General Assembly

HB1476 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1476

 

Introduced 2/21/2007, by Rep. Rich Brauer

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 128/20
30 ILCS 805/8.31 new

    Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Provides that schools must conduct a minimum of 2 bus evacuation drills (instead of one) during each academic year. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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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 School Safety Drill Act is amended by
5 changing Section 20 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 128/20)
7     Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local
8 authority participation.
9     (a) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
10 minimum of 3 school evacuation drills to address and prepare
11 students and school personnel for fire incidents. These drills
12 must meet all of the following criteria:
13         (1) One of the 3 school evacuation drills shall require
14     the participation of the appropriate local fire department
15     or district.
16             (A) Each local fire department or fire district
17         must contact the appropriate school administrator or
18         his or her designee no later than September 1 of each
19         year in order to arrange for the participation of the
20         department or district in the school evacuation drill.
21             (B) Each school administrator or his or her
22         designee must contact the responding local fire
23         official no later than September 15 of each year and

 

 

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1         propose to the local fire official 4 dates within the
2         month of October, during at least 2 different weeks of
3         October, on which the drill shall occur. The fire
4         official may choose any of the 4 available dates, and
5         if he or she does so, the drill shall occur on that
6         date.
7             (C) The school administrator or his or her designee
8         and the local fire official may also, by mutual
9         agreement, set any other date for the drill, including
10         a date outside of the month of October.
11             (D) If the fire official does not select one of the
12         4 offered dates in October or set another date by
13         mutual agreement, the requirement that the school
14         include the local fire service in one of its mandatory
15         school evacuation drills shall be waived. Schools,
16         however, shall continue to be strongly encouraged to
17         include the fire service in a school evacuation drill
18         at a mutually agreed-upon time.
19             (E) Upon the participation of the local fire
20         service, the appropriate local fire official shall
21         certify that the school evacuation drill was
22         conducted.
23             (F) When scheduling the school evacuation drill,
24         the school administrator or his or her designee and the
25         local fire department or fire district may, by mutual
26         agreement on or before September 14, choose to waive

 

 

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1         the provisions of subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) of
2         this paragraph (1).
3         Additional school evacuation drills for fire incidents
4     may involve the participation of the appropriate local fire
5     department or district.
6         (2) Schools may conduct additional school evacuation
7     drills to account for other evacuation incidents,
8     including without limitation suspicious items or bomb
9     threats.
10         (3) All drills shall be conducted at each school
11     building that houses school children.
12     (b) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
13 minimum of 2 one bus evacuation drills drill. These drills This
14 drill shall be accounted for in the curriculum in all public
15 schools and in all other educational institutions in this State
16 that are supported or maintained, in whole or in part, by
17 public funds and that provide instruction in any of the grades
18 kindergarten through 12. This curriculum shall include
19 instruction in safe bus riding practices for all students.
20 Schools may conduct additional bus evacuation drills. All
21 drills shall be conducted at each school building that houses
22 school children.
23     (c) During each academic year, schools may conduct strongly
24 encouraged law enforcement drills to address and prepare
25 students and school personnel for incidents, including without
26 limitation reverse evacuations, lock-downs, shootings, bomb

 

 

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1 threats, or hazardous materials.
2         (1) If conducted, a law enforcement drill must meet all
3     of the following criteria:
4             (A) During each calendar year, the appropriate
5         local law enforcement agency shall contact the
6         appropriate school administrator to request to
7         participate in a law enforcement drill and may actively
8         participate on-site in a drill.
9             (B) Upon the participation of a local law
10         enforcement agency in a law enforcement drill, the
11         appropriate local law enforcement official shall
12         certify that the law enforcement drill was conducted.
13         (2) Schools may conduct additional law enforcement
14     drills at their discretion.
15         (3) All drills shall be conducted at each school
16     building that houses school children.
17     (d) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
18 minimum of one severe weather and shelter-in-place drill to
19 address and prepare students and school personnel for possible
20 tornado incidents and may conduct additional severe weather and
21 shelter-in-place drills to account for other incidents,
22 including without limitation earthquakes or hazardous
23 materials. All drills shall be conducted at each school
24 building that houses school children.
25 (Source: P.A. 94-600, eff. 8-16-05.)
 

 

 

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1     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
2 Section 8.31 as follows:
 
3     (30 ILCS 805/8.31 new)
4     Sec. 8.31. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
5 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
6 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
7 the 95th General Assembly.