HB5324 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5324

Introduced 2/8/2012, by Rep. Dwight Kay

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 5/14-2

Amends the School Code. Prohibits the State Board of Education, by rule, from defining a general education classroom as a classroom that is composed of a certain percentage of students with individualized education programs (IEPs). Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

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 14-2 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/14-2)

Sec. 14-2. Definition of general education classroom for special education students receiving services in the general education classroom. The State Board of Education may not, by (a) With respect to any State statute or administrative rule, define that defines a general education classroom as a classroom that is to be composed of a certain percentage of students with individualized education programs (IEPs), students with individualized education programs shall exclude students receiving only speech services outside of the general education classroom, provided that the instruction the students receive in the general education classroom does not require modification.

(b) In every instance, a school district must ensure that composition of the general education classroom does not interfere with the provision of a free and appropriate public education to any student.

(Source: P.A. 97-284, eff. 8-9-11.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.