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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by renumbering and
5changing Section 2-3.157, as added by Public Act 98-301, as
6follows:
 
7    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.158)
8    (Section scheduled to be repealed on May 31, 2015)
9    Sec. 2-3.158 2-3.157. Task Force on Civic Education.
10    (a) The State Board of Education shall establish the Task
11Force on Civic Education, to be comprised of all of the
12following members, with an emphasis on bipartisan legislative
13representation and diverse non-legislative stakeholder
14representation:
15        (1) One member appointed by the Speaker of the House of
16    Representatives.
17        (2) One member appointed by the President of the
18    Senate.
19        (3) One member appointed by the Minority Leader of the
20    House of Representatives.
21        (4) One member appointed by the Minority Leader of the
22    Senate.
23        (5) One member appointed by the head of an association

 

 

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1    representing a teachers union.
2        (6) One member appointed by the head of an association
3    representing the Chicago Teachers Union.
4        (7) One member appointed by the head of an association
5    representing social studies teachers.
6        (8) One member appointed by the head of an association
7    representing school boards.
8        (9) One member appointed by the head of an association
9    representing the media.
10        (10) One member appointed by the head of an association
11    representing the non-profit sector that promotes civic
12    education as a core mission.
13        (11) One member appointed by the head of an association
14    representing the non-profit sector that promotes civic
15    engagement among the general public.
16        (12) One member appointed by the president of an
17    institution of higher education who teaches college or
18    graduate-level government courses or facilitates a program
19    dedicated to cultivating civic leaders.
20        (13) One member appointed by the head of an association
21    representing principals or district superintendents.
22    (b) The members of the Task Force shall serve without
23compensation but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable and
24necessary expenses from funds appropriated to the State Board
25of Education for that purpose. The members of the Task Force
26shall be reimbursed for their travel expenses from

 

 

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1appropriations to the State Board of Education available for
2that purpose and subject to the rules of the appropriate travel
3control board.
4    (c) The members of the Task Force shall be considered
5members with voting rights. A quorum of the Task Force shall
6consist of a simple majority of the members of the Task Force.
7All actions and recommendations of the Task Force must be
8approved by a simple majority vote of the members.
9    (d) The Task Force shall meet initially at the call of the
10State Superintendent of Education, shall elect one member as
11chairperson at its initial meeting through a simple majority
12vote of the Task Force, and shall thereafter meet at the call
13of the chairperson.
14    (e) The State Board of Education shall provide
15administrative and other support to the Task Force.
16    (f) The Task Force is charged with all of the following
17tasks:
18        (1) To analyze the current state of civic education in
19    this State.
20        (2) To analyze current civic education laws in other
21    jurisdictions, both mandated and permissive.
22        (3) To identify best practices in civic education in
23    other jurisdictions.
24        (4) To make recommendations to the General Assembly
25    focused on substantially increasing civic literacy and the
26    capacity of youth to obtain the requisite knowledge,

 

 

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1    skills, and practices to be civically informed members of
2    the public.
3        (5) To make funding recommendations if the Task Force's
4    recommendations to the General Assembly would require a
5    fiscal commitment.
6    (g) No later than December May 31, 2014, the Task Force
7shall summarize its findings and recommendations in a report to
8the General Assembly, filed as provided in Section 3.1 of the
9General Assembly Organization Act. Upon filing its report, the
10Task Force is dissolved.
11    (h) This Section is repealed on December May 31, 2015.
12(Source: P.A. 98-301, eff. 8-9-13; revised 10-4-13.)
 
13    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
14becoming law.