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90_HB2311
105 ILCS 5/2-3.13a from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.13a
Amends the School Code to provide that for an offense
(other than certain offenses concerning weapons or drugs on
school grounds or battering a school staff member) for which
a student is suspended or expelled, the student may transfer
to another public school district and attend classes before
the expiration of the period of the suspension or expulsion
only if the policies of the school district allow it.
Provides that nothing in the School Code's provisions
concerning transferring students mandates a public school
district to admit a transferring student who is serving an
unexpired period of suspension or expulsion.
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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. For any other
9 offense for which a student is suspended or expelled by a
10 public school district, the student may transfer to another
11 public school district and attend classes before the
12 expiration of the period of the suspension or expulsion only
13 if the policies of the public school district into which the
14 student is transferring allow it. Nothing in this Section
15 mandates a public school district to admit a transferring
16 student who is serving an unexpired period of suspension or
17 expulsion. Each public school and each private or nonpublic
18 elementary or secondary school in this State shall within 10
19 days after the student has paid all of his or her outstanding
20 fines and fees and at its own expense forward an official
21 transcript of the scholastic records of each student
22 transferring from that school in strict accordance with the
23 provisions of this Section and the rules established by the
24 State Board of Education as herein provided.
25 The State Board of Education shall develop a one-page
26 standard form that school districts are required to provide
27 to any student who is moving out of the school district and
28 that contains the information about whether or not the
29 student is "in good standing" and whether or not his or her
30 medical records are up-to-date and complete. As used in this
31 Section, "in good standing" means that the student is not
32 being disciplined by a suspension or expulsion, but is
33 entitled to attend classes. No school district is required
34 to admit a new student unless he or she can produce the
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1 standard form from the student's previous school district
2 enrollment.
3 (Source: P.A. 89-261, eff. 8-10-95; 89-622, eff. 8-9-96;
4 89-698, eff. 1-14-97.)