Public Act 103-0676
 
HB4581 EnrolledLRB103 36629 RJT 66738 b

    AN ACT concerning education.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section 
14-1.11a as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 5/14-1.11a)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.11a)
    Sec. 14-1.11a. Resident district; student.  
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the The 
resident district is the school district in which the student 
resides when:
        (1) the parent has legal guardianship but the location 
    of the parent is unknown; or
        (2) an individual guardian has been appointed but the 
    location of the guardian is unknown; or
        (3) the student is 18 years of age or older and no 
    legal guardian has been appointed; or
        (4) the student is legally an emancipated minor; or
        (5) an Illinois public agency has legal guardianship 
    and such agency or any court in this State has placed the 
    student residentially outside of the school district in 
    which the parent lives.
    (b) In cases where an Illinois public agency has legal 
guardianship and has placed the student residentially outside 
of Illinois, the last school district that provided at least 
45 days of educational service to the student shall continue 
to be the district of residence until the student is no longer 
under guardianship of an Illinois public agency or until the 
student is returned to Illinois.
    If a student who is 18 years of age or older with no legal 
guardian is placed residentially outside of the school 
district in which the student's parent lives and the placement 
is funded by a State agency or through private insurance, then 
the resident district is the school district in which the 
parent lives. 
    The resident district of a homeless student is the 
Illinois district in which the student enrolls for educational 
services. Homeless students include individuals as defined in 
the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act.
    (c) The State Superintendent of Education may determine 
that the location of the parent or guardian of a student is 
unknown after considering information submitted from the 
school district that last enrolled the student or from the 
school or special education facility providing special 
education and related services to meet the needs of the 
student. The information submitted to the State Superintendent 
of Education must include an affidavit from that school 
district's superintendent or the facility's director attesting 
that the location of the parent or guardian is unknown and 4 
items of documentary evidence that a minimum of 4 separate 
attempts were made to locate the parent or guardian. Any 
determination by the State Superintendent of Education that 
the location of a parent or guardian is unknown is final. 
However, any determination made by the State Superintendent of 
Education is subject to review and reconsideration any time a 
parent's or guardian's location becomes known. 
(Source: P.A. 102-514, eff. 8-20-21.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.

Effective Date:  7/19/2024