Full Text of HB1476 95th General Assembly
HB1476 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB1476
Introduced 2/21/2007, by Rep. Rich Brauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 128/20 |
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30 ILCS 805/8.31 new |
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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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STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT |
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A BILL FOR
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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 Safety Drill Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 20 as follows: | 6 |
| (105 ILCS 128/20)
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| Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local | 8 |
| authority participation.
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| (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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| 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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| 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
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| 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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| 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.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-600, eff. 8-16-05.)
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| 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.
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