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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1327
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1327 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
5 10-22.40."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
9 Section 10-22.40 as follows:
10 (105 ILCS 5/10-22.40) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.40)
11 Sec. 10-22.40. Membership dues. To pay State and
12 national association membership dues to school associations
13 which benefit students by participation or accreditation.
14 Any association subject to Article 23 of this Act must be in
15 current compliance with the reporting requirements of Section
16 23-6 in order to qualify as a recipient of membership dues
17 under this Section. No dues may be paid to any association
18 which has as one of its purposes providing for athletic and
19 other competition among schools and students unless that
20 association:
21 A. permits a post audit by the Auditor General under the
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1 Illinois State Auditing Act;
2 B. submits an annual report to the State Board of
3 Education dealing with trends in female participation in
4 athletic competition, including the numbers of female and
5 male participants from each member school and details on
6 programs by the association to increase female participation;
7 and
8 C. is either subject to, or voluntarily complies with,
9 the public access provisions set forth for State agencies in
10 Sections 3 and 4 of The State Records Act; and.
11 D. adopts, implements, and enforces, beginning on July
12 1, 1998 and thereafter, statewide minimum academic standards
13 that must be met by a student enrolled in any of grades 9
14 through 12 as a condition of that student's eligibility to
15 participate in any interscholastic athletic competition or
16 other extracurricular activity that is sponsored by or
17 conducted under the auspices of that association. Those
18 minimum academic standards shall provide:
19 (1) that in order to participate in any such
20 interscholastic athletic competition or extracurricular
21 activity, a student must be earning a passing score that
22 is at least equal to the minimum passing score
23 established by the association in at least 20 credit
24 hours of high school work per week;
25 (2) that a student who has completed a semester of
26 enrollment in a high school located in this State must,
27 in order to participate in any such interscholastic
28 athletic competition or extracurricular activity in any
29 succeeding semester, have earned a passing score that is
30 at least equal to the minimum passing score established
31 by the association in at least 20 credit hours of high
32 school work for the semester immediately preceding the
33 semester during which the student wishes to participate
34 in the interscholastic athletic competition or
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1 extracurricular activity; and
2 (3) that a student who has completed the first
3 grading period of his or her initial year of enrollment
4 in a high school located in this State must, in order to
5 participate in any such interscholastic athletic
6 competition or extracurricular activity in any succeeding
7 grading period, have a minimum cumulative grade point
8 average that is at least equal to the minimum grade point
9 average established by the association.
10 The provisions of this amendatory Act of 1997 that
11 prohibit a school district from paying dues to an association
12 that has as one of its purposes providing for athletic or
13 other competition among schools and students unless that
14 association adopts, implements, and enforces statewide
15 minimum academic standards as required by paragraph D of this
16 Section apply to the school board, board of education, or
17 other governing board of all school districts, including
18 special charter districts and school districts organized
19 under Article 34.
20 (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)".