Full Text of HB5406 103rd General Assembly
HB5406ham002 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Janet Yang Rohr Filed: 4/12/2024 | | 10300HB5406ham002 | | LRB103 37214 RJT 72242 a |
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5406
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5406, AS AMENDED, | 3 | | by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 4 | | following: | 5 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections | 6 | | 10-20.87 and 34-18.87 as follows: | 7 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-20.87 new) | 8 | | Sec. 10-20.87. Athletic practice time limits. | 9 | | (a) In this Section: | 10 | | "Athletics" means any activity that is overseen as part of | 11 | | a school's athletic department. | 12 | | "Practice" means: | 13 | | (1) any school team or individual activity organized | 14 | | by the coach or a member of the athletics staff that is | 15 | | intended to maintain or improve an athlete's skill | 16 | | proficiency in a sport; |
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| 1 | | (2) any other required coach-directed or supervised | 2 | | school team or individual activity or instruction for a | 3 | | specific sport; or | 4 | | (3) any other required team or individual instruction | 5 | | for a specific sport organized or supervised by any team | 6 | | member or anyone else associated with the high school | 7 | | athletics program, team, or school. | 8 | | (b) For the benefit of the physical and mental health of | 9 | | athletes, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, a school | 10 | | board shall adopt a policy to govern the maximum time spent by | 11 | | students for all practices, games, or contests by a high | 12 | | school athletics program or team during the school year. | 13 | | (c) A school board may adopt its own guidelines under this | 14 | | Section, including rules set forth by an association or other | 15 | | entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, | 16 | | regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic | 17 | | athletics or any form of athletic competition among high | 18 | | schools and high school students within this State, or may | 19 | | adopt the following guidelines: | 20 | | (1) A team may be allowed no more than 18 hours of | 21 | | practice time per week and no more than 4 hours of practice | 22 | | time in any single day. | 23 | | (2) For golf only, an 18-hole round of golf shall | 24 | | count, at most, as 4 hours of practice time. | 25 | | (3) Any competition day shall count as 3 hours of | 26 | | practice no matter the length of the competition. |
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| 1 | | Additional practice time may continue for one hour after | 2 | | the competition, which shall include post-competition | 3 | | cool-downs, stretching, and team discussion. | 4 | | (4) An outside organizational activity may not be used | 5 | | to circumvent this subsection (c). | 6 | | (5) Team captains or other team leaders, such as | 7 | | upperclassmen, may not be used to circumvent this | 8 | | subsection (c) and may not organize practice to circumvent | 9 | | this subsection (c). Required student-led practices may | 10 | | occur but shall count toward the practice limitation under | 11 | | this subsection (c). | 12 | | (6) Other optional activities, including, but not | 13 | | limited to, team dinners and team building, may not be | 14 | | considered practice time if the optional activities do not | 15 | | fall under the definition of "practice" under subsection | 16 | | (a). | 17 | | (7) More stringent guidelines from an interscholastic | 18 | | athletic association or other entity shall supersede the | 19 | | athletic practice time limits. | 20 | | (8) The school board or principal may approve each | 21 | | exception for individual practices or competitions that | 22 | | result in practice or competition times that exceed the | 23 | | limits set forth in paragraph (1). | 24 | | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.87 new) | 25 | | Sec. 34-18.87. Athletic practice time limits. |
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| 1 | | (a) In this Section: | 2 | | "Athletics" means any activity that is overseen as part of | 3 | | a school's athletic department. | 4 | | "Practice" means: | 5 | | (1) any school team or individual activity organized | 6 | | by the coach or a member of the athletics staff that is | 7 | | intended to maintain or improve an athlete's skill | 8 | | proficiency in a sport; | 9 | | (2) any other required coach-directed or supervised | 10 | | school team or individual activity or instruction for a | 11 | | specific sport; or | 12 | | (3) any other required team or individual instruction | 13 | | for a specific sport organized or supervised by any team | 14 | | member or anyone else associated with the high school | 15 | | athletics program, team, or school. | 16 | | (b) For the benefit of the physical and mental health of | 17 | | athletes, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, the school | 18 | | board shall adopt a policy to govern the maximum time spent by | 19 | | students for all practices, games, or contests by a high | 20 | | school athletics program or team during the school year. | 21 | | (c) The school board may adopt its own guidelines under | 22 | | this Section, including rules set forth by an association or | 23 | | other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, | 24 | | sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for | 25 | | interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition | 26 | | among high schools and high school students within this State, |
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| 1 | | or may adopt the following guidelines: | 2 | | (1) A team may be allowed no more than 18 hours of | 3 | | practice time per week and no more than 4 hours of practice | 4 | | time in any single day. | 5 | | (2) For golf only, an 18-hole round of golf shall | 6 | | count, at most, as 4 hours of practice time. | 7 | | (3) Any competition day shall count as 3 hours of | 8 | | practice no matter the length of the competition. | 9 | | Additional practice time may continue for one hour after | 10 | | the competition, which shall include post-competition | 11 | | cool-downs, stretching, and team discussion. | 12 | | (4) An outside organizational activity may not be used | 13 | | to circumvent this subsection (c). | 14 | | (5) Team captains or other team leaders, such as | 15 | | upperclassmen, may not be used to circumvent this | 16 | | subsection (c) and may not organize practice to circumvent | 17 | | this subsection (c). Required student-led practices may | 18 | | occur but shall count toward the practice limitation under | 19 | | this subsection (c). | 20 | | (6) Other optional activities, including, but not | 21 | | limited to, team dinners and team building, may not be | 22 | | considered practice time if the optional activities do not | 23 | | fall under the definition of "practice" under subsection | 24 | | (a). | 25 | | (7) More stringent guidelines from an interscholastic | 26 | | athletic association or other entity shall supersede the |
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| 1 | | athletic practice time limits. | 2 | | (8) The school board or principal may approve each | 3 | | exception for individual practices or competitions that | 4 | | result in practice or competition times that exceed the | 5 | | limits set forth in paragraph (1). | 6 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 7 | | becoming law.". |
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