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90_HB0560
105 ILCS 5/2-3.13a from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.13a
Amends the School Code. Requires private or nonpublic
elementary and secondary schools located in Illinois to
provide to any of their students who are transferring to any
public school in the State the standard one page form
developed by the State Board of Education and already
provided by a public school to students who are moving out of
the school district.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 2-3.13a.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Section 2-3.13a as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.13a) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.13a)
8 Sec. 2-3.13a. Scholastic records; transferring students.
9 The State Board of Education shall establish and implement
10 rules requiring all of the public schools and all private or
11 nonpublic elementary and secondary schools located in this
12 State, whenever any such school has a student who is
13 transferring to any other public elementary or secondary
14 school located in this or in any other state, to forward
15 within 10 days of notice of the student's transfer an
16 unofficial record of that student's grades to the school to
17 which such student is transferring. Each public school at
18 the same time also shall forward to the school to which the
19 student is transferring the remainder of the student's school
20 student records as required by the Illinois School Student
21 Records Act. In addition, if a student is transferring from a
22 public school from which the student has been suspended or
23 expelled for knowingly possessing in a school building or on
24 school grounds a weapon as defined in the Gun Free Schools
25 Act (20 U.S.C. 8921 et seq.), for knowingly possessing,
26 selling, or delivering in a school building or on school
27 grounds a controlled substance or cannabis, or for battering
28 a staff member of the school, and if the period of suspension
29 or expulsion has not expired at the time the student attempts
30 to transfer into another public school in the same or any
31 other school district: (i) any school student records
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1 required to be transferred shall include the date and
2 duration of the period of suspension or expulsion; and (ii)
3 with the exception of transfers into the Department of
4 Corrections school district, the student shall not be
5 permitted to attend class in the public school into which he
6 or she is transferring until the student has served the
7 entire period of the suspension or expulsion imposed by the
8 school from which the student is transferring. Each public
9 school and each private or nonpublic elementary or secondary
10 school in this State shall within 10 days after the student
11 has paid all of his or her outstanding fines and fees and at
12 its own expense forward an official transcript of the
13 scholastic records of each student transferring from that
14 school in strict accordance with the provisions of this
15 Section and the rules established by the State Board of
16 Education as herein provided.
17 The State Board of Education shall develop a one-page
18 standard form that school districts are required to provide
19 to any student who is moving out of the school district and
20 that a private or nonpublic elementary or secondary school
21 located in this State is required to provide to any student
22 who is transferring from that school to any public school
23 located in any school district of this State. The one-page
24 standard form shall contain contains the information about
25 whether or not the student is "in good standing" and whether
26 or not his or her medical records are up-to-date and
27 complete. As used in this Section, "in good standing" means
28 that the student is not being disciplined by a suspension or
29 expulsion, but is entitled to attend classes. No school
30 district is required to admit a new student unless he or she
31 can produce the standard form from the student's previous
32 school district enrollment.
33 (Source: P.A. 89-261, eff. 8-10-95; 89-622, eff. 8-9-96;
34 89-698, eff. 1-14-97.)